Renee Velasquez, of The RSVP Group at eXp Realty, can help you to embrace the home buying or selling experience confidently

By Ken McEntee

When Brunswick native Renee Sherry Velasquez and her husband, Albert, started to invest in property, she didn’t expect to leave her corporate job to become a full-time real estate agent. Today, the owner of The RSVP Group at eXp Realty invites home hunters to enjoy a moving “eXperience.”

And she expects her clients to have no regrets about choosing RSVP to buy or sell their houses.

“Our goal is to provide the best customer experience possible,” Renee assures.

Before becoming an investor, Renee’s real estate experience was largely confined to the kitchen. As an account executive for a granite company, she worked 60-hour weeks, training employees at home improvement retailers and other accounts throughout Northeast Ohio while raising a young son. At the time, Albert was stationed at the U.S. Naval Base in Guam serving as an explosive ordnance disposal technician—disarming bombs.

“Investing in real estate was our retirement plan,” Renee confides. “I purchased three homes in a short period of time before I even thought about becoming a real estate agent. Since then we’ve flipped homes and accumulated rental properties.”

Her experience as an investor, Renee says, helps her to understand the challenges and pitfalls that a home buyer or seller might encounter.

“The cool thing about coming from an investor background is that I have been on all sides of the transaction,” she says. “I have been a buyer and I have been a seller many, many times over. I know the struggles you can go through—the highs and the lows and how truly life impacting it is to buy and sell a house. I have empathy for the people who are going through that experience.”

After earning her real estate license in 2008, Renee formed her own sales group in 2015—originally affiliated with one of the nation’s largest real estate companies. One of her first challenges was finding a name.

Even without including her maiden name—Sherry—“Renee Velasquez” was a lot of letters to squeeze across a sign, she realized. So, she adopted her inviting initials—adding “P” for “Properties”—as the name of her business.

“Two years ago, The RSVP Group joined eXp—which is the fastest growing brokerage in the country—with more than 23,000 agents across the U.S., Canada, Australia and the U.K.,” Renee notes.“It’s a cloud-based international brokerage with no brick and mortar offices,” she explains.

“Because eXp Realty’s staff is not tasked with managing buildings, grounds, furniture and utilities like a traditional brokerage, their only focus is servicing the agent and their clients. Using the cloud, we have access to agents and experts all over the world. We conduct ‘meetings’ and ‘trainings’ in virtual offices enabling agents to be present and collaborate no matter where they are located. I am not limited to local buying and selling strategies and techniques. I have access to support regardless of the time zone. It’s very cutting edge, efficient and conducive to how business is done today.”

Although many eXp agents choose not to have a physical office, Renee does—in her hometown of Brunswick.

“I know Brunswick like the back of my hand and I’ve watched it grow,” says the Brunswick High School graduate. “My parents still live in the home where I grew up.”

Although she says she has a passion for listing houses, Renee says she also loves working with buyers to find their perfect new home. She has a proven, repeatable system for selling homes for up to 18% more than methods of traditional real estate agents. You home will be sold in 59 days guaranteed, or she'll buy it.*

“Buying a house is a business decision with a strong amount of emotion tied to it,” Renee says. “It’s my job to absorb that emotion and keep my clients as insulated as possible from the inevitable ups and downs.”

Buyers and sellers are invited to call Renee or Administrative Assistant Anera Bammerlin, at 440-879-8851. The RSVP Group is located at 50 Pearl Road, Suite 106, in Brunswick. You can visit TheRSVPGroup.com, or Facebook, @thersvpgroup, for more information.

*Subject to terms of the guaranteed sales program.