“I’m not trying to sell a buyer a home. I’m trying to find them the right home.”
Bud Jones was born in Sault Ste. Marie, grew up here, and is raising his family here. He has sold real estate in this city for twelve years.
He came to it after ten years in a career that was not the right fit.
An award-winning REALTOR® year after year, including Century 21’s Masters Diamond award in 2025.
Who he works with
No niche. First-time buyers, people selling the family home after thirty years, investors buying rental doors downtown, cottage buyers out on St. Joseph Island. Twelve years of it, through good markets and bad, and he has never wanted to work one corner of the city.
What he likes most is a house with a story. The kind that needs someone to explain it properly instead of listing it and waiting.
Selling a house
Two things decide what a house sells for, and both of them happen before anyone makes an offer.
The price you start at. Set it too high and the listing sits, and a listing that has sat attracts offers below what the house would have taken in its first week. The asking price is the single most important decision in the whole process, and it is the one most often made for the wrong reasons.
First impressions. Most buyers have formed an opinion before they are through the front door, and a good share of that was settled the night before, by the photos. What a house looks like in the first thirty seconds is worth real money.
Bud will tell you what your house is worth. Not what you want to hear.
Outside work
Bud and his wife have two daughters, both in the dance and cheer community, so a lot of weekends through the season are spent at a competition. Summer weekends are spent at the family camp on St. Joseph Island.
Start with a
conversation.
No pressure and no obligation. Ask whatever you want to ask, whether you are buying, selling, or still deciding.