HONEST PROFESSIONALS, CREATIVE SOLUTIONS

There is simply no substitute for experienced professionals with a proven track record of excellent customer service. Whether you’re looking to buy or sell your property, working with the best people can spell the difference between a smooth transaction and disaster.

The Professionals at Mountain Realty and their affiliates combine decades of expertise in real estate sales and investing, law, banking and finance. We are skilled in working with distressed homeowners to solve their financial problems and allow their unwanted properties to be sold at reasonable market rates. Our residential redevelopment program protects neighborhood values, supplements overtaxed government mortgage relief programs, and allows home buyers and investors to find the best possible home prices and investment vehicles during this time of extremely low real estate values.

Finding someone to trust is essential in the current competitive and volatile real estate market. We’re here to provide Sellers with the best advice on how to safely move their property, Buyers with the professionalism and integrity needed for one of the biggest decisions of their lives, and Investors in making highly profitable and low risk investments.

Peggy Palms, Broker-in-Charge, REALTOR®

Peggy Palms is an attorney, author, REALTOR® and investor who has made Boone, North Carolina her home since 1994. In her 20 years of practice as a certified mediator and debt relief attorney, she helped thousands of families through financial crisis. It is her great joy to touch and improve the lives of others in all real estate and business transactions. Her real estate brokerage, Mountain Realty, specializes in pre-foreclosure and foreclosure properties, bank owned properties, and opportunities for Stress Free Real Estate Investing.

Peggy Palms has practiced law since 1991, and is a member of the North Carolina State Bar, the State Bar of Texas, the Iowa State Bar, the North Carolina Association of REALTORS®, the National Association of REALTORS® and the High Country Association of REALTORS®. She received certification in Short Sale & Foreclosure Resource (SFR), the only distressed property certification for real estate professionals recognized and endorsed by the National Association of REALTORS®.

Finding that many homeowners are now choosing to leave their over leveraged properties and start fresh, Peggy formed Mountain Realty, bringing her expertise in saving families from foreclosure as painlessly as possible. Her decades of experience in debt, bankruptcy and foreclosure law gives her the tools needed to design creative win-win solutions suited to each buyer and seller. Peggy counsels REALTORS® in the short sale process on how to protect their clients best interests while preserving their broker commissions. She constantly researches new wealth management strategies for her real estate investor clients and has formed alliances with top nationwide experts in retirement planning, tax planning and asset protection and distressed property acquisitions. Her popular book, The Bankruptcy Solution, is available online and in bookstores nationwide.

Jeff Riley, Broker, REALTOR®

Jeff began his real estate career after retiring from the U.S. Air Force where he worked in Health Care Management. While in the Air Force, he was recognized for his experience, hard work and dedication by being hand-picked to work on the Air Force Surgeon General’s staff. Jeff brings that same hard work, service and dedication to his real estate career.

 Jeff has sold beachfront condominiums, homes in new home subdivisions and completed traditional real estate sales transactions but he did not want to be just another real estate agent. It was his desire and passion for helping others that lead him to become an expert in short sales and assisting homeowners avoid foreclosure. He has also been involved with many creative real estate transactions for both the buyers and sellers as well as helping investors build their real estate portfolios. Jeff holds real estate licenses in North Carolina and Georgia. He and his wife Teresa live in Asheville and have 3 children and 3 grandchildren.

Jennifer Byland, B.A.