Darren Ahearn

"Dear Darren, We’re finally getting settled into our new home and thought we spend a moment recapping our experience with you as our agent which was absolutely terrific. Our search for a home started over two years ago. We looked anywhere from Thurmont to Urbana to Emmitsburg to Lake Heritage (Pa) & back to end up in our beautiful home in Myersville, MD. When we started looking the market was at its peek, we had a different agent than Darren who seemed young and inexperienced. We knew in just a few weeks we needed to find a real professional in real estate and decided to give Darren a try since we knew him from our church (why we didn’t think of this first still puzzles us). Originally we thought that finding a home first and then putting our house on the market was the way to go since we didn’t want to have to put things in storage and move twice as we had done before. Darren recommended against not putting our house on the market first but we decided not to listen…….at first that is. The first home that we found that we really liked would not consider a contingent contract and we ended up losing it since ours wasn’t on the market. So we listened to Darren and finally put our house on the market in July of 08. I remember the night that Darren came over to sign all the paperwork and how difficult it was for us to listen to Darren tell us what the market had came down to…..but he carefully explained the fact it was coming back down to reality really. We were very stubborn on this at first to lower the price as suggested if we were serious about selling in the “right range”. We found the house we loved in late August that we ended up buying. Darren said we would need to be more aggressive if we wanted to get the home of our dreams. That meant that we would need to lower the price of our home in order to get more showings. Luckily the owners of the home that we wanted were willing to take a contingent contract since theirs was on the market 2-years (another sign of the declining market). So we lowered the price much to our reservation. Darren continued to update us on the market values and we continued to get more and more frustrated. So we dropped the price on our home and we still had no offers on our home after the first month of our contract on the home we wanted to buy. Once again we were able to negotiate another month on the contract on the home we wanted to buy. A few days after that Darren was knocking on our door again to try and help us move our home. He continued to tell us LOCATION/ PRICE/ CONDITION. He this time told us that we needed to do some updates if we wanted to sell our home. We thought is this guy crazy after what we just dropped the price on our home now for the second time and knew we couldn’t recoup the cost of updates. We took his advice right away this time and went through some crazy months of various contractors working around our house. Once again at the end of October our contract with the new home was expiring. My husband and I talked with Darren about this and we all thought that the best option was to let the contract go. Our thought was that if we had to drop the price again we could offset it with a lower offer on the other home. We prayed about our dream home a lot during those few days. Not a week later we got an offer on our home. It was not at all what we had thought it would be. Darren worked with the other agent and we were able to come to a happy medium. Darren was also able to go back to the owners of the other home which had not sold yet and get the other owner’s to reduce their price to match the reduction we had to take resulting in getting the “home of our dreams”. Darren’s knowledge and work ethic is top notch……a 5-star agent in our experience. We would recommend him to anyone as he will go the extra mile if you’re willing to listen to him Thank You Darren for everything you did for us, Chuck & Katrina Shaffer"
Katrina Tue Mar 10, 2009

"Darren got us into our dream home for $232.55 with no problems. Highly detailed and dedicated to our needs. You are the best Realtor we know. James & Thu-Linh"
James Tue Mar 10, 2009

"“Anytime I needed something Darren was right there. He didn't say I will get back to you later, he took care of it. I would recommend Darren and his service to everyone I know. Every real estate agent needs to spend time with Darren and learn. He is superb. This is my 5th house and he has been the best agent out of all of them.” Greg T."
Greg Tue Mar 10, 2009

"“Darren made us feel like we were the only ones and important. He is very knowledgeable, he really knows what he is talking about. Answered all our questions. I have never met anyone like Darren. It was all about us! He would call us back immediately and never avoided us. And given the special circumstances hung in there with us. I would recommend Darren to anyone. Thank you so much Darren. “ David & Jenny H."
Jen Tue Mar 10, 2009

"“ Darren really did a fantastic job. He listened to our needs and did exactly what he promised. We listed with another agent first who just could not get the job done. Darren helped us get to our new home quicker than expected. He even took us out to lunch after settlement.” Claude & Virginia B."
Claude Tue Mar 10, 2009

"WOW- We called Darren while he was visiting family in Pittsburgh. He left early to meet and show us a home he had listed. Even though that one did not work out he showed us the exact ones that would meet our needs. He found us a great home and negotiated to get us the best price and warranty. We got everything we wanted in the home inspection and had a smooth problem free transaction. Darren did more than we expected. We consider him a good friend and our realtor for life. After we settled Darren surprised me and took me to a NASCAR race and made that dream come true. I can’t believe he cared that much about our family. What a blessing to know Darren. Karl & Toni E."
Karl Tue Mar 10, 2009

"Darren is the best ! For over 3 years he has helped educate us about every detail in the real estate market. His patients and professionalism has paid off. Darren went above and beyond by personally helping us paint our home before listing. He staged our home for best curb appeal and condition. In a slow down market we were under contract in less than 2 months while our neighbors never sold. We were on a time frame to get into our newly constructed home and had to sell by a date or else we would loose thousands of dollars. Darren got it done earlier than we expected and moved us into the new home he also assisted with for over a year. I was very stressed out about the transition while Darren always stayed cool and calm working on each issue to get resolved. I am recommending Darren to everyone. He didn’t only make our dreams come true, but also is a dear personal friend. Sandy & Steve M."
Malesons Tue Mar 10, 2009