Lori Fuqua

We recently sold our house using Lori as our agent. I can’t say enough good things about how well the transaction went. We had our house listed for 6 months with another agent and once that listing expired we turned to Lori. The quality of our showings went up as well as the quality and number of offers.

 Lori’s communication thru the process was constant, clear and always dead on accurate. She was a pleasure to work with and I would not hesitate using her again or recommending her to friends and family.

Front View

 This charming 4 bedroom, 2 bath house is conveniently situated in Sherwood Forest. This brick ranch with a finished basement, 2 car garage and sunroom sits on a gorgeous lot with a flat back yard. Enter the house through the formal entrance hall. A large living room with adjoining dining room welcomes you to the home. A large bank of windows provides generous daylight in the living room. Crown moulding, wood floors and a masonry fireplace with gas logs accent this beautiful room. The formal dining room has plenty of room for large family gatherings. Crown and chair rail mouldings and wood floors complete this room.

     The bright cheery kitchen is wide open to the family room. This layout is hard to find in a traditional ranch style home. Wood flooring was added by the current owners in recent years. A wood burning fireplace is the focal point of the cozy family room.

     Through the kitchen door, you enter the sunroom, the owner’s favorite room in the house. T his 18’x16’ room has space for a large breakfast room table and comfortable seating area. Cooled and heated by a window unit, the sunroom is not included in the heated living area of the house. From the sunroom, you have wonderful views of the back yard. Shielded from neighbors by mature plantings, the back yard is a gardener’s delight! There is a raised bed herb garden with perennial herbs- oregano, thyme, lavender, chives, rosemary- all grow there. Scattered around the perimeter of the yard, you will find dogwoods, forsythia, a butterfly bush, rhododendrons, hosta, daylilies, and a beautiful green lawn of zoysia grass.

Living Room

     Back in the house, the bedroom area has wood floors also. All four bedrooms are nice and spacious with generously sized closets. Adjoined by a jack n’ jill bath, the 2 front bedrooms would make a nice master suite with an office “set up”. There is a hall bath with double sinks for the other 2 bedrooms to use. In the basement, you will find a large rec room that could serve as a work out room, kid’s play room, man cave or teen hangout! You can drive into the oversized 2 car garage and enter the house into the finished basement area.

Finished Basement

     Pride of ownership shows in this home! The roof was replaced in 2010, exterior of home was painted in 2011, garage doors replaced in 2008. The arbor in the back yard was recently rebuilt. Other recent renovations and upgrades include: new light fixture and knobs, new disposal and new dishwasher in the kitchen, crown moulding added in hallway off the bedrooms, plantation shutters added in the family room and the jack n’jill bath had new tile installed on the floors and all other tile was re-glazed.

     This home is zoned for Cotswold Elementary, Alexander Graham Middle School and Myers Park High School. Sherwood Forest is within a mile of Cotswold Village Shops where you can have coffee at Starbucks, lunch at Mama Fus, Bruegger’s Bagels, Salsaritas or Blu Basil or dinner at Table 274. There is great shopping at Marshalls, Toys and Co., PetSmart, Ten Thousand Villages, Books-A- Million. Everything you need is right in the neighborhood. Or you can be at SouthPark Mall in 5-10 minutes. There you can shop to your heart’s content: Belk, Dillard’s, Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, Lululemon, Apple, Kate Spade, J. Crew, Tommy Bahama… Enjoy find dining in the SouthPark/Park Phillips/Piedmont Row areas at The Palm, Upstream, California Pizza, The Cowfish Sushi Burger Bar, P. F. Chang’s China Bistro, Maggiano’s, Brio Tuscan Grille, Bricktops, etc. What a great part of town to live in!

Chris Tilley

I am always hesitant to switch lenders because of my sincere loyalty.  However, after many months of gentle prodding by Chris, I decide to give him and his great team at Cunningham Mortgage Bankers a try.  Well after two very successful closings and another referral to him yesterday, I cannot say how extremely pleased we are with his service, knowledge and dedication to our clients.

Not only have we been very pleased with their attention to detail and getting the loan package to the closing attorney days in advance, but more importantly, our buyers are extremely happy with their service, rates and mortgage products.

Thanks again Jeff for establishing such a great team for us to partner with.  Chris Tilley and his team are exceptional!

 All the Best!     -Joel Bennett

Lauren Ponder

I wanted to take some time to write you a letter about how fantastic our experience was with Lauren Ponder on the recent purchase of a new home and listing of our current home.

In showing us homes, Lauren was honest, open to our feedback and organized and the second time that we went out with her we found the home that we fell in love with! Lauren listened to what we were looking forward and was able to pinpoint the right area and communities for us to focus on. Also, Lauren was helpful in reviewing the contract and terms, negotiating our price and setting up all of the appointments from the surveyor to the home inspection. She always responded promptly to my many texts, emails and calls with random questions that I would come up with almost daily. In the end, she made us feel as though we were her only customers, and the process was so easy and stress free. Closing truly was a breeze!! 

In addition, we used Lauren to put our current home on the market. The brochures that she provided looked amazing and professional and the marketing that Helen Adams did for our home was beyond our expectations. We had a tremendous response and had 17 showings within 2 weeks of our home being on the market. We did find a renter within that timeframe as we had it up for sale or for rent. Lauren was able to provide me the rental agreement, what I needed to set up as a landlord and again helped with the many questions that we had.

Lauren’s customer service, knowledge about real estate and her easy approach to everything made her so easy and fun to work with. I would highly recommend her and Helen Adams to anyone I know who was looking to buy or sell a home. I truly believe that the seller’s at closing were even jealous we had such an amazing realtor!!

 Thanks again to Lauren for all of her hard work!! 

Best Regards,

 Stefanie and Jonathon Kysor

This is great news for anyone living or looking to move to Charlotte that travels a lot!

Julie Sharpe

To Whom it May Concern,

My fiance, Jordan and I made the decision to move from Baltimore to Charlotte in late 2011. We chose to relocate for an employment opportunity. If you have never uprooted your entire life and moved to a city that you originally knew nothing about, I will say that the level of stress is overwhelming. Picking a community is a daunting task in and of itself, let alone finding a home that meets all of your criteria within that community. There is no one that we would have rather shared this challenging time with than our realtor, Julie Sharpe.

To say that Julie was an asset to us is an understatement. She was patient when we were deciding on the community that worked best for us. She was kind in answering all of the questions that I personally had as a first-time home buyer. She was knowledgeable in knowing what features in a home we were able to have, given our price range. She was unwavering and supportive as we requested to see house after house after house. She was honest with us when helping us critique the homes we saw.

If we could have picked the qualities that we were looking for in our ideal realtor, Julie would have been it. I hope that Helen Adams realizes what a true asset they have in Julie. She goes above and beyond for her clients each and every day.

Julie will always have our sincerest thanks for helping us find our dream home. If and when we decide to sell our home years and years down the road, Julie will be our first call.

Sincerely,

Kerri Knellinger and Jordan Vardon