Carrie Benuska Leinen

Carrie Benuska Leinen

REALTOR®

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Carrie Benuska Leinen has been selling residential real estate for 17 years and has helped a long list of happy clients accomplish their goals. Her career was built and grown in the San Gabriel Valley of Southern California, where she was an award-winning Real Estate Agent and was blessed to sell some truly special architectural homes. After a move to Austin, Carrie continues to help both buyers and sellers with their important transactions. She loves to share her cross-country move experience with buyers moving to the area.

Carrie’s educational background is in Industrial Engineering, which is the study of efficiency and productivity. She has been able to take these skills and apply them to the art of real estate sales. She spent years creating processes and systems to bring consistency to the home sale process. Her love of statistics and data analytics allows her to dig deep into market conditions.

Carrie has been buying and fixing up homes her whole adult life, which is what drew her to get her real estate license. She is a home renovation junky and a lover of beautiful design. Her work with home sellers goes far beyond making a space look pretty, though. Her focus is always on making improvements that will translate to profits when it comes time to sell. Carrie uses this experience to help her clients get their own homes ready for sale. Advanced studies in Interior Design and Interior Architecture have given her added knowledge and tools to bring to her clients.

Carrie and her husband love to travel, even if it is a day trip on their Harley. She also enjoys Pickleball, antiquing, and getting out into nature. She is a football fanatic and roots for the Green Bay Packers, the Horned Frogs, and of course our Longhorns.

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Carrie is a powerhouse of knowledge, ability, and energy. From beginning to end she is working to achieve the best result for her client. I called Carrie following my sister's passing, she stepped right up connecting me with solid advice and direction. What could have been a very complicated Probate Sale turned out to be a painless, quick, and very successful process.

— Seller

Carrie is the best! My husband and I just bought our first home and Carrie went above and beyond to help us! She was always available, took her time explaining everything to us, and was incredibly knowledgeable about the housing market. She knows the “good” parts of each neighborhood, which neighborhoods are “up and coming” and she ultimately found the perfect street for us. She is honest and truly wants...

— Buyer

We could not have been more pleased with Carrie's responsiveness to all of our concerns and with the spectacular result in the sale of our home. From the time we signed the listing to the date we opened escrow was a mere 15 days. The marketing of our home was next to perfect. Carrie gave very useful advice on preparing our home to be shown. The open house process was flawless and was completed with a min...

— Seller

Carrie was fantastic! The time came to sell my mother's home and Carrie was recommended to us, it couldn't have been a better referral. She was easy to work with, great and frequent communications and we go almost 20% more than our asking price! Selling a home is not something I do on daily basis, like hardly ever, and so I followed most of Carrie’s recommendations with regards to updating the interior/e...

— Seller

As empty nesters, we finally decided the time was right to downsize. Carrie was our agent and we are so happy we chose her. She helped us through the stressful negotiation process of both buying and selling. Her advice, communication skills, and experience in the market helped us sell our house for a figure I hoped for but was doubtful we could achieve. We highly recommend Carrie!

— Susan B.

Real Estate Agent Extraordinaire! We were out-of-town buyers and needed someone with inside expertise. My husband recalled her column in the local San Marino newspaper and said let's try her! Responsive, personal, tireless, determined but mostly, wise. We endured a couple of disappointments and due to her intuitive and honest opinions of our circumstances, we now have the perfect home for us! Carrie, we ...

— Buyer

Carrie helped our family look for and find the perfect home! She took the time to share with us specific homes in specific neighborhoods that she knew we would find attractive because she took the time to listen to exactly what we we were looking for. She was patient when we had troubles with our lender and actually even gave us a few other options (although it ultimately became unnecessary) to procure o...

— Sean D.

Carrie did a fantastic job for us in buying a loft downtown. She found exactly what we wanted and helped us get the right price! She worked with us closely throughout the process. She is a joy to work with. We highly recommend her.

— Buyer

Carrie has represented my wife and me for over 8 years on three separate transactions and each was carried out flawlessly to our satisfaction. Carrie is very responsive, and innovative, and always has our best interest in mind. She was professional and used her experience in negotiations as we purchased and sold properties in down and up markets - all of which were done on time and closed without any iss...

— Buyer

Carrie helped me and my husband find our first home in Los Angeles. We had just moved back from New York and were looking to buy a home. We looked all over the LA area. West LA, Miracle Mile, and then Downtown LA. She was very helpful and knowledgeable about all the areas. She ended up finding us a beautiful brand-new loft in Downtown LA that we fell in love with. Carrie is very responsive, and helpful, ...

— Stellie

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