Knowledgeable and Professional Tallahassee Real Estate Agents

Being a Tallahassee Realtor is the Best Job Ever!

We live in one of the most beautiful places on earth. The skies are blue and the weather is gorgeous for ten months of the year! We have tormented our families for years with photos of us on the beach for Thanksgiving and Christmas, so much so, that they are now moving here one by one (out of the snow) as they retire.

In our big bend area of Florida, we have lots of the benefits of living in Florida and few of the drawbacks. The Tallahassee area does have seasons AND abundant sunshine, and we have times where you need to wear a sweatshirt/jacket outside, but we do not have a huge number of tourists or hurricanes directly targeting us (often). Some of the most beautiful beaches in the world are less than an hour away, along with a few dog friendly options too.

Why I Love Tallahassee…

Speaking of dog friendly, many places will allow you to bring fur babies with you. We have two mastiff mixes (Boerbols) and a Staffordshire Terrier mix. We have saved all our animals from the streets. If you are looking for things to do with your pets, several local restaurants have outdoor seating. Parks allow you to bring well behaved and leashed pets. There are even several pet beauty contests for locals to enter every year. There are dog parks around the city too! As Tallahassee real estate agents, we get around town!!

One thing we miss from my Ohio roots are shopping malls and stores. We don’t have a lot of shopping malls or strip malls.  Publix is the best grocery store ever though. There are boutique shops in clusters for easy exploration usually with places to walk too. Check out Midtown, and the Railroad Square District.  More posts will be coming soon about shopping in Tallahassee!

Tallahassee has a lot to offer!

Some visitors complain that the beach is 35 miles away. That drive to the beach from Tallahassee, is about 45 minutes. We’ve visited the beach in south Florida when we have traveled. While the beaches are physically closer, they are still about 45 minutes away with all that traffic. Just to be clear, we have one of the most gorgeous beaches on the planet an hour and fifteen minutes away from the Florida capital. (Google St. George Island and marvel at the super soft sugar sand.) That’s like the equivalent to a ride to Starbucks down the street in Miami – right? We have great food, locally grown and caught, and LOTS of outdoor activities with nine months of comfortable camping weather.

As Tallahassee Real Estate Agents, we have created this site to share our beautiful city and the surrounding area. We also want to provide Real Estate information relevant to Tallahassee and north Florida. We trust you find this information useful and when it comes time for you to buy or sell a home in the Tallahassee area, you will contact us. Another reason for our website is because a lot of our local business owners have been devastated by the loss of revenue during the pandemic. We will take this space to promote locally owned businesses and events. If you have a favorite local business, park, festival, or person – let us know! We are always looking for new material!

A Little Bit About My Background as Tallahassee Realtor and Florida Real Estate Agent

Image of Tallahassee Realtor Abbe Flynn.

Abbe Flynn, Tallahassee Realtor

I have Tallahassee real estate agent since 2013. Prior to that I worked for the FDLE, Department of Corrections and then Department of Management Services negotiating contracts on Florida’s behalf. That includes complicated multimillion – dollar prisons. (Just for the record, I think there are some things we should not profit off as a society and inmates would be on my list. However, it was a fascinating job that taught me a ton!) I grew up the youngest of five on a farm in Ohio and negotiating was a survival skill I learned early. Really, I had to learn leverage at a young age. If I hadn’t, my hands might have shriveled up permanently from the number of dishes we had to wash…LOL.

My undergraduate degrees are from Kent State University in Ohio. After college, I came to the south for graduate school to study and teach Criminology at FSU. I got on a plane in Cleveland on a wintery February day. When I got off the plane to check out FSU, it was 73 degrees with blue skies. Having worked on my Ph.D. and love (and miss) the research and teaching aspects of university life.

After graduate school, I worked for the Department of Corrections in their statistics office, grant writing office, and re-entry office. From there I went to the Department of Management Services where I worked both in the Private Prison Bureau and in State Purchasing as a public buyer.

How I became a Tallahassee Real Estate Agent

In 2013, I finally took the leap my husband kept encouraging me to take and got my Real Estate license. As an introvert, I could not imagine a life in sales. Like most things, I read everything I could about sales while diving in headfirst. I am glad I did. Owning my own business and working for myself has been life changing and the most rewarding career I could have imagined. I seriously have the best job ever.