Melissa Heffernan
For the past 9 years, Melissa has been working with people on the sale of their home and/or purchasing a new home. Serving theHamilton, Niagara, Waterdown, Burlington, Oakville, Dundas, Stoney Creek, and Brantford areas, Melissa has helped many people deal with the sale of residential, commercial and small business properties.
With her warm, personable manner and dedication to her work, Melissa has garnered a long list of satisfied clients ever since she entered the real estate field. In fact, she likes to consider many of them her friends. Over the last 5 years Melissa has received many sales awards for her increased sales moving from a Directors Award through to a Platinum Level Award.
Melissa feels Selling real estate is all about making peoples' lives better. With real estate, you're often helping clients deal with very delicate situations like unloading homes and estate sales. She gets a big feeling of accomplishment knowing she has helped smooth that transition for people and helped them start a new life.
A career in real estate wasn't originally in the cards for Melissa. Born and raised in the Hamilton area, she had plans to get into the hospitality industry and graduated from Niagara College with a diploma in hotel and restaurant management. Afterwards, she honed her skills by attaining a bachelor's degree in business administration at the Southern New Hampshire University.
Melissa would go on to land a position as sales manager at the Hyatt Grand Champions Resort, Villas and Spa in Indian Wells, California, where she was responsible for handling conferences with thousands of people and overseeing special events from start to finish.
After taking on various management positions in the Hyatt chain in California and Toronto, however, Melissa felt it was time to get back to her roots and returned to the Hamilton area. She was working as a sales representative for a local photography firm when a friend introduced Melissa to Real Estate.
She always wanted to run her own business, and as a REALTORĀ® she has the opportunity to market and brand herself exactly how she wants. She took a lot of customer training while with Hyatt, and wanted to use those lessons to help her clients improve their life and situation.
'Making People's lives better one home at a time!'
A testimonial from Jana and Jon!
Choosing a real estate agent can be challenging - how do you know if they will be honest and ethical? Will they communicate often and clearly? Will they work hard with your best interests in mind? With the sale and purchase of our new home, Melissa proved she was all of those things ten times over. We let Melissa know early on that we preferred a steady line of communication and not once did we have to remind her - she tailored her approach to meet our needs and kept in constant contact. Her friendly, kind nature calmed our frazzled nerves, but her 'take no prisoners' business savvy made sure we sold and purchased our homes through tough, but successful negotiation. We are so thankful to Melissa for all of her hard work in finding us our dream home. We could not recommend her more highly."