Odie Hall Real Estate

This is the most old-​school business I have ever come across in my life. And that can be both a good and a bad thing.
Walk in and you’re going to feel like you’re going through a time machine. This business is housed in a tiny house from the beginning of last century and furnished with the best office furniture from the 70s, 80s, 90s, and today. But don’t let that fool you — beauty is only wood-​panel-​deep, right?
This business is also the epitome of family-​owned. The head broker is an older woman — you guessed it, a Mrs. Odie Hall — and the office is staffed by her husband, son, daughter-​in-​law, and a few others. Despite the family affair, they all know a thing or two about their business and have some old-​fashioned work ethics to back it up. Mrs. Hall has been in the business since the fifties, and her family-​staff are also brokers, agents, and even private home builders and property owners. To say it frank, they can do more for you than buy a house. Build one? Rent one? Random house questions? You got it.
Bottom line, these people will tell it to you straight. Old-​fashioned country business means plain and simple dealings without any corporate fine print or wily rhetoric to hide the grimy details from you. I’ve personally heard the employees say things like, «Honestly, with the state of this property and your budget, I wouldn’t make an offer.» instead of the usual, «Well, there’s another couple just like you making an offer as we speak, better hurry!!!» And that’s what I like.
Odie Hall Real Estate might not be modern or stream-​lined, gussied up with corporate shininess and perfectly groomed clones in starched suits. Some people might call them straight-​up country bumpkin and (maybe, if they base their opinion on looks) maybe even unprofessional. And to those people I say this: Your loss. These people know their business and know how to do it well.