Helen Crow

Helen had to wait for her 21st birthday to get her license to begin selling homes. Her 50th anniversary with Kirk & Cobb will be in August 2023. She had to learn everything creative to work with her friends at that young age. Over the years, she has honed her advanced skills in negotiating sane and reasonable deals. Her sales were in the top 1-2% of Topeka Realtors’ sales for over forty years. It’s what she does. All day, every day. Today, she is still working hard and going strong.

I have worked so hard for so long that she thinks people have noticed. She hopes you can ask just about anyone about her to hear good things. She thinks you will hear that her advice is valued by experts. She think you will hear that she am a stickler for all the pesky details that affect Buyers’ and Sellers’ lives in a real estate deal. She can prove her advanced skills, but she hopes she is also well known for a caring approach — she hopes that she is known for her conscientious devotion to all the folks who pay her the honor of choosing her as their realtor.

Sellers count on her expertise in advising them about pricing and marketing strategies. She help them show their homes to their best advantage. She has a vast network of friends, contacts, and resources who help her ensure that each seller hears from as many potential buyers as possible, not just the ones who might be easiest to find. She has a great crew trained to stage a house to show its optimal advantage. she can take over the process of “spiffing” a house to show for the seller who wants to just hand over the keys and get on with their life. She is a coach and a tutor helping her customers understand contract terms and commitments, realistic timelines, and reliable projections of closing costs and net proceeds from a sale.

Buyers count on her to help them to explore all possible options when they are looking for a home. She has lots of information and advice to share about market conditions and selecting a good buy. She have lots of practice in shopping for the best available financing. She have great connections with expert inspectors. I’m a great source for advice about reliable and skilled help for maintaining homes after closing. And she has lots of other resources and networks to help folks get settled in Topeka.

She is thankful for the hundreds (and hundreds) of past customers who have been gratifyingly loyal to her. She is also grateful that she gets more than her share of flattering attention from real estate industry affiliates — lenders, title insurance professionals, appraisers, and other Realtors. It was a thrilling affirmation for her when the Topeka Board of Realtors recognized her career achievement by naming her their Salesperson of the Year twice.

Bob and Steve Kirk have been her mentors, the brains behind the scenes in her business since 1973. They taught her to approach every business decision based on “What helps the customer best?” They have been her allies and her advocates through thick and thin. She was lucky to get the best training there e is from them. We lost Bob in 2010, but Steve is still backing her up 24/7/365. He is a student of the real estate business on such a profound level that she thinks he has no peers. He is there for her. He is there for you.

Her husband, Dan Crow, is a local real estate attorney — kind of a handy guy to have around and she thinks the most fun person she has ever met. Their daughter, Samantha, is their pride and joy. Grown and gone now, she has had a series of amazing jobs including four years at Google where she met her husband, Jake Quist. Living in Silicon Valley, they are her tech consultants extraordinaire. Best of ALL, they made us grandparents! More photos of their adorable grandchildren than anyone wants to see are public on her Facebook presence.

Dan Crow and Helen enjoy living in their hometown. We are proud to be Topekans, and we are very (very, very) involved in the community as volunteers and in social groups. We feel lucky to live in a lively city full of old friends AND we are lucky to have jobs that bring us new friends. Their neighbors in Potwin Place are like an extended family. Dan plays golf and she reads books. Together, Dan and Helen host international high school and college students and interns to their absolute delight. We have found that those young people who have the courage, ambition, drive, and initiative to study and work away from their homes, families, and countries self-select to be some of the most thrilling people we have ever met. We are honored to try to help them pursue their dreams. We have lost count of how many young people have used their home as their temporary home.