Jim Derentis is the best.

Noah Donnelly is pretty awesome and answers a lot of questions you didn’t know to ask! We enjoyed him a lot!

Hi, just curious, what neighborhoods would you recommend? I am in the West End currently and my neighborhood is a straight up dumpster fire.

thanks he looks great!

thank you!!

Joe Roch from Residential properties. He sold our house and helped is buy something else. Super professional, patient, and helpful.

Larry Pierce helped me buy a duplex in North Providence and then sell it several years later. He was incredibly patient with me and very informative on all things that need to be considered. He’s also been doing this for a long time so he has a lot of useful connects. I’d feel bad if I didn’t shout him out because he did so well for my weirdo self.

Really? I live on the West End and adore it! Loads of cute stores, good food, nice park, etc. What don't you like?

I can't say enough things about Ben Guglielmi (and Mott & Chace Sotheby's International Realty in Prov generally)! We bought a house with him this Fall and he was super helpful in explaining everything to us (first time home owners) and also got us a lot off the price in credits for things we would never know to ask for.

Well I don't live in the best part of it then I guess. I'm off broad St by the high school. Almost daily I see homeless people checking the door handles for unlocked cars to loot.

thank you!! we will be first time home owners as well so this is super helpful :)

Fair enough—it's a BIG area I suppose and almost feels like it has a few different sub-neighborhoods. I'm close to the Armory which has been quite nice!

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+1 for Joe, especially for the Fed Hill/Armory neighborhood!

Also, you're right as well. There is a lot of great stuff around here. It's really just a lack of security and peace of mind.

Cara Chimpigny is the absolute GOAT. She was on it day and night with our house hunt. We were on a time crunch and trying to buy in early 2021 which was a nightmare but she was a dream!

Came here to mention Joe Roch!

That area has also been HEAVILY gentrified via the WBNA. Never saw a neighborhood organization so intent on controlling what businesses establish themselves as the WBNA does.

Dave Hasslinger was fantastic to work with.

I live in Elmhurst. It’s pretty quiet over here. You have to avoid the streets with PC students, but other than that you’re golden.

Totally agree on this—I find their approach very offputting.

If you're off Broad Street, your n'hood is most likely either Elmwood or Upper South, not West End.

Seems like an odd take. Gentrification is a complex outcome. It started with mafia control over the area, where they didn't allow non-whites to move across Cranston Street. That's what kept the neighborhoods segregated at first. Later, preservationists and DIYers who wanted a project fixed up housing that was largely abandoned or burned out. WBNA was organized by old timers (yes, all white probably) trying to keep their neighborhood from literally burning down. Real estate values then did their thing. Whether you like what WBNA is doing now doesn't mean they are to blame for everything that has happened in the last 50 years.

Joe is really good. As is Jane Driver who works in the same office. She's got tons of experience with Armory/Fed Hill and Elmwood.

Rachael Dotson is AMAZING I love her! So much!