Epperson joins Homestead Realty

by Jurri Schenck

Tatum Epperson is a new real estate agent in Thermopolis and works at Homestead Realty. Epperson has been licensed since 2015 when she lived in Kansas City, Missouri. 

Regarding her motivation and experience said, "I am following in the footsteps of my grandma and my mom, which my grandma got licensed in like 1973. So combined we have like over 50 years of real estate background. I just feel like I have some fresh, fresh ideas for this town and for property owners."

Epperson described her focus on marketing properties and said, "A lot of people that are moving here are coming from out of state. People shop online. Starts with photos right there, staging photos, and marketing. I know that not everybody loves that, but it's kind of a new generation of people buying and selling houses. And I just feel like it's important to meet the needs of those buyers perfectly."

Epperson and her family moved to Thermopolis on Memorial Day 2022. She has four children, two in elementary school and the others in high school and middle school. Epperson said that their transition here and her children in the school has been "really good."

Epperson added, "I see great potential in the town. I know that there are a lot of people who don't want change, and I'm not really necessarily saying I want to change, but I think that everything has to change at some point. You just have to do it methodically. I feel like there's great potential in the town. I feel like the people here are really great, the ones that we have met. I feel like the teachers at the schools really love their jobs, which is something that we were not used to."

Epperson describes herself as an older Millennial and said what she offers as a real estate agent are "communication, customer service, professionalism, being able to help with staging, if the client chooses it, being able to offer professional photography, which is huge, and something that I see as not being utilized here because these Millennials are shopping online, they see these pictures. Well, a picture kind of makes it or breaks it. I feel like I have a lot of contacts here that I have made being here for a short amount of time. So it's just a matter of networking, marketing, there's a lot of things that have to come together to make a real estate agent really serve the customer well."

Epperson also works in the school lunchroom and made a commitment to the students. She said, "I personally want to help the community, help the kids. So every transaction that is closed, every home or every listing that has sold, every buyer that closes, I'm donating $100 to the Hot Springs County School District to go towards lunch funds."

Tatum Epperson can be reached at Homestead Realty 864-4488 or on cell phone 816-405-3534 and at tepperson@homesteadbrokers.com.