A Home Full of Memories: The Klessers' Move Out of Southbridge Forest

Some clients start as clients. Others start as colleagues, or students, or neighbors, and by the time they call you about a house, you're not really starting a business relationship at all. You're continuing one.

Jessica Klesser and I taught at the same school for years. I had her son Harrison in my class in 5th grade, and again in 8th. So when Jessica called me, it wasn't a cold call. It was someone I'd known for a long time, reaching out at two different turning points in her family's life: first when she and Hartmut were ready to buy their downsized home, and then again when it was time to close on the family home they'd lived in for so long, on Rocky Trace Way in Southbridge Forest.

That family home held everything a growing family needs: five bedrooms, a flex room, an updated kitchen with quartz counters open to the living room, renovated bathrooms, a covered deck, a hot tub, mature fruit trees, and a private cul-de-sac setting with low HOA dues. We listed it, and it drew multiple showings within days, going under contract $10,000 over list.

Then the appraisal came in low, putting that number at risk. We held firm. Using the appraiser's own data, including the cost approach and market rates buried in their own analytics addendum, we built the case for what the home was truly worth, and protected every dollar of that sale for Jessica and Hartmut.

But honestly, the number was never the real story. The real story is what a home like this holds after so many years: a family's whole history, inside those walls. There's a growth chart on a doorframe inside, marking Harrison's height year after year, in the same home where I once had him as a student. Knowing this family the way I do made this one different. Protecting their value wasn't just part of the job. It felt like an honor.

Congratulations, Jessica and Hartmut, on this next chapter.

Make your best move,

Chris & Stacy