Stark Company Realtors

Rich and Melody Wirth, a father- daughter team at Stark Realty Company in Madison, Wi., far exceeded my expectations and past experiences with home buying. I feel so fortunate that Rich answered our call. This duo were very responsive to our requests to see homes, very patient with us as our wants in a home evolved over time, and very diplomatic in negotiations on our behalf. Having the team approach from both Rich and Melody gave us combined insights and opinions from their two generations that one agent alone may not have been able to offer us. It had been quite a while since I was involved in a home purchase and the Wirths blew me away with both their efforts and with the innovations since my last purchase- 1990’s. Rich offered us internet sites and tools to ease the process and to educate us. He kept us very current on new listings that fit what we were looking for. In such a hot real estate market, it was important to have an agent who jumped into action as soon as appropriate listings popped up. We had put in two offers on homes that we weren’t chosen for and we saw many more homes that “just weren’t right” for us. I expressed that I was ready to give up and wait until the market cooled off. However Rich encouraged me that the perfect home was out there and not to give up. He was right. We did find a home that met and exceeded our expectations and frankly, surprised us because that home wasn’t what we started out looking for. It was better! The Wirth duo at Stark Realtors has contacts with other agents and financing people that eased our process. For example, Rich made a recommendation for a financing company, Guarantee Rate, Tony Burns, that we would never have found on our own but once again, exceeded our expectations and past experiences with mortgage companies. Once our offer was accepted, Rich kept us and everyone else involved in the deal on track reminding us of deadlines. He continued negotiations with the seller and their agent as our inspection came in, kept in contact with our financing company to make sure everything was progressing as needed, gave us timelines for things we needed to do before, during and after the sale- Small details like changing our address, getting internet service for our home, taking over utilities, etc. In every encounter with the Wirth team we felt as if we were their only clients. We knew we weren’t but we felt like we were. We worked with the Starks for approximately 9 months. In those months we had laughs and disappointments. The Wirths kept us going. When we closed on our homes and it was time to say goodbye to Rich and Melody, I felt like we were saying goodbye to family. Aside from their skills and experience in real estate, the Wirths are good family people and good human beings. That is the highest compliment I can give them. I will use them again when we buy our retirement home. Thank you Rich and Melody!