Shelly Rydell
REALTOR®/BROKER
704-649-6530
srydell@dickensmitchener.com
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About Me
• Shelly Rydell joined Dickens Mitchener in 2003 and has built her business to be consistently in the top 10 in sales with over 90% or more of her annual sales coming from happy past client referrals.
• As a Charlotte native she has extensive knowledge of the city’s most sought-after neighborhoods and the parks, schools, and amenities throughout our area.
• Shelly attended the NCSU College of Design, earning two degrees in architecture
• She worked in the design field for more than 10 years before shifting to real estate.
• She grew up in the SouthPark area, and has owned property in Elizabeth, Plaza-Midwood, and Cotswold where she has lived for 16+ years.
Fun Facts
Milestones & Memberships
• Canopy Multiple Listing Services
• Canopy REALTOR® Association
• National Association of REALTORS®
• North Carolina Association of REALTORS®
• South Carolina Association of REALTORS®
• Dickens Mitchener Top Producer in 2005-2023
• In her free time, Shelly enjoys spending time with her husband and 2 teens, working in her garden, traveling to the NC mountains and coast, reading, and cooking!
• In a book club, served on the membership committee at Carmel Country Club, loves to support friends and family in their various charitable passions. It keeps her diversified in what she supports!
• Avid social media poster. Check her out to see what she is all about! She loves finding quirky things in houses and sharing them.
• Five-Star Real Estate Agent in Charlotte Magazine, 10+ times
• Shelly has a creative mind. She has dabbled in art, has a large vegetable and herb garden, loved doing crafts when kiddos were smaller, and often helps clients and friends plot a renovation or update to their home!
• Exercises with two different groups of women in “driveway boot camps” and is learning to golf!
2023 Agent
Advisory Board
Ashley J. McMillan
Carolyn Taylor
Joan B. Goode
Jane Lemmond
Marcy Basrawala
Margo Wells
Sarah Curme
Kathy Lancaster
Gabi Culpepper
Shelly Rydell
Winnie Simmons
Isabel Roberts
Jennifer Saarbach
Ducie Stark
Vicky Mitchener President
Andrea Roether
Wayne Honeycutt
Katie Catron
Bonnie Stroup Tcherkezian
Sarah Szczodrowski VP of Sales & Training
Meghan Lluberas
Sherry George
Jimmy Rountree VP of Sales
Karen HollingsworthMiller
Megan Despard
Anne Stuart Mitchener
Sherry Molella
Beverly Eller
Annie Daughtrey
Catharine Pappas VP of Relocation
Grier Team
$751,260,308
2023 Breakdown of Total Transactions
15 Steps to SOLD!
Offers
I will be your guide in looking through all presented OFFERS. There are many things to consider and price is just one of them. I will help you decide which one best accommodates your needs and timeline.
Negotiating
One of the top reasons to hire a licensed broker is for the next step: NEGOTIATING. I am aware of market trends in our area and can help negotiate the best offer for your home based on the current market and your needs.
Inspections
Once the offer is accepted it is time for INSPECTIONS. These will take place within the first 2-10 days after an offer is accepted, or during the due diligence period. The buyer will pay an inspector to look through the entire property and list all things the home could need. Big and small things will be on the list. The report will be sent to the buyers for review with their agent. Buyers may or may not try to negotiate items for repair on the list. Once all parties have an agreement, we move on to the next step: APPRAISAL.
Appraisal
If the buyer is utilizing a loan, then an APPRAISAL will be ordered by the loan officer. These are often chosen at random from a pool of appraisers. The goal is to have the appraisal come in at or above the purchase price of the contract so the mortgage lender will approve the loan. It is important the home be in tip top shape at the time of the appraisal.
Title & Utilities
The TITLE company will make sure the home title is clean for the closing. This means they will look over all paperwork to be sure there are no liens on the property, no extra names on the title, and prepare for closing. They will work with the lender to ensure everything is ready for closing day.
You will want to schedule the transfer and/or shut off all UTILITIES for closing day or the day after. This should be set-up at least 2 weeks prior to closing.
Final Walk-Through
The buyers will do their FINAL WALK-THROUGH up to 4 days prior to closing. This is to make sure all negotiated items have been completed, that the home is clean, and all is as it should be.
Closing
Congratulations, you have made it to closing day! CLOSING is when the necessary paperwork to complete the transaction is signed. The papers are signed at the real estate attorney’s office and the title is transferred from the seller to the buyer. Once funded, the buyer receives the keys, and the seller receives payment for the home.
HOME SELLERS: HERE’S WHAT THE NAR SETTLEMENT MEANS FOR YOU
As a home seller, you have a wide range of choices when it comes to listing your home. Agents who are REALTORS® are a trusted source of advice and stand ready to help you navigate this complex process and make the choices that work best for you. NAR’s recent settlement has led to several changes related to broker commissions that benefit sellers, and we wanted to clearly lay them out for you
Here is what the settlement means for home sellers:
• You still have the choice of offering compensation to buyer brokers. You may consider doing this as a way of marketing your home or making your listing more attractive to buyers.
• Your agent must conspicuously disclose to you and obtain your approval for any payment or offer of payment that a listing broker will make to another broker acting for buyers.
• This disclosure must be made to you in writing in advance of any payment or agreement to pay another broker acting for buyers, and must specify the amount or rate of such payment.
• If you choose to approve an offer of compensation, there are changes to how this can happen.
• You as the seller can still make an offer compensation, but your agent cannot include it on a Multiple Listing Service (MLS) MLSs are local marketplaces used by both buyer brokers and listing brokers to share information about properties for sale.
• Your agent can advertise your listing via off-MLS platforms such as social media, flyers and websites.
• You as the seller can still offer buyer concessions on an MLS (for example, concessions for buyer closing costs)
These settlement practice changes will go into effect August 17.
Marketing & Advertising
These may be held at any time on an “as needed” basis. Once an Open House is scheduled, it will be entered into MLS and will appear on the DM website, as well as all MLS feeds on other large search sites. DM features all Open Houses on social media accounts every Friday for the upcoming weekend.
Our marketing department will create custom marketing materials for your listing. Custom pieces are designed in house and will be mailed to specific lists that cater to our marketing plan/schedule.
Broker events may be held to introduce your home to other local agents in the Charlotte area and around your home. We have a database comprised of thousands of Charlotte agents that we can select from to invite to your home. Once scheduled, this event will go into our company calendar which is emailed out to our agents weekly.
When you visit dickensmitchener.com you get immediate access to more than 14,000 resale listings through the Canopy Multiple Listing Service, as well as an up-to-the minute database of new listings, coming soon listings, new construction listings, and open houses. It also features virtual tour videos of Dickens Mitchener listings.
Our invitation-only network was responsible for $272 billion in annual home sales volume among the top 500 U.S. real estate firms in 2024.
U.S. HOME SALES VOLUME AMONG THE TOP 500 U.S. REAL ESTATE FIRMS.
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