Relocating for work
Relocating to the Eastside without pausing your job.
I run the search, the offer and the close while the job carries on.
How a move to the Eastside actually runs
Four stages, and I run all four while the job carries on.
Before you arrive
The shortlist
I narrow the six Eastside places against what you tell me the move has to work around: the drive you are prepared to make, and the date you have to be here.
The visit
One trip, or none
I run walk-throughs on video while you are still somewhere else, then map a route through the ones worth your only free weekend.
The offer
Written from here
I put the offer together when you cannot be in the room, with terms that protect you while you are still somewhere else.
The close
Keys, and after
I time inspection, paperwork, utilities and keys against the day you actually land, not the day the file closes.
Where to look when the commute decides it
Five places, and for most people moving for a job the difference between them is the drive.
I'll narrow it with you once I know where you have to be on a Tuesday morning and what a house of the size you need has to include. That conversation is quicker than a weekend of driving, and it happens before you book a flight.
Each of the five has its own page, with the market figures set out under their period, their source and the date they were true. Read them in neighborhoods, then tell me which two you want to see.
Start the plan
Tell me about your relocation.
I reply myself, and I'll tell you what I would do first.
Reach me directly
Three things, and I take it from there
What people ask about relocating for work
Can you work with my relocation package?
- Usually, and it's worth raising in our first conversation, not at the offer. Before real estate, I spent 20+ years in enterprise B2B sales — including work with Amazon, Amgen, Boeing and Microsoft — so I know how a corporate relocation timeline runs. I'm a Certified Relocation Specialist too, and since every employer's package covers something different, I'll tell you plainly what I can and cannot do inside yours. If your time here is short, I build the visit around it: a mapped weekend, long days, and a review of everything you saw over a meal before we write an offer.
Can I buy before I arrive?
- It doesn't happen often, but it happens. What makes it work is trusting me to stand in the house and tell you what a photograph leaves out — the noise, the light at the wrong hour, the thing at the end of the drive. Buying straight from a listing page is what makes it fail.
What if I have to sell somewhere else first?
- It depends, and that's the real conversation: what you can offer with, what you're prepared to carry until the first sale closes, and what the timing costs you either way. Selling first is often the simpler move because a vacant home is easier to show, but it doesn't work for everyone. I've managed a sale like this before, for owners who were living in Dallas, and it's written up in client stories.