My uncle and I had a good experience purchasing a property together in fort myers with the aid of Gulfside Mortgage. Tony, Michelle, Terri, and the rest of the team did a good job answering any questions and gave advice that helped us get the home. I'm looking forward to refinance with them especially since you save so much refinancing with them after you have already worked on the home purchase with them. Also, the house warming gift was a perfect touch! read more

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My wife and I recently did a home loan refinance with Gulf Side Mortgage. We could not be happier with the process. We were kept informed from start to finish. Sue did an amazing job explaining all the various documents and signatures needed. It's now easy to see why they are voted number one year after year. We will return for all of our mortgage needs for sure. read more

JD Flaig is an extremely trustworthy and helpful individual. He explained everything to me patiently and thoroughly throughout the entire home loan financing process. He called me every Tuesday just for updates. It's hard to trust people but Mr. Flaig is someone I highly recommend when it comes to purchasing a home. I only had 5% downpayment and he found a low interest home loan that fit my budget. Thanks, JD. read more

From start to finish my experience with Gulfside Mortgage was totally stress free. I have purchased many homes in the past, this time was different. I met with Michelle and discussed my options, gathered all the documents needed and was pre-approved. I began house hunting and when I settled on my home choice, met with her again to begin the process of securing my loan. Michelle and her team kept me informed the entire time. The process was flawless. Most impressive, I arrived at the title company for my closing and in attendance was Michelle. I have never in all my home purchases have had my mortgage representative attend my closing to insure everything went as planned. My son also used Gulfside when he purchased his home and experienced the same professionalism and flawless transaction. read more

Worst mortgage experience ever. We have purchased several homes in the past, both have excellent credit scores, and know not to open or close any accounts or make any big prchases. Gulfside gave us a very hard time. They misled us from the begining, and we nearly lost the house FOUR times! They have very poor communication skills. Did not keep our realtor informed. Emailed us the news that we needed to bring over 60% to the table, up from the usual 20%. And the day before we were due to close told us we needed to close on house we were selling first. Talk about stressful! They also work in "teams", but don't appear to communicate with each other either. Both our realtor and homeowners insurance agency reported talking to 7 different people regarding our mortgage! The only reason we were able to close and get our dream home, was our perseverance and sheer determination. read more

Thank you to the team for making both my purchase and refinance so easy and effortless!

We want to express our great dissatisfaction with the home loan refinance process, particularly with Sue Hogrefe's management of the process. We feel like we have been misled and taken advantage of, despite of our clear indications to Sue Hogrefe that the reason why we wanted to explore home refinance is because we have financial hardship. We are appalled about the lack of care and consideration for families such ours that are part of your community. I sincerely do not wish other families in hardship to have to go through this negative experience. I first inquired about the refinance process in September 2012. I received via email the application, which described the documentation needed to qualify (9/4/12): including the information of our equity loan, which is separated from our mortgage (9/5/12). She indicated that this loan would have to be subordinated, which in fact did not need to be. By this time, we had already spoken on the phone with Sue about our credit reports, so she should have noticed any outstanding issues, such as the sewer lien with the county and discuss them right then before moving on to obtain a home appraisal. The appraisal was conducted on 9/6/2012. I can assure you that if we would have known that 2,100 dollars for the sewer lien would need to be paid to move forward with the process, we would have stopped right there and not go ahead with the home appraisal(365.00$). Sue notified us about the need to pay the water lien on 9/17/2012. Because the appraisal was done already, we felt trapped with no choice but to make yet another financial sacrifice and wipe out our savings account to make the payment at the time of closing, on top of the closing cost. On October 29th, 2012 Sue emailed us the savings supposedly on the new loan (489.00$), which was wrong because she added the mortgage plus our home equity loan. Again, huge mistake on her part! despite the fact that she had all our information already. Only when we went over the numbers and called her back, we realized that the savings would be less than half of that!. As you can imagine, we were done with Gulfside Mortgage services at that point. As result, I am requesting, The 50.00$ spent in the pay off request from the county for the sewer lien The 365.00$ spent on home appraisal To be reimbursed immediately to us as result of the mishandled home loans refinance process that Christensen Financial DBA Gulfside Mortgage services has so poorly conducted. Our expectation is that you live up to your slogan about being the best in Venice and do the right thing for a family in your community. read more