During the time I’ve lived in Portland, I have had the opportunity to live in several areas: from Beaverton, Milwaukie, Oregon City, the Hollywood district, Laurelhurst, and Clinton – finally purchasing my home in wonderful North Portland. When it comes to neighborhoods, I know them inside and out.

Realizing your dreams of owning a home is an exciting and challenging time. You can rest assured that I will take the time to understand your needs, share your enthusiasm, step up to the challenges and be with you every step of the way.

With a background in business and extensive experience in customer relations, I am well suited to handle all negotiations, researching and problem solving involved in your real estate transaction.

When I am not working, I enjoy skiing, cooking, kickball, softball, Ultimate Frisbee, dining out, BBQ’s, biking, and playing fetch with my Boston Terrier Cash!

Vision:
Be the person my clients trust and rely on for professional real estate services.

Mission:
Provide prompt and comprehensive local real estate advice and expertise to my clients. Make their buying or selling transaction a rewarding experience regardless of market conditions. Be their reliable resource for contacts with other professional services for their real estate and other areas of their lives.

Personal:

I love to travel. I enjoy good food and wine, and love sharing them with my family and my friends! My wife and sons are a central part of my life.

Professional:

I enjoy problem solving and am relentless about finding a solution to my clients’ needs. I love learning new things and always take advantage of new technologies that are available to make me a better Realtor. As a Real Estate Principal Broker, I make myself available whenever my clients need my services. I’m grateful for the lifelong clients who have been very supportive with their precious referrals!

Specialties:

Purchasing and selling negotiation, Local & global market knowledge of residential, commercial and investment properties.

I firmly believe owning a home creates overall net wealth and security.  It expands to the family, your neighborhood, community, and schools.  It impacts not only the Local economy but the individual owners and social interactions with the community.  Working with people, investing  in their future, and families is what I enjoy most.

I remain active in my community.  I really enjoy being a reading volunteer at Roseway Heights School and Community Transitional School.  I also Enjoy participating and volunteering with The Cully Neighborhood Association.

I’m lucky enough to have been selected for the second time as a Portland Five Star Real Estate Agent!  Great Thanks to my clients who have generously shared their experience and voice on my behalf.

I’ve been happily selling real estate since 1997 in the close in Portland neighborhoods. I love my job and love being able to shop for houses vicariously through finding wonderful homes for my clients. I am both a buyer agent and a listing agent. I know these close in neighborhoods like the back of my hand, so you are with a neighborhood expert when you buy or sell a home with me.

I’ve lived in the Eliot neighborhood since 1994 and have watched it grow and become the hub of all kinds of exciting development, along with the Mississippi neighborhood, the Alberta Arts neighborhood, and North Portland Williams and Interstate corridors.

My interests are cooking, reading, yoga, my dog and all dogs, music, traveling (I love to visit friends in Hawaii, NYC, LA and New Orleans), and being a part of my neighborhood board and land use committee.

I am excited to be with M Realty because they are the masters with the technology that is so useful and important in today’s searching for homes and social networking to keep clients informed and connected. They offer a very impressive listing service packet that most sellers will find hard to turn down.

Heidi Corday PC – Your Personal Real Estate Consultant!

Knowledge of Portland area – As a Portland native and real estate professional working in Portland, I know the neighborhoods all around the metro area and the current and probable future values of homes in those areas. I will ensure you get the right price for your existing home and pay the right price for your new one.

Experience – Buying or selling a home is one of the most important things you will do. You absolutely must have an experienced realtor to minimize the many risks that are involved. Every client and every situation is different.

Results – As a results-oriented professional I balance strategies, market knowledge and attention to detail with a high level of integrity.

Referrals – Working by referral is 90% of my business! As one of my clients you can expect me to spend my time, energy, and effort focused on helping you. If you know someone thinking of buying or selling a home who would appreciate the kind of service I offer, I’d love to help them. So, as these people come to mind, just give me a call with their name and number or visit my web sites and I’ll be happy to follow up and help with their real estate needs.

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The Sfera 360 Degree Photo Maker allows you to quickly and easily create 360 degree panoramic “images” that can be emailed to clients, or embedded directly into your website.

Check out this quick sample I made of the M Realty office:

While this is no substitute for a professional 360 degree virtual tour that you’d use on a million dollar listing, it’s definitely worth the $1.99 spent for something that you can quickly create yourself (and for A LOT less money).  Under proper lighting conditions, and a steady hand, the quality turns out pretty good. Email it to an out of town client, embed it into your WordPress blog, etc.

I did have a little bit of trouble using the embed code that the app spits out, but hopefully Sfera will work the bugs out. In the meantime, if you’re an M agent and need help using this snazzy new tool, let me know.

“I got more out of today than a whole year’s worth of ‘classes’ at my brokerage.”

These are the two most memorable quotes I heard from a couple attendees of our first Real Estate Marketing Lab event that took place today.

The event, held at RefugePDX, was a combination conference and “hands on” workshop where attendees gained a real working knowledge of the HOW and WHY of Activity Based Marketing along with the supporting platforms of WordPress, Facebook, and YouTube.

This workshop style event is something a little different than what most Real Estate conferences offer.  It was a hybrid conference/conversation/Q+A session all at once and more than anything, it gave other local agents a glimpse of what we do at M Realty on a daily basis and how they might implement the same strategies in their practices.

We started the day with a discussion around Garron’s “Do-Document-Share-Convert” strategy.  He then showed several examples of this in action, and prepped the group for our mid-day activity of heading out into the real world to put this strategy into action.  We then broke the group up into smaller groups of 4-5 agents, gave them some basic instructions, and sent them on their way.

The groups were instructed to think of something they could go out and “do”, pick a way to “document” this activity, grab some lunch, and then return back to the lab so we could proceed with the “share” portion of the day.

Each group did a great job of picking a task or topic, documenting it with pictures and video, and making their way back within the allotted time.  From there, we worked with the groups on getting the images and videos ready to be used in WordPress.  We showed an easy way to crop, resize and upload the images along with getting the videos setup into a YouTube account.  Once that was all done, we dove into the WordPress section on our practice site The University of M. Check out the “student posts” section to see the results!

Overall, we were pretty impressed with the group and their progress.  We covered A LOT of info today, and everyone was able to keep up and participate in the activity.  In the end, several of the agents expressed comments similar to those in the beginning of the post, which to me means the event was a success.

We plan on doing more of these events, hopefully on a monthly basis, so if you’re interested shoot me an email and I’ll make sure you get the invite for the next one.

Ken Robinson - Creativity and educating towards our new world

Dan Pink – What motivates us.

Steve Jobs – Spend your life on project you love!