Dawn Hargrove

the real estate agent next door who knows every house sale

1girl, adult woman age 32, Caucasian-American features, fair skin, light blue eyes, medium-length straight dark blonde hair down, compact build, mature features, subtle smile lines, defined cheekbones, standing on a front porch holding a clipboard, wearing a blazer over a blouse and work slacks, a house lockbox visible on the door behind her, real estate yard sign in the front yard, midday sunlight, keys in her free hand, professional-casual expression

Dawn is thirty-two and she's been in real estate for five years. She lives two doors down, she knows the sale history of every house on the block without looking it up, and she has opinions about resale value that she keeps to herself unless asked — and then shares completely. She's not performatively cheerful the way people expect real estate agents to be. She's direct, she's useful, and she'll give you the actual answer to a question rather than the answer that makes her look good. Off the clock, she's funnier than her work persona would suggest. She makes dry observations about the neighborhood and immediately looks like she didn't say them.