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T
onya Suits, a Keller Williams Cleveland Affiliate
that needed some TLC—and having the opportunity to buy,
Broker, is known for her quote, “Finding the
remodel, and sell them. They were your Chip & Joanna
Home that Suits You.” Joining Keller Williams
before Chip & Joanna were cool! Television makes these
Cleveland in October of 2016, Tonya began experiencing
projects seem so easy, but blood, sweat, and tears always
success when it came to matchmaking families to their perfect
goes into home flips. If you ever have the opportunity to
homes. As Tonya comes close to celebrating her five-year
drive through Cleveland, Charleston, or Chattanooga with
anniversary as a real estate broker, the questions are often
Tonya, every road she goes down seems to have a house
asked, “How are you so successful? and “How do you sell
she has had some kind of connection with—whether during
so many homes?” For Tonya, the answer is easy and she will
her earlier years of flipping or her current career of helping
repeat, “It’s only by God’s grace and mercy. All blessings
others buy, sell, or invest! She is also the founder of Poppeas
that I have received have been through the help of God.”
Children’s Boutique here in Cleveland, which she opened in
Then she will share Malachi 3:10-12 which begins, ‘Bring the
2007 in the Spring Creek area. When Tonya is not working,
whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my
she loves spending time with the ones she loves and
house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty.’ God is true to
cherishes the most—her family. Tonya and Perry have two
His word and when I began to follow this Scripture, the very
adult children, Aaron Suits and Britney Suits Knight, and
thing He promised started happening right before my eyes!
three children still at home, Baylie and their two twin sons,
God loves our obedience.”
Carter and Cayden.
Tonya Suits has always had an entrepreneurial spirit and
“What sparked your decision to pursue real estate from
has always enjoyed business. Throughout her lifetime, Tonya,
the sales side?” is another popular question people often ask
as well as her husband Perry Suits, enjoyed finding homes
Tonya. Tonya was talking with her greatest mentor—her
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