Marcia Kelly - Land Kansas Real Estate

Marcia's Goal

Purchasing or selling a home are possibly the most important decisions you will ever make. Marcia knows that a home represents much more than just a "dwelling" - bricks, walls, or paint. A home represents memories and the place where you lived and grew or will live and grow with your loved ones. Marcia knows that the choices you make when buying or selling a home are not choices you will make lightly. She will not push you into a decision or neglect you when you need advice about a decision. When it is time to purchase or sell your next home, Marcia would be honored if you will give her 10 percent of your trust and let her earn the remaining 90 percent.

Education

MS, Journalism/Advertising, University of Kansas, 3.7 GPA
BA, with honors, Communication/Public Relations & English, Washburn University
BA, International Relations, minor in Economics, University of California, Davis

Marcia's Real Estate Statistics

· 98% of Marcia’s listings sell.
· Marcia sells 37% of her own listings.*
· The average time from listing to sale of Marcia’s listings is 36 days.
· Marcia’s listings sell at a price within 1-2% of her listing prices.
· Marcia sells and lists properties in the following areas: Greater Topeka and Shawnee, Jackson, Jefferson, Osage, Brown, Wabaunsee, Pottawatomie & Douglas Counties.
· Marcia has sold properties to local, state, national & international clients. She has worked easily through the internet with clients from such diverse areas as Israel, Norway and France.
· Marcia successfully has facilitated and/or identified properties for 37 Section 1031 tax-deferred exchanges and believes she participated in the first such tax-deferred exchange in the state of Kansas.

* Marcia feels that healthy competition enables sellers to achieve higher selling prices. She prefers to expose or advertise her properties to as many agents and buyers as possible. Some agents do not market their properties to other agents and, thus, deprive their sellers of healthy competition and higher sales prices. Marcia could sell all her listings herself, but she prefers to let as many agents as possible know about her listings to ensure that her sellers achieve the maximal sales price in the shortest amount of time.

Giving Back To The Community

The wonderful people of Greater Topeka have given a lot to Marcia, and she has devoted her time and effort returning their generosity.

MARCIA’S VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES:

KTWU (Topeka’s public TV station): Writing public services announcements, creating promotional materials, and helping with KTWU’s annual auction.

ERC—Everywoman’s Resource Center: Served as Docent & Docent Chairman for annual Designer Show Houses.

KANU—Kansas Public Radio: Obtained pledges from the community during KANU’S pledge drives.

BOY SCOUTS: Taught communication merit badge classes in such areas as public speaking, selling, & writing resumes.

YWCA: Served on the YWCA membership committee and helped to computerize the membership roster & track activities.

LANDON MIDDLE SCHOOL: Tutored “students at risk” in subjects such as mathematics and English.

ACTIVE AGING: Wrote monthly articles about Kansas legislation affecting senior citizens for this non-profit state magazine.

Dedicated To You

Aficion means passion, and an aficionado possesses an abundance of this quality. Marcia
Kelly is an aficionado of real estate. " I love meeting people and helping them find the
homes of their dreams or achieve their goals with as little hassle as possible."

Tradition

Marcia is a fourth-generation real estate agent. Her great-grandfather became a real
estate agent in Missouri after fighting in the Civil War. She learned about real estate as a
child while playing in her father's real estate firm and later, as an adult, while working
there. She celebrated with her father, a REALTOR® for 60 years, when he became president
of the California Real Estate Association. She learned much about financing while
working in the Real Estate and Construction Finance divisions of Crocker Bank in San Francisco.

Dogs And Cats and Surfboards, Oh My!

Marcia’s son Michael holds the biggest part of her heart. A KU graduate in engineering and computer
science, Michael now works as an urban planner while attending graduate school. Marcia also loves
animals and shares her home with three dogs, Bubbles, Beau and Bear, and two cats, Garbo and
Charra. Raised on California beaches, Marcia is an accomplished surfer. (She has done little of this since watching the movie Jaws.) She also enjoys skiing, yoga, traveling to exotic locales, reading good novels and writing an occasional article for the media. Ask her to whip up a healthy gourmet meal, and she’d be glad to do it.

Ad Astra Per Aspera

Marcia developed her love affair with Kansas 22 years ago, when she ventured to Kansas
to study journalism, first at Washburn University and later at the University of Kansas,
where she earned a master's degree in journalism with an emphasis in advertising.
"While sitting in a marketing class, I suddenly realized I'd rather be a REALTOR® than
anything else. It's in my blood."

Practice Makes Perfect

First managing and selling investment properties, Marcia later became experienced in all phases
of real estate. "I use my advertising background to provide my sellers' listings with an unsurpassed
and astonishing presence in the Topeka area." She employs her public relations & negotiating skills,
along with her love of people, to help buyers and sellers better understand the real estate process and achieve their goals.

A Piece of Cake!

Most of all, Marcia uses her extensive knowledge, background and aficion for real estate
to make the buying and selling process easy and understandable for her customers and
clients - a piece of cake!