Joy Baker~So NH RE & Short Sale Specialist

About Joy

Joy was first licensed as a real estate agent in 1987 and has a cross-functional background in mortgage banking, title and real estate. She has many years experience helping buyers and sellers achieve their real estate goals through traditional transactions, however, in today’s environment she believes her most important skill is the ability to compassionately guide people through difficult and confusing times. Joy credits her background as a teacher of Kripalu Yoga, the Yoga of Compassionate Awareness, for the development and fine-tuning of this skill. She has helped many people successfully navigate through the frustrations and potential pitfalls that are the hallmarks of buying and selling real estate today. She also has extensive experience helping folks who don’t know what to do because they owe more on their home than it's worth.

Joy makes her home in Londonderry New Hampshire with her husband Stephen, a talented musician who is one of the founding members of Beatlejuice - New England's Premiere Beatle Band.

Areas of Expertise

In today's difficult and confusing real estate market it is critical to work with an agent who has knowledge and experience on their side particularly if you owe more on your home than it's worth and you don't know what to do. Joy helped her first client successfully obtain a short payoff with their lender so that they could sell their home and move on with their life back in the mid 90s, a time when the term SHORT SALE was largely unknown. Today, Joy continues to work with diligence and compassion to help her clients remain as whole as possible while helping them to extricate themselves from distress situations.

Testimonials

Dear Joy,

I am writing this letter to thank you for all the hard work and support you provided me and my family through what has been one of the most difficult times in our lives. The unfortunate circumstances leading up to having to make the decision to sell our home would have seemed much more devastating had you not managed to quickly and efficiently aid us in the short sale of our home. Being able to prevent a foreclosure by completing the short sale has allowed our credit to actually improve! Your knowledge, skill and caring are a credit to you as a person and business owner. You have a gift that engenders trust and hope and we sincerely hope that you will continue to do such good for others!

Since selling our home, we have been able to put our family back together and on a road of promise. Where once there was sorrow, now there is joy! Well, that is because your name portrays the feeling of gratitude you have given us and the ability to work through these difficulties with dignity and grace.

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!

Daniel and Linda T

Thanks for helping me make it through! I can't thank you enough for all the patience, knowledge, experience and laughs you've given me through this crazy "process". I couldn't have done it without you. I truly thank you for taking the time to explain EVERYTHING to me and being such a big part of getting us into our first home!!!

Brooke and David M.

Just wanted to send a note of deep appreciation for all that you've done for us. I know it's your job, but you did so much to go above and beyond. I cannot imagine having gone through the process of selling that house on our own, or with any other realtor. I'm thankful that Stephen mentioned you are in the business. So, again--thanks for everything.

Nancy B.

Hi Joy,

I would like to take the time to thank you for your "above and beyond" approach to the recent short-sale transaction that we completed on 61 Summit Dr. in Atkinson, NH.

From beginning to end, you kept me in the loop on where you were at in the process with the lender(s). Whether I sent you an e-mail or called, you were always prompt in getting back to me. The amazingly short time frame that the lender approved my client's contract (10 days!!) was surprising to me because I have dealt with short-sales in the past that took much longer!

I truly believe that your diligence and knowledge of the short-sale process is what made this transaction easier than any others I have had with co-broke agents that were far less responsive and/or on top of the process.

Again, thank you so much for making a potentially challenging home sale, seamless! I will not hesitate to show any of your properties in the future, short-sale or no short-sale. It was a pleasure working with you!

Best Regards,
Kathy
Kathy McDonald
Coco, Early & Associates

Joy,

I can't even begin to thank you for all the hard work you have done to sell my house in Salem, NH.
I am so grateful to you for everything you have done. When I came to you back in August I was so lost and had no idea how and where to begin. I was so upset and so scared and didn't know what to do. You assured me everything will be ok, you guided me through the whole process. And you did the whole thing while I was in the other side of the country. I really didn't think it was possible and I thought my house for sure will go for foreclosure but it didn't. Even with closing you knew I didn't have the money to travel so you did it all through the mail. My god I don't even know that was possible. Joy I don't know what to say except thank you.

Joy, your name said it all. You are a joy to work with, your knowledge and experience made everything so simple. You have a lot of patient that every time I called panicking and scared you knew exactly what to say to help me out.

It was a pleasure having you as my real estate agent. Please use me as a refrance any time I would be happy to tell anyone about my experiance with you.

Thank you so much for everything.

Amal

Joy was absolutely fantastic from our first phone call. I was interested in a listing of hers, and received a call in response to my email almost immediately. She was so wonderful and thorough in letting me know that the property I was interested in was a short sale, and myself being a first time home-buyer, answered all of my questions regarding short sales. As it turns out, this wasn't the home for us; HOWEVER, I was so impressed by Joy's easy nature and vast knowledge, that I KNEW that I needed her on my side in the process of finding the right home for my family! Joy arranged for us to see a number of properties and even fixed it so that when we found the home we loved, we were able to make multiple re-visits to the property to get the seal of approval from our extended family members. We did not hesitate to contract ourselves with Joy as our official buyers agent. We are now in a home that is absolutely perfect for us, thanks to Joy. We love her so much, we have even had her back to the house for our daughter's 3rd birthday party, so we could show her how proud we were of the finishing touches we have made to the home of our dreams!

Suzanne and Karl D.

Joy Baker is everyone's dream of a realtor! She is knowledgeable,helpful,responsive diligent and clear in her presentation and communications!!!We searched and purchased a home in three months. I have purchased properties from other realtors and can say without reservation that Joy Baker is simply the BEST!!!!!!!!Thank You Again Joy!!!!!!!

Nancy Sartini