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  • Kimberly Cestari| 103
  • 5.0
     (13 reviews)
    Local knowledge: 5.0
    Process expertise: 5.0
    Responsiveness: 5.0
    Negotiation skills: 5.0
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Realtor (7 years experience)
Contributions:103Screen name:KIMBERLYCESTARIMember since:05/27/2008
    • WC & AN Miller Realtors, A Long & F
    • 5518 Connecticut Ave NW
    • Washington,DC 20015
  • (202) 684-7268
  • (202) 684-7216
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- Highly likely to recommend

Sold a Single Family home in 2012 in Chevy Chase, MD.

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Kimberly is very professional, knowledgeable and is a pleasure to work with. She has the utmost integrity and a very good sense of the market. She priced our house in a difficult market and was able to bring us multiple contracts. She is very responsive, as is her excellent support staff. I recommend Kimberly highly and without reservation.More Less
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Sold a Single Family home in 2012 in Crestwood, Washington, DC.

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Today we closed on the sale of my house. In retrospect, it seems like the fates conspired to make the selling of my house as difficult as possible. I had put this house on the market a couple of years ago, using 2 different agents over a period of almost a year. The market was bad at the time, of course, but even for that time period the interest in my house seemed unusually slight. I eventually gave up on selling and moved away, renting out the house for a year to wait out the bad economy. This spring I put my house back on the market with an entirely new agent, Kimberly Cestari. What a difference the right realtor can make! Kimberly is a dynamo. Even though the economy has not improved by that much, suddenly interest in my house was explosive. Kimberly advertised my house in every avenue possible and got it a lot of attention. Evidence of her success was everywhere: the 1st open house was visited by 80 different groups; two more open houses quickly followed, with 40 groups coming through each time. Further, my listing received about 1500 hits on one website alone, all within the first few weeks. Most importantly, the number of actual showings was off the charts-- it seemed as though there were several showings almost every day. Obviously all of this traffic was a major source of work for Kimberly, but unfazed, she handle it all with complete professionalism and savvy response. Just to make this tougher for her, Kimberly was also up against an unusual number obstacles with this sale. For one, she was dealing with a seller (me) operating from long distance and, as such, totally reliant on her to deal with everything that came up. 2nd, there were tenants in the house when it was initially listed, and these were people who made the process as difficult as possible right down to the bitter end. Finally, Kimberly had to contend with the last-minute discovery of a leak in the water main by DC water, after we had an accepted contract. Despite everything thrown at her, Kimberly managed to get me 3 different contract offers in a little over a month. There was even a bidding war for my property, a rare experience in today's economy. I can't thank Kimberly enough for all her amazing talent and hard work, and I recommend her without qualification to any seller lucky enough to attract her attention. Now that I think about it, maybe the fates were on my side after all, since they send Kimberly my way!More Less
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Bought a home in 2012.

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Kimberly is a true professional. We had a very unusual experience buying our first home--she navigated the bumps and instilled us with confidence at every turn. She knows Washington, DC and the surrounding area incredibly well and was able to give us valuable information about our desired neighborhood and realistic view of our options. I've been recommending Kimberly to everyone I know!More Less
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About Kimberly Cestari

Add personality to your profile! Tell the community about yourself, your home, and your profession.

#1 Agent Companywide
Top 10 out of Long and Foster's 14,000 Agents

Kimberly Cestari has been hooked on real estate since she bought her first house right after college. Since that time she has fine-tuned her eye for detail in a career as an interior designer and bought and renovated two homes in the District. And now she's sharing this plethora of hands-on talents and experiences with home buyers and sellers as an award-winning, multi-million dollar producing Realtor in Miller's Chevy Chase North office.

Couple this with her print and internet marketing background for Marriott International and Discovery Communications and Kimberly is a walking, talking house of knowledge in what it takes to prepare a home for sale or to find the right home to purchase. She knows how to make a good impression before, during and after a real estate transaction. Since moving to the metro area in 1998, Kimberly has learned a lot about what makes a house a home.

Ask Kimberly to help you make the kind of impression people won't forget, by calling her at 202-966-1400 x3340 (office), 202-253-8785 (cell) or emailing her at KimberlyC@LNF.com

Kimberly lives in Chevy Chase with her husband, two daughters and adopted dog, Chevy.TESTIMONIALS:

Working with Kimberly Cestari, you find yourself in an oasis of calm in the storm of the home-selling process. Kimberly is professional, unflappable, strategic, and unrivaled in her knowledge of the Chevy Chase market. She was always ready with whatever we needed -- usually before we knew we needed it. She offered sound guidance when we asked for input, and ensured we stayed in control of the decision-making. In the face of what can be a complicated, personal, and angst-ridden process, we found peace of mind with Kimberly's ability to guide us through to results that were better than we could have hoped for: multiple offers above asking-price within days of listing. Working with Kimberly to sell our home was the best decision we could have made. ~Janet and Allen Hodur/Leonardi ~

If you're going to spend as much time with your real estate broker as we did, you get to know them pretty well...Kimberly is creative and fun to work with as well as being incredibly honest and forthright. In addition to those qualities she is exceptionally responsive, she was available to us on weekends and evenings and was a great resource for us during both our moves. We have referred Kimberly extensively to our friends and family and will absolutely return to her should we decide to buy or sell again in the Washington DC area, I highly recommend her. ~Sarah and Archie Smart ~

We lived in our DC home for 10 years and decided to sell and relocate to another city for an employment opportunity. From the start of the selling process, Kimberly was very detailed in helping us stage the home, market it, and deal with the additional steps required by the relocation company. We appreciated her communicating with us almost daily and keeping us abreast of market changes. She helped us navigate through one of the biggest transitions a family can go through. ~Torod & Sabrina Neptune ~

Just wanted to take a moment to thank you for making the home-buying experience so painless. It couldn't have been easier or more pleasant, and that's all because of you. Thanks for everything.
~Tim and Quincey Grieve~

Josh and I wanted to thank you again for all of your hard work in helping us get into our first home. From writing the offer letter in a way that elevated our offer among the other 5 that were submitted, to helping us deal with the termite situation, the phantom air conditioning units, and then of course responding to the last minute changes on the seller side so that we still get to closing on time - we honestly couldn't have done it without you. We appreciated your attention to detail & responsiveness throughout the entire process. We will definitely recommend you to anyone we know in the area looking for a real estate agent, and look forward to working with you in the future when we outgrow our new house. Thank you again!
~ Katie and Josh Wilson ~


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