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Laurie Shenkman - The Frederick Group

Real Estate Agents

About us

We are a full service agent team, licensed and practicing real estate in the Lehigh Valley for over 10 years. Natives to the area – we’ve are networked with people, places and service providers who will best serve your real estate needs. At work in the field each and every day – our skills are developed to orchestrate a real estate process that delivers results on your action plan. We execute passionately –our aim is exceed your expectations! If you need to sell we discern together your property value & prepare a plan to market. We showcase your property with banner remarks, quality photos, a virtual tour & YouTube links. Our technology reach is strong to promote your listing across multiple websites and feed in email blasts. Our agency staff will manage the showing process and we will personally conduct open houses, public and brokers, to suit your comfort level. Our commitment is to make you visible, attract the buyers, and facilitate the purchase process upon accepted contract. Our satisfied clients include people who had a dream to move out, move up, move on or start a little investment portfolio. We can help you achieve smart returns for your retirement plan. We work with you as a coach to your dreams and we have stories of achieved goals.

Business highlights

21 years of trusted experience
Emergency Services Offered

Services we offer

General Real Estate Services for buyers & sellers. Buyer services include prequalification for mortgage, scouting & showing properties, drafting & negotiating contracts, overseeing inspections & orchestrating settement. Seller services include all aspects of home listing from determining market value through comparative market analyses to staging, clean outs, relocation services, advertising, virtual tours, brokers and public open houses, screening buyers, negotiating offers & settlement.

Amenities

Free Estimates
Yes
Emergency Services
Yes


Accepted payment methods

Check

Photos of past projects

Reviews

4.08 Reviews
Number of StarsImage of DistributionNumber of Ratings
5
50%
4
38%
3
0%
2
0%
1
13%


Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
4.0
value
4.0
professionalism
4.2
responsiveness
4.7
punctuality
4.7
Showing 1-8 of 8 reviews

Sheree B.
03/2014
4.0
real estate agents
  + -1 more
Laurie was very likable, easy to talk to and wanted to please us. She offered to take a lower percentage of the sale due to our financial hardship. Positive experience.
Description of Work: Gave us advice about selling our house. Put up the sign & posts on the internet. Responded to questions. Set up & ran open house.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
3.0
value
5.0
professionalism
4.0
responsiveness
4.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro

Sharon M.
11/2013
5.0
real estate agents
  + -1 more
Laurie worked hard to get us a great price for our house. She also helped with the staging. She had great connections & we really enjoyed working with her.
Description of Work: Laurie listed & sold our home for us and she helped us purchase our new home.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
value
5.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro

Darrell B.
10/2013
5.0
real estate agents
  + -1 more
Laurie was helpful-in very practical ways from the start. She is not pushy nor does she focus on the money. She is genuine in caring and seeing that no stone is unturned in getting what you need.
Description of Work: Locate, negotiate purchase of residential property.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
value
5.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro
$230,000

Nathan J.
10/2013
1.0
real estate agents
  + -1 more
It was horrible a experience! Basically, she did none of the negotiations for the price of the home. She did not help find the home. We were relocating from Italy back to the US and we needed help! She was supposed to negotiate that we could do a rent-to-own process that she assured was set up. We arrived to find that the owner of the property had not agreed to anything or signed anything. We had to live out of a hotel for a month, while we did all of the negotiations. She came to us and said she didn't know what to do. Before we could close on the house, we were told that we needed to get a water test. She couldn't even get that taken care of, and once again we had to step in and handle the situation. The manager of Coldwell actually had to take over and she didn't finish the job, but she still got paid for it. An overall nightmare of an experience!
Description of Work: Laurie helped us purchase and close on our new home.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
1.0
value
1.0
professionalism
1.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
4.0

$16,000

Response from Laurie Shenkman - The Frederick Group
The good book says "forgive them for they know not what they do." In my defense of this scathing review I can say that my last conversation with the (removed member name) was just after Hurricane Sandy - a difficult time for everyone here on the East Coast - and especially when trying to obtain results of a water test on a failed well. My inability to obtain immediate results for my buyers precipitated their request to work with my broker until final settlement. I can say that I worked very long and hard hours to find a home for my buyers - beginning in May 2012 - with several previews of properties prior to their arrival in the States - taking photos and providing extensive reports on each property. The property for which they say I did not find - I actually found at the same time they did and alerted them to its listing on the market almost in the same instance. In order to procure this property it was necessary to absolve a former transaction and obtain a speedy release which for those of us in the profession know - is not easily performed. Quite honestly, there was nothing I would not have done for these buyers - but some requests made were beyond my scope of making miracles happen. The good news, however, despite the F rating they have given me, is that they are now living in one of the most beautiful homes I have had the pleasure to see. I hope they are happy now and have overcome the nightmare ~ that for sure, was shared by both of us.

Brenda M.
10/2013
4.0
real estate agents
  + -1 more
She was always available no matter what types of questions we had, she was extremely responsive. Laurie was not pushy for us to re-sign a contract with her. We ended up re-listing the house after the holidays had past which was about six months later with a different relator who was able to sell the house.
Description of Work: We worked with Laurie over a six month period. Laurie listed our home but did not sell it.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro

Paul S.
10/2013
5.0
real estate agents
  + -1 more
Laurie was very nice. She was professional, friendly and helpful. Laurie was not a relator that was pushy , however, we do get cards from her every so often in the mail. I do not have any knowledge of actually going through the real estate process with her but she stand out in my mind.
Description of Work: We did not use her as a relator but we went to one of her open houses. We were the only people that showed up for the open house so she was able to talk with us about things within the house.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
professionalism
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro

MaryEleanor S.
09/2013
4.0
real estate agents
  + -1 more
Very well. Punctual, knowledgeable, profeesional
Description of Work: Met with my husband and I twice to discuss the sale of our property. Also realtor Donna Keim was highly recommended by a friend who was very happy with her.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
professionalism
4.0
responsiveness
4.0
punctuality
4.0

Yes, I recommend this pro

Bruce T.
04/2012
5.0
real estate agents
  + -1 more
Our particular agent that we worked with was very flexible, so that she could be with us because we were in the middle of moving and we actually left the area before our house was sold but she was very good at keeping in touch with us even though we already had moved.
Description of Work: I used Coldwell Banker a real estate agency to sell our house.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro

    Contact information

    3500 Winchester Rd, Allentown, PA 18104

    www.LaurieShenkman.com

    Service hours

    Sunday:
    7:30 AM - 10:00 PM
    Monday:
    7:30 AM - 10:00 PM
    Tuesday:
    7:30 AM - 10:00 PM
    Wednesday:
    7:30 AM - 10:00 PM
    Thursday:
    7:30 AM - 10:00 PM
    Friday:
    7:30 AM - 10:00 PM
    Saturday:
    7:30 AM - 10:00 PM

    Licensing

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    FAQ

    Laurie Shenkman - The Frederick Group is currently rated 4 overall out of 5.

    Sunday: 7:30 AM - 10:00 PM

    Monday: 7:30 AM - 10:00 PM

    Tuesday: 7:30 AM - 10:00 PM

    Wednesday: 7:30 AM - 10:00 PM

    Thursday: 7:30 AM - 10:00 PM

    Friday: 7:30 AM - 10:00 PM

    Saturday: 7:30 AM - 10:00 PM

    Laurie Shenkman - The Frederick Group accepts the following forms of payment: Check
    Yes, Laurie Shenkman - The Frederick Group offers free project estimates.
    No, Laurie Shenkman - The Frederick Group does not offer eco-friendly accreditations.
    No, Laurie Shenkman - The Frederick Group does not offer a senior discount.
    Yes, Laurie Shenkman - The Frederick Group offers emergency services.
    No, Laurie Shenkman - The Frederick Group does not offer warranties.
    Laurie Shenkman - The Frederick Group offers the following services: General Real Estate Services for buyers & sellers. Buyer services include prequalification for mortgage, scouting & showing properties, drafting & negotiating contracts, overseeing inspections & orchestrating settement. Seller services include all aspects of home listing from determining market value through comparative market analyses to staging, clean outs, relocation services, advertising, virtual tours, brokers and public open houses, screening buyers, negotiating offers & settlement.

    Contact information

    3500 Winchester Rd, Allentown, PA 18104

    www.LaurieShenkman.com

    Service hours

    Sunday:
    7:30 AM - 10:00 PM
    Monday:
    7:30 AM - 10:00 PM
    Tuesday:
    7:30 AM - 10:00 PM
    Wednesday:
    7:30 AM - 10:00 PM
    Thursday:
    7:30 AM - 10:00 PM
    Friday:
    7:30 AM - 10:00 PM
    Saturday:
    7:30 AM - 10:00 PM