The true measure of an excellent real estate agent is not the many (admittedly hard) things that they make look easy; like selling a home quickly at or above the list price, or finding their clients just the right home. Those are certainly important, and many real estate agents possess those abilities. Among those are the top real estate agents, who perform at a higher level than their peers, and have the relationships with other agents and respect within the community that allows them to have the very best and most timely information. And then among those top agents are the ones with a genuine heart for their clients, a passion for their work, and who will work as hard as needed for as long as it takes to usher their clients into the best possible position in the best possible home. Those are the truly excellent real estate agents, and Tina embodies all of it. We first reached out to Tina over two years ago to try and find a house on Lake Burton or Rabun. The vast majority of the homes were out of our price range, COVID had sent those prices into the stratosphere, and we didn't see a lot of reason to hope for the best. But Tina did. And she worked tirelessly for those years to help us. Tina was never concerned about the amount of work, or the number of homes that she had to show, what her fee would be, or when it would come (if ever). All of Tina's work helped us end up in just the right place, that we would have never otherwise looked at without Tina's guidance. We just closed on that property, and we couldn't be happier. It's so much better than we imagined, and Tina deserves all the credit. Not just for finding the home and guiding us to it, but for jumping on that deal when she saw it, and working tirelessly and with great skill to make it happen, when at the beginning it looked as if getting to closing would be like threading a needle. That is what makes for an excellent real estate agent. And for this reason and other reasons that are more than we can count, we are so very grateful that we had the opportunity to work with Tina through all of this.