We just purchased our first home in Logan Square with Jen and couldn't recommend her enough! She…read moreguided us through the whole process that my husband and I knew nothing about. She was patient throughout our search and was always available to show us homes, answer emails/texts and give opinions on what makes a home valuable. She knows the market inside and out! She helped us buy a home that was on the market for 3 days and knew exactly what to do to give us a fighting chance to win the bid for the home. We ended up purchasing a 2-unit house where she promptly found us new tenants without any hiccups or vacancy! Jen is very professional and exceeded all of our expectations in finding a home. We hope to work with her again! Thank you, Jen!

Jeff needs to be more attentive. Not a good salesman when he can't respond to questions about a…read moreproperty from potential buyers.

After meeting with 3 other agents for the potential sale of my condo, Megan was recommended to me…read morethrough a mutual friend. Her combination of knowledge and enthusiastic personality won me over in minutes and 2 years later, I can still say that working with her has been nothing short of perfection. It's important to me to feel that my agent has my best interests at heart first and foremost, and Megan has demonstrated that she understands this time and again. Through her well-supported advice, I ended up renting out my unit, a transition I was nervous about. Megan made this process completely painless with her consistent follow-up, availability and desire to find the right fit. This past year, when the lease was up for my first tenant, Megan handled everything efficiently and found me another dream tenant within days. Having someone I can trust to handle all of this from 600 miles away has been more than this self-admitted control freak could ever ask for. Working with Megan, and by extension the O'Keefe Cibula Group, is like working with family. Megan continues to have my business and my trust.

We would highly recommend Megan Cibula to anyone looking to buy or sell! She was a pleasure to work…read morewith and made the home buying experience as seamless as possible. As first time homebuyers, we didn't know what to expect, but Megan put us at ease because she established a sincere level of trust. She was knowledgable on both the market and our neighborhood, very responsive, and her positive, energetic personality made us feel comfortable throughout the entire process. There were many steps to the home buying process that we were unaware of and she patiently walked us through each step so that we were in the know. We truly appreciate Megan's hard work in helping us find and purchase our first home. This home was the perfect fit for us and hope to be here for many years, but if we move on, we will definitely be using Megan again!

Hands down, best realtor EVER. Not only did she help us find our home moving during covid,…read more(jeremy's review from 2020) But then helped us sell that same home as we are moving out of state soon. She was able to help us sell our home for the highest sale in neighborhood history. Everything from staging, cleaning, utilizing her own decor from her house if needed, letting our dog out, open house, negotiating. Effortless for her. You will not regret choosing Laura! She will be honest, set realistic expectations, and be your advocate all the way through.

It was around February 2020 when me and my wife decided on buying our own dream home. We were…read moreapprehensive and had absolutely no idea of how to go about doing it but we needed to start somewhere.I believe home buying could be very stressful process especially for a first time home buyer. I thought Google would be a nice place to start to look for a realtor who could help us find our next dwelling. I did my search online to look for a firm with a proven track record, good ratings & testimonials and who could understand what we exactly were looking within the location of our choosing and of course, keeping it under our budget!! And then the pandemic struck the US to make the whole process a lot harder. We weren't sure if any realtor would be willing in person in these troubled times to go around the city, to show us properties in reality. Obviously, Market standing , credibility turnaround time and knowledge played a significant role in our realtor choosing process. While googling, I looked up best realtors in Chicagoland area and that's where I came across McPherson Westhoff realty. Emailed them the next day and got a call back within hours from them asking about our selected areas/ expectations for our new home. They took down all the information and customized our property search results based on the criteria we set. Here is where Laura Duckett with Compass Realty was introduced to us for the first time to help us see some properties in which we were interested and we are glad we were. Laura struck me as an incredibly knowledgeable, patient, honest,helpful punctual ,diligent, passionate realtor who loves her job and who was one step ahead in her game of finding us the right property as per our requirements with a pleasing personality. She's serious about her work and humorous when the moment calls for it .She was reachable whenever needed and always inboxed newly listed or upcoming properties depending on the frequency we asked for. She scheduled showings of the properties , even from a third party website in a timely, meticulous manner with a proper printed travel map at a short notice. She totally respects her clients considerations, be it price, neighborhood, budget or you name it. We were always comfortable discussing anything and everything with her. To be honest, we became friends with her ,talking and looking over multiple properties and it gave us a sense of personal connection with her within a short span of time . We never felt rushed in, forced into buying anything or any unsolicited advice by her. She would drive with us to multiple properties in a single day all around Chicago and would give suggestions of what needed attention in a potential property, looked closely at the mechanicals, foundation, walls, flooring, ceiling appliances and materials. She was on top of answering any questions we had, and if she wouldn't know the answer right away she would make an extra effort to find them out by the end of the day to text later. I remember her sending texts even during the late night hours about a ghost query I had.It wouldn't be an exaggeration if I could say she not only won our trust, she won our hearts!! Well, after we decided on buying our current home, Laura made the whole process of negotiating, comparing the comps, putting in the offer, inspection, hiring a real estate attorney, getting a lender at a cheaper rate super quick and super smooth. She kept everyone in the loop while we went through closing with a 100% transparency. Unfortunately, Laura couldn't be present because of social distancing restrictions during our closing during the pandemic so she asked us to have our picture taken outside the title company with her head shot and that's exactly what we did.lol. She, in turn, framed that same picture and gifted it to us at the time of handing over the keys to our new house. That was hilarious! Later when we became new homeowners she suggested a firm to help us with our moving, setting up internet and other utilities transferred into our names all of which went through like a breeze and for free!! Our home buying process couldn't be any easier than what Laura made it. I highly recommend Laura as one of the topmost real estate agent one can find for the Northwest/ western suburbs. Please call her for all your real estate needs, see her in action and I'm sure you'll be delighted you did because she's exceptional in what she does. We kinda sat back and relaxed while Laura did all the work for us .We appreciate it a lot all of what you did including the leaf blower which you gifted us with is in use every single weekend reminding us of you being by our side;) . Thank you Laura.

Eli & his team have a great thing going on here at Second City Agents! They are knowledgeable about…read morethe best neighborhoods to fit your personal life & budget! If you are in the market for a new place, give them a call!

Eli and Jose made it happen for my wife and I!! They over came every challenge and moved on to the…read morenext step with the blink of an eye. I recommend them to anyone looking for professionalism, efficiency, and comfort throughout this journey! Thanks for making ours one to remember guys! They had an answer for every obstacle we encountered and helped turn every negative into a positive. They really knew how to develop a good relationship with the sellers agent in order to help our purchase be the best that it could! Their whole team is so solid from from their mortgage broker to the legal team!! We think of them as Chicago's Dynamic Duo, if one isn't available the other one takes his spot. We couldn't have picked a better real estate team to work with.

We strongly recommend working with Stephanie Cutter and her team…read more She's helped us buy two condos and sell one. In each case she listened closely to our needs and provided the expert guidance, advocacy, and resources we needed to feel confident in our decisions. Not only is her team excellent, but she has an extensive network of contacts that she willingly engaged and connected us with to consult on everything from mortgage and legal questions to contractors. She has also been there for us in several important moments in between, like when we needed an expert perspective on some complicated HOA dynamics. And we really appreciate the resources on home ownership she and her team share regularly. To say she goes above and beyond is an understatement, and she is also one of the kindest and smartest people we know. She will absolutely be our first call if we ever decide to move again in the future.

Stephanie helped my wife and I with our move from Florida to Chicago. Although we only had a…read moreweekend to look at properties, she created an agenda of listings for us to view and adjusted in real-time based on our interest. Thanks to her help and experience, we were able to find a condo we loved by the end of the weekend. Afterwards, she helped assist with the closing process making it absolutely seamless. Cannot recommend working with Stephanie enough for any of your real estate needs in Chicago!

Purchasing real estate when you are from out of town is a little scary. We were looking for a condo…read morein Chicago and I contacted Heather after reading several reviews. Well, it turned out perfectly. Heather was great to work with and she quickly understood our needs and within hours we were looking at listings. We narrowed down the listings and provided feedback to Heather, so she could send us additional properties to consider. After further refinement, we scheduled time with Heather to review the properties when we visited Chicago. Meeting Heather in person confirmed that we found the right person to help us with the purchase. Heather has an detailed understanding of the Chicago market and made sure we understood the pros and cons of each property. Heather was generous with her time and and fun to work with and when we settled on a property, Heather streamlined the process and we had an accepted offer in a day. Heather even helped in streamlining the mortgage and closing processes by introducing us to a Mortgage broker and an attorney, both of whom were great to work with. We closed in 4 weeks. Overall a great experience!

I contacted Heather about one of her agents, Craig Frazen, who was the listing agent of a house I…read morepurchased. Heather DID respond to my email, but was very defensive about her agent. I expressed some concerns about how the deal was made including the agent misrepresenting the square footage and condition of the house. Apparently there is no agreed upon standard for square footage and it's not the listing agent job to carefully check the size or condition of the property. Knowing this is the biggest purchase of someone's life the whole laissez-faire attitude leaves something to be desired. Sure, it's buyer beware, but when/how to ethicals come into play? We didn't have that conversation because she was too busy cheering for Craig! In Heather's own words "shit happens" and that about summarizes her objectivity about one of her agents and the real estate market in general. The seller's 100 percent mis-represented the house and Heather's point was that's not Craig's fault, but being rather careless about how he advertised the property left me wondering how the transaction could have been better. Heather was too busy defending Craig to actually consider that. And because of that I would not use either one of them for my next real estate transaction.

Hands down the best Realtor I have ever worked with!!! If you are seeking a real estate…read moreprofessional who embodies sophistication, trust, and exceptional results, Danielle is simply unparalleled. We would recommend her without hesitation to anyone looking for a premier real estate experience.

I recently worked with the DoWell Group in finding my home. I specifically worked with Ariana. She…read morewas amazing and did a great job. I would absolutely recommend this group to friends and family in the future

Thanks again Leigh for selling our home. Leigh and his team were extremely patient and…read moreknowledgeable at every turn. We had long discussions (interviews?) with 4-5 agents before settling on Leigh. Leigh Marcus was the ONLY one who showed up on time AND never cut us off or spoke over us. Apparently that's hard for a lot of agents out there (and yeah, we're talking about online meetings here). He didn't even offer the lowest commission, but HE DIDN'T TALK OVER US. I don't know how to put a price point on being talked over, so Leigh gets the job. I can't recommend him and his team enough. We ended up with a selling price higher than our final listing and everything was gravy.

Sona was our real estate agent for our most recent home purchase. We were paired with @properties…read moreThe Leigh Marcus team randomly by a website that pairs people based on sales stats for certain zip codes. So based on that, we knew Leigh's team had a strong sales record in the Logan/Avondale/Irving Park areas we were initially looking in. However, we were just buying (not selling). Additionally, we're real estate investors, so while we were looking to buy a single family home for our own enjoyment, we wanted an agent that thinks about homes as investments and could help guide us on a smart buy we'd also love. And that's exactly what we got! Sona was very patient during our search and not pushy at all. We even ended up pulling out of one offer because my husband realized Irving Park wasn't quite the right fit for him, and Rogers Park was better for the fun lakeside hangs he was craving. She helped us navigate out of that deal. Then, she helped us find a beautiful vintage home in RP. While the home ended up getting 4 other offers, Sona's hard work got us the house! She was able to figure out what we should offer, helped us determine a fair price (not a crazy over offer, but not a lowball that would have lost us the house either). She sent us YOY information so we could see how the neighborhood appreciated over time. She also helped us think about the home from every perspective (as a young family living there with kids, as investors, etc). Sona was a joy to work with, and out of the 5 agents we've worked with so far, she definitely earned a spot at the top of the list. We would be happy to work with her again in the future. If you have the good fortune of working with her, make sure to ask for recs on movers and other service providers. She's got really great ones. She also met us at our new house after closing even though it was a long drive for her, just so she could take photos and give us champagne. What a special moment that was!