The Brenner Team

Chris Brenner

Chris Brenner has a degree in fire science with an emphasis on building construction. He spent 26 years serving the Ann Arbor community as a fire fighter. He retired from the fire service as Assistant Chief of the Ann Arbor Fire Department in 2006 and now works part-time in fire safety at the University of Michigan. He brings a tremendous knowledge of construction and the Ann Arbor area to his job as a Realtor. Chris has a vast body of contacts in the area. If you need anything in the course of selling your home, Chris will know someone who can help!

Julia Brenner

Julia Brenner attended Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism before transferring to the University of Michigan, where she earned a BA in English and Creative Writing. She spent 20 years in internet marketing before going into real estate full-time. Given her internet marketing experience, you can look forward to beautifully edited listing photos, skillfully composed descriptions of your property, gorgeous marketing pieces, and top-notch internet exposure for your listing.

Our Motto

Our motto is “You get what you give in life,” which makes us eager to help others in any way we can. We aim to treat every one of our clients as we would a dear family member.

We get tremendous pleasure and satisfaction from exceeding every client’s expectations. How do we do that? We believe it starts with great communication. If you call, text or email us, you will always hear back from us in less than 24 hours; unless it’s the middle of the night, 95% of the time, you’ll hear back from us within minutes. We also believe that it is of paramount importance to talk less and listen more, to truly hear you and understand what is most important to you.

While we take your real estate transaction very seriously, we also believe that buying and/or selling a home can be a really fun and pleasurable experience. It’s exciting to look for a new home, and equally exciting to get a call with a great offer when your house is listed on the market. While taking care to protect your legal and financial interests at all times, we also strive to make your real estate transaction as stress-free and pleasurable as possible.

Working with us means that you have more than a full-time agent; you’ve got a dedicated team on duty seven days a week. We love working in real estate mainly because of all the wonderful people we get to meet; we take tremendous pleasure in doing a fantastic job for the friends we make in new clients.

Our Code of Ethics

We always do what we say we will do.

We give others the blessing of our full attention. We demonstrate this by always responding in a timely, thoughtful manner.

We exude humble gratefulness for the opportunity to be of service.

We always treat others as we would want to be treated. We always put love and people before money and personal gain.

We are without fail honest, ethical, friendly, understanding and enthusiastic.

We give the best of ourselves to everyone we meet. We know that to get the best from life, we must give the best within us every day and in every way.

We trust above all in the power of love. We know that when we simply act from love and kindness, blessings are sure to follow.