This is an easy review for me to write, mainly because I wish that someone had given me a referral to employ Ed at the beginning of our selling process... instead, my husband and I worked with not one but two other local real estate companies in Gig Harbor before finally (and fortunately) hiring Ed Aro and his team at John L. Scott in Gig Harbor to advertise and sell our home in this tough real estate market. I am not one to tear other people down, but I want you to know that the contrast between the other agents who listed our home and Ed Aro was striking. Ed's professionalism was evident from our first meeting, and his positive attitude and confidence in his ability to successfully market our house was not just "talk"; within hours of signing our agreement to have Ed represent us as our selling agent, he had brought in his support staff to tour our home so that they could talk and write knowledgeably about it, arranged for his interior designer to help us with staging our 5200-square-foot house to make it look appealing to potential buyers, and scheduled a professional photographer to come and take pictures that truly captured the feel of our expansive home. We appreciated Ed's enthusiasm for the process of finding just the right buyer for our home as well as his familiarity with the local media sources for advertising our house. Compared with our experience with our previous agents, we were certain that Ed was doing everything in his power to draw interested buyers to our property-- what a great feeling! As you may have guessed, our story has a happy ending: after five months on the market, a family made an offer on our house and as we worked through the details of the purchase and sale, Ed continued to impress us with his tenacity and his tirelessness in facilitating the sale and negotiating with the buyers' agent. He was very thorough in preparing us for the different aspects of the closing of the deal, and each of his associates that we dealt with exceeded our expectations in terms of handling their duties without errors and in a timely manner. Without hesitation or reservation, we will recommend Ed Aro to all of our friends and family as a real estate agent who is savvy, experienced, hard-working, and-- honestly-- fun to work with. In fact, we are looking forward to future commercial transactions with Ed as my husband anticipates purchasing property for his new office building in Gig Harbor.