Melanie Fenelon – Realty Austin

I was referred to Melanie by a realtor in Washington DC when I told her I was moving to Austin. I actually think my time in Austin has been different because I met Melanie. I started looking for a house soon after I got here and she was amazing about helping me find the right property. I wanted a historic fixer upper and she rolled up her sleeves and dove into crumbly old properties with me even when they were in the most dire conditions. I found the perfect property and she held my hand through an odd closing process (the seller was crazytown.) She has remained a friend and I do not hesitate to recommend her to anyone I meet who is looking for an honest, kind realtor who is smart as a whip and has her client’s interests at heart.

Melanie came highly recommended from a friend to help us with our relocation to Austin from Charlotte, NC. We were on a tight schedule to find a home before our 6 month lease on our apt was up. Considering we were a family with a school-​aged child, our needs for a home were very specific. Melanie and Diane came through with flying colors– we met the deadline 2 months early and could not be happier with our home and neighborhood. They were able to answer the million + 1 questions we threw at them and always followed up with e-​mails, phone calls, texts, etc. Melanie’s positive attitude and kind professionalism helped us negotiate through some tense situations (caused from the selling party) that we would’ve been at a loss on how to handle. She’s the best!!!

I have found my Realtor for life. While I didn’t know Melanie very well before starting the process of selling our home and buying another, my husband had decided we would work with her and I could not be more thankful. Melanie is a true professional. She is organized, task-​oriented and will help you get things done. She helped stage our home beautifully. She is very kind and a great counselor during this stressful process of selling and buying. She demands attention and produces real results. She sold our home in 5 days for top dollar.

Melanie is an amazing resource. She is diligent, detailed, dedicated, and determined. Counseling, consoling, and confidence building at every turn, I have worked with her professionally and personally for the last three years. In turbulent times, her smile and poise is ever-​present with patience and persistence being one of her many strengths.
Plus, she is cool, vibrant, sweet, vivacious, and beautiful… which helps with any and all business transactions!

What is there NOT to love about Melanie? I have worked with relators in the past, and never met one that I liked that much. I never felt like they listened, or understood what it was we «really» were looking for. I didn’t feel like any of the «others» cared, or had my best interest at heart. With «them» I just felt like another number that they wanted to get rid of in order to move on to the next person.
When my friend HIGHLY referred Melanie, I was expecting the relators of the past. After a couple of emails with Melanie I was already at ease, and after meeting Melanie and working with her I wouldn’t work with anyone else in Austin. I would refer her in a heart beat and know without a doubt that Melanie was going to do well by them.
Melanie has an amazing knowledge of the area as she was raised here, and she has been doing what she does for awhile. It didn’t take Melanie long to understand what I was looking for, it was like she had created a wifi connection to my brain. I never ONCE felt like she was trying to shove or force me into anything. She had my best interest, she steered me the right way, and I felt at peace knowing that I had a great partner in my search.
Melanie was always very professional, full of energy, super friendly, very knowledgeable, very responsive, smart, quick to move, and after the papers were signed, I felt sad to know that I wouldn’t be seeing Melanie as much. I feel like I have found a friend after the process. Also, Melanie is up to speed on technology, which is a huge bonus.

Melanie is not like any of other 5 Realtors I’ve worked with over the last 3 years. She helped me hunt for at about 6 months — all the time with me thinking something I would be really interested in would never show up. She was able to quickly get the feel of what I was looking for, what suited me and tailored my search. Her counsel throughout the extended time proved invaluable. Her encouragement and enthusiasm kept me going when the marketplace «reality checks» seemed discouraging.
Melanie has an incredible gift to take a look at a property and let me know what it was 1) worth 2) what it would likely sell for and 3) what could be remodeled reasonably — a great grasp of a constantly changing Austin market. She is incredibly knowledgeable in managing the inevitable hurdles that are part of any real estate transaction these days. She is diplomatic, professional and has resources available at a moment’s notice to help evaluate any issue I faced. She has a quite varied and extensive network that bent over backwards to help her help me. It took me a while to get comfortable with what I could expect around Austin and more than once, her advice was to hold on until the right place in the right area came to be. She was not out for the «easy one». She truly wanted me to experience the «right one». I never felt like I had to compromise and «THE one» did show up. It took time and as she said «when it’s meant to be it’ll happen». She was supportive and very easy to hang out with — I really think of her as a friend.: She took the time to know me first so she could make the best recommendations. It was like house hunting with your best friend who sometimes knew better than me what I was really looking for.
Definitely get Melanie to help you find what you are looking for at a good, fair price. I highly recommend Melanie to anyone who is looking for a Realtor who really knows the Austin housing market, is honest, professional and really gets to know you and your likes. She loves what she does and has a passion for finding YOU the right home.

My husband I purchased a home in Northwest Austin in July after working with Melanie for about 8 months. We moved to Austin in January from California and knew very little about the area and specific neighborhoods. Melanie was wonderful from the beginning and even helped us secure a short-​term rental for our initial move, in a perfect location for us to explore Austin. She spent many hours for several months just helping us get acquainted with Austin and learning more about what area would best suit us. She was always honest and brought a wealth of knowledge, so we could accurately weigh the pros and cons of each home we looked at.
Melanie is absolutely lovely, incredibly personable and friendly, and we always felt like she was going above and beyond for us. We would recommend her to anyone looking to buy or sell a home!

Melanie recently managed the sale of my $ 1 million plus home in Flintrock Falls. She was the consummate professional in all respects. Her preparation and analysis was carefully done and detailed, unlike several other realtors who looked at my home. In fact her recommended list price was substantially above the others. Her brochures were outstanding, and she quickly grasped the special feature in the home and sold these very effectively. She held several open houses and interrelated effectively with other realtors and their clients. The home sold in less than three months for 92% of the original list price, which we stretched somewhat for the first few weeks to test the market. The final price was in excess of what two other local and well respected realtors had recommended as a list price.
Melanie has also represented my significant other in two transactions, and we would both utilize her services for our next real estate transaction.
She is also an extremely nice, friendly and pleasant individual, and a real pleasure to work with.