Ashley McClary Lic. RE Salesperson

“I just love houses.”

Ashley McClary is a woman with vision. She can see past what’s there to know what could be. How beautiful it could be.

Ashley grew up in Fabius, New York, near Syracuse, and studied health and information technology at Onondaga Community College. While in college, she worked her way through at the famous Dinosaur Bar-B-Que—as the hostess, on the stand up front with the microphone. She built her confidence on that stand, in front of a full restaurant, honing her skills in customer service, patience, and working as part of a team. “If only every restaurant could run like that,” says Ashley, who also learned about structure, orders of operation, planning ahead, and the necessity of adapting when things don’t go as planned.

Sounds like she was training to be a Realtor.

“I was keeping the lions at bay.”

Ashley worked in health care in administration and billing until 2012, with a side hustle as a house cleaner extraordinaire. She likes neat and she likes clean. Her subsequent move to Trumansburg in 2014 brought her to the Ithaca area, and in 2016 she purchased her home in Newfield. Her large cleaning business continued to thrive, and she left her positions at Collegetown Bagels and Gola Osteria as her referral business continued to grow to full-time work. She formed an LLC and hired staff to work with her.

A twist of fate answering a Craigslist ad for hay to feed her goats brought Ashley to the Snow Farm in Caroline, and the rest, shall we say, is history. Love at first sight, the whole nine yards. Ashley moved to the farm in 2020, becoming a super host on AirBNB with her Newfield home.

After the birth of her daughter, Jeannie, in 2021, Ashley sold her Newfield home and took a step back. Regrouped. Rebuilt her cleaning business.

“I was always going on Realtor.com to see what’s on the market and how much it’s selling for, and my partner’s mom asked if I ever thought of getting my license?”

A chance meeting with a Realtor to clean a house that reeked of animals was all it took. Ashley brought the house back to life and made her decision. She got her license within 6 months.

What excites her about real estate? “Everything! Helping people find the home where they’ll raise their family, where they’ll come home to rest, where they’ll make memories.”

Smart. Kind. Thoughtful. A good listener. Everything you want in your Realtor. Call Ashley. She’s ready to go!