I have done 2 home loans with them & a re-finance. Excellent service & highly recommend. Asked for…read moreBen.

Preston was excellent to work with. From our first phone call he knowledgeable, efficient, and…read morereliable. He was able to jump right into the details, help us validate our financial plan, and immediately advise us on the next steps. No unnecessary fluff. He was very accessible, quick to respond, and always answered my calls. He got us locked in at a good rate on our loan with no issues along the way. After closing, he even took my kids up for a personal flight over Northern Colorado to spot our new home from the air! The perks of Ascend thank you Preston!

5 stars isn't enough! Preston went above and beyond to help…read moreus secure our mortgage at a great rate in these crazy home-buying times! He consistently checked in with us for almost a year as we searched and searched for our perfect house. He is patient, knowledgeable, honest and kind and was always available for us for anything we needed. We will never call anyone else for any future needs and can't recommend, or thank him, enough!

Mark was very informative, kind and thorough in explaining all our mortgage options! I was pleased…read morewith his professionalism. I also appreciated that he wore a mask during the pandemic.

Mark and his team are the personification of professionalism! My recent mortgage transaction was…read morebeyond expectation and I couldn't recommend them more. From start to finish, Mark was attentive to our goals, time horizon and budget and he went the extra mile to get me into the best loan for my situation as a small business owner. I'm a customer for life!

We couldn't have had a better experience buying a house. Courtney was incredibly helpful and…read morethorough every step of the way! I couldn't imagine buying a house without her. She made sure we didn't settle for a house that wasn't anything less than perfect for what we wanted.

We absolutely loved working with Brad Sawatzky to purchase our new home. When we were buying, the…read morereal estate market was crazy hot, so getting up-to-date listings, and quickly viewing new houses on the market, was really important. Brad was a rockstar in both of these areas. He also recommended an awesome lender at our bank, and had excellent communication throughout the buying experience (we pretty much pummeled him with text messages...and he didn't mind a bit). And, while getting ready to list our older house, we needed to do some fixes and repairs, and Brad had great recommendations for service guys when we needed them. I would definitely work with him, and recommend him to friends and family, again!

Marcus has always been more than helpful and always positive in any situation. He has helped locate…read moreoffices for the business I work for at the drop of a hat. He has complete confidence without any ego. He is always interested in the client first. Thank you so much for being a class act and asset to our community!!!

Marcus is one of the finest business person's I have had the pleasure to work with. He knows his…read morestuff and he is well-informed and always takes the client in mind. He knows the area and the real estate market better than most. I know I can trust Marcus in my real estate transactions and that he will protect me as the client. I highly recommend Marcus and will continue to use him in my real estate investments and personal use. He is a fine person, businessman, family man, and great guy. If you need real estate advice, Sales, and or help he is the guy to choose in northern Colorado! Give Marcus a try and you will not be disappointed.

WHO'S EXCITED TO TALK ABOUT HOME MORTGAGES????…read more Yea me neither. In fact, anything bank related is kinda grey-matter, dull and boring. There's quite a few things you can complain about banks: Another place you have to wait in line. They chain down the pens. They don't like giving away free money. But when we went shopping for a pre-qualification on our first home loan, we went with who we already banked with: Wells Fargo. And they did not disappoint. Well, the local guy didn't anyway. Our local loan specialist was really friendly, easy to work with and let us know when we needed to get him stuff by and when he received it. Robert Micek - 100% A+ It was the jackass underwriter in Minneapolis that didn't have a damn clue. He wanted us to keep resending docs over and over again when he already had them - faxed and mailed originals. He'd call us multiple times before deadlines and say we were short on liquid cash when we weren't. Numerous headaches, heart palpitations, and wishes to cause him physical harm later, he finally got everything done but told us that "it was a rush job from the start and they were going as fast as possible to get everything turned around." Bullsh!t - we sent all our stuff in days before deadline and were always available to sign something and fax it back at a moments notice. It was the MPLS office that didn't know what was happening here in Colorado, THE ENTIRE TIME, that didn't make it possible for us to close six days earlier than we could have. I could go on about how much of a schmuck this guy is and how much he sucks at his job, but I won't. I got my loan, and I got my house. WFHM is a great company that is easy to work with, and I highly recommend them for anyone that already banks with them or is shopping for a loan. Just save yourself the mental anguish and INSIST they run the paperwork thru the Denver office.

We just closed our home purchase. It was not without the professional assistance of David Yoos and…read morehis team! We had a 25 day close and David and his team got it done. They were communicative, informative and very consultative. We never waited more than 15 minutes for a response to an email - and that includes Friday nights and weekends. I highly recommend David and his team!

Steve Baker and the Greeley Sears Real Estate Team helped us sell our Greeley home faster than we…read morecould have imagined at the price we wanted! On a Tuesday we interviewed four real estate agents from Northern Colorado and Steve Baker was one of the four. Steve was the only agent actually in Greeley and the other four were from other Northern Colorado cities including Windsor, Loveland, and Fort Collins. On Thursday of that same week, we informed Steve Baker that we wanted him and his team to help us sell our home. We picked Steve because of the depth of his knowledge and presence in the Greeley Real Estate market. His depth of historical and current knowledge of what has sold, what was selling and what was on the current market in our specific area was absolutely amazing. He advised us that his marketing campaign for our property would include open houses, giving tours to other agents from other companies, producing the color brochures for the realty sign in the front yard, interior pictures, and virtual staging of the interior of our empty house. After giving him the news that we wanted him to sell our house on that Thursday, he gave local real estate agents a tour of the property on the next day (Friday) and he hosted the first open house on that Saturday! There were a number of showings during the week, and he had another open house at the property the next weekend. As he was concluding the second open house on that second Saturday an interested couple toured the home and indicated interest in the property. That couple made a full-price, cash-offer the next day! That was the second Sunday after the house was listed! There were details to work out, there were inspections and things to address and lots of communication between the realtors. Steve did a great job of keeping us informed of what was going on and had a current list of craftspeople to help with the issues to be addressed. We signed with Steve on Thursday, November 7th, and closed on Monday, December 9th, with the Thanksgiving holiday causing some delays and postponements! We have recommended Steve and his team to our friends and would not hesitate to contact him again if we have more real estate issues in the area. We offer a very big THANK YOU to Steve Baker and his Sears Realty Real Estate firm including his son Seth Baker and Rhonda Towle. Thank you! Mary and Les.

Sold our house in under a week and for more than asking priceread more

Buyers and Investors STAY CLEAR of 'NoCo Invest' and Brad Weed and Jake Adams, partners in the…read morecompany NoCo Invest, located in Fort Collins. They buy properties, renovate them, and then list them for sale. Both Brad Weed and Jake Adams are realtors with Home Smart, so stay away from both of them if you need a real estate agent. Brad Weed has authored a few books which prospective buyers should read to gain insight into the mission of NoCo Invest. The book is written for sellers, but buyers can get a preview of what kind of shenanigans they're in for if they deal with NoCo Invest and Brad Weed and Jake Adams. Here's a sample of Brad Weed's philosophy in his book entitled , "The Secrets of Wealthy Home Sellers": First ; "How to negotiate like Donald Trump to Make More Money" and second "Dodging Annoying Details", but read on, it gets worse... There are plenty more lessons on how to cheat a buyer "to make more money". Conducting business with these con artists was like dealing with a couple of snake oil salesmen, or maybe like dealing with The Donald himself! The experience was an adventure into deceit and outright lies. Neither Brad Weed nor partner Jake Adams are men of their word in any circumstance. What one says the other denies; what is promised one day, vanishes the next because they are "Saturated with all the requests made after inspection." They threatened to block our calls when presented with questions after the inspection. They argued with neighbors near their construction site and left the site a smelly unsightly mess. They ignore major faults in their construction, such as blocked attic and crawl space vents and mold to name a few. I have pictures attached. When a buyer's inspector finds faults that need attention; they refuse to fix them and invite the BUYER to back out of the contract with an offer to return half of their earnest money. Their objective is to put it back on the market for a higher price. Their subs will tell you not to trust them and at least one of them won't work for them again. Some subs were not paid until after closing which made their declaration at closing fraudulent. In reality; your new renovated home will likely have many unfinished items, like a range hood hooked up to electric, but not fully assembled, no bathroom hardware, half-finished landscaping, untrimmed stucco work, a sagging porch ceiling, exposed nails, and eave's troughs clogged with rotted tree debris, a chain in place of an eaves trough, and about 60 sq feet of an addition to the home, promised, as part of the asking price but that was never built. There were two properties in Denver they bought in the Hale Mayfair neighborhood on Dahlia and Forest. But look for their banner on future properties "NoCo Invest" with a phrase about 'IMPROVING COMMUNITIES' - What a BLATANT LIE and this is where their trail of lies starts! STAY CLEAR! It is only a matter of time until their UNETHICAL BUSINESS PRACTICES will come back to bite them, but in the meantime DO NOT get involved with these two and their unscrupulous company.

This was our 3rd time going through the home buying process. Jake made it the easiest one yet! From…read morescheduling multiple showings around our schedule, all the way to closing. He was very knowledgeable about the process and answered all our questions! Jake helped us make the best, most competitive offer and he kept us informed every step of the way.