Koebbe served in the military for 24 years, including fighting in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. He said he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, so when he decided to buy a house in the area he wanted to “make the transition easy, because I don’t deal with stress very well.”
He asked his brother Steve Koebbe, who owns Koebbe Auto Tech in Liberty Twp., to recommend an honest realtor, and was referred to Huff Realty Senior Sales Vice President Scot Avery.
According to Koebbe, “Scot’s dedication to me was unfailing,” and he did a lot of research and “backend work” to make the search process as easy as possible.
With Avery’s help, Koebbe found a house in Liberty Twp. that had recently been remodeled but still fell within Koebbe’s price range, making it seem, according to Avery, “too good to be true.”
In a way, it was.
After Koebbe bought the house, he discovered some problems with the house’s heating and cooling system, and went back to Avery for help. Avery referred him to another businessman in his network, Tri-State Heating and Cooling President Keith Adams.
Adams said that he “likes to hire veterans,” including the technician who visited Koebbe’s new home, and knows about “some of the struggles that they can be faced with throughout their life, so I always try to make sure that they I am very aware of things that are going on with the veterans.”
After assessing the house, Koebbe said, Adams repaired the air conditioning at “minimum to no cost.”
Koebbe doesn’t think that he would have “had the rapport or the trust that I had working with these guys” with other professionals. Thanks to the honesty and integrity he recognized them for, Koebbe and his black lab are now happily settled into their new home.
Koebbe presented each of the men recently with plaques, thanking them for “Supporting & Honoring Veterans,” complete with a picture of a bald eagle in front of an American flag.
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