About Chris
I've called Savannah home since I was young, long before it became the kind of place people plan whole vacations around. I know which roads flood in a hard rain, which restaurants survived the years that closed everyone else, and why locals still call certain neighborhoods by names that don't show up on any map. That's not a sales pitch. It's just what happens when you actually live somewhere instead of studying it.
Before real estate, I spent years in sales management, which mostly taught me how to listen for what someone isn't saying out loud. Buyers rarely lead with their real number. Sellers rarely admit they're nervous about the market. Reading that gap became second nature, and it's still most of the job.
My path into this business started sideways. I bought a short-term rental property before I ever held a real estate license, and figuring out that deal, the financing, the numbers, the mistake I made pricing it too low the first summer, taught me more about value than any class did. I got licensed because I wanted to keep having that kind of conversation, just with more people than my own portfolio.
Most agents sell you a home. I've also been the person on the other side of the closing table, doing the math on cash flow, rehab costs, and what a property is actually worth versus what the listing photos want you to believe. Short-term rentals were my way in, and fix and flip work taught me the rest: what renovation actually costs, where budgets go sideways, and which "great bones" are actually a money pit wearing good staging. That's the lens I bring to every deal now, whether you're buying your first house or you're the one asking me to run the numbers on a rental.
It also means I'm honest about downside. If a property doesn't pencil out, or a neighborhood isn't right for what you're trying to do, I'll tell you before you fall in love with it, not after you've made an offer.
Outside of real estate, I'm raising two daughters on Dutch Island, which means most weekends involve a boat ramp, a soccer field, or both. I coach at OrangeTheory Fitness a few mornings a week, partly because I believe in it and partly because sitting still has never suited me. If you want to know what kind of agent that makes me: I show up early, I don't disappear after closing, and I'll tell you the truth about a property even when it's not what you want to hear.
Whether you're buying, selling, or just weighing whether now's the right time, I'll give you a straight answer. Fifteen minutes is usually enough to get oriented.