SCHNEIDER Real Estate Adds 3 Veteran Agents to Team

SCHNEIDER Real Estate Adds 3 Veteran Agents to Team

SCHNEIDER Real Estate has recently added 3 Agents with diverse experience to its residential sales team. These Agents will broaden the firm’s knowledge base in such areas as first-time home-buyer purchases, bank short sales, investment properties, rehabs, foreclosure prevention, and senior purchases.

Julie Vaughan joins the SCHNEIDER team after 12 years as a top producer in real estate sales in Saint Charles and surrounding counties. She was named “Rookie of the Year” for a large local real estate brokerage in 1997. Julie and her husband, Rich are proprietors of Picture Perfect Homes, LLC, a property investment and rehab business. They are active in the rental property market.
Julie is a life-time resident of Saint Charles County. She and her husband and 3 children currently live in Dardenne Prairie.

Keith Kohlenhoefer has joined the SCHNEIDER team after 9 years as a high volume seller and private investor, specializing in foreclosures and pre-foreclosures, short sales and rehabbing “as-is” properties in Saint Charles County. Prior to his real estate career, Keith was a machinist for 7 years, and also a customer service representative for a lawn irrigation firm. He has held a wide variety of jobs, which help him identify with the needs of his clients.
Keith is a lifetime resident of Saint Charles. He is very proud of his 2 daughters, Bailey and Remy.

Patty Hickman joins the SCHNEIDER team with 5 productive years of experience in residential real estate sales in a wide-ranging area from North Saint Louis County to Hermann, MO. Patty’s former employment as a bookkeeper for a major drugstore chain helps her to advise her clients on profitability. She has also strengthened her marketing skills by working for the Lincoln County Journal.
Patty has 3 grown children. She and her husband Bill and teen-age daughter live in O’Fallon. They have bought and sold 10 residences in 15 years, which helps her identify with her buyer and seller clients.

Existing Home Sales Are Up

There’s a glimmer of hope in the housing market. Existing home sales increased in February 2009, at a rate of 5.1 percent, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Chief economist Lawrence Yun says that first-time buyers accounted for half of all home sales last month, with activity centered in the lower price ranges. He attributes this increase to more potential homes buyers learning about the $8,000 tax credit for first time buyers.

Merle Schneider of the St. Charles County Association of Realtors notes that “locally, most of the statistics are better than the national numbers. More buyers are looking for homes and we are in the traditional spring-early summer home buying season.”

Schneider, who is co-owner of SCHNEIDER Real Estate, adds “with the stock market beginning a slight rebound, buyers and sellers have a more positive outlook on their financial futures. Home ownership has always been the core value for American security. Recent statistics show that we have begun to re-invest in housing stability.”

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