Top Agent Lori Kazanowski of All Towne Realty in Clark, New Jersey knows that real estate is all about helping people, and as a former nurse she is ideally suited to care for her many grateful clients. With nineteen years of experience under her belt, Lori has been providing top-notch customer service that has placed her squarely at the top of her profession.

“I was a nurse, and a doctor I worked for wanted to buy a property,” says Lori. “I connected him with a real estate agent in town, and one of the nurses I worked with thought I’d make a good real estate agent. I feel like it’s another helping profession, and that people who worked in service positions bring real estate to another level with their customer service.”

Selling primarily in Clark, Union County, and Middlesex County, almost all of Lori’s business is based on repeat customers and referrals. The reason for that, she believes, is her dedication to her career and her clients. “I give excellent service,” she says. I answer my phone all the time, I call my clients before they have to call me. I’m also a workaholic, so I don’t take vacations and I work seven days a week. My last vacation was seventeen years ago, and that’s the truth. Nursing was a job, real estate is like the statement ‘if you do a job you love, it’s not work.’” And I love that I can help people.”

Savvy marketing and guiding her sellers through the process of preparing their homes for sale has played a major part in Lori’s success, and to that end she does extensive walk-throughs and makes suggestions about what should be moved or removed from the home prior to listing. “If I feel there’s something that needs to be done I’ll hook them up with a handyman just to get the house ready to show. We also have a full time professional photographer on staff, so my photos look much better than the ones some agents take with their camera phones.”

Lori is also adamant about providing efficient service and not wasting her client’s time. “One thing I do that a lot of other realtors don’t, is that when my client wants to go out looking at a lot of houses, I always call the listing agent first. There are a lot of properties that are already under contract or in attorney review and the agent has not marked them as such, so you can waste a lot of steps. I have never shown a house without contacting the listing agent first. How can I advise my buyer if I don’t know my playing field.”

Giving back to her community is something Lori has been doing for a while, and she was formerly on the local Board of Education, a former Girl Scout Leader and a member of the Pool Committee. Her late husband was a city councilman for eighteen years.

During the rare times she isn’t working, Lori enjoys watching real estate shows. “I’m very real estate focused,” she laughs. “Even when I’m watching these shows my phone is on, I don’t shut it off, I answer it. Or if I’m at a closing or an appointment, they’ll get a call back within five minutes.”

As for the future, Lori is committed to remaining at the Platinum Level of sales, which is the highest possible. “I just want to continue doing what I’m doing: give great service. This is a wonderful career and I love every moment of it.”

For more information about Lori Kazanowski, please call 732-713-4984 or email Lkaz@comcast.net