Rick Hamilton - Sales Associate

About Rick

Top Producer

Executive Club

PR Manager, UUFB

Chapter Director, PFLAG

Home Renovation Director, Domestic Comfort

Vice President, NWQNA

Rick, owner of Hamilton Fine Homes, based in Beaufort, SC is a 20-year veteran of the Southeastern U.S. market, representing over 1,000 clients in a wide variety of real estate transactions.  He is affiliated with Berkshire Hathaway Home Services / Bay Street Realty Group.  Rick has a long history of successfully helping clients with their residential and commercial transactions.  Major bank leaders and others have called on Rick to help new employees relocating to the Southeast.  Rick learns something new from every transaction and shares those lessons with his clients.  His expertise includes:

• ·         discovering known and unconscious client preferences
• ·         offer and contract negotiation
• ·         transaction process documentation
• ·         due diligence contractor analysis
• ·         closing coordination and post-closing tax filing follow-up

Born and raised in Philadelphia by a hospital surgical supplies consultant and an addicted crossword puzzle homemaker, Rick’s early training and college experience provided the ideal foundation for selling and purchasing homes.  Rick came up through the Boy Scouts, the National Honor Society, was an amateur clarinetist, stage manager, sports news cameraman, KYW-TV (NBC) Production Assistant, General Manager of WKDU-FM, worked as an undergrad for Westinghouse building steam and gas turbines, worked for Xerox installing and repairing copiers, and finally worked in Riyadh for the Saudi royal family, all BEFORE graduating from Drexel University.  In his first job out of college, Rick called on the White House, Pentagon, and Department of Interior, selling long-haul fiber optics to connect to bases around the country, and installing computers on every Native American reservation in the U.S.  Rick created his own successful companies to sell AutoCAD, and CRM systems to Federal agencies and private contractors around Washington.  All the while, Rick invested in D.C. real estate, liquidating his portfolio when he relocated to Atlanta in 2000.

Benefits from Rick’s dual-major undergraduate training in engineering and marketing:

• ·         helps clients to know how well their homes are built
• ·         how to market them when it’s time to sell 

Benefits from Rick’s MBA in Information Systems and Finance:

• ·         helps his buyers to both find qualified properties on the web
• ·         conduct web-based negotiation
• ·         facilitate e-contract signing
• ·         finding cost-effective financing for their homes 

Rick was a silent partner in Domestic Comfort Fine Furniture and Designs, which provided a world-class design team for Rick’s real estate clients when needed, plus over 150 other skilled contractors.  Rick and his partner, Cliff Zeber, brought their executive level and real estate skills to Atlanta, buying, renovating and reselling homes, and opening Domestic Comfort in the Ansley Park area, then relocated to Beaufort in 2022, renovating a downtown 1956 mid-century-modern brick ranch home.  Rick is an avid biker, gardener and volleyball player and eats too much popcorn at too many movie theaters, enjoying first-run films.