MUSSELMAN REALTY CO

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A friend of mine already living in the East Lansing area decided to stop renting and buy a house. She talked to several of the large real estate agencies and was put off by their approach. To be charitable and merciful, let's just say that those agencies and their agents were overly interested in selling a home to my friend as soon as possible, even though my friend was telling them that the agents and the listings were not in any way a good match for what my friend was seeking. She actually stopped looking for a home because of those other agencies. Later, because of exceptionally positive word of mouth recommendations from community leaders in the East Lansing area, she contacted Musselman Realty. One thing she heard over and over is that Musselman gives back to the community as a civic-minded local business. Upon her first visit to the Mussleman office, she was pleasantly surprised to find a friendly, family atmosphere, with the agent, Jim Fordell showing a genuine interest in her housing goals, and also displaying a totally up front, client-centered and caring attitude. She reports that Mr. Fordell has continued to be super-impressive in his selection of dozens of appropriate listings. He provides timely, comprehensive responses to complex questions. His knowledge of the Greater Lansing area, and his desire to ensure that the client gets the home they want, are absolutely impressive. She has also been impressed by the circle of professionals that Mr. Fordell has utilized so she could inspect homes for hidden flaws. This includes Accurate Inspections, and Accurate Pest Control. Those people are relentlessly thorough and eagle-eyed in spotting defects in homes, thus preventing my friend from buying homes that looked great on the surface, but were actually not a good deal. Musselman Realty is the kind of small-town but sophisticated realty company that can hardly be found anymore. I feel that I am being charitable in not sharing with you the horror stories my friend experienced when she interacted with so-called and quot;buyer's agentsand quot; from the larger realtors. Suffice to say that Musselman and Mr. Fordell have been so professional, honest, hard-working and selfless in their assistance of my friend that even though I am not involved in her house purchase, and am a very busy professional, I have taken my personal time to share with you that Musselman makes home shopping as painless as it can be. If only more businesses in America had people like Mr. Fordell, and the kind of ethics and customer-centric approach that Mussleman has, our country would be far better off. Looking for a home or wanting to sell one? I suggest you call Mussleman right away.

We worked with Dave Ledebuhr of Musselman Realty to sell our home in East Lansing, MI. We put our home on the market in 2010 and it sold in July/Aug. 2011. We understood going into the sales process the market is very down and it may take an extended period of time to sell our home. Dave worked tirelessly on our behalf and we had many showings. The day we finally got the offer we ended up accepting, we also received a second offer that we decided not to accept for many reasons but not limited to the fact that this offer was contingent upon closing on the pending sale of their home and the offer we accepted was not contingent upon any other closing or sale. (This may actually be the people who wrote the negative review of Musselman Realty in July 2011.) Upon signing the contract for services, I told Dave I was a high maintenance client and would be in touch by email/phone constantly. He didn't even bat an eye and always responded promptly by email and was always available by phone, even at night and on weekends. We worked with him while we were in Italy and Hawaii on vacation to make sure all was moving along on the sale of our house. We could not recommend Dave and Musselman Realty any more than we already do and would not hesitate to use their services again. We have subsequently moved away from the area and unless he opens an office in Central Illinois, we probably won't have the opportunity but we would recommend him to any buyer or seller of real estate. Dave and the Musselman Realty team really work h****** behalf of their clients!

We were very distracted with the realtor's three small children running around but decided to give him another shot. This past spring when we met back up he didn't inquire if we wanted to sell our home. Very disinterested and didn't take us seriously. We ended up listing our home with someone else and it sold in two months for ABOVE SEV! When we made a bid on a property that Mussleman Realty had listed, the seller's agent was the same as the buyers agent and they didn't even consider our bid. We felt (as well as our real estate agent) that this was an unethical move since we would have paid the seller more on a counter bid than the seller settled for on the buyer's bid. We feel sorry for the seller since they probably have no idea they could have gotten more money by conducting a "bidding war".