Thank you for taking the time to read our story. We at HistoricHomesinSeattle.com pledge to do our VERY best to help you buy your dream home or sell your home quickly for an attractive price. We believe that our knowledge and experience with Seattle-area historic and homes of character (we've helped our friends and clients buy and sell hundreds of them) provides a huge benefit to those who choose to work with us. We are quite clear that our job is to strongly represent the goals of each client and trust that you will be thrilled with our work.
When you call us to list and sell your home, our knowledge of historic properties will help immensely. Your home will have beautiful high-definition professional photos taken and used on all flyers, we will expose your home to our large network of home buyers and contacts here in Seattle and relocating buyers all over the country. With our advanced internet marketing your home will receive the maximum exposure on 25+ real estate websites, posted daily on Yahoo, The Real Estate Book, Home Seekers, HomeGain, vlshomes, MLS, Craigslist, Google, Real Estate Espanol, Lycos, Oodle, RealEstate.com, Listingmania, MLS.com, Trulia, Propsmart, Citycribs, Cyberhomes, Zillow, Hotpads, AOL, CLR, Enormo, Frontdoor, Fizber and many other sites (our sites receive 10,000+ visits per month. We promise to do our best for you.
Just the other day, we saved a buyer client $25,000 with skillful presentation of their offer in person (very unique among realtors), great research, preparation and artful but fair negotiating. When you call us to help you buy your home, we truly believe that we will save you time and money. We promise you will receive great representation and a true competitive advantage. We know about many of the best homes in our area before they go on the market and if you work with us we'll teach you techniques that will help you get the home you want. We'd be honored if you would read the kind comments our clients have shared on this site.
We hope that you will call us anytime we can be of help to you or your friends. We have worked very hard, helped many of our neighbors (our family lives right here in Seattle in a cozy historic home). Over the years we've assisted hundreds of clients, friends and families buy and sell homes in Seattle and the Puget Sound area. We are down to earth, optimistic and honest.
You've probably also heard some unique things about us, that our historic home specialist Vince Decker walked to 10,000 homes, built a home with his biologist father (making him an SOB) as a boy and that his grandfather was an eccentric inventor and one of his greatest influences. He works very hard for his clients, helping people buy and sell homes of all kinds.
We'll work with all our heart and experience to help you BUY or SELL your home. We love what we do and will give every ounce of energy and creativity to help you accomplish your goals. We have helped many of you sell your homes and move to more spacious ones in our neighborhood, We've helped others downsize and move to condos, helped people sell who are moving to other parts of Puget Sound, Texas, Oregon, Idaho, Hawaii, Florida, California, many other states and overseas. We have gently helped couples sell who are going through divorces and helped families sell an estate after a loved one has passed on. We have helped young couples buy their first home, helped people learn about vintage homes, toured countless people all over our community. We are here to help whenever you need us.
We love older homes, homes of character and think of them as pieces of history, playgrounds, storytellers. Our clients will tell you that as soon as Vince gets in homes in our neighborhood, he is on his hands and knees, peeling back carpet to find hardwoods, darting up stairs to attics, opening doors, poking around interesting basements.
Each day we wake up, walk across our cozy wood floors, grind our fresh organic coffee beans, drink the good stuff and go to work helping people with homes. Our life and work are the same and that is just the way we like it.
Please call us at 206-962-1700 to help you BUY or SELL historic, vintage or homes of character. We promise you we will be there to help!
AMAZING JUNGLE JOURNEY!
What the heck does the following story have to do with helping people buy or sell homes? Please take a few moments to read this true story and we think it will make you smile.
Have you ever wanted to go to a place that is completely different than what you know? An authentic true adventure story will follow. We hope you enjoy. Since our historic home specialist Vince Decker was a young boy he had dreams of seeing the real Amazon jungle. The massive trees, snakes and wide rivers all seemed so exotic. A few years ago he decided to stop dreaming and make it happen, studying a tribe of people in the Ecuadorian Amazon called the Waorani, First contact with them happened about 50 years ago and their ways appeared to be quite traditional still. He read about them, learned where they were, imagined how to get there and brushed up on his mediocre Spanish language skills. The Continental flight from Seattle passed through Houston and on to Quito, Ecuador, a beautiful city of two million ringed by volcanoes in the Andes Mountains. After a few days of getting provisions, tracking down a jungle hammock and orienting myself, adventure was calling.
Vince left the main station in Quito on an old bus that took him 12 hours up over the high Andes, down past massive waterfalls and eventually into the Amazon Basin. The ride was fantastic, lots of laughter, natives getting on with chickens for market and everyone wondering where on earth he was going. After a very long day with many new smells and sights, the bus bumped into the small town of Coca on the Napo River. The Napo and Maranon River from Peru join to form the Amazon. Amazing, he made it! He then found a small room, ate some dried fruit and salmon jerky from the Trader Joe's and slipped into a deep sleep.
Vince awoke the next day filled with excitement and sat by the banks of the wide river feeling that plans would soon begin to fall in place. Amazingly, within an hour he met Mario (a younger Waorani tribesman who in town from the deep jungle to do some trading). After some discussion and negotiation, Mario agreed to take Vince with him to spend a week in his village, eating and live as he did.
They hopped in the back of an old pickup truck, sat on some spare tires and settled in for a long ride. Crossing the Napo River and heading down a small road into the jungle, they talked of people, politics, soccer and life. Two hours later they pulled up to an old bridge where Mario's wife Anna and little girl Flora were waiting with a dugout canoe. They baled water for about 30 minutes, loaded their supplies and pushed off. For the next four hours they floated down the Shiripuno River, with only the sounds of the jungle around them. Parrots screeched overhead, a massive anaconda on the bank, the vegetation became much denser and humidity was thick in the air. After much paddling and many bends in the river, they got to the village where Vince would spend the next week. Rarely had any travelers come to this place, 20 or 30 children stood wide-eyed and cackled as Vince struggled up the muddy hill from the river.
The village had about 20 beautiful thatched huts, probably 100 people. Vince was taken to see the chief soon after he arrived. He thanked him graciously, asked permission to stay, and shared some gifts of food, drawing paper and colored pencils for the children of the tribe, walking with Mario back to his hut, hung a hammock inside the structure, and took a look around. The hut was well crafted of hardwood pole rafters, bamboo floors and palm fronds. A cooking fire inside provided heat and food. The food in this place consisted of hunted meat from the jungle, piranha and other fish, mangoes and some cultivated foods like corn and yams. The villagers bathed in the river everyday at 6PM, spent their time building and weaving, used a red pigment from a plant to paint their faces before hunting parties left and lived peacefully and communally as they had for thousands of years. The younger members spoke Spanish; it had been decided that it was important that they learn in order to trade and communicate. Elders spoke the native dialect. So this was Vince's home for the next week. He tromped through the jungle, swung on vines with the village kids, bathed in clear pools, ate VERY interesting food, worked clearing land and building a school, made good friends and learned a great deal about their culture. Each night he was lulled to sleep in his hammock by the amazing stars and jungle sounds and will remember forever the people he met and the great experiences he had.
Why did we share this adventure with you? It took someone who was creative, tenacious and optimistic to make this dream happen, the kind of person you want working for you. That's Vince Decker! We connect very well with buyers and sellers of homes that have character because we have a little ourselves. Please remember (HistoricHomesinSeattle.com) when it comes time to buy or sell your home. We are your neighbors and down to earth real estate agents, known for helping clients find and buy their dream houses and helping people sell their homes for attractive prices in a timely manner. Please call us 206-962-1700 or send us an email at vincehomes@hotmail.com. We believe that you will be thrilled at what we can do for you!
When you call us to list and sell your home, our knowledge of historic properties will help immensely. Your home will have beautiful high-definition professional photos taken and used on all flyers, we will expose your home to our large network of home buyers and contacts here in Seattle and relocating buyers all over the country. With our advanced internet marketing your home will receive the maximum exposure on 25+ real estate websites, posted daily on Yahoo, The Real Estate Book, Home Seekers, HomeGain, vlshomes, MLS, Craigslist, Google, Real Estate Espanol, Lycos, Oodle, RealEstate.com, Listingmania, MLS.com, Trulia, Propsmart, Citycribs, Cyberhomes, Zillow, Hotpads, AOL, CLR, Enormo, Frontdoor, Fizber and many other sites (our sites receive 10,000+ visits per month. We promise to do our best for you.
Just the other day, we saved a buyer client $25,000 with skillful presentation of their offer in person (very unique among realtors), great research, preparation and artful but fair negotiating. When you call us to help you buy your home, we truly believe that we will save you time and money. We promise you will receive great representation and a true competitive advantage. We know about many of the best homes in our area before they go on the market and if you work with us we'll teach you techniques that will help you get the home you want. We'd be honored if you would read the kind comments our clients have shared on this site.
We hope that you will call us anytime we can be of help to you or your friends. We have worked very hard, helped many of our neighbors (our family lives right here in Seattle in a cozy historic home). Over the years we've assisted hundreds of clients, friends and families buy and sell homes in Seattle and the Puget Sound area. We are down to earth, optimistic and honest.
You've probably also heard some unique things about us, that our historic home specialist Vince Decker walked to 10,000 homes, built a home with his biologist father (making him an SOB) as a boy and that his grandfather was an eccentric inventor and one of his greatest influences. He works very hard for his clients, helping people buy and sell homes of all kinds.
We'll work with all our heart and experience to help you BUY or SELL your home. We love what we do and will give every ounce of energy and creativity to help you accomplish your goals. We have helped many of you sell your homes and move to more spacious ones in our neighborhood, We've helped others downsize and move to condos, helped people sell who are moving to other parts of Puget Sound, Texas, Oregon, Idaho, Hawaii, Florida, California, many other states and overseas. We have gently helped couples sell who are going through divorces and helped families sell an estate after a loved one has passed on. We have helped young couples buy their first home, helped people learn about vintage homes, toured countless people all over our community. We are here to help whenever you need us.
We love older homes, homes of character and think of them as pieces of history, playgrounds, storytellers. Our clients will tell you that as soon as Vince gets in homes in our neighborhood, he is on his hands and knees, peeling back carpet to find hardwoods, darting up stairs to attics, opening doors, poking around interesting basements.
Each day we wake up, walk across our cozy wood floors, grind our fresh organic coffee beans, drink the good stuff and go to work helping people with homes. Our life and work are the same and that is just the way we like it.
Please call us at 206-962-1700 to help you BUY or SELL historic, vintage or homes of character. We promise you we will be there to help!
AMAZING JUNGLE JOURNEY!
What the heck does the following story have to do with helping people buy or sell homes? Please take a few moments to read this true story and we think it will make you smile.
Have you ever wanted to go to a place that is completely different than what you know? An authentic true adventure story will follow. We hope you enjoy. Since our historic home specialist Vince Decker was a young boy he had dreams of seeing the real Amazon jungle. The massive trees, snakes and wide rivers all seemed so exotic. A few years ago he decided to stop dreaming and make it happen, studying a tribe of people in the Ecuadorian Amazon called the Waorani, First contact with them happened about 50 years ago and their ways appeared to be quite traditional still. He read about them, learned where they were, imagined how to get there and brushed up on his mediocre Spanish language skills. The Continental flight from Seattle passed through Houston and on to Quito, Ecuador, a beautiful city of two million ringed by volcanoes in the Andes Mountains. After a few days of getting provisions, tracking down a jungle hammock and orienting myself, adventure was calling.
Vince left the main station in Quito on an old bus that took him 12 hours up over the high Andes, down past massive waterfalls and eventually into the Amazon Basin. The ride was fantastic, lots of laughter, natives getting on with chickens for market and everyone wondering where on earth he was going. After a very long day with many new smells and sights, the bus bumped into the small town of Coca on the Napo River. The Napo and Maranon River from Peru join to form the Amazon. Amazing, he made it! He then found a small room, ate some dried fruit and salmon jerky from the Trader Joe's and slipped into a deep sleep.
Vince awoke the next day filled with excitement and sat by the banks of the wide river feeling that plans would soon begin to fall in place. Amazingly, within an hour he met Mario (a younger Waorani tribesman who in town from the deep jungle to do some trading). After some discussion and negotiation, Mario agreed to take Vince with him to spend a week in his village, eating and live as he did.
They hopped in the back of an old pickup truck, sat on some spare tires and settled in for a long ride. Crossing the Napo River and heading down a small road into the jungle, they talked of people, politics, soccer and life. Two hours later they pulled up to an old bridge where Mario's wife Anna and little girl Flora were waiting with a dugout canoe. They baled water for about 30 minutes, loaded their supplies and pushed off. For the next four hours they floated down the Shiripuno River, with only the sounds of the jungle around them. Parrots screeched overhead, a massive anaconda on the bank, the vegetation became much denser and humidity was thick in the air. After much paddling and many bends in the river, they got to the village where Vince would spend the next week. Rarely had any travelers come to this place, 20 or 30 children stood wide-eyed and cackled as Vince struggled up the muddy hill from the river.
The village had about 20 beautiful thatched huts, probably 100 people. Vince was taken to see the chief soon after he arrived. He thanked him graciously, asked permission to stay, and shared some gifts of food, drawing paper and colored pencils for the children of the tribe, walking with Mario back to his hut, hung a hammock inside the structure, and took a look around. The hut was well crafted of hardwood pole rafters, bamboo floors and palm fronds. A cooking fire inside provided heat and food. The food in this place consisted of hunted meat from the jungle, piranha and other fish, mangoes and some cultivated foods like corn and yams. The villagers bathed in the river everyday at 6PM, spent their time building and weaving, used a red pigment from a plant to paint their faces before hunting parties left and lived peacefully and communally as they had for thousands of years. The younger members spoke Spanish; it had been decided that it was important that they learn in order to trade and communicate. Elders spoke the native dialect. So this was Vince's home for the next week. He tromped through the jungle, swung on vines with the village kids, bathed in clear pools, ate VERY interesting food, worked clearing land and building a school, made good friends and learned a great deal about their culture. Each night he was lulled to sleep in his hammock by the amazing stars and jungle sounds and will remember forever the people he met and the great experiences he had.
Why did we share this adventure with you? It took someone who was creative, tenacious and optimistic to make this dream happen, the kind of person you want working for you. That's Vince Decker! We connect very well with buyers and sellers of homes that have character because we have a little ourselves. Please remember (HistoricHomesinSeattle.com) when it comes time to buy or sell your home. We are your neighbors and down to earth real estate agents, known for helping clients find and buy their dream houses and helping people sell their homes for attractive prices in a timely manner. Please call us 206-962-1700 or send us an email at vincehomes@hotmail.com. We believe that you will be thrilled at what we can do for you!