Introducing Jenny Edgerton, a Liz Moore Rainmaker

Daytripping: Incorporationg A Hard Floors: Green Front Pop of Color A Solid Choice Celebrating the Region’s Most Influential Real Estate Professionals Real estate has always been her passion Jenny Edgerton REALTOR® Working with first time homebuyers, to helping clients pick a piece of property to build their dream home, and everything in between.



Rainmakers are selected based on their sales Jenny accomplishments earning them a spot among the top Edgerton 20% of Liz Moore & Associates’ top performers. REALTOR® In addition to sales volume standards, Rainmakers share client-centric philosophies, a dedication to being #1 GOAL masters of their craft, and a commitment to giving back to the communities they serve. Making my clients home buying or selling experience with me a happy I am thrilled to have been selected as the featured and memorable one! Rainmaker for the month! I LOVE YORKTOWN BECAUSE Jenny Edgerton It’s where I grew up and where I live. FAVORITE OUTDOOR ACTIVITY Boating HOW I START MY DAY With a large cup of coffee! PROUDEST MOMENT My First VPAR Award! YEARS IN REAL ESTATE 13 I dealt with 3 agents before finding Jenny and she was amazing! She made everything so simple and looked for exactly what I wanted. Cheyenne Robertson

Rainmaker Spotlight: Jenny Edgerton Rainmaker Jenny Edgerton is a young woman focused Jenny enjoys her enormous extended family, with on a real estate career that seems to be her destiny. stepbrothers and sisters from both her mom and dad’s Her father is Ricky Edgerton, a custom builder, as is remarriages. “There’s a lot of house-hopping going on her high school sweetheart, Matt McQuillen, whom at the holidays,” she says with a smile, “but really we’re she married in 2015. “I kept my maiden name because all one big, happy family.” Her husband Matt also people in the business world already knew me by the has a sister, and his parents bought Jenny and Matt’s name Edgerton,” she says. She began working for her previous home in their present neighborhood. Jenny is dad at his company in 2005, then two years later started particularly close with her sister’s children, Mila and an additional career with Liz Moore & Associates. Carter, who also live nearby. “When my nephew Carter She still enjoys the creative work she does with her came along, he picked his own name for me, TeTe, father’s clients, helping them make design choices for which I absolutely love. We found out later it was a the custom homes he builds. “We have done homes all Spanish nickname for auntie, so that’s perfect.” over the Peninsula, but our latest project is in a new subdivision in Yorktown called Smith Farm Estates. I Both new construction homes and waterfront properties represent Dad on the builder side, and Liz Moore on have become particular niches for Jenny. In 2017, Jenny, the real estate side,” Jenny says. “My sister Renea, 15 her dad, Ricky, and Matt built a house together for the months older than I am, is in the mortgage industry couple right on the water in Dandy, Virginia. “It was and her husband’s also a Realtor, so we all kind of a challenge because we all have strong opinions, but it intertwine.” Hard work, attention to detail, and this turned out great, even though I didn’t like the kitchen kind of family/business synergy is how Jenny took her tile once it went up and had them tear it all out and place in the coveted winner’s circle of Rainmakers at Liz start over,” she admits with a rueful laugh. “It’s my Moore & Associates. happy place. Sometimes it’s hard to make myself leave and go to work because it’s such a beautiful view. I don’t think I could ever be happy living away from the water.”

Jenny thrives best outdoors, which is proven by her designed for the comfort of both agents and clients. The deep summer tan. Almost any warm weekend you can real draw for any unseasoned agent, or rookie, is the find Jenny and Matt on a boat or at the beach. It’s no unparalleled education Liz offers. Things that weren’t surprise that she considers the Outer Banks a second covered when studying for her license Jenny could learn home because her first trip to the family’s timeshare in her rookie classes at the agency. “All I had to learn for there was before she was even born. Jenny and Matt my license was the legal part, but I wasn’t taught things love to travel and enjoy visiting Charlottesville, various like how to write the best contract, ethics, or marketing wineries, and her father’s Lake Gaston home. They also until I started here,” Jenny remembers. “Without that try for at least one big trip a year. Jenny’s past favorite specific training, you can find yourself in hot water destinations are Costa Rica and Aruba, where they pretty quickly. That was the deciding factor for me.” went on their honeymoon. “Costa Rica was pretty cool This was in 2007, and it wasn’t long before Jenny was because we didn’t stay at a resort and it was a more off and running at Liz Moore & Associates, and she authentic experience with the mountains and monkeys.” remains the only one from her rookie class to still be On their wish list is a boating adventure in the British working there. “It was a great fit from the beginning,” Virgin Islands. “We’d rent a big catamaran with some she says. “It gives me a sense of security to know that if other couples and go island-hopping,” she says. I have a question or need advice, both Donna and Liz are available to me at any time, day or night. I just can’t Jenny always wanted a dog as she grew up, and her imagine working for another company.” dream was fulfilled when she adopted her sister’s dog, Hurley. Sadly, Jenny recently lost Hurley after 12 years of She considers herself fortunate that the start of her happiness with him. She’d like to have another pet right career as a Realtor coincided with the recession that away, but Matt isn’t ready. “If it were up to me, I’d have burst the real estate bubble. “I felt like I learned valuable a farm in my backyard full of miniature horses, goats, things early on because success didn’t come easily,” dogs… anything tiny,” she says. “I probably won’t ever get she says. She soon adapted, and Jenny hasn’t stopped that, but eventually I’ll find another dog to love. We have impressing her clients with her service since then. A the perfect situation, after all. Matt’s parents are nearby quick study and wise beyond her years, experience and used to love pet sitting. We don’t have kids, so they taught her to be a good money manager, too. “I plan loved and spoiled Hurley like he was human.” to drive my car until the wheels fall off because I’m a saver, not a spender,” Jenny states. She doesn’t need to Jenny has been with Liz Moore & Associates since do a lot of paid advertising since she finds that most of 2007, her entire real estate career. When Jenny first her business comes from referrals. “Lucky for me, I’m earned her license at 22, she immediately interviewed a people person and came to the business with my own with another company and thought she would be happy extensive sphere from the building trade.” there. Someone suggested she give Liz Moore’s Newport News-based company a try before signing with anyone It wasn’t easy for a 22 year-old to gain the trust of else. At this point, the business had only been in established business people when Jenny began her existence for three years and Jenny wasn’t familiar with career. Once she proved herself to be knowledgeable and the name. “I thought I might as well do it, since there dependable, it got easier and she recently reached the was nothing to lose, so I called Donna Moyer, the goal of becoming a Rainmaker, an agent in the top 10% broker, and made an appointment. of Liz Moore’s large, elite sales force. One might think the real estate market would not be as lively in 2020, “When I walked through the office door, I was but that would be incorrect. “We are busier than ever, immediately struck with how pretty everything was. It way ahead of 2019 at this point,” Jenny Edgerton says was so nice!” There was a cafe adjacent, a beautiful desk with a big smile. “Who knows? Maybe I’ll be fortunate out front, and she soon saw a dedicated training room enough to be a Rainmaker this year, too!” and real offices, not cubicles. Everything was carefully





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Congratulations, Jenny!