Testimonials

Greg Bertrand, President & CEO – Sysco

“As we approach the holiday season, I wanted to thank you for doing such a wonderful job for Darci and me, as our realtor. My wife and I were talking the other day about how pleased we were with your efforts and resulting outcome, and I wanted to once again express my sincere appreciation.

Having sold and bought several homes during my life, I have never had as positive an experience as I had with you. When we moved to Whitefish Bay we used a realtor that we were pleased with, but when we were suddenly transferred back to Chicago and it came time to sell our own house, we were compelled to call on you to represent us. You had listed our neighbors’ house a few months earlier and my wife and I were amazed at how often we saw you next door. Your energy and willingness to go the extra mile was apparent in the hours you put into preparing and marketing their home to find the right buyer. We saw you there at all hours rearranging furniture, watering the flowers and “yes” even politely asking us to hide our garbage cans when you arrived to prepare for a showing.

Our experience with you was wonderful. Your professionalism was evident right from the start as you helped us to prepare our home for a successful marketing campaign. You and your partner came through and gave us an assessment of minor changes that made a world of difference, but unlike my past real estates experiences, you provided much more than simple guidance. You rolled up your sleeves and got our house ready for a quick and successful sale. You handled every detail with much of the work coming at your time and expense: rearranging our furniture and paintings, finding and providing handymen to do some minor last minute repairs, providing a cleaning service free of charge to give the home a well needed deep cleaning before our first open house and even arranging for the disposal of the remaining clutter. Your marketing campaign and materials were second to none and when it came time to list, I have never felt so prepared.

I couldn’t believe it when you called me the Sunday after our first open house and told us we had an offer at full asking price! As great as the news was, I stayed up many nights worrying about the closing as all of the newspapers were reporting horrible real estate new and deals falling apart left and right. By this time I had begun my new job and my family had relocated. Again, you stayed with me the whole way.

Finding faucets and a plumber to meet a condition of the inspection and going so far as to run around Milwaukee the day before closing to pick up replacement oven racks. Oh, I did mention that since the racks for the existing oven were discontinued, you had custom ones made and plated? You were unbelievable!

As you know we bought our house at a market high and found ourselves in a difficult position selling two years later in a severe market decline. I am convinced that it was your professional guidance and efforts that resulted in the sale of our home at full asking price within weeks. I would recommend you to anyone I come across. My family cannot thank you enough for the fantastic job you did!”

Ben C. Bastianen

“We engaged Suzanne Powers as our listing agent for the sale of our home on Lake Shore Drive in Whitefish Bay after a disappointment contract with another Realtor. This was a great decision.

Suzanne is a formidable real estate professional. She is extremely knowledgeable, efficient, effective, and fair. Se manages each of her listings as a unique marketing project. She invests her own money to get the property sold. She networks and knows what is going on in her market. The more confused things get, she is in control. She keeps her customers informed at all times. She loves real estate and she is a joy to work with.

Suanne does her homework, sets her strategy, and wins. She sold our home within two weeks.

Suzanne Powers is the best Realtor we know. We named her Suzanne Persuasive Powers.”

Harrold J. McComas

“This unsolicited recommendation is a pleasure to write to you. After practicing law for some 55 years, and being involved with many realtors and real estate agents, I am pleased to say that I would rank you right up at the very top of all of the people I have met doing your type of work.

You were extremely helpful, starting with the first day we met at my home at 5223 North Lake Drive, and had done your homework. You were able to tell me in detail about the difficult real estate market, which it was and is, and then give my wife and me your recommendation for an initial asking price with the idea that there would be some reduction after that listing price was tried. When the time came for that minor reduction in price, I think you hit it pretty well on the head, and with our counteroffer, I believe we got a very fair price for the property.

Throughout the whole event you were very informative, helpful and enthusiastic, and I really was delighted that the property was only on the market for two months after it was listed on January 2.

Please feel free to have any prospective clients call me for further details if you so desire, and thanks again for all of your help.”