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Rock Realty Client Testimonials

"Mike Collins was easy to talk to and very good at explaining in detail all aspects of the short sale of the property. With a lot of patience, he walked me through the process of a short sale. He was understanding of my plight and very sympathetic.


Mike was a pleasure to work with and he is a man of his word.
Thank you, Mike, and best of luck to you."

Tom D. (Oxford, WI)
Rock Realty Seller Client

Rock Realty Client Testimonials

Thanks for the compliments, and Congratulations on your closing Tom!

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Rock Realty Client Testimonials

"This was a great effort from Mike Collins. He did a super super job with the selling of our home in Wisconsin. I could not ask for more from him as he kept me well informed of things going on and we are 1200 miles apart. He did more than a 110 percent job on everything. Even removing snow and whatever it took to have our home ready to show. Again, THANKS Mike for everything. Great Job!!!!!!"

Phyllis Pearson (Rock River, WY)
Rock Realty Seller Client

Rock Realty Client Testimonials

Thanks for the compliments, and Congratulations on your closing Phyllis!

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Rock Realty Client Testimonials

"Mike Collins helped us sell our home, he was a very nice guy and always there when we had any questions or concerns! Mike went above and beyond and even helped paint the house when there was a time crunch for the inspection. We appreciated all that Mike did!"

Katy K.(Janesville, WI)
Rock Realty Client

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"My first listing contract (with another agency) expired without a single showing. I contacted Mike Collins hoping to get some straight advice about whether he thought the property would ever sell versus letting the lender foreclose on the property and save my mortgage payments for legal counsel. He was upfront from day one. He told me that it would take a while and that I'd probably have to hold it through the winter (I called him in September) but it would probably sell in the spring. His honesty made me immediately willing to hire him. He found a buyer in May and worked with my lender to close the sale in record time."

Drew V.(Marshall, WI)
Rock Realty Client

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A Call To Service

There is a great need to boost the image of the real estate professional. Giving the benefit of the doubt to most if not all participants here, we all do a resaonable job. Let us look at a few areas that will propel us out of a "notch above used cars salesman" to something more like a designation like a firefighter or police officer. Firefighters protect lives and property. Police officers protect lives and sometimes property. REALTORS PROTECT BOTH BUYER AND SELLER AND BOY DO WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY.Let us take a common look at "AS IS".AS IS is a commonly used catchall to supposedly preclude any requests by the selling side of a transaction. Yet it is often used a cover by the listing side to avoid being responsible for characteristics of a property that a listing agent may acquire. I have seen contracts that the listing side glosses over the mandatory "agent visual inspecion " that we have in California. This puts the extra burden on the buying agents to perform the "due diligence" when it comes to that stage of the escrow. We must never forget that we as listing agents have as much responsibility to the asset manger as the selling agent has to their buyer. We owe a definite fiduciary duty to our clients to protect AND guide them through the process. If we fully disclose the defects about the property and all property has at least a few, then we mitigate the chances of a post escrow law suit. Do not get me wrong...if you don't want to pay for repairs, you should not have to, but we are AGENTS...representatives... and we get paid for our service so we should take it seriously- not just managing expenses and securing the property.Asset managers cannot know all of the paperwork that a state requires and we need to keep the updated on proceedures in our jusridiction. California has a whole battery of prescribed forms that make things clear who is doing what and what the terms are so there are no misunderstandings. We agents are both teachers and guides. We are the doctors in our field, curing the sickness and providing for the well being of realestate.Let us take a look at proper buyer counseling. I have come to not believe all preapprovals that come in and that includes the big bank ones. Recently I had a prospect that was preapproved for a particular amount. When it came time to offer a price the mother and my client the daughter had a debate on what the daughter could actually afford to pay monthly. It was significantly less than the preapproval amount and I wondered what that big bank used as crtiteria?I had another prospect that wanted to buy property. He confessed to me that he was out of work but not to tell his loan officer...I advised hime this was like loan fraud and he was not even aware that it was. We buyer agents need to really interview our clients to make sure they are fianacially fit for this. Don't leave in another's hands!I have had another buyer that only wanted to spend a certain amount in an area with few suitable choices...he found out by looking at little further east that he couold buy MORE house for the same money. Again all it takes is proper qualifying and counseling.Finally as listing agents, we have an incredible amount of resources at our fingertips: virual tours, plenty of redistributable info from CAR and NAR, websites galore for marketing etc. We need to do for the asset managers what we would do for a standard sale: Do a Kick Butt Job...we are more than paperwork pushers...we are customer service..from fielding client calls to prospect calls and as well being a conduit of information for all. We are licensed for a reason.Now if any asset manger is reading this I hope you get an idea of what kind of agent I am...ready to roll up my sleeves and service fully you my client.2010 is about to begin...lets us agents start out right by moving to the next level. We are licensed professionals.We are licensed servants. Let us keep real estate simple and honest.
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