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keith hauschulz (windermere real estate/bainbridge island, inc.) Real Estate Agent

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keith hauschulz
location_on Bainbridge Island, WA — windermere real estate/bainbridge island, inc.
Windermere Real Estate
Get to Know keith hauschulz

bainbridge island is accessible by vehicle and passenger ferries from the downtown seattle waterfront or by bridge via the scenic kitsap peninsula. i specialize in residential properties ranging from family neighborhood residences and secluded cabin retreats to harborside town homes and elegant waterfront estates. i have lived on bi for over 25 years with my wife and two children and have practiced real estate on the island for over 20 years. having raised two children on the island i have a first hand knowledge of and involvement in area schools, youth sports programs, arts and cultural activities, and regional recreational opportunities. i am honest, enthusiastic, congenial, conscientious, and realistic and thoroughly enjoy the bainbridge island community, my family, and my work.

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my formal education includes a bs degree in engineering from the university of illinois, an mba degree in finance and operations research from indiana university, and a phd (abd) in finance and economics from the university of washington (which is how i happened to end up in the pacific northwest). my informal education includes raising my daughter, mckayla, and son, kaj. interpersonal and organizational skills developed during four years of university teaching and seven years of managing my own import/export business and retail store chain, combined with an engineer's attention to detail, provide the basis for my marketing, negotiating, and contracting expertise. i counsel sellers in preparation, marketing, negotiating, and consummating the sale of residential property and assist buyers in identifying and negotiating and contracting for the purchase of and consummating the purchase of residential property.

i would characterize my negotiating style as win-win. i make every effort to negotiate agreements that benefit and satisfy all parties. a buyer or seller who feels that he or she has "lost" at the bargaining table is often resentful and subsequently less likely to be willing to work through the problems that invariably arise between entering into an agreement and consummating a transaction.  as recently as twenty five years ago, real estate transactions on the island were routinely consummated with a hand shake.  just ask one of the island old timers.  today it is not uncommon for a real estate agent's paper transaction file to be three or four inches thick.  do we really need all that paperwork, legalese, real estate jargon, timelines, contingencies, etc.?  only if a conflict should arise.  beyond that,  it doesn't hurt employment in the legal community.  as my assoicate, j, always says ... keith likes to cross all the "i's" and dot all the "t's".  i guess i do tend to be more analytical and attentive to contract terms and details, ... just in case.

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experience has taught me that no agent can be all things to all clients in all geographic areas. hence, i limit my practice exclusively to bainbridge island, washington usa planet earth (bi).