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Michael Piccolo - Compass Real Estate - Honored to be double nominated as the "People's Choice" for best Real Estate Agent and Commercial Real Estate Agent in 2025!

Michael Piccolo - Compass Real Estate

(9 reviews)

Michael is a phenomenal agent. I have had the privilege of working with and successfully closing…read more10+ commercial and residential deals with him. Without a doubt, he is top notch professional and true advocate for his clients. He is strategic, professional and communicates quickly and often as he guides his clients throughout the process. He has a wonderful demeanor and mitigates stressful situations with his knowledge, experience and winning attitude. Michael recently helped me secure a new residential property in a hectic market at a 10% discount to listing price when nearby homes were selling for well OVER asking price. His excellent negotiation skills and taking the time to understand the many components to the deal were a catalyst for the exceptional results. In addition to being the best in the industry, Michael is super positive and just outright fun to work with. Whether you are selling or buying residential or commercial real estate, there is not a better agent out there. If you want guaranteed results, call Mike! Robb H

Selling in a competitive market is easy, but getting top dollar requires skill and expertise…read more Michael possesses both, and I would highly recommend him to anyone wanting to sell a home for maximum profit. Mike helped us sell our Mill Creek home for more than we ever thought we could, and I credit much of this to his strategic approach and excellent guidance. It started with helping us prepare our home to show well, including connecting us with a fantastic Staging company. His professional photographer captured our house perfectly, which delivered a fantastic online presence that drove a tremendous amount of interest and activity. When it came time to list the home, Mike's strategic approach to pricing the home to attract the most interest and leveraging an 'offer review date" to attract aggressive offers led to us being on the right side of a highly sought after "bidding war" all sellers hope for. Mike's experience and integrity were on full display during the offer review process, too. He was able to ethically get all interested parties to improve upon their initial offers while maintaining fairness. Once we accepted an offer, Mike's experience continued to shine through as he guided us through the remainder of the process, always being available and answering our questions along the way. We couldn't have had a better result, and Mike was instrumental to a successful outcome. I have (and will continue to) recommend Mike to family and friends who are planning to sell a home.

Venture Real Estate Group - #ArbolGrandeOlympia Landlord, Venture Real Estate Group, told us to fill holes with steel wool, refuses to fill them himself.

Venture Real Estate Group

(15 reviews)

The Marine Corp prepared this Agent for battle! Our home purchase was an obstacle course full of…read morehurdles and hoops, twists and turns made even more complicated by an out-of-state contingency sale with foreign investors. Michael worked tirelessly with agents on both sides of the deals and kept us encouraged and informed at all times. I'll admit to feeling less than optimistic. But now our dream is realized thanks to not only his bearing, courage, decisiveness, endurance and enthusiasm but problem-solving skills and innovative ideas. I hope your purchase/sale isn't a battle! But you should use this agent, just in case...

Like many other people in the current economic depression, we had to short sell our house recently…read more Bear in mind this is not something that I would have ever chosen to do - my husband and I literally got laid off from our jobs within two weeks of each other, and we had to make the radical decision to move to Las Vegas where my husband had a good job lined up for him at the time. I loved this house dearly and hated to see it go, but that's the economic reality. And no, we weren't deadbeats who couldn't afford the house. This was literally the weirdest sale ever. The buyer, and moreover the buyer's lender, had such severe problems that this deal was in jeopardy multiple times during the sale. We went through attorneys to delay the short sale, had document mixups, and experienced any other problem you can possibly think of, and Andy and his team still managed to wade through all the confusion and close this sale. This sale included issues with the buyer's lender fudging the paperwork to be $700 short which caused a week's delay, the buyer randomly showing up with huge amounts of cash which required paperwork to be redrawn, and complete disarray in paperwork that no one but Andy and his team could possibly sort out. Despite all these things, Andy, Kamran, and the other people at VREG managed to navigate this nightmare and get this deal figured out. We had multiple dealings with attorneys which helped us extend this process, but the real noteworthy thing is that there was a point where our attorney told us that our sale could be delayed no longer. Despite this "official" legal advice, Andy and his staff pressed our mortgage holder, and managed to get a further extension which finally enabled this deal to go through. Andy and his team at Venture Real Estate Group are nothing short of miracle workers in the Seattle real-estate market. They managed to close what is, I am assuming, one of the most ridiculously complicated sales they have ever seen. I cannot recommend Andy Langsord and Venture Real Estate Group highly enough. They managed to turn what would have been an absolutely hopeless experience into one that worked.

Edward Chang Group - Whisper Real Estate

Edward Chang Group - Whisper Real Estate

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We had a long time realtor that also retired. She recommended that we start by reaching out to…read moreEdward. Honestly, we contacted him just to meet him as we thought about a sell and buy for several months out. However, he was so on top of everything that be found us our perfect house that we ended up offering on in just 4 days. :) He had his work cut out for him though on our sell. It is a cute home but small and we bought it when the market was really high. Edward did comprehensive research to really price the home right. He helped us find someone to stage the home and gave the perfect advice for repairs to do ahead of time. Within 3 hours of hitting the market, we had a full offer. We received 12 total in a weekend. All of which Edward reviewed and made notes on to make our decision easy. He was able to get significantly more than asking price, a waived appraisal, very minimal negotiations after inspection, etc (on a small old house!!)! Edward has been phenomenal about his response time - to the point that I am sometimes a little concerned that we intrude on his own time too much. He is very available, incredible at negotiation, and more resourceful than I could have imagined. Obviously we don't know your exact situation and we may have gotten extremely lucky with the swiftness of our transactions ... but it would NOT have happened without Edward. We definitely give him raving reviews.

Don't trust this guy. He helps shady overseas owners find renters and then helps them neglect…read moretheir properties. He'll "represent" the landlord when it comes time to sign a lease, but he refuses contact the owner when a water main break floods the sidewalk, trees fall down, drains leak, or mailboxes need to be replaced. He promised in an email to get reimbursement from the owner for a shared construction project. After it was completed and it came time to collect payment from all four owners, he hung up on me -- multiple times. He refused to contact the owner on my behalf or share any contact information. He shields overseas owners from their basic responsibilities as a neighbor. I'm disappointed in Edward and expected more honesty from Keller Williams Realty.

Roy Towse - Compass

Roy Towse - Compass

(23 reviews)

We had a fantastic experience working with Roy and his team! We unequivocally and wholeheartedly…read moreendorse them for the sale of high-end/luxury homes like our home that they helped us sell. When you sign up with Roy, you not only get the benefit of his knowledge, experience and network... you're also getting 'the team' and a veritable arsenal of logistics/operations folks to make the entire experience painless, seamless and optimized. Emily was particularly fantastic about coordinating with contractors, landscapers and just being generally available and thoughtful about all the little/finer things that went into preparing and repairing the home to logistics and details leading up to the showings. Whether it was all of the impressive marketing investment they put into making our photos, videos & drone shots look amazing, or the neighbor networking and gifts for the neighbors, they're just top notch. Roy, Emily and team were also just always a joy to interact with and are just genuinely and sincerely good people. We'd love the opportunity to work with them again in the future!

Roy is very knowledgeable in the real estate market in Seattle area. He makes the right advice and…read moredecisions in listing our house. With his excellent work, our house is sold in 3 days after listing at a better price. His team is very helpful in facilitating the sales and offered a lot of help and services. I highly recommend Roy to be your realtor either in buying and selling your house.

Sterling, Johnston & Associates - Sterling, Johnston & Associates | Redmond Office

Sterling, Johnston & Associates

(8 reviews)

I worked with Kim Breen who did a fantastic job managing my rental property for the past 5 years…read more Did a great job vetting tenants - she always got dependable folks who took good care of my property. I highly recommend Kim - she's the best!

I have listed my home with Asa Shigley of Sterling Johnston, and have been very disappointed with…read morehis representation as selling agent. As an out of town seller, Asa assured me he could find local subs to take care of some minor, cosmetic repairs; "afterall, that is what you are paying me for". It has been 2-1/2 months and these repairs have not been made. With these repairs incomplete our home has reduced appeal, and likely confidence, for buyers and their agents to visit a property with these simple cosmetic issues left unrepaired. Any honorable real estate agent would be embarrassed with this situation. In this hot real estate market, we find ourselves with an offer at 10% below asking price (mid-point of Asa's research value). As there is no buyer's agent, Asa has increased his fee split % since "I'll be saving money vs having to pay a full fee". I have balked at this, stating his failure to find subs to make these repairs and demanded a reduction of his fee to the typical split (stated in our contract), and to reduce it more if he fails to find subs to repair the work during closing period. In response, we have received a revised offer which includes in the sales amendment the Selling agent's increase commission, as well as having 0 days in the Seller's Right to Terminate (30 days typical). This will guarantee Asa and Sterling Johnston a higher, and undeserved , commission while providing me no protection from upcoming failure to perform on their part. I feel I am in negotiations with my own representing agent rather than receiving representation services I am paying for. I expect Sterling Johnston to perform their work as promised, and at the commission per our contract.

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