Sonoma County Realtor and native Santa Rosan, Kim Hutcheon is a 20-plus-year veteran who views her role in assisting buyers and sellers as more than a career--it's also an opportunity to help families begin to create wealth through making smart real estate choices. Kim has an extensive background in real estate sales, investment property, remodeling, staging, and new-home construction. This gives her the expertise needed to help navigate buyers and sellers through every step of the real estate process from initial inquiry to close. Kim's insight, keen negotiating skills, and tenacity will help you maximize your real estate investments. She offers her clients an outstanding level of service, honesty, and a stellar reputation for quick, timely response to each client’s needs and concerns. Over the years, she has collected numerous performance awards and currently is ranked among the top 10 Realtors in Sonoma County. Homebuyers and sellers have their money on the line, and Kim doesn’t take that risk lightly. She ensures that her clients know what to expect at each step and that they are forewarned about the glitches that can and affect a closing. Kim is also known for her easy-going, friendly attitude, her cooperative spirit, and her love of laughter. But when her clients’ interests are at stake, her intense loyalty, high-level skillset, and “out of the box” problem-solving abilities come to the fore. When not assisting buyers and sellers, Kim spends time with her husband and sons boating on Lake Sonoma, skiing in Lake Tahoe, hiking in Annadel State Park, and taking evening walks with their family dogs. Her hobbies include all things creative, interior design, landscaping, reading, cooking, and traveling. These passions have proven quite helpful when giving buyers guidance in finding the hidden potential in properties that may require improvements and staging sellers' homes in preparation for sale. Kim and her team work to assist buyers and sellers with a clear vision of the process and up-to-date communication in order to meet their clients' expectations and needs.