Jan 12, 2024
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I am writing this note to anyone looking for a realtor to help sell or buy their house. You should choose Mike Gatchet (his wife Tina comes with the package!) as your realtor. I base this recommendation on three areas where Mike and Tina provided us outstanding service in the recent sale of our home. Those areas are pre-sale valuation, superb communication to my wife and I as we were conducting our end of the sale from Texas, and his calm, relational negotiation style with potential buyers.
Pre-sale with Mike was as smooth as I could imagine. We discussed best day to put the house on the market with the Christmas holiday near, then he gave us his take on our home’s value. He was clear he would list it at whatever number we wanted, but then described why he valued our home where he did with clear, cogent reasoning. We ended up going with his number. He also described what kind of traffic he expected to see in week 1 and week 2, explaining that if we didn’t have a good offer by week 2 that we would come back and discuss what we had learned from the prospective buyers and rethink the pricing. With that plan in place, I moved to TX and Mike went to work! Showings the first week were almost exactly what Mike anticipated, and by the end of the week we had feedback from one looker that they felt the price was too high, and we had a bid that netted us right at 1k less than the ask on a cash close in 2 weeks! Done.
Communication with the systems Mike uses at Next Home Vibe Real Estate is a breeze. Tina, Mike’s wife, works the admin side of things and is a prompt and clear communicator. Paperwork moved back and forth easily and questions were promptly and correctly answered. Doing the closing from another state was easy and secure because of the thoughtful and intuitive systems Mike and his team have in place.
Finally, Mike utilized his decades of sales experience in multiple fields to negotiate with buyers in the same rational, clear, calm, no pressure manner that is simply an extension of his personality, not a pitch. He answered prospective buyer’s questions promptly and accurately and convinced them to think about the stipulations they were considering from the seller’s perspective. Mike’s easygoing and personable manner helped the buyers to present an offer that worked for them, had solid reasons for the bid below the ask, and yet was an inviting offer to us to close the deal! Wins all around.
If you want a solid recommendation on your home’s value, quick and accurate communication, systems that are simple to use even when out-of-state, and no-pressure, rational negotiation for the quickest sale of your home at the best possible price, I humbly suggest you let Mike do for you what he did for us.