Ben Ladrido Keller Williams Southern Arizona

WOW!!! Start to finish, WOW! This team is the best you could ever find or ever work with. For us(Family of 4 and growing), we were looking for a larger home for our growing family. We had very strict criteria on what we wanted and we felt the perfect home was not out there for us. We had been looking for weeks with no luck and found nothing even close. We decided to get a realtor involved. We found Ben Ladrido - Keller Williams Southern Arizona and The Ladrido Team. They were highly recommended from very close friends, who's opinion we value greatly. These friends used them is the past and told us to look no further, they had the perfect realtor that can be trusted, is not pushy, easy to work with, and is an aggressive "Pitt Bull of a negotiator". They sent us over to Ben. We met with Ben, he interviewed us to get a profile on us, to get to know us and what we were looking for. We immediately started getting properties sent over to us that fit our profile exactly, homes that we could not find on our own. We started seeing homes that we were interested in looking at. At first we were hesitant to use a realtor that is based out of Tucson being that we were looking to buy in the Cave Creek/North Scottsdale area, but our hesitations were crushed immediately after finding the first house we were interested in looking at. This home we wanted to see right away. We let Ben know we were interested in a property he sent us. He told us this particular house had just become available and if we wanted it we would need to act fast, due to the hot market in this area. He was up in Cave Creek later that day showing us the property. This action on his part squashed any and all hesitation we had of using an out of city realtor, we could tell he knew his stuff and was our guy. We ended up not buying that home because it wasn't perfect. From there Ben and The Ladrido Team kept sending over properties as they came on the market. We looked through the listings and told them the ones we were interested in seeing in person. We arranged days and he would come up and he would show us the properties. We were very impressed with how prepared Ben was. He had all the properties lined out, specs, addresses, special instruction, alarm codes, etc. All the details needed to view the properties without trouble and not waste any of our time. He even had a GPS map with the order we should view the properties to minimize our driving time and maximize the use of our time. This was very efficient use of our time and we were very grateful. We finally found our perfect home and decided to make an offer. At the point Ben went into what I call "Pitt Bull mode" on our behalf. We had tricky funding and a few other things that did not make this transaction easy. This did not discourage Ben and he never once tried to lead us away due to the difficulty and small chance of success. In fact this house already had full cash offers that were above the asking price and we were coming in with an offer that wasn't as good as the others and had to be financed. Our offer was certainly not the most attractive offer for the seller. This is where the "Pitt Bull" part came in, Ben somehow made our offer the accepted one. He was aggressive in perusing the needs of the seller, he learned everything he could about the seller to figure out a negotiation angle that would help the seller to lean toward our offer. He even wrote a letter to the seller about us, our family, what our future plans were, how we would fit into the home, what we loved about it, and why they should go with us. The point is, Ben cared enough about us to creatively find a way to get us what we wanted. The contract was drawn up flawlessly and everything from there went off without any problems. I believe without a doubt, if we used any other realtor, they would have either given up or not tried at all, and we would not have our home. We never felt pressured. We never felt confused. We never felt intimidated. We never felt overwhelmed. Ben never made us feel like we were bothering him, even after calling daily, being indecisive, and looking at house after house after house. We DID feel important, understood, comfortable, guided, watched over, and in good hands. We knew were making the right moves guided by Ben and The Ladrido Team, and we had fun doing it. The bottom line!!!! Buying a house will be one of the hardest, most stressful things you will ever do in your life. The person/team/realtor you chose to help you through this process is SOOOOOOOOO important. If you pick a realtor because they are your sisters friend, your best friend growing up, some random acquaintance or relative, YOU ARE MAKING A HUGE MISTAKE. Trust me. Pick a realtor that knows the business, is motivated, is in your corner, has a good track record, will tell you the truth and be blindly honest to you, is not intimidated by a tough transaction, is willing to go through a tough transaction for what you want, and most importantly will always point you in the right direction.This realtor is Ben and The Ladrido Team. I will point everyone I know in their direction, I will send all my friends and family to them and I will always use them for any home I buy or sell in the future and I know I will be represented better than any other firm out there. I am glad to have found them and I wish there were more businesses out there that would follow their ethics and way of conducting business.