About Jim Kazakoff
Jim Kazakoff
BORN IN CANADA, Jim’s education took him from his home in Victoria, Canada, to the Sorbonne, in Paris. After graduating with a degree in education, he began teaching. After many years in the classroom, Jim relocated to Texas, where he found a career in which he could utilize the skills he had cultivated as a teacher — patience and the ability to
listen.
That career was real estate. Soon after obtaining his Texas real estate license in 1985, he discovered his way of working with people and his high standards made him an instant success.
AFTER 20 YEARS of building heart-felt relationships with hundreds of clients, Jim’s wife took a position in Boston, and so he said good-bye to his many client-friends and relocated to Boston where he earned his Massachusetts real estate license. Over the next period of years, Jim obtained licenses to practice real estate in Missouri and Ohio, as well as in Massachusetts. Jim liked to joke about having licenses to do damage in four states; but his clients will tell you otherwise!
JIM SERVED as President of the Greater Lewisville Association of REALTORS® and was elected its 1997 REALTOR OF THE YEAR. He has also earned these coveted real estate designations – ABR, CRS, and CNE. He has also served the Texas and Boston communities as a volunteer chaplain, ministering to prisoners in the state and county jails.
TODAY, JIM continues to work with buyers and sellers alike; however, his new client base now embraces builders, developers, and investors. His specialties now include multi-family properties, over-size lots and rehabs, as well as single family homes and condominiums.
HE IS MARRIED, has two grown children – Brian and Kylara – and 3 grandchildren. Brian is a massage therapist in New York City and Kylara lives and works in Florida.
JIM ACHIEVED the coveted Certified Residential Specialist (CRS) designation in 1997. Fewer than 5% of all Realtors nationwide have been granted this designation by the Residential Real Estate Council. The requirements for this designation, sometimes called the doctorate of real estate, include documented real estate transactions and special real estate courses and testing. You may see other agents with the initials “GRI”. Jim did not apply for the designation of Graduate of Real Estate Institute since it is a lower designation than that of CRS. Since Jim has declined to continue paying annual dues to the Residential Real Estate Council, he is not permitted to call himself a Certified Residential Specialist, but paying dues never made him one and not paying dues can unmake him from being one!
REBAC Real Estate BUYER’S AGENT Council) is North America’s largest association of real estate professionals focusing specifically on representing the real estate consumer. Not long ago, there were only 30,000 active members of the organization throughout the United States and Canada, out of thousands upon thousands of real estate agents worldwide, and Jim was one of the few designees. The designation, ABR, stands for Accredited Buyer Representative. In recent years, there has been a push to enroll more realtors into this designation. My personal belief for this is not primarily to increase the level of skills for realtors working with buyers but as a means of increasing revenue for NAR. Just as with earning his designation of CRS, Jim earned his designation of ABR, and his current refusal to continue paying dues will not make him any less devoted to helping buyers with his 40 years of experience despite the fact that he cannot advertise that he was accredited as an ABR almost from the inception of this designation!
Whether you are a buyer or a seller, you should be looking for more than a friend or stranger you “connect with”. You want someone who will not only “look out” for your best interests but one who knows how to negotiate in your best interests. Informed clients will not only seek out a REALTOR who has earned the ABR and CRS designations, but will also demand a Certified Negotiation Expert.
Jim has relied upon client satisfaction and word of mouth advertising over the years – a business model with a “By Referral Only” mindset – which, has kept Jim busy through the years
Referred REALTOR®
Accessibility
A person who is available when you need him.
Communicative
A person who keeps you informed through every step of your sale or purchase.
Competence
A person who is well educated in negotiating research and follow-through.
Courtesy
A person who is polite and a pleasure to do business with.
Credibility
A person who is trustworthy and will look out for your best interest.
Reliability
A person you can count on through every step of your sale or purchase.
A person who is well educated in negotiating research and follow-through.
Responsive
A person who will return your phone calls and answer your questions in a timely manner.
Security
A person who protects his clients from undue risk.
Understanding & Tenacity
A person who is available when you need him.A person who will not give up
Why Choose Jim?
1. Fierce loyalty to his clients has earned Jim an impeccable reputation for providing the highest level of service to his clients.
2. At the forefront of innovation and technology, Jim brings fresh and creative solutions to each transaction.
3. Quality of service means paying attention to every detail in the purchase and sale process.
4. Jim freely shares his market knowledge with his clients each step of the way.
5. Freedom from the corporate bureaucracy which strangles agents tethered to franchise companies gives Jim the ability to react immediately to circumstances without having to wait on permission to do so.
6. Jim answers to his clients, and not to a company’s board members or stockholders.
7. Local market knowledge gained from showing and selling in most of the towns and neighborhoods which comprise the greater Boston Metroplex, ensures that Jim is showing or listing property in markets he knows and understands.
For Sellers
1. Target marketing is part and parcel of Jim’s professional marketing skills. Recognizing the demographics of potential buyers helps target them more precisely.
2. Proper positioning and pricing within the local market are critical to a successful sale.
3. Jim approaches your property valuation audit from two perspectives: that of a historical perspective and that of an appraisal perspective using acceptable practice techniques combined with relevant current conditions.
4. Technology is a major part of the real estate business and utilizing it properly and to the fullest extent is crucial. Jim combines proven strategies with unique campaigns that may include Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, and of course, YouTube.
5. Proper exposure to gain the desired buyer audience is only achieved with a diverse strategy. Many buyers are overlooked when the lazy agent’s efforts are confined to a simple posting in the MLS which you have no doubt been frustratingly exposed to over and over again; but Jim doesn’t take a limited approach to marketing… even in the MLS.
6. Jim maintains an excellent standing/reputation with other agents by his fair and ethical practice in each transaction while not losing sight of the duties of his fiduciary agency relationships .
7. Networking is a valuable tool in exposing your property to a wide and vast audience. Jim participates in local broker open house “tours”, attends community functions, and maintains relationships that help foster mutual success. Your property listing will be on the local brokers’ open house tour.
8. Communication is key to client satisfaction. Jim adapts to what works best for his client, whether it’s answering a question by phone, email, text, or messenger.
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