Trying to find your perfect retirement home is not an easy proposition. Trying to find your perfect realtor to help you find your perfect retirement home can be just as tough or tougher. Where do you look, who do you ask? We were heading to Florida and needed both; the perfect town, development and home and the perfect realtor to help us. Luckily for us the internet offered us 55places.com and thru them we found Joe Hayden. We gave him a call, explained what we were looking for and when we would be in Venice. He picked us up a few days later at our hotel and proceeded to give us the most detailed tour of Venice, Florida imaginable. It was really an amazing 3 days. We had found the perfect realtor. Someone who really, really knew the town, the individual communities within the town and could explain the benefits and merits of each. Even more important, a professional who could understand and interpret what we were telling him that we were looking for. The ideal community that we ourselves hadn’t even quite completely figured out for ourselves. Joe Hayden listened, interpreted, and helped us find the perfect house in the perfect community and we will be forever grateful. We have worked with a few realtors over the years and Joe is in a class all by himself, a Master Realtor!