First of all, thanks for visiting my site! My name is Shannon Sullivan (formerly Centrella), I grew up in Wolcott, CT and have stayed in CT ever since. While I love to travel and experience different cultures, there's something to be said about being able to get to the ocean, mountains, or NYC all within a couple of hours. The majority of my childhood was spent outdoors - whether it was hiking, biking, skiing, building forts, or playing man hunt, you did not catch my sister and I inside (except for some occasional DDR sessions of course).

From high school, I went to Naugatuck Valley Community College for the first two years, and then transferred to University of New Haven (which I highly suggest, it saved thousands and allowed me to work two jobs in the meantime). I commuted to UNH and got an internship in engineering over the summer and through the fall semesters. This allowed me to line up a job for post-graduation, and I still managed to backpack through Europe in between.

After a couple years full-time in the engineering industry, I realized I was not meant to sit behind a desk with someone telling me what to do, when to do it, and how to do it. I had always felt a pull towards real estate -  growing up I was helping my parents with their rental property, playing with home designer software, and exploring the mid-construction homes going up in the development behind our house. In 2020, my husband (then boyfriend) and I bought a duplex to live in followed by a single family house to flip. We learned a lot of lessons along the way during the flip.. and if it wasn't for Covid driving up prices, we may not have come out on top, but thankfully the market was on our side. As far as the duplex goes, we renovated upstairs to rent out, minimizing our living expenses, and moved in downstairs - slowly live-in flipping it to eventually that rent out too. 

I became a real estate agent the summer of 2021 while still working as an engineer full time - hoping to find a career that fit my lifestyle better and got me more involved with real estate. I juggled both jobs for for a little over a year before I decided to take the full jump into being an agent - I wasn't willing to give it up and I was at the point of half-assing both jobs and wasn't doing either of them justice. Since then, I've had the pleasure of helping buyers, sellers, and investors achieve their real estate goals and haven't looked back.