Michelle DeRepentigny, *Broker * Athens, GA

Success Stories - What Clients Say About Michelle DeRepentigny

With 5 corporate transfers through McLane Corp. in just 8 years, my wife & I needed someone to just "do it"! Michelle made this the easiest transition we've ever had. Needless to say when it was time to move again she listed & sold our home in record time with record ease. We've found a true friend in Georgia with this Realtor.

Victor Lange
Home Buyer and Seller
Syracuse, NY, formerly of Statham, GA

I am so glad we found you! You were the 3^rd agent we listed our condo with and the only 1 who did not list and forget it! We are excited that it sold and enjoyed watching you and the new buyer's excitement at the closing table. Great job!

Nancy Smith
Home Seller
Athens, GA

Michelle has provided me with the info I needed to make good decisions about buying & selling rental property. As a new investor, I don't think I would have had the nerve to accumulate the properties that I have without her!

T. Black
Home Buyer and Seller
Athens, GA

Thank You! For taking the time & having the patience to work with us in getting our first home. We look forward to moving up in a few years and will give you a call then.

Maria Dias
Home Buyer
Hull, GA

Visit Michelle's Blog at All About Athens GA!

What We Believe At Success Realty

As the broker of Success Realty (GA Firm #H47230), Michelle is proud to lead a group of enthusiastic & ethical REALTORS in providing premium customer service to all our clients.

Michelle believes that true success is about more than just money. Many clients have asked her why the name "Success Realty"? Her reply is "To me, success is about giving excellent service in real estate back to my hometown and having a passion for what I do. The best feeling in the world is received from counseling a first time home buyer and seeing the look on their faces when they successfully purchase their first home! The next best feeling is being a part of their lives and their friend in the future!"

Michelle has 12+ years of real estate brokerage experience. After years of being the managing broker for a large franchised brokerage with 3 offices, she recently opened Success Realty in downtown Athens, Georgia to promote affordable home ownership opportunities in the Athens area and to offer both homeownership and career opportunities to the diverse popluation that Athens Georgia enjoys due to the influence of the University of Georgia.

Michelle is also a Georgia Certified Residential Appraiser (License #6547) and the co-owner of Diversified Property Services with her husband, David. Michelle brings extensive knowledge of the Athens, GA real estate market to the table through longevity in her real estate brokerage & real estate appraisal career and by being a native Athenian!

Success Realty utilizes all the traditional methods of marketing homes including Homes & Land Book, traditional newspaper ads in 4 market areas, our company website at Success Realty, Michelle's personal website, email flyers, and full color brochures at all listings. Additionally, Success Realty embraces the internet by posting listings at Zillow.com, Craigslist.org, Localism.com, and 30+- other less traditional internet sites to expose our seller's homes to the largest pool of buyers available!

Success Realty offers 1st time homebuyers seminars on a bi-monthly schedule and has educational materials available in English, Spanish, Korean, Russian and several Chinese dialects available for our customers and clients. Clients who speak English as a second language have many materials available to them to help with the home buying process and interpreters are usually available, as needed, to help!

For more area information, photographs of the area, and news, visit the Athens, Georgia section of Localism.com.

Visit Michelle's Blog at All About Athens GA!

Success Realty - Athens, GA Real Experts!

At Success Realty, we specialize in representing clients in the purchases and sales of residential, income producing and commercial property in the North Georgia area. The Success Team has a major emphasis on affordable housing and homeownership for minorities in the Athens, GA area.

Dedicated teams specialize in servicing:

• New Construction
• Relocation
• Affordable Housing
• Commerical & Investment Properties

Athens, GA and the surrounding area has received a great deal of recent, national attention, including:

• Athens: One of Seven Cool Cities, Kiplingers Personal Finance, October 2005
• Athens: One of Five Best Places to Retire 2005, Money Magazine, October 11 & November 2006!
• Athens Named One of AmericanStyle Magazine's Top 25 Arts Destinations for 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006
• Athens Ranks 34th Nationally in Quality-of-Life by 'Cities Ranked & Rated'
• Rolling Stone magazine names Athens America's #1 College Music Scene, 2/20/03
• Featured in LA Times Sunday Travel Section, 6/15/03
• Featured in Washington Post Sunday Travel Section, 6/29/03
• Featured in Country Discoveries Magazine, Summer 2003.
• Featured in Southern Voice, 6/27/03
• Athens' Hugh Acheson Named one of Food & Wine Magazine's Best New Chefs for 2002
• Princeton Review Ranks Athens among Great College Towns
• New York Times Travel Profile: 36 Hours in Athens

Athens is home to:

• 14 neighborhoods and commercial districts on the National Register of Historic Places; 3 house museums
• Northeast Georgia's cultural, shopping, medical, professional, and educational hub
• The University of Georgia, the nation's first state-chartered university (1785)
• The Classic Center:70,000+ sq. ft. meeting/exhibit space and 2,000+ seat performing arts theatre
• A musical mecca that spawned R.E.M, the B-52s, Widespread Panic, and numerous other acclaimed acts
• The Southeast's largest and most concentrated collection of gardens and specialty nurseries
• The only double-barreled cannon in the world
• America's first garden club
• The original Constitution of the Confederate States of America
• The Morton Theatre, an early vaudeville theatre built, owned, and operated by an African-American
• One of only 11 United States Naval museums in the country
• The state of Georgia's official art museum and botanical garden

If you would like more information, visit our website or email us for your own personal Athens GA & surrounding areas relocation package at Michelle@SuccessRealtyGA.com

We look forward to being of service to you!