Client Comments

We want to take this opportunity to thank you for helping us fulfill my husband's dream of returning to his roots in West Virginia. Your knowledge of the vistas in the area were very impressive and really helped to expedite the process of finding the perfect "get away" for our enjoyment. We love hiking and exploring the endless seasonal opportunities! We continue to be impressed by how you are still offering your knowledge and help, as we continue to become a part of the Asbury community. "Just like a Good Neighbor". We truly appreciate your friendship and look forward to our visits each time we are in Lewisburg.

With Our Best Regards, Thank you,

Lisa and Dan Facemire

I wanted to express my deep appreciation to you both for selling my 100+ acre farm in Pipestem, WV. This farm had been in our family for well over 100 years, so it was an emotional journey to go through with the sale of the property. However, you provided professional guidance that was much needed.

Foxfire Mountain Properties was highly recommended by a previous customer of yours that enjoyed a positive sales experience with your staff. I have always heard the best advertising is word of mouth and I can honestly say that I experienced this first hand with the sale of my farm.

Richard, I found you to be most knowledgeable in your field, and you were always willing to go the extra mile. I always felt that you kept me informed of all the necessary details. It will be my pleasure to highly recommend Foxfire Mountain Properties to any potential client. Through this process, I feel that I have not only sold my property, but have acquired new friends.

Respectfully,

Louise Houchins

We read all the referrals on Foxfire Mountain Properties' website from past clients and agreed to select them over several other realtors. We were not disappointed. Richard and Paul Grist met all our expectations.

Our family highly recommends Foxfire Mountain Properties. Richard and Paul, as we experienced, can be trusted, get done what they promise, keep their clients informed, work very hard to expose the sale of your property and still maintain a friendly relationship with you and the buyer. All the family members consider Richard and Paul friends and are very happy with their hard work and eventual sale of the family home place.

Don, Roger, Douglass, Webb, Benjamin, Betty, Larry, Linda, Caleb, and Joshua Henderson
North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia

When we contacted Richard Grist, I was immediately impressed with the knowledge he had of the property and its history-there weren't any questions he couldn't answer. His patience was infinite as we made appointments to go down to look at the property and he was more than willing to spend several hours each time walking the property with us and answer our questions. His style is very low pressure, making the whole process so much more pleasant! We are looking forward to years of enjoyment for our family at Laurel Creek Farm as did the family who owned it before.

Larry and Shari Bedker

The amazing thing to us was the amount of help and information Richard gave us after the transaction was over. Many times we have consulted him for advice on road builders, well drillers, and house builders and found his enthusiastic willingness to help and his referrals much to our satisfaction. We could go on and on about Richard and Paul's competence and unassuming nature but will only add that upon meeting these folks, you will not have any doubts about putting your real estate needs into their hands. These are people who stand behind their words.

We will be moving to Lewisburg in the near future and will be proud to count Richard and Paul among our new friends there.

Glenn & Susan

My husband and I owned a family farm for 25 years. The property had been owned by my grandmother for years, and she died at the ripe old age of 96. We always said that we were there for the "duration", but things change.

It was a very difficult decision to sell. Once deciding that this was what we needed to do, the next step was who would help us with this process.

At this point we only had one name on our list and this was Richard and Paul Grist. After meeting with them, it was easy to sign and let them do the rest. Richard was very in tune to our feelings, knowing how difficult it is the sell a family home.

We both would very much recommend Foxfire to buyers or sellers of property.

Very Sincerely,
Roger and Henrietta Stoneburner

One of my greatest concerns before putting my farm, Serenity Crossing, on the real estate market, was that the land would be sold and divided as a housing development. I am most pleased and content to say that this did not happen. It is a delight to see the person who purchased my farm desire to preserve, protect, and not split or divide this piece of property that was loved and nurtured for twenty eight years during my ownership.

This small chunk of West Virginia land gave more to me than I could have ever possibly given back to it. All memories that unfolded on this land are treasured memories.

Thanks Richard & Paul, for finding someone to continue the legacy of love of land and nature.

Sincerely,

Susie Baker

Richard & Paul,

My mother and I would like to take the time to thank you for the sale of our property in Nicholas County West Virginia. From the first day I walked the property with Richard I felt he would have no problems selling our 100+ acres. We had listed our property with other realtors in the previous years before we were introduced to Foxfire properties.

Not only did Richard sell our property I feel that we have me a friend for life. The sale of this property helped my mother with the long term care of my grandmother. For this I am very appreciative to Richard. Richard is good at what he does and I would highly recommend him to anyone buying or selling properties.

Sincerely, Betty and Christopher Aliff
Pool, West Virginia

This was our first land purchase but I doubt one could close more smoothly- Richard facilitated the deal at every step and never missed a detail. He promptly and cheerfully answered a multitude of my phone calls and e-mails.

Richard also has an amazing range of contacts. He helped me find foresters, surveyors and a title attorney before closing but has continued to help me well after the seller paid his commission. He recently got me in contact with the expert trail builders at Snowshoe and he is currently helping me arrange a hunting lease for the property.

My wife asked, "Can Richard be for real?" He is. I found everything that others had written in his support to be true. I am extremely pleased with our purchase, and just as so to have met Richard Grist.

Robert Sullivan and Family
Frederick, MD

Our family has wanted to move to West Virginia for some time, and you played a very significant role in making our dream a reality. I can not think of better representatives for West Virginia. You are terrific ambassadors who, individually, reconfirmed why we want to and are moving to your state.

As any military family, we have had to move frequently. We all agree, however, that you, of all our real estate brokers, both stand out as the most pleasant, helpful, caring, responsible, knowledgeable and certainly competent realtors that we have experienced in over 40 years! You personify the concept of, "satisfy the customer."

You made the purchase of our properties a lot of fun and very easy. Your diligence and attention to detail helped us satisfy all of the IRS provisions for completing a complex 1031 exchange.

With attentive communications; comprehensive reviews of available properties; efficient scheduling; and a willingness to dedicate a week to showing us properties that fit our interest and criteria, you saved us considerable time. Your experience with forestry and lumbering helped us assess property strengths and weaknesses and allowed us to create optional sets of property that met our interest and exchange criteria.

You are the reason that we were able to execute a complex closing with multiple parties, properties and transactions, in a small window of opportunity. With your help, we were able to essentially eliminate any capital gains from the transactions and, most importantly, achieve our dream: to buy property and live in West Virginia!

Lastly, I have never met a broker who, like you, has continued, after the sale, to maintain contact, check on our property and provide valuable information and contacts that have helped us ready our property for occupation.

Please accept our most sincere and heartfelt appreciation for your professional help and most of all, your friendship.

Thank you!

Dan Kuhn and Family

I first met Richard years ago when a friend recommended him to handle the harvest of my timber on approximately 300 acres. We use this property for hunting and outdoor recreation and Richard did an excellent job of producing the timber income while leaving the property in top notch condition.

Thanks to Richard's experience as a professional forester, his timber harvest plan left a great network of new trails that made our property much more fun to use as well as more valuable.

If you are looking for a company to work with that understands recreational property, you won't go wrong with Foxfire Mountain Properties.

Sincerely,

Dave

Richard's advice as a farmer, forester and realtor was invaluable in helping us make our decision to purchase this property.

This little piece of heaven is now ours and we look forward to the day when we can spend much more time there with all of our new friends in WV including Richard and Paul.

Sincerely,

Andrew E.

I make my living as a real estate investor and have owned land not only in West Virginia but in Utah, Nevada, California and Florida. ...

Probably the most enjoyable purchase I've ever made is the nominal 11 acres that you sold me near Asbury last year. You made it so because of your integrity; integrity being that mixture of knowledge and honesty.

I didn't know the Greenbrier County real estate market when I made my purchase, but I knew enough about real estate to know a darned fine broker when I met one. Your near-immediate earning of my trust enabled me to bypass all the time I normally spend in a new market to learn it myself and move directly into the purchase phase. You saved me several weeks of time & and time is definitely money to me.

Since my purchase and because my business is now centered in Las Vegas, Paul has taken the time to keep me informed about the status of my property. That's done two things: saved me time and money and engendered the desire on my part to keep my relationship with you over the long-term.

So, to you both I say thank you. You are among the very finest brokers in the country, and that includes markets in which the participants consider themselves very sophisticated.

Your hard work and dedication to your clients will create all the luck you need to make your new brokerage a success. I can only thank you both for the outstanding service given to me and hope that we'll do business again.

Sincerely,

Bob

Richard devoted his time to us regarding every aspect of our transaction. No detail was too small, calls & emails were answered promptly, his follow-ups stayed with us through to our closing.

Are we satisfied customers? -- you bet!

Best regards,

Margie & Al

Richard was extraordinarily familiar with the boundaries, features, assets, and potential of the real estate we were buying. His thoughtfulness in sending beautiful pictures of indigenous wild flowers in bloom and other beautiful scenery on our mountain land helped to close the geographic gap between our property and us during the buying process.

From viewing the land in the beginning, through negotiating contracts and finalizing the transaction, Richard facilitated our process like it was his own. Not only is his integrity, professionalism, and diligence in ensuring a smooth process unparalleled in our experience, he's also a genuinely nice guy!

We would recommend Foxfire Mountain Properties without hesitation to anyone looking to buy real estate.

Sincerely,

Bill & Sherry Augustine

Even though Richard was not our agent, he was extremely responsive to our questions and concerns. He went the extra mile in meeting with neighbors of the property to assure boundary lines and surveys. After the sale, he met with us to review the property and introduce us to local contractors, and even facilitated us meeting our new neighbors.

A main selling point for us was knowing that we would be surrounded by neighbors like Richard Grist.

Sincerely,

Wallace & Brigid H.