Krista Meili – John L Scott Real Estate

Krista Meili and her assistant Krista Andrews were our ideal buyer’s agents. They worked very hard when we were looking for a house in Portland and its suburbs. They were willing to cover a large local area. They even said if we wanted to buy in Vancouver, they’d help us find a Washington agent.
We lived in San Francisco and couldn’t fly to Oregon every time a likely house came on the market. The two Kristas went to every house we were seriously interested in and took numerous helpful photos, videos, and measurements. They asked the sellers’ agents plenty of questions on our behalf and pursued the answers. Even things like, how did a seller on a two-​acre property with the house set way back get his trash to the street for pickup? (A golf cart.)
The hardest test of their abilities was when we really liked a house on the National Historic Register. It was a lovely old house, but it needed significant remodeling to be livable for us. A number of things like adding bathrooms (two out of four floors didn’t even have a half-​bath) and altering stairs. Krista Andrews, in particular, was tireless in pursuing the sellers (who had restored the house) for detailed information as to what the NHR and the city of Portland would allow. In our direct conversations with the Portland planning department they were mostly noncommittal, which did not make us feel confident enough to bid. But the two Kristas tried very hard to make that house work for us.
My husband and I ended up needing to relocate to a geographic area other than Portland. We were unable to find an agent there anywhere near as good. If only we could have relocated the two Kristas.