Jim E. Charlton Furlong
He is a top-producing real estate expert with many Industry awards. His education includes extensive training on real estate contracts and standards. Over the years, Jim has attained numerous certifications in luxury home marketing, Senior Real Estate Specialist (SRES), and maybe his favorite is a Santa Cruz Local Pro., as he grew up in this community. Yearly awards prove Jim's competence.
Jim grew up in the Pleasure Point area of Santa Cruz. As an adult, he has resided in Live Oak, West Santa Cruz, Pleasure Point, Rio Del Mar, Corralitos, and Watsonville. He has been a part of the community’s growth and will share its colorful history and trends with you.
For three decades, Jim’s career as an awarded top producing food service rep and a business owner honed his skills in marketing, sales, and management. Owning relocation, storage, and transportation businesses directed at corporations and independent real estate markets, he has paved the way from working directly with vendors to real estate. Elizabeth, his wife, is a retired local educator, while maintaining her second career as a fitness Instructor within the community. They have an adult son in the area.
Jim can bring it, which his sales volume attests to.
For a client, along with his business, marketing, and sales experience comes so much more. Jim believes a REALTOR® needs to understand more than the basics. Jim never stops paying attention to the RE market changes, and maintains strong relationships with professionals in every service capacity a client needs in home ownership. From moving, construction, landscaping, home staging, tax responsibilities, insurance, 1031 exchanges, trusts, and probate sales. A decision to buy or sell a home is most often the greatest financial decision his clients will ever make. With his hard work and passion, you can expect only the best service and results when marketing your property.