Robert Hahn Reviews

Testimonial for Robert and Dana Hahn-the Father-Daughter team with ReMax To fully appreciate what Robert and Dana Hahn mean to our family, you need some back story. In 2008 I lost my savings, my career and my home, and as a single mom of two, it was a very big deal. Over the course of the next fifteen years we jumped from one rental to the next-moving ten times. With limited resources, I did my best to make every house a home and every special occasion count for something. As hard as I tried and as great as my kids managed those times, I felt that we never quite achieved “home”. I always professed that home was wherever my kids were, but there was this part of me that needed ownership-a place I could paint any colour, a garden that was ours to invest in, a destination not controlled by the whims of a landlord. I wanted to feel safe in a space we could sink roots in, a space where the ashes of our pets could finally rest. It wasn’t until my career got back on track that I was able to rent a house on a quiet street near a lake in Langford that things began to shift a bit. I met a good man who helped heal a few wounds and he slowly settled into our space. We began looking for a house of our own in 2018 but we couldn’t find anything we could afford. Years passed and covid arrived and hung around and the market in BC just got worse. We first met Robert somewhere in there…somewhere in the spring becoming summer of 2018. We had hoped to find some land in the Shawnigan Lake area. We didn’t. We weren’t supposed to. I remember first meeting Robert and he was so reassuring. Aside from the typical things you’d hear a realtor say the first time you meet them, he closed off our conversation on the first foray into the wilds with, “You have to be patient, there’s going to be a home out there, you just have to be patient.” Patience is not one of my stronger virtues and I remember wondering if he could feel how much I needed this. My need for finding a “home” was like the center part of a fleshy fruit; as fragile as it was important. What is that saying?... the best revenge is a life well lived? I had fifteen plus years of that driving energy and I wondered if I let it show too much. It didn’t matter. Robert was calm. Even if his GPS has him in the boonies, he is calm. Even if you’re pitching a no disclosure, no inspection, close in a matter of weeks in the midst of a what could be a multiple offer bidding war, Robert is calm, and so much more. We met Dana back then on one of our galivants under trees. We talked about our kids and she became our steadfast correspondent; the bridge between the paper and her Dad. Over the months of weekends our meetings tallied, it became clear to me that Robert not only knew a lot about real estate in his neighborhood, he knew a lot about people. He was authentic, patient, funny, fun-loving, understanding, concerned, invested, caring, and all these things while also being on time, organized, prepared, informed, ‘in the know’, on top of his real estate game and honest-thoroughly honest. Robert has arrived at that place where years of doing something well, delivers you to an informed place of professional assuredness. He could tell you if a deal made sense or if it stunk of something-and he’d tell you. Steadfast is a good adjective for Robert…not in the unmovable way, but in the unfaltering way. I remember watching him ramble over fallen logs, ford streams, bushwhack through blackberries and squelch through mud bogs…and not complain, and smile and talk about riparian areas and the importance of honoring them. We didn’t find a place back then. Years passed. A divorce had to finalize, like the movement of an ancient glacier, a sense of finality became possible. We contacted Robert in the winter of 2022 to start the process all over again. Again, with the chasing down newly listed properties, again with the million dollar tear down prospects, again with the bushwhacking and the mud and again, Robert said, “Be patient.” It is the Autumn of 2023 and I’m now sitting in my home. It is the home I can wake peacefully in, knowing it is mine to keep investing in. It is the home that allows me to bash out walls, pull up carpet, paint, retile, and sculpt pathways to gardens that will grow roots for years to come. The morning sun spills through the canopy of our front door forest and it sets down in pink-orange bliss through the canopy of our back door forest. It is the home that has already received extended family, where laughter has replaced hardship and safety has pushed away the uncertainty of some very hard years. My daughter fell asleep under the skylight this Fall. I watched the brief shadows of soft clouds kiss across her cheek. My son and his love live in the space above us. There is room to take care of our family here. Friends have visited with real smiles of relief. They’ve known how important this has been. It is the reclaiming of “home”. It is the home that will grow hope, and happiness, and strength and future. It is the home I had always hoped for. Odin’s ashes will finally know the base of a big tree. I know exactly where he would have rested. He would have watched those soft clouds that kiss cheeks and he would have slept the deep sleep of happy dogs who chase squirrels in their dreams. This home is the beginning of what’s next and I can’t express the depth of my gratitude for my partner who helped make it happen, and the realtor who knew I’d have to be patient. If you are looking for an outstanding real estate team, you will find one in Robert and his daughter Dana. But you will find so much more. You will find the family that understands yours, that understands location and timing, and what it means to finally find your loved ones and your longing heart a home to grow in. Louise (& Wayne Hoyle)