Profitt, the city’s first female broker, went on to serve as the first female president of the Middletown Board of Realtors.
Their mother, Jackie, is a realtor who served a term as a director of the MBR and served a central role in influencing their career decisions.
“I’d be in the car with my mom and she’d get a call and they’d want to see a building right away,” Wendy Hunter said. “So she’d take me along with her and I’d end up meeting the people, hearing them talk and exchanging information.
“When you’re around that and everybody that you know does that, it’s like a natural progression.”
The siblings, who became licensed Realtors two years ago, now sell real estate full-time at Coldwell Banker Oyer Inc. in Middletown. They are the youngest realtors in the city, according to the MBR.
Both siblings sell single-family homes but have their own specialties.
Ben Hunter said he specializes in sales of bank-owned properties and uses his passion for marketing by working on Coldwell Banker Oyer’s website and its newsletter.
Wendy Hunter said she specializes in investment properties, duplexes and multifamily dwellings. She also is training to do short sales, an option for many people who have underwater mortgages.
While other older agents are learning to adapt to the realities of real estate relying more heavily to the Internet and social media, the Hunter siblings are doing everything possible to embrace the new world of online promotion and sales.
“We do a lot of marketing on the Internet, we attract a lot of buyers from the Internet and we do a lot of electronic business with people who are from out of state and buying properties,” Wendy Hunter said. “Scanning, texting, faxing, Facebook, Twitter — you name it, we do it.”
That tech-savvy background worked wonders when it came to showing an Eck Road house that was built in the 1890s, Ben Hunter said.
“We took our new pictures and blended them with people from an old photograph we had from the 1800s,” he said. “It really got a lot of attention from everybody in the area and brought us some good showings.”
Using the Internet helps market properties to a new generation of buyers who grew up during the digital revolution and are just about ready to buy their first homes, Wendy Hunter said.
“That generation is using computers and looking at the houses online and want to text you,” she said.
Ben Hunter said that since becoming licensed realtors, the siblings have helped complete “some really interesting deals” with guidance from their mother, who is one of the only female commercial realtors in Middletown, and broker Michael Combs.
Wendy Hunter is proud of her first short sale, which is now under contract, because it is helping a couple shed an underwater mortgage.
“When we first met them they were so stressed out and so concerned and worried and now we’re looking to close within the next two weeks,” she said. “They’re going to have that stress off their shoulders and we have another couple buying their house who’s going to live in it and love it. It’s like a win-win for everyone.”
Ben Hunter is proud of his work with the Neighborhood Stabilization Program, which was established to stabilize communities that have suffered from foreclosures and abandonment.
“We got some buyers and they got a really great house,” he said. “They’re not burdened with too much debt, it’s something they can afford and they’re starting a family now in it. I see their updates on Facebook and they’re doing really well in the house. We worked with the city (of Middletown) on that, so they city deserves a lot of credit.”
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