Dear Doug & Michelle,
You are terrific! You can imagine the anxiety of trying to select a competent
realtor from a distance, a real roll of the dice at best. But, your positive
attitude and amazing response during the initial telephone interview convinced
us that we had found the Best. You did not disappoint. In fact, you exceeded our
expectations in so many ways.
Our objectives were to help our parents purchase a new home that was handicap
accessible and sell their existing home. Because of the effects of Dad's stroke
we knew we had to find a Realtor who was understanding and patient. You were
amazing in handling our parents and helping them make these life changing
decisions. We could not have accomplished this without you two wonderful people!
You impressed us time and again. Your knowledge of the real estate market
helped us achieve our goals. Thank you for helping us get the asking price for
our parents home. Thank you for helping them find the perfect new home that met
all of our criteria. Thank you for answering the same question ten times. Thank
you for seeking to understand Mom and Dad's needs. Thank you for representing us
and our interested with the sellers and buyers. Thank you for the advise and
candor. Thank you for the contractor referrals, scheduling of workers and
inspectors. Thank you for representing us so effectively at the closings and all
the special service you gave that was far beyond the call of duty. Thank you for
being as interested in the success of our real estate transactions as we were.
You shared our concerns and our joys. Thanks!
Well, I fail to express your exemplary abilities and how wonderful you are to
work with. But, in our years of buying and selling real estate we have never had
such quality representation. You're the greatest!
Lamar & Judy Hamilton
Core Vision, Inc.
10583 Lee Drive
Eden Prairie, MN 55347
Phone (952) 829-0651
Fax (952) 829-0712
I am writing this letter on behalf of Doug and Michelle Bry, realtors for
Coldwll Banker - Sunstar Realty, Inc.
Doug and Michelle are very efficient
and well organized in everything they do. They are very creative in their
marketing, not only mailing beautiful brochures to clients and fellow realtors,
but they also do excellent advertising on the internet. Doug and Michelle
go out of their way to find the "home of your dreams" for you.
They spend time talking with you to see what your needs are and they also give
of themselves freely to show you what you want. They truly work good
together and their abilities are outstanding.
They found us our new home and sold
our old home all within one month! Whether you are buying or selling your
home, you will never find a couple more dedicated to meeting your needs. I
highly recommend Doug and Michelle Bry!
Sincerely,
Jennings and Lois Millsaps
1161 Alton Road, Port Charlotte, FL, 33952
Dear Doug & Michelle:
I would like to take this
opportunity to thank you for a very professional,
thorough & exhaustive search for our new home. From my first contact with
you,
6 months prior to our purchase, through the closing, we couldn't have been
happier.
The flow of information on Port
Charlotte and the house information you
emailed us back in Atlanta was great in helping us decide exactly what we
could expect for our money in the Port Charlotte area. Then knowing that our
buying trip was short and time of the essence, your email showing us the 15
houses that you had setup viewing appointments for us, was most helpful in
our preparation.
I know that me being a realtor in
Atlanta didn't make your jobs any easier.
You both handled our three simultaneous offers like champs. In just 3 short
days in Port Charlotte we left with the house of our dreams. Today, when
someone asks us how we found our secluded home, we tell them, "We could
never have done it without or Realtors, Michelle & Doug Bry".
Thanks again for all your help. Kay
and I are sure you will have a very
successful career in Real Estate. Your knowledge of the area, real estate
law, your caring attitude and your extraordinary computer skills will serve
you well.
Best regards,
Kay and Bill McLeod
3069 Stone Street
Port Charlotte FL 33981
Dear Don, ( Donald Randolph, Owner, Sunstar Realty )
Doug and Michelle Bry are real "Pros". We live in Fort
Lauderdale and know very little about the real estate market in Punta Gorda and
Port Charlotte. Doug and Michelle possess a unique knowledge of that
area, combined with professionalism and caring, which sets them apart from the
"masses". They readily grasped our Real Estate requirements and
went to work matching them. What started out as
"house hunting" ended with a "water lot" purchase and the
personal introduction to several quality builders in the area.
There weren't many questions or concerns Doug and Michelle
couldn't answer. If not, they quickly went to the correct sources and
found the information to answer them. It is a pleasure and a rare
experience to work with the Brys.
A "big" thanks to both of them.
Bob Cipolla and Sandi Cabeza
" Doug and Michelle were very courteous and saw to our every need
when helping us find the perfect home. We will, without hesitation, refer
other interested home buyers to Doug and Michelle. We will certainly
contact them when we are in the market for another home. Thank you Doug
and Michelle for your excellent, professional service."
Hope this helps you in the future. You two are great and we mean every
word of it.
Thanks again, Jason and Angel
--- Jason Dombrowsky
When we found out that we would be transferring to another part of Florida we
knew we would have to sell our house in Port Charlotte. We began the
process by interviewing several realtors in the area. When we talked to
Doug and Michelle we knew that we did not have to talk to anyone else.
They handled the sale of our house in every aspect. We really didn't have
to do anything except sign the papers. Since moving to another area of
Florida we have started looking at houses to buy and good realtors to deal
with. Almost a year later we have not found either. Doug and
Michelle we wish you were here.
Thank you for everything that you
did for us.
Sincerely
Tim and Connie Miller
4306 Shadow Wood Lane
Winter Haven, FL 33880
We have seldom worked with such professional and
accommodating agents as Doug and Michelle Bry.
They actually listened to what we were looking for and how much we could
afford then showed us homes that qualified.
They didn’t try to sell us something we couldn’t afford and checked
for new listings daily.
We were in contact with Doug and Michelle long
distance by both phone and e-mail before we met them personally. They suggested a mortgage lender that pre-approved our loan
and provided the easiest mortgage closing we have ever witnessed.
Doug and Michelle handled everything for us in Port Charlotte after we
had left.
We would highly recommend anyone looking for property
in the Charlotte County area to contact Doug and Michelle. If you don’t you will miss a very pleasant opportunity.
David & Judy Parker
Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
Dear Doug &
Michelle Bry: Thank you so much for helping us find the house we
always wanted in Florida. We tried many times with other agencies and
found
your help the best of all. Your tireless efforts and your availability to
us
to help us find a house and also after through all the endless details needed
before closing, you were always there for us and we appreciated it. We
closed on our house from N.J. and didn't even have to fly down. We are now
happily retired in our new home in sunny Florida and loving it. Thanks so
much.
Larry & Diane
When we were planning to relocate to Florida from Illinois, we had the good
fortune to have Doug and Michelle Bry from Coldwell Banker, Sunstar Realty, Inc.
as our realtors.
We now reside in a lovely house that meets
our needs in an area that we wanted to live in.
If ever the day comes when we need a realtor you can be sure we will again
call Doug and Michelle.
Sincerely,
Paul and Dorothy Bogda
Port Charlotte, Florida
Doug and Michelle were the buyers representative when my wife and I bought
waterfront property in the summer of 2000. Michelle handled all the
negotiations and purchase agreement details deftly even though I live 1700
miles away. If she was out of the office when I called, Doug was always
available to deal with my concerns. I was so satisfied that when asked by
friends about whom I dealt with I referred them to the Brys. My friends
had the same level of satisfaction with their purchase. Bruce C. of Mpls, MN.
Due to an unusual set of circumstances, the most critical of which being
Doug and Michelle Bry's expertise as a team of real estate agents, we were
able to purchase in record time and at a fair price the exact Florida
home we had identified after eight months of Internet research
conducted from Cleveland, Ohio.
We began looking on the Internet for our new
retirement home in Florida in May of 2000. At the beginning
of our search, we had almost no knowledge of Southwest Florida. So,
we labored for months with various Internet sites and accumulated an extensive
library of real estate information on an area stretching from Ocala to Fort
Myers. Finally, in September 2000 we fixed a date for a combined 10-day
vacation and on-site search in January 2001, right at the onset of the peak
real estate season. Then we contacted several real estate agents in the
areas of interest to us.
After receiving preliminary information from
various agencies and adding them to our previous pool of data, we began
finalizing our criteria and eliminating the weaker locations and
agencies. Through this gradual and tedious process, we narrowed
the locality of interest further down and made our final selection of real
estate agency in mid-October 2000. The team of Doug and Michelle Bry won
our business over a field of about half-a-dozen potential contenders.
There were two main factors that
influenced our final selection of a real estate agency.
First, there was the locality we seemed to favor most after giving due
consideration of all the demographic data we had digested: Port Charlotte,
Punta Gorda, and North Port. Second, there was the unparalleled
Internet expertise demonstrated by Doug and Michelle Bry, combined with
the level of attention they were willing to give us from the very
start. They were the only team technically capable of keeping
up with our methodology and thoroughness of research. Their website was
always the most complete and current one, even during the chaotic
transition period when the multiple listing system (MLS) was being totally
revamped in the area. And, as we later learned, many of the other
agencies in the Port Charlotte, Punta Gorda, and North Port area relied heavily
on Doug and Michelle's website for their own business activities during this
frustrating period of time.
As January 2001 and the time of our 10-day on-site
visit approached, we prepared a ranked list of 28 potential homes which we
sent to Doug and Michelle to plan our tour. They added 5 more homes that
met our specifications and became available in the last few
days before our arrival in Florida. Thanks to our thorough knowledge
of both the community and the housing market acquired through the Internet,
Doug and Michelle were able to schedule 33 homes for us to visit in
the short time span of 2 days. In fact, our Internet
research proved to be so complete and accurate that our deliberation
process with each of the homes we visited was extremely easy. There were
almost no surprises -- an amazing credit to the power of the Internet and the
completeness of Doug and Michelle's listings. As a result, by the end
of our second day on site we were able to make an acceptable offer on the
No.1 home we had selected even before coming to Florida.
As Doug and Michelle Bry expressed to us on the
third day of our visit, "the outcome of this case was very
unusual." We owe it to both our own thoroughness of preparation
and to Doug and Michelle's extraordinary expertise as a team of real estate
agents. And since we successfully concluded our home purchase so early,
we were able to enjoy eight full days of vacation -- double the amount of time
we had anticipated, which added even more to our enjoyment of the experience.
Syl and Pat Jean-Baptiste
We got tired of the very fast paced life in New York. We wanted a quieter
lifestyle where we can actually not put a time on family time. We decided to
visit Sarasota and Punta Gorda based on articles we've read about their being
the best place to raise a family. Since we really wanted a complete quiet
environment, we thought Sarasota was a bit to busy for us. We were just about to
give up relocating to Florida, when we decided to contact Michelle. Michelle was
very pleasant and thus convinced us to check out Punta Gorda. She knew what we
were looking for and took us to a country setting that reminded us of the movie
"Oklahoma". We and our children are very happy to be Punta Gorda
residents thanks to Michelle and Doug.
We'll keep in touch Michelle and thank you for everything.
Giorgie
Having been a Real Estate Broker for many years in the
state of Colorado, I fully appreciate your dedication to do the right job for
your clients. I consider it difficult for a realtor to deal with both the
buyer & seller fairly, however with honesty and integrity, with
consideration for both parties the difficulty evaporates.
I appreciate the fact that you people have these qualities
and both Loretta and I thank you two for handling the sale of property just the
way we think it should be handled.
We will continue to recommend you whenever we have the
opportunity.
Sincerely,
Bob & Loretta Hunt
