About Way Out West
Meet Suzanne Hickox
A career spanning more than three decades has taught Suzanne that the right home is about far more than a transaction.
Suzanne Hickox leads Way Out West Realty — Way Out West CO, Inc. dba WOW Realty — with honest advice and highly personal service.
She has seen the work as an investor, a broker, an institutional asset manager, and now as an advisor — the property, the numbers, and the people on both sides of the table.
Her Story
Seen from more than one side.
The work started with distressed properties and grew through institutional real estate. Investor, broker, asset manager, then advisor. One career — looking at a house for what it is worth, and for what it asks of the people who live there.
Biography from the previous website, with later research noted for confirmation
Experience
A long view of the work.
From the late 1980s to today — the same person, looking at real estate from more than one side of the table.
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Late 1980s
Distressed-property investing
Suzanne’s real estate career began in the late 1980s, buying distressed properties, renovating, and reselling for a profit.
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Mid-1990s
Broker’s license · residential real estate
She obtained her broker’s license in the mid-1990s. In addition to residential real estate, she spent a few years in commercial land development.
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Institutional
REO portfolio management
While at Integrated Asset Services, she managed large REO portfolios associated with Bank of America, Bear Stearns, Chase, Wilshire Capital, Ocwen, Barclay’s, smaller hedge funds, and investors — repairs, marketing, contract negotiations, and sales of distressed bank assets.
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Acquisitions
Multi-state residential acquisitions
In recent years, her attention turned to multi-state acquisitions of single-family residential properties for institutional buyers, to hold as rental investments.
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Today
Way Out West Realty
A career spanning more than three decades has not tired her of the work. Now she works directly with buyers, sellers, and investors at Way Out West Realty.
A life in Colorado, not only a practice.
The work has always sat beside other kinds of responsibility. Literacy. Families in crisis. People living with illness. The same instinct applies: listen first, then act.
She served on the Board of Directors of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Colorado Springs from 1996 to 2000, and has served on the executive boards of the Rocky Mountain MS Center and the Brink Literacy Project.
She earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of Northern Colorado.
Our Philosophy
The WOW Difference
The habit is the same whether the asset belonged to a bank or will be someone’s home: look hard, then tell the truth.
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The property itself
Distressed work and REO repairs leave a habit: look at the building — what it needs, what it will cost, what it can become — before anyone leans on the asking price.
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The numbers and the negotiation
Institutional portfolios and multi-state acquisitions are unforgiving about underwriting. That same pressure-testing is what she brings to a primary home, a sale, or an investment.
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The people in the house
None of that matters if the place does not suit the life that will be lived there. Honest counsel includes saying so.
Colorado
Local knowledge. Statewide reach.
Castle Rock is home base. Littleton, the Denver Metro, and the surrounding Front Range are the primary service area. Vail and Eagle County are active as well — including a seller’s representation at 178 Knudson Ranch Road in Edwards, sold for $1.85 million. The brokerage is not a Vail-only practice. Colorado is not one housing market.
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