I've lived on the East Coast, I've lived on the West Coast. I've lived in the Mid-West (where the…read moremanners come from) and I've lived in the North Woods where a fireplace is a good thing to be around. In Florida they got bugs so big they get expressions on their face when they see you, I also met the prettiest girl in my life down there.
Bill Miketta is the greatest real estate agent I have ever met anywhere. In fact, he has done so much in the simple exercise of selling a house, a house to me, and so much of it after the fact, when the ink is already dry on the deed, that I have to start with the latest, what he did for me this week, and work backwards. Yet to preface, I bought the house in June at retirement, and then discovered I would actually be working, in another State, until May of 2020.
This week Bill Miketta discovered my pump house had been struck so close by lightning that my motor died, and that the tank had just 8 inches water in it. He discovered this because he was there to help the security company activate my cameras on my phone up there in Vernon, where the new house is and I ain't and could not be. Bill Miketta to the rescue. I asked him if I could mail my phone to him to accommodate this not because I don't trust my own alarm company, but because I trust Bill so much and because he once again offered to help. Mind you, this is now three months since the sale of the home. When he discovered this he pulled the money to replace the pump out of his own pocket and ordered the precise item for me from the manufacturer to get it all in the works as soon as possible, and told me not to worry he'd help with the install when it got there? This has saved me at least five hundred bucks - three months after the sale of the home, in which, remember, he made his fair remuneration not from me, but from the seller. You may well ask yourself what a man of Bill's indefatigable energy might do were he the listing agent of the home and I'll tell you what I think - the very same. This is Bill Miketta's ethic; if real estate were football and you were on his team there could be no better coach, offense or defense: George Halas / Bill Miketta.
What else? Well, been at my home as I could not be for the placement of my new propane tank, secured my internet access (no small feat in Vernon), interfaced for me with all the appropriate parties, Frontier, Pioneer, Navopache, etc., service providers I had selected but had no time to interact with... helped me retain the services of a care-taker, offered to keep a UTV I bought in Show Low on his property till I move up there... went there when the pest control I engaged needed to enter my home and then when he himself found the ONLY possible entrance some party animal mice were enjoying like VIP's at Studio 54, he fit the exact piece of metal required to crash their party (no mice since - that was two months ago - a month after the ink was dry on the deed).
This may sound over the top for most realtors but it's the absolute truth where Bill Miketta is concerned. There is no way I can list all that he has done for this new guy in town so what I'd like to do is post this on social media and let Bill know if anyone calls him as a result to please give them my name and number so I can personally relay my recommendation.
I'm 65: he's the best I've ever worked with anywhere.