Via our strategic partnerships with Comey & Shepherd Realtors and Christies Great Estates, DIGS can help you find, evaluate, negotiate and buy the home of your dreams. This is all possible whether your quest is for the primary home in Greater Cincinnati or the second (or third) home anywhere in the U.S. or around the World. Our "dream team" of real estate agents that specialize in getting you into utterly "diggable" digs includes David Wellinghoff, Mary Kay Avery, Hank Wagner and Lori Wellinghoff. Combined, this team offers more than 50 years of real estate experience. Additionally, we have an unusually astute understanding of how to help our buyers envision the potential of a home and we welcome the opportunity to engage DIGS services to assist buyers in making a house their dream home. We can also help you sell your current home for the highest possible price in the shortest amount of time with the least amount of inconvenience. For more information about our real estate prowess and to take a virtual tour of our current listings, check us out at www.comey.com. Our services that require a real estate license are provided through Comey & Shepherd Realtors.

What To Look For In A Real Estate Agent: Our Partnership Checklist

Top-Tier Agents

• The Wellinghoff Group at Comey & Shepherd Realtors is amongst the top 1% of all Cincinnati Real Estate Agents in the Greater Cincinnati area with over $36,000,000 of properties sold.
• We represent clients from first-time home buyers and sellers to seasoned property owners of high-end residential as well as small commercial property owners.
• We are certified and approved to represent corporate transferees through employer third-party relocation companies including: Blackbook EMG, Weichert, Altair, CARTUS, SIRVA and a number of others.
• The Wellinghoff "Brand" represents over 40 years of strong name recognition and respect in real estate circles having been founded and gracefully cultivated by Ruth Wellinghoff and Libby Mott from 1967-2009.
• Our Team consists of: David & Lori Wellinghoff Sales Team Leaders, Mary Kay Avery Customer Service Administrator and Hank Wagner Closing Transaction Coordinator
• As we like to ask… why have one Real Estate Agent when you can have a proven team for the same commission compensation?

Full Service Broker

• Comey & Shepherd has been providing Best-of-Class Service to Buyers & Sellers since 1946.
• Comey & Shepherd is the 2nd largest brokerage in Cincinnati (# of agents) and the largest brokerage in Cincinnati (gross sales volume)
• All Comey Agents are required to be full-time real estate professionals. Comey has zero tolerance for mediocrity. Comey Agents have the highest per-agent transaction ratio in Cincinnati.
• Comey is Cincinnati's exclusive Relo™ Network Affiliate
• Unlike smaller brokerages, Comey has it's own full service, in-house Marketing Department known for designing & producing first-rate collateral materials and advertisements that communicate, entice and sell
• Comey & Shepherd has an exclusive Television Show that airs throughout the region and features our listings.
• Comey & Shepherd has its exclusive Comey Fine Homes Magazine which is delivered 3 times per year to 14,000 high-income households via BEST magazine.
• Comey & Shepherd are Cincinnati's exclusive Christies Great Estates affiliates which we employ to help market our high-end listings.
• Comey & Shepherd has no phone duty – prospective buyers of our listings speak only to us directly – we know your house inside and out and have the most pertinent details to share.
• www.Comey.com is one of the most robust and user-friendly home listing search web sites in the area – whether at your desk or on your mobile device. NOTE: all area brokerage listings (whether Comey listings or not) are featured on all other brokerage web sites (and vise versa) via broker reciprocity agreements. As a result, our listings appear on all participating Brokerage web sites.

Established Real Estate Industry Peer Network

Realtors are involved in over 85% of all residential real estate transactions. It's important that you be represented by agents that are respected amongst their peers in order to get things done with expedience and confidence. Wellinghoff+Wellinghoff are amongst the most respected names within the Realtor community – we're well networked with other top agents that make the market move – we hope you'll ask around.

Community Roots

Our team are all life-long Cincinnatians deeply rooted in our community. We know who gets things done and where to turn to make things happen. In addition to our innate understanding of this marketplace, it is worth noting that Lori Wellinghoff is President of The Hyde Park Square Business Association, is the past Chair of the Board of Enjoy the Arts, former Board member of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and is currently in the nomination process to be a new member of the Cincinnati Parks Foundation Board. These connections along with our other roots in the community including St. Mary School, Cardinal Pacelli School, Hyde Park Country Club, etc. allow us to further expose our listings to buyer prospects with a penchant for our community and help us introduce new comers to our city to its wonders.

Sales Savvy

David Wellinghoff (CABR Circle of Excellence Sales Leader) is the #1 Agent (2009 Comey & Shepherd Hyde Park) and the #2 Agent (2009 Comey Overall). David brings over 30 years of sales experience to our team relying on time-honored tactics and innate salesmanship to expedite the sale of your home and to ensure that both you and the ultimate buyers are treated with the utmost respect and professionalism.

Search & Acquire Experts

The Wellinghoff Team prides itself on super-serving our clients in search of their perfect new digs. We are imminently patient and fully expect to exhaust all potential properties before narrowing any search down to the perfect residence for each of our clients. We are willing, able and happy to work with all fashion of client from a first time home buyer to a high-end empty nester. We are familiar with individual neighborhoods and their unique attributes and are able to expose the virtues of each.

Once we have worked with a buyer client to winnow down options to a singular residence, we then work with the utmost professionalism and skill to help our clients determine an appropriate offer price. We then steward negotiations to ensure every ounce of value is achieved for our clients. We pride ourselves on attaining your purchase goals through thorough market/value research, negotiation persistence, a calm and considerate demeanor and consummate professionalism.

Once our clients have finalized negotiations, closed on the property and settled in, we remain accessible and at the ready to provide service and counsel for any additional support a client of ours may need.

Construction & Renovation Know-How

We have an unrivaled familiarity with construction methods from the 1800's to today thanks to our alliance with DIGS |Real Estate|Design|Renovation|™ a firm we own. This helps our listing clients know what are the most impactful/lowest cost improvements they can make prior to marketing their home for sale to return the biggest bang for their buck. In that regard, we are more than able to help our listing clients make a better impression in order to sell their residence for the most amount of money in the shortest amount of time and we can facilitate (as desired) any staging or fix-ups needed to ensure optimal selling success.

As well, our buyer clients can "shop" with confidence via our design/construction know-how as to how a house they are considering can be modified to make it their perfect new digs – and at what approximate cost. A handy perspective to have in a real estate agent to be sure.

Worth noting, Lori Wellinghoff is certified as a GREEN™ Agent by the National Association of Realtors able to provide insights into LEED accreditation and Green building techniques.

Personal Touch

This is our town and we're proud to live here. We were born, raised and live-in/love this neck of the woods. Our fondest wish is to employ our depth of knowledge, experience, street-smarts and diversely skilled "team muscle" to super-serve our clients – most of whom become our life-long friends.

If you list your home with us our Job #1 is to sell your residence for the highest possible price in the shortest amount of time.
If your goal is to buy a home with our assistance our Job #1 is to help you find the ideal residence to fit your lifestyle (and budget) and to help you acquire it for the least amount of money and with even less angst.

Marketing & Technology Savvy

Lori Wellinghoff is a former 25 year vet SVP/GM of Grey Advertising and SVP/COO of Clear Channel Worldwide responsible for multi-million dollar marketing campaigns – a unique perspective indeed to assist in developing marketing materials for our listings that motivates and sells. Plus Lori & Mary Kay ensure best-of-industry "www-smarts" (Facebook, Trulia, Google, Craigslist, etc.) and have the bandwidth to keep your listing high on the page of just about any search engine that could pique a Buyer's interest.

We Advertise Extensively to Ensure Your Listing Gets Noticed!

How We Advertise – Two-Full-Page Spreads:

Where We Advertise & How We Market

• Express Cincinnati Magazine, Hyde Park Living, Indian Hill Living, Wyoming Living, Sophisticated Living, Comey Fine Homes Magazine, Others
• Just Listed "Pick Your Neighbor" Postcards
• Electronic & Printed Flyers To Agents
• Printed Literature for Showings
• Open Houses (we believe in them and we host them with regularity!)

How We Network:

• Agent Tours
• Agent E-Blasts
• Calling Agents
• In Your Neighborhood: Neighbors, Business Associates, Schools, Etc.