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Our Principles
An incredible experience? A dream home? The right price?
Whatever your goals, we'll help you achieve them with our principle-based approach:
Be Honest
Our advice is always straight & unbiased. We're not here to influence you. Just to give you high quality advise & numbers you can rely on.
Work Hard
Yes, we're those people. We'll price every house, load you up with market intelligence, and go the extra mile for preparation & due diligence. Through detailed, hard work, we'll excel for you.
Be Kind
We're in this to help people. We're motivated to be kind. We teach it to our kids. Our careers are full of opportunity to put clients ahead of ourselves.
Free Information
Information is power, and when it comes to homes, you need both. We believe only when we give you this, can you make the best decisions. We'll be open, considerate & unbiased.
Innovate
From helping pioneer drone use in Canada in our own industry, to our own extreme form of specialization, we're still here to help raise industry standards.
How It All Started
Part 1: Tom Falls Flat on his Face
It was 2012 and homes were supposed to sell themselves!
We dug out Tom's old business card so you can see his shortcomings. You see, no matter how hard he tried (and try he did!), he couldn't sell homes. Not in volume, anyway.
People responded well to his honesty and he built up a happy group of buyer clients who continue to refer him to their close friends.
Ask anyone who knows Tom to describe him, and that honesty comes up again and again.
Problem was, agents are expected to buy AND sell. What to do?
Part 2: Breanna Saves the Day
Stampede 2012:
"Please, can I have a bite of your candy apple?"
Well, they're both definitely "all business" so 3 days later, they were in love and basically engaged. That all went to plan.
With business, in those early days however, they were naive. Finding herself a surprisingly great negotiator and marketer, Breanna quit her excellent job in oil & gas to be a full-time seller's agent. Thus, The A-Team was born into the real estate world.
It was April 2014, the oil price as at its zenith.
Now with Breanna onboard, Tom didn't have to sell homes anymore. His weakness covered, he could help buyers to his heart's content.
Two months later, the oil price began falling.
Part 3: You & Me vs. the World
They set the principles (which have never changed).
They already knew that buying & selling are really opposite jobs which require many opposing skills, and that clients would be best served by them fully specializing.
The newly minted A-Team actually pioneered the use of drone tech for creating real estate media content. Then came excessive amounts of YouTube & Facebook marketing (always of clients' homes).
As oil crashed, home values were falling thousands of dollars every month. Using Tom's accurate pricing (MS in Economics from Oxford) and Breanna's clinical marketing, their clients found success regardless.
They shot their own videos & even developed their own website in-house (you're looking at it - this is now unheard of)
Breanna became the #1 listing agent in her local market in her 2nd full year in real estate. They grew the team to 8 people to support around 200 sales a year. The team gained experience through flooding, wildfire and economic calamity.
Thoughtful | Loyal | Effective
Breanna Albrecht
Helps Seller Clients
Breanna was the #1 selling realtor in her market* in her second full year in business. Her friends know her to be kind, but direct. She has 350+ home sales under her belt, and can tell you exactly how to get as much money as possible out of your home. On the personal side, family is everything. Breanna hails from Regina (yes, she’s a CFL fan- cut her some slack). Before real estate she was a technical writer in the oil and gas sector. She has a degree in finance.
Tom Albrecht
Helps Buyer Clients
Tom was awarded #1 Calgary agent in 2022, as rated by his clients on Rate-My-Agent. Tom is a specialist buyer's agent in the Calgary area. He has an MS in economics from Oxford University & a knack for understanding his clients. Tom enjoys loyally serving others, enabling possibilities, and learning what you need to know as a buyer. He has a decade of experience diligently guiding home buyers & successfully negotiating the best possible purchase prices.
What Their Clients are Saying
“The A Team helped us get our confidence back. But that was just the start. The hard work came after that. It hasn’t been easy and at times it has been extremely stressful but thank you to Breanna for her relentless hard work for her clients”.
- Louise Melvin
“(Tom) places your priorities and goals ahead of his own which ensures you truly purchase the home of your dreams.”.
- David In
“I have never had a home purchase go as smoothly as this one.”.
- Sarah Clark-Pickett
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