
- Taft Street Realty
- Taft Street Realty
- Dylan Taft| 192
- 4.9(31 reviews)
Local knowledge: 4.9 Process expertise: 5.0 Responsiveness: 4.9 Negotiation skills: 4.9
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Real Estate Professional
Principal Broker / Owner (9 years experience)
- Contributions:192
- Screen name:Taft Street Realty
- Member since:11/08/2010
- License #:
- 40TA1029564 (Licensed NY Real Estate Broker)
Ratings & Reviews
- Highly likely to recommend
05/13/2013 - user39680454Bought a Single Family home in 2013 in New Paltz, NY.
Response from Dylan
- Highly likely to recommend
02/21/2013 - user9076587Bought a Single Family home in 2012 in Saugerties, NY.
It's with great enthusiasm that we recommend Dylan Taft! As first-time buyers with limited knowledge of the area, we felt fortunate to connect with him. Dylan is a wealth of information in all aspects of Ulster County. He spent a lot of time understanding not only what we were looking for in a house, but also how it would fit into our lifestyle. As we began to shape what we needed, Dylan was always one step ahead of us, surfacing aspects of the different houses we saw, that we didn't even think about. He was always calm and diplomatic and didn't scare away from any of my temper tantrums. :-) If ANYONE were looking to do anything from buying or selling to even remodeling or project work, Dylan would be the first person I would reach out to since he has not only deep ties to the area, but genuinely cares about it as well. He always responded quickly and treated us like we were VIPs. Dylan is an honorable, hard-working person who earned a tremendous amount of respect from us. THANK YOU Dylan for helping to make this happen for us. We can't even put a price tag on the value (and genuine kindness) you provided us.…More Less
Response from Dylan
We worked with Dylan throughout the summer and fall on purchasing a two family home for grandparents and married son with kids. It was a difficult job to find a home that we could both afford and that all of us approved of. Dylan stayed with us and kept finding places that could fit our needs. He was great a negotiating and helped us to acquire a placed we love in the right are. Mike B…More Less
Response from Dylan on 11/29/2012
Finding that special property in the right location wasn't easy but we did it! With the right plan of attack and the right representation the buying process is that much easier and less stressful. Thanks again for the review and if there is anything else I can help with just let me know! Best, Dylan Taft - Ulster County NY local area advisor/consultant.
About Dylan Taft
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Dylan Taft's rapid rise to prominence in Ulster County real estate sales is easy to understand. It starts with his encyclopedic knowledge of the area, the kind that nothing short of living your whole life in the Hudson Valley can provide. And it ends with his thorough and intuitive grasp of the cutting-edge technology that is transforming the buying and selling of homes. He is a new breed-old-school values in a visionary, Digital-Age businessman, the first generation of a new type of broker.
Hudson Valley Roots...
Dylan's Ulster County roots are as deep as roots can go. A product of the local public school system, from which he graduated with honors, he went on to a B.A. in economics from SUNY Oneonta and a Masters in Business Management, with honors, from SUNY New Paltz in 2003. Global travel during those early adult years only strengthened his commitment to his lifelong home as he developed a growing conviction that the majesty of the soaring Catskills with their endless Huck-Finn-style rivers and fishing creeks, sleepy small towns, and bustling, sophisticated urban centers, offered a richly varied lifestyle second to none. He knew he would come back and start a business of his own as soon as he could.
Traditional Sales Training...
And so he did, though not immediately. Academic foundation behind him, it was now time to get some on-the-ground training and experience. During his student days, he had risen to the Captainship of the wait staff at the elegant and exclusive Mohonk Mountain House and discovered, in the process, a zest for anticipating what people want and finding a way to get it for them. Now it was time to apply those skills to his chosen profession. And so for several years Dylan "learned the ropes" as a junior agent with a large, established real estate agency, taking what was best from the traditional training and the usual way of doing business that he saw around him, and methodically laying his plans for big changes in his own, "next generation" brokerage.
A New Age Vision in Real Estate!
That vision was realized 2008 when Dylan boldly launched Taft Street Realty in the face of the worst economic downturn this country had seen in nearly a century. Young and ambitious, he believed that despite the discouraging business climate-perhaps because of the discouraging business climate-there was a need for a real estate brokerage using a whole new model. It would offer buyers and sellers the traditional and time-honored benefits of local knowledge, in-depth research, experience in skillful negotiations, and frank and fair dealings. But it would then go an important step further, bringing those benefits into the Digital Age by employing and exploiting every possible avenue of web-based research and marketing. Given his young years, Dylan has never lived in a world without the Internet. So unlike most other brokers, he knows instinctively how to make today's rapid-fire information technology work hard for him. And for you.
Taft Street Today...
Today, just a short time after Dylan launched it from the ground up; Taft Street Realty is already ranked among Ulster County's top 20 real estate firms. His clients have come to know and respect a professional who holds nothing back when it comes to the giving of his knowledge, his skills, and his time, and who does it all with scrupulous fairness and honesty, as well as firmness and frankness whenever the occasion calls for it.
Hudson Valley Roots...
Dylan's Ulster County roots are as deep as roots can go. A product of the local public school system, from which he graduated with honors, he went on to a B.A. in economics from SUNY Oneonta and a Masters in Business Management, with honors, from SUNY New Paltz in 2003. Global travel during those early adult years only strengthened his commitment to his lifelong home as he developed a growing conviction that the majesty of the soaring Catskills with their endless Huck-Finn-style rivers and fishing creeks, sleepy small towns, and bustling, sophisticated urban centers, offered a richly varied lifestyle second to none. He knew he would come back and start a business of his own as soon as he could.
Traditional Sales Training...
And so he did, though not immediately. Academic foundation behind him, it was now time to get some on-the-ground training and experience. During his student days, he had risen to the Captainship of the wait staff at the elegant and exclusive Mohonk Mountain House and discovered, in the process, a zest for anticipating what people want and finding a way to get it for them. Now it was time to apply those skills to his chosen profession. And so for several years Dylan "learned the ropes" as a junior agent with a large, established real estate agency, taking what was best from the traditional training and the usual way of doing business that he saw around him, and methodically laying his plans for big changes in his own, "next generation" brokerage.
A New Age Vision in Real Estate!
That vision was realized 2008 when Dylan boldly launched Taft Street Realty in the face of the worst economic downturn this country had seen in nearly a century. Young and ambitious, he believed that despite the discouraging business climate-perhaps because of the discouraging business climate-there was a need for a real estate brokerage using a whole new model. It would offer buyers and sellers the traditional and time-honored benefits of local knowledge, in-depth research, experience in skillful negotiations, and frank and fair dealings. But it would then go an important step further, bringing those benefits into the Digital Age by employing and exploiting every possible avenue of web-based research and marketing. Given his young years, Dylan has never lived in a world without the Internet. So unlike most other brokers, he knows instinctively how to make today's rapid-fire information technology work hard for him. And for you.
Taft Street Today...
Today, just a short time after Dylan launched it from the ground up; Taft Street Realty is already ranked among Ulster County's top 20 real estate firms. His clients have come to know and respect a professional who holds nothing back when it comes to the giving of his knowledge, his skills, and his time, and who does it all with scrupulous fairness and honesty, as well as firmness and frankness whenever the occasion calls for it.
Specialties & Service Areas
Specialties:
Buyer's Agent, Listing Agent, Consulting, Local Expert
Contributions
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In my experience most agents have one or two places to show you that meet your budget, necessities, and location...but this wasnt the case with dylan. first, we gave him our criteria and scheduled a meeting with him to show us a few places. i had planned on meeting for an hour or so to see a place or two, but dylan had something different in mind--he had planned to spend the entire morning and early afternoon with us until we found the perfect house. As a first time home buyer I was wary and inexperienced about most of the process, but dylan was very honest and knowledgeable. Communication was easy with him through emails, text messages, and phone calls.
I couldnt have been more pleased with the selection of house that dylan showed us. we met early in the morning, and he was punctual meeting us at the first location. from there, he was able to show us at least a dozen more places that were within our location and our budeget! in general, we were able to see one place after the other with very little downtime between the two places. i expected the house search to continue for months, but within a day, we found the house that we were dreaming of!
When I finally found the perfect home he worked very fast to make sure I would land it at the price I wanted. he handled negotiating the entire deal very well and helped me coordinate all the other aspects of appraisals, inspections, and other services.
We've been living in our new home for a couple weeks now and we couldn't be happier with our decision on the home and of going with dylan. We felt like we had an all-star cast working for us and that has made this potentially nerve-wracking home-buying experience a very pleasant and smooth one for us.…More Less