Stephen MacFarlan - Avon, IN
I am writing this review of our Realtor, Richard Freedkin to express my gratitude for his incredible work on getting my parent’s home sold for $80,000 more than the price we were originally thinking about listing it for. First, you need to know that I have known Richard for over 30 years when he owned a mortgage company. Back then, in my opinion he knew more about real estate than just about anyone else I knew. When my father passed away last year and my sister and I needed to sell the home, there was no one else I even thought of to handle it other than Richard Freedkin. Also, seeing that both my sister and I did not live in Illinois, we needed someone who could handle everything from start to finish so that we wouldn’t have to make continual trips back and forth. Richard said, “don’t worry about a thing, Ill take care of it”. When he first entered the home, he made a list of updates and repairs that he recommended we do to get the home in shape so we could get more money for it. We originally said we just wanted to sell it “as-is” so we could sell it fast, but he said we would be lucky to even get the $475,000 if we did that and that the home could sit on the market for a longer period of time. So, the repair list came to about 10K. It included a complete paint job, new carpet, miscellaneous plumbing, appliance, fireplace and other minor repairs. Also, he recommended swapping out the light fixtures and cabinet pulls for more modern ones. I’ve got to say, this guy is even more impressive than I originally thought. He handled all the repairs, getting contractor estimates, meeting with contractors, ordering the new items and even installed most of them himself at no extra cost to us other than the cost of the products themselves. Right there he saved us about 10K in labor costs and lost wages from our employments had we had to hire people to do the work plus we would have had to drive up to meet them and supervise them. It would have taken us months to make that happen. He picked the paint color and had to go through 6 different color shades on the walls to find the one he thought would get us the highest
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