180 closings
Verified transactions over the prior five years, 112 of them buyer side.
Selling an inherited or family home in Albuquerque is not the same transaction as selling a house you chose and lived in by choice.
There is usually more than one person deciding, a house full of belongings, and no appetite for being hurried.
Melissa Salazar handles these at the pace the family needs. Several of her clients in this situation have come back to her a second time.
Clear title comes first: who is legally able to sell. That often means a probate step, and the timeline depends on whether there was a will.
Finding this out early costs nothing and prevents the worst version of this, which is accepting an offer you cannot actually complete.
Families routinely exhaust themselves clearing a house before anyone has told them what actually needs clearing.
Melissa walks the property and tells you which rooms matter to a buyer and which can be left alone, with costs attached. Usually it is far less than people expect, and it is the one place her years of photographing listings pay off directly.
Agree early on who decides, and what happens if you disagree about price. Everyone gets the same information at the same time, so nobody feels managed into a number.
The same applies to downsizing or moving nearer family. These run on a longer clock and often involve adult children doing the research first.
That is fine. Check her up, read the written reviews, and call when you are ready.
Verified transactions over the prior five years, 112 of them buyer side.
Total verified sales volume across those transactions, averaging $423,100.
Licensed in New Mexico since 2018, and a professional real estate photographer since 2016.
Before anything is listed, the title has to be clear on who can legally sell. That often means a probate step, and how long it takes depends on whether there was a will and whether anyone contests it. Melissa Salazar will tell you what has to happen first and roughly how long it takes, without pushing you to sign anything.
Not completely, and not immediately. What matters is what photographs well and what a buyer sees in the first thirty seconds. She will tell you which rooms need attention and which can be left, which usually saves families a great deal of unnecessary work.
Yes, and it is common. The useful thing is agreeing early on who makes the decisions and how you will handle a disagreement on price. She will put the same information in front of everyone so nobody feels managed.
No. Most of these calls happen months before anything is listed, and plenty of them end with her saying there is no reason to hurry. There is no cost and no agreement to sign.
Tell Melissa what you are trying to do and when. If the answer is that you should wait, she will say so.