Debartolo Realty

I have been more than pleased with my experience with Debartolo Realty. I started investing in rental properties in the Grand Rapids area a few years ago and was very lucky to team up with Linda as my agent. Their team is always more than happy to work very hard to find you the perfect house. I would trust them over any other broker in the area due to their amazing experience with foreclosures and the market in GR. As far as the other complaints go, those people must be very inexperienced with the housing market here in GR. It is very competitive and can be frustrating when houses are selling fast. Out of all my experiences working with Debartolo realty I have never felt like they were giving me anything less than 100%

Very poor business practices. They have several listing which are "active", but have already been sold. Will waste your time to come in and attempt to sell you other properties that look nothing like what you were looking at (bait and switch?). It is hard enough lookiing for properties without the trouble of sorting through which properties are not available and have not been for several months.

In regards to the previous quote on this wall, I have been doing business with Debartolo Realty and I was once a real estate agent so I know how the business goes. What many people don't realize is foreclosed properties go on and off the market so fast and many times the agent only makes a few hundred bucks on the property. If you are a serious investor, especially when purchasing bank owned homes you have to outwork others. Ive purchased 3 properties from Nick Debartolo and he has helped me place hundreds of offers on properties. My suggestion is that if you want your agent to do all the work for you, then you are going to get beat to the punch by people that are doing it full time or want it more Let me say this: I bought a condo a half mile away from the beach in Grand Haven for 36,000 and it's renting for 650 a month during the winter and $425 buck a WEEK in the summer. My mortgage is 317 dollars a month. Do you really think that these kind of properties stay on the market long or an agent is going to sell you a property like this, when he or she has an investor that is purchasing hundreds of properties. Unfortunately when I was a real estate agent, I spent alot of time helping people that never bought and it only cost me more money. An broker's split is only 3% and you have to factor in the agen may only get 1.5%-2% of that. If you want someone that will wait on you hand and feet because they do not have the experience, then you can get that from an inexperienced real estate agent. If you want the best, you have to realize why does the best want you to be their customer when they have a laundry list.

Stay away from this company. Get help from someone else if you can.

They are not interested to work with potential buyers. They are lying to the customers.

Called them for the first time as they were listing agent and they promised to call me back if the house I'm interested in will be back on market.

The house went back on market and I called them back- they said the house is sold, but another realtor showed it to us and the house didn't have any offers at the time.

Called them two months later with another house and heard that today is Friday, and he will be available Monday only. Called back on Monday- heard that I will not receive financing on the house. We have never met or talk about my finances.After I mention that we might consider cash purchase, realtor said, that he might show it to me if he will not be busy- he didn't even want to schedule time for appointment. Calling back to check if he is not busy- the answer was that house is sold. House get sold in 2 hours? Today the price of the house went down by 6 %. And it showes that they are lying again. Or have someone else in mind they wanted to buy this house.

I already work with another realtor and would not recommend this company.Beware of such "great proffessoinals"