Abbe Flynn Real Estate LLC

We have tormented our families for years with photos of us on the beach for Thanksgiving and Christmas, so much so that they are moving here one by one (out of the snow) as they retire. In our big bend area of Florida, we have lots of benefits of living in Florida and few drawbacks. The Tallahassee area does have seasons AND abundant sunshine, and we have times when you need to wear a sweatshirt/jacket outside. Still, we do not have a vast number of tourists or hurricanes directly targeting us (often). Some of the most beautiful beaches in the world are less than an hour away, along with a few dog-friendly options too.

I have negotiated residential Real Estate in Tallahassee since 2013. Prior to that, I worked for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the Department of Corrections, and the Department of Management Services. I negotiated contracts on Florida’s behalf – including complicated multimillion-dollar prisons. (Just for the record, there are some things we should not profit off as a society and inmates would be on my list. However, it was a fascinating job that taught me a ton!) I grew up the youngest of five on a farm in Ohio and negotiating was a survival skill I learned early. Really, if I had not learned about leverage at a young age, my hands might have shriveled up permanently from the number of dishes we had to wash as a family…LOL.

My undergraduate degrees are from Kent State University in Ohio. After college, I came to the south for graduate school to study and teach Criminology at FSU. I got on a plane in Cleveland on a wintry February day and when I got off the plane in Tallahassee it was 73 degrees with blue skies. I worked on my Ph.D. and love (and miss) the research and teaching aspects of university life.

After graduate school, I worked for the Department of Corrections in their statistics office, grant writing office, and re-entry office. From there I went to the Department of Management Services where I worked both in the Private Prison Bureau and in State Purchasing as a public buyer.

In 2013, I finally took the leap my husband kept encouraging me to take and got my Real Estate license. As such an introvert, I could not imagine a life in sales. Like most things, I read everything I could about sales while diving in headfirst. I am glad I did. Owning my own business and working for myself has been life-changing and the most rewarding career I could have imagined. I seriously have the best job ever.