My Resume

Real Estate

  •  Joined Windermere Real Estate/East Inc,  in 1989.             

 

  • Washington Managing Brokers license in 1991.  Managing Broker license is above and beyond the level of basic broker.

 

  • Oregon Broker license in 2001, while living for one year, in Hood River.

 

  • Certified Residential Specialist.  CRS is an advanced professional designation held  by less than 5% of all Realtors in the United States

 

  • Named Assistant Office Manager in 2008

 

  • Accredited Relocation Specialist.   I have worked extensively with relocation clients.  I am one of only 150 out of several thousand Windermere agents in Washington, to be certified by Windermere as a Relocation Specialist.

 

  • Accredited Staging Professional.  I stage homes with my personal inventory of items.  When a house is vacant and needs furnishings, I rent and arrange for furniture to be placed in areas of the home that best showcase the main rooms.

         

  • Accredited Seniors Real Estate Professional. Specialized training in dealing with the needs of older buyer and sellers.

 

  • Selected repeatedly by Seattle Magazine as “Five Star Agent  for Customer Satisfaction”.  This was designated for only 7% of the Puget Sound area agents

 

  • Board of Directors for Windermere Foundation for 6 years.  We support Eastside groups that are involved with issues of homelessness and children at risk.  

 

 

Education

  •  Mt. Clemens High School, Mt. Clemens, Michigan 

 

  • University of Washington, Bachelor of Arts with major in Education, minor in Journalism 

 

Previous Experience

  • Elementary school teacher, Mercer Island, WA

 

  • Hilton Hotel, Hotel Administration, Philadelphia, PA.

 

  • Retail Sales & Management, Bellevue, WA.

 

Family

  • Married for 43 years to Jack Knudtsen. We have lived all over the country due to husband’s hotel management/development career.  I am well versed in the stresses of moving cross country after having made many corporate moves ourselves

 

  • Three children, Brad 41, Megan 37 and Adam 27.

 

  • Assorted grandchildren ages 3-13

 

  • Resident of Issaquah for past 5 years and South Bellevue for 22 years, prior to that.  We have also lived in CA (north & south), NJ, OR, MI & PA.

 

Interests

  • Anything that has to do with the grandchildren.

 

  • Traveling…especially to Europe, Africa and warm, sunny places.

 

  • Reading & exploring the Internet