My wife and I wound up going with the Lee Tessier Team after an extensive searching process to look for a realtor. We, at that time, were looking for our first home as a couple and were also in the process of planning a wedding. We were very fortunate to have been referred to the Lee Tessier Team and Mike Stephens. The few realtors we had met with previous were way more "uppity" than we were looking for. We are very laid back people with perhaps - at that time - very unrealistic goals for what we wanted in a house. Mike held our hand throughout the entire process, giving us very realistic ideas of what our money and budget could get us. After our initial day out of looking at homes, we never had another day of wasted home visits. Mike quickly learned what we were looking for and what were our deal breakers and the process went smooth as silk after that. We were involved in a short sale that took several months to resolve itself, and during that time Mike never put us on the back burner. Each and every day my wife became more and more nervous about the status of the home and had plenty of questions and concerns regarding the home, the bank and the current state of affairs. Mike never took longer than a few hours to get back to us with our questions no matter how absurd. Deep down, we knew that it wasn't in our realtor's best interests to get involved in a lengthy short sale, but Mike always put our hopes and dreams in the forefront of our working relationship. Mike often would check in on us when things were going quietly just to give us updates and never sugar coated things that other realtors might have tried to avoid until it was absolutely necessary to bring up. Eventually the short sale process fell through and we immediately were shown other homes that, again, were right in line with our wish list. I can't tell you how calming it was to have gone from a 7 month short sale and right back into looking at homes, and that was all because of Mike. It felt like we weren't back at square one, but at option 1b. We also ran into a few hiccups with title companies and mortgage companies and Mike had immediate recommendations that wound up being truly our best options (believe me when I say I did my due diligence when it comes to selecting companies to represent us). After we had finally settled on a home, the Lee Tessier Team was there for us after we had signed papers, offering us their moving truck to use at no charge, had empty boxes delivered to our house for the move and also gave us free catering for our house warming party! Their realtor fees did not seem any higher or lower than other companies we had looked at, but it honestly wouldn't have mattered. Mike was always very up front with any fees from the very beginning and prepared us for every outside fee we could expect to pay. Settlement was a breeze because we had already been briefed over everything that was going to happen. I can't tell you how at ease at least I was during this whole process because of how prepared we always were.
Now that we've been in our home for six months, we feel like we couldn't have landed in a more perfect home and regularly mention to each other and our friends how fortunate we were to have been able to work with the Lee Tessier Team. Every single person we came in contact with from the Lee Tessier Team was professional, friendly and accomodating. If you're lucky enough to be looking for a home, I sincerely don't think you could do any better than Mike Stephens and the Lee Tessier Team. read more