I was in a desperate situation last month after being turned down by other places and finding out…read moreat the last minute that I needed to move into a permanent home within two and a half weeks. It was very difficult at first to locate a place because my son is disabled and I needed a building with an elevator in a certain area. I contacted Caryn and Dave at Apartment Solutions in Naperville, Illinois. They stepped up immediately and fought so hard for me. I cannot say enough good things about this team! Dave really pushed incredibly hard to make sure everything went through. Thanks to their absolute dedication, they came through in less than two weeks with a beautiful 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom rental complete with elevator and garage parking. If you need a team that will truly go to bat for you when the pressure is on or you are looking for a team to help you find housing with dedication to your specific needs, look no further than Apartment Solutions! You guys are truly Awesome!!! Linda Young

Contacted once for initial intake and then never heard from them again. Disappointed because I was…read morereally hoping they would help!

When we were looking for our first home, my wife and I reached out to Connie Vavra, the Managing…read moreBroker with Re/max Bolingbrook. She is incredibly friendly, positive, and super knowledgeable about real estate. She'd point out features in the homes we would tour and explain why it was a pro or a con. Connie also went out of her way to get us the answers we were looking for in a timely manner. We were not easy clients. We were extremely picky and did a ton of research. We looked at topographic maps, wetness index maps and FEMA flood maps checking to see how the house does against flooding, Google earth to see what's around the area and had to make sure it was in a good area with good schools. We also had a 5 page checklist of things to look at for each room of each house and making sure we don't overlook any major flaw. Connie was extremely patient with us and our list of things to look at, she even helped out by looking at some of the maps to make sure that she could show us houses that worked with all our specifications and would live up to our high standards while staying within our budget. When we found the perfect home she was so amazing every step of the way. Every person she recommended was absolutely amazing. The mortgage lenders she recommended were extremely friendly, knowledgeable and communicative. The home inspector she recommended was extremely thorough and knowledgeable about different things around the house and had great recommendations for how to improve the house. Connie was a great asset to helping us find our first home to meet our high standards and she was very helpful across all the additional steps. We highly recommend her!!

Kelly Manfred is the best agent ever! We were a 1st time buyer who was looking for someone with…read moreexpertise in that field and Kelly was our lady. We told her all that we required and began our search. After a couple months looking we found our lovely home and couldn't be happier! We highly suggest Kelly to use as your agent....

I am getting "broker statements" that are completed for me. I have never dealt with this company…read moreand have no knowledge of any transactions. Not sure what they are up to, but I am marking as Spam and getting them out of my email.

I have had an incredibly poor experience with a broker named Darnell Porter. He lied to us, stole…read morefrom us, and committed fraud. Whatever you do, do not allow Darnell Porter to convince you that he has your best interest in mind. Do not invest any of your hard-earned money with him because he is very self-absorbed and willing to use your money irresponsibility.

Seller Beware! Read this before you sign with Rozanksi…read more Our journey with Team Rozanski started off positively but took a terrible turn. We sat down with Joe in September and wanted to try to sell our home by November. If we didn't get an offer, we'd intended to rent. He led us to believe it would be no problem and that the market dies off after Thanksgiving. The home was listed by Rozanski. They put up a sign, the pictures taken were mediocre, and they printed off some home made flyers to leave for showings. That was the extent of their services. Their only strategy to sell the home was to keep lowering the price. No mention of an open house or any leads/showings from their end. At the end of November we submitted a request to take our home off the market. Team Rozanski refused to take our listing down unless we paid a $250 cancellation fee that was not in our contract. After asking where the cancellation fee was listed in the contract, they sent several email diatribes about recouping their costs and continued to request $250 to de-list. They offered to waive the $250 fee if we would let them sell in the future or use their rental services. Felt a little like blackmail. It was a really uncomfortable situation I hope no one else has to go through. I wish they would have worked as hard to sell the home as they did to get $250 out of us. Do yourself a favor and call RedFin.

DO NOT HIRE THIS GUY JOE ROZANSKI TO BE YOUR REALTOR!!!! Me…read moreand my husband hired him last year and he did not do jack shit for us. He will not put you as a priority on his list. He will tell you what you wanna hear. He did not give us feedback on any showings he did not make an effort to sell the home. and he decided to call me on a Saturday night after he attended a company party and decided to call me while he was intoxicated and after a friend of the family which happened to be at my home and give him a piece of his mind then he decided that he did not wanna be our agent any longer because he know he was wrong by calling someone while being intoxicated!!!! he seems very professional he will tell you what you wanna hear so you can hire him but , in reality he's not a good agent he's not a go getter. So please be careful before you hire this guy Joe to work for you. Six months later we put our townhome back on the market and it sold within a week.

Requested a survey for an empty lot in March, they said 6-8 weeks, fine. Checkin at week six, two…read moremore weeks. Week 10, "we did go but the numbers aren't adding up." Week 11, "we'll be there tomorrow." "We got stuck in two hours of traffic and we'll be there in the morning." Week 11, "we'll have it in three days." Week 14, "Our power went out, we can't answer phones or email." (Really you can't answer a yahoo account without yo ur severs?) Week 16 "we'll Have it by today." As you can see I will never get it. They continue to lie and put you off, there is no where in Chicago with two hours of traffic. It shouldn't take eight weeks of putting someone off if the work has actually been done. The lot is a rectangle, not a icosagon. I just need four numbers. The woman on the phone is rude and confrontational, she is the mouth of the lies. They may be "cheap" but you will never get any work out of them. I started this in March, it's now almost July.

Extremely rude. This company was outside our townhouses in Skokie at 7 am and they were talking…read moreloudly, almost belligerent in their behavior and messing around near the private parking we have. After a few minutes, she saw they had walked to the backs of our townhomes onto our private patio and there really should be no reason for them to be back there at all by our meters. Next our power went out which was very, very odd, and came back after four minutes. My mother went out to inquire what exactly they're doing back there, and the man was extremely defensive immediately and claimed "I'm just waiting for you to call the cops" after he continued to say, almost yelling, "I have a right to be here! I have a right to be here!" He had no license to provide, but he had a crumpled business card to hand out. It was bizarre and I would never expect an individual from a reputable company to act so defensively and so rudely.

I would not recommend working with LaNita. She is arrogant and inconsiderate. My partner and I were…read morelooking for houses for a very short time with her and every time we had a question or asked for a showing she seemed bothered. We went to go see a house that ended up not a being a fit and her response was "You need to do more research. Now I'm going to be stuck in traffic for a house." I'm sorry, isn't that your job as a realtor? We originally were looking in a specific area, however were having no luck. I sent her a house in a different area and she got upset. She helped my partner's 2 sisters and repeatedly told us "how easy" it was to find them a house and "how difficult" we were being. We are. buying a HOUSE for crying out loud, not a pair of shoes? Proof of texts so she doesn't comment and call me a "liar". Please look for a different realtor. UPDATE: She replied to my Google Review and stated that she showed my partner 12 houses?! That is false. They saw no more than 5 houses together. She even confirmed this information. Then she goes to say that the house hunt was going fine until "I joined along". LaNita, do you not like working with families? Or what's your deal. She claims that because I wasn't on the home loan that she didn't have to work with me. Many families do not have both partners/spouses on the home loan. Why does that even matter? Again - RUN THE OTHER WAY.

Very professional,Keeps you on track, Keeps it real. Thanks…read moreLanita

The Griffin Team is amazing! They go above and beyond for their clients. They were both and still…read moreare available to answer my many questions. There were times in the process when I felt stressed and they both eased my concerns with being patient and they showed so much compassion and understanding. I never felt alone in this process. I recommend the Griffin Team to everyone I know, because I know they will be treated like family with the Griffin Team.

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Linda had a tough job. We are moving to Anchorage Alaska and it is a corporate relocation. We…read moreneeded to sell our house quickly, so we could buy a house there. The challenge was to get the house cleared of 30 years of clutter, cleaned, staged and sold in three months. And it was the fall already, so we were trying to sell the house during the winter AND over the holidays. Linda gave us great advice about upgrades and improvements that buyers in our area are looking for. She had names of seasoned contractors and cleaners. Her office is centrally located. She is familiar with and uses the latest resources available, including using Facebook to help market your property, ipads for signing documents, cell phone apps to book your house showings, and providing impressive looking brochures about your home. She was always available for questions, by cellphone and email. In many company relocations, there may be a corporate buyout involved. You have a short time to sell the house yourself, and if there is no offer in that time, your realtor usually gets nothing for their efforts, because the relocation firm takes over ownership of the property. It took us two months to declutter and get repairs or upgrades completed. Linda kept working, and we got TWO offers on our home, after being on the market only 37 days!! We sold it, literally, the day before we would have had to turn it over to the relocation firm. Linda, thank you so much for everything. A job well done.

Linda did a great job for us. We are being relocated for work and wanted to sell our house quickly…read more Linda was very knowledgeable about our subdivision and helped us identify a price point that was extremely competitive with competing homes in our area. Linda went the extra mile for us and was always there to answer any questions we had. Because of Linda's hard work we were able to sell our home in 2 days!! I would recommend Linda to anyone looking to buy or sell in the area.

I understand wanting to turn profits but when you do nothing to property and sell it for way over…read moreits value because of your say so, you're robbing yourself of loyal clients. You buy a property, gut it, and less than a month later (without renos mind you) you put it up for sale $250k more than your purchase price. Make it make sense. The most you should ask for is the purchase price you paid plus demo price. Whoever your agent is in charge of that property is also difficult to work with. He doesn't let anyone get a word out to have a normal human being conversation. Won't go near your agency with a 10 ft pole.

Wanted to look at an house and received the following message from the Realtor at John Greene…read more There is an up front fee of $50 to setup the viewing of the house, and a 3.5% buyers commission (non negotiable if you put in an offer) that a contract must be signed prior to viewing the house. While I understand the laws have changed around buyers commission and sellers commission fee, the percentage requested up front is more than the average commission received by sellers today... usually it's 6% total (buyer/seller) and 1% goes to the sellers company, and selling realtor gets 2.5% to 3.0% and buying realtor gets 2.0% to 2.5%. Even then everything should be negotiable between the buyer/seller which is what the law was changed to mean.. Would not recommend anyone deal with Amanda from John greene Realtor.

Jill the project coordinator is impatient and does not "coordinate" very well. Her condescending…read moretone will not go well with most customers. I had to email 3 times initially to get her to take my deposit. When I paid the retainer fee, I asked, who is my point person and she replied that it would be her. After they took my payment in full, she contradicted statements made by the engineering team, was quick to get me off the phone, would forward me to the engineering team when it was a question for her to answer, or not get back to me at all. I regret hiring them and forwarding any business to them. My project remains incomplete but paid in full. I worry what I have paid for exactly with my site plan will only result in costly change orders from their incompetence. Update: A business manager has reached out but only I left two reviews of my experience. Prior to my reviews, the project coordinator would refuse to escalate me to anyone else.

Linda and her team were amazing! We had a super rushed plat survey to close on our business and…read morethey pulled through! Can't thank them enough!!!! Great job and reliable to get the job done.