About Savvy Seattle Women

Our Mission Statement:

Savvy Seattle Women (SSW) is a network of local professional women who offer their time and expertise to help other women become self-sufficient homeowners. We strive to be a reliable source of easily accessible and trustworthy information concerning home ownership, providing no-cost workshops, online support and professional referrals.

With the exception of the Board, membership in the network is informal. Resources are offered free of charge as a way of introducing our professional services while supporting the goal of home ownership for women.

Our Genesis:

In January of 2010, I came across the website www.WomenHomeowners.com (now defunct). The site’s founder, Ginny Meese, proposed an innovative idea for encouraging home ownership for women.  She suggested creating teams of professional women, lead by real estate brokers, in services industries related to home ownership such as lenders, landscapers, contractors, attorneys, etc. Each team would be registered with their particular zip code in cities across the country. Women who visited Ginny’s website looking for assistance would then be matched up with the team in their home town. The service professionals gained an opportunity to win business by providing low or no-cost resources to women who needed the benefit of their advice.

Our History:

Ginny’s website didn’t survive, but the team I pulled together in February of 2010, did.

The original group consisted of: Sharon E. Best, Attorney at Law; Laurie Aull, Paint Contractor; Lori Richmond, Investment Broker; Diane Moorman, Stager; Kelli Strand, of Chicago Title and Insurance; and Alice Kuder (me), Realtor.