Originally from the New England area, Joanne has lived in southwest Florida since 2004. Although she’d love to one day visit every state in the country, which is on her bucket list, there’s nowhere she’d rather live than in beautiful Venice, Florida. Her approach to real estate is what she believes to be the key to all successful sales and business ventures – building relationships, leading to trust. ... more.Joanne’s extensive background in sales and marketing is enhanced by her talent for networking. She had a career for twenty years in the wholesale food industry in Foxboro, Massachusetts. Her experience within the hospitality industry exemplifies her passion for customer service. While living in West Lebanon, New Hampshire, she worked at Killington ski resort before owning and operating the Ne’r Beach Motel in Southern Maine. While living in Florida, Joanne was the Sales and Marketing Manager at The Sleep Inn and Suites of Port Charlotte and most recently, Director of Business Development for the Charlotte County Chamber of Commerce. She attended Bridgewater State College. Very active in the community, Joanne was an affiliate member of Port Charlotte Women’s Council of Realtors and held a Co-Chair position on the Ways and Means Committee. She is also a graduate of Leadership Charlotte class of 2014 and holds a Competent Communicator designation from Toastmasters of America.Outside of real estate, Joanne has been married to her husband, Jim, since 2016. She loves the beauty and tranquility of the Gulf of Mexico as well as pickleball, golf, traveling and spending quiet evenings on the lanai with a good book. ...less.
We are very pleased to write this testimonial for the “Hammar Team”. Jim and I are very busy professionals, still working full time in the Northeast. We were delighted to find Venice and have the assistance of Jim and Joanne to navigate all the finer points of selecting our home away from home. They are truly full service agents, and handle everything from the business side of the transaction to having a robust list of excellent vendors for anything needed to get a home in tip top shape quickly, at a reasonable cost (and well done job). Having actually done two transactions with the Hammars (buying and selling), we would not hesitate to use their services again. What we did not expect is to meet and wind up with two lovely friends that demonstrate a lot of caring and the utmost in ethics – we were very confident that our best interest was truly had advocates. Best of luck to you as you make your decisions about real estate in Florida – you will be very pleased if you choose the “Hammar Team” to help you along.
We randomly met Joanne last winter, and we were so lucky. After looking at 3 houses, she knew exactly what we wanted and led us in that direction. We loved what she showed us, our personalities clicked, and we ended up building. When we headed back north at the end of April, ground had not been broken. When we came back to FL, almost 2 weeks ago, it was for the closing. We did not come down once during the building process, but Joanne and Jim sent weekly pictures and emailed or texted us with updates. Without them, we would have had to make numerous trips to check on the process. During the walk throughs, they both pointed out things that we might have missed. They were a great sounding board throughout this whole operation. We can't say enough good things about these two and would recommend them to anyone buying or selling a house.
My wife and I decided to build in Venice last year. We decided to look where Jim happened to be working. It was just luck that when we came in the office Jim was the first person to greet us and therefore would be our contact person. I have been in sales all of my life and have pretty good instincts on people. After sitting down with Jim and telling him what our desires were, he immediately knew what we would be interested in and which houses to show us. He was right and we committed to building our new Florida home. My first instincts were totally correct. We were dealing with a true professional. Some sales people might have backed off helping us during the building process, not Jim. He went above and beyond his job in helping us with questions about our new house, our new community, and our new city. I very quickly knew I could count on him getting back to us in a timely manner and it would be spot on to our needs. In summary, Jim was/is our real estate person and now he is a true friend as well. Jim and Joanne Hammar are quality people who you can trust to take care of you and do it right the first time.
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