474 Serpentine Dr

Lynne Perlmutter

Around Tryon Properties

Lynne's answer is always the same: "Okay. I've got you. Let's talk through it." Twenty-five years in real estate will do that to you. Not just selling houses — appraising them, analyzing them as investments, managing them for out-of-town owners, coordinating the messy, complicated sales that other agents don't quite know how to handle. Lynne has done all of it, long enough that very little surprises her anymore and almost nothing stumps her. She came to real estate the long way around. Before this, she worked in public television, financial PR, publishing, and film — a career built entirely around understanding people, telling stories, and figuring out what actually matters in a situation. That background shaped how she works. She doesn't just see a property. She sees the family behind it, the decision they're facing, and the fastest, most sensible path through. She's licensed in NC, SC, and Florida. She speaks Spanish, French, and Portuguese. She studied at Vanderbilt, the University of Paris, and the University of Florida. She has spent a quarter century learning exactly how Tryon's market works — and why it works so differently from everywhere else. But credentials only tell part of the story. The rest of it is this: Lynne is the person who walks through a cluttered house with an overwhelmed family and calmly figures out what's worth fixing and what isn't. Who calls the right estate sale company. Who coordinates the repairs, the staging, the pricing, the marketing — and gets it sold for the best possible number. She has helped families close on estate properties without ever having to make an emergency flight to Tryon. She's helped clients in Costa Rica and Europe make major financial decisions about property they couldn't be there to see. She once negotiated two simultaneous closings at the same price, on the same day, because it was the only way to make both transactions work — and she did it. She calls herself a fixer. Her clients might use stronger words. If you're facing something complicated — an estate, a decision between selling and renting, a property that needs more than just a listing — Lynne is exactly who you want to call.