If you’re looking to buy and/or sell a house in Shrewsbury, there is only one choice for a realtor and that choice is Becky Dalke. Becky did an amazing job helping our young family transition from our "starter house” into our "home.” We met Becky shortly after we had started working with another real estate agent and I remember feeling very disappointed that we wouldn’t have the opportunity to work with her. We spent 10 long months looking for a house with our first agent and found nothing that felt like a home. For three of these months, we also had our house on the market and did not receive a single offer. Discouraged, we took our house off the market and put our search on hiatus as we prepared for the arrival of our second child.

While Becky wasn’t our real estate agent at the time, she knew that we were having a hard time finding a home and wanted to help. Even while we were taking a break from our active search, we stayed in touch via email in case any suitable homes came on the market. Our first real estate agent never understood what we were looking for in a home and constantly encouraged us to compromise and settle for less. In contrast, Becky knew exactly what we were looking for and would stop at nothing to help us find it.

With a newborn and a 2 year old in tow, we started our search again but this time we enlisted Becky’s help. In less than a month, we had found a great home and made a backup offer (since it already had an accepted offer). Unfortunately, the original deal held together so our search continued. When there was nothing on the market that interested us, Becky told us not to worry and started knocking on doors in our favorite neighborhoods to track down our dream home. Becky was able to find us multiple homes this way and provided us the unique opportunity to make an offer before the house even went on the market. In these circumstances, Becky was acting as a dual agent and was not permitted to advise us on price which made me extremely nervous. Becky calmed my fears by taking the time to teach me how to do my own comparative market analysis so that I would have confidence in our offer. This knowledge came in handy since the first 3 homes we made offers on were all listed by Becky. For a variety of reasons, our first 3 attempts were unsuccessful. For us, the fourth time was the charm. Looking back, we are so glad that the other three offers fell through because this is the home we were meant to buy. Becky found us the perfect home and we love it!

Once we had found our dream home, it was time for us to reluctantly pass our starter home to a new family. Becky’s staging advice was simple and effective. We followed her advice and we had a signed offer at a great price in less than a week. We were thrilled. When it comes to buying and selling homes in Shrewsbury, the choice is clear. Call Becky Dalke today. You won’t regret it.

Now that we have closed on the sale of our home in Boston, I wanted to take the opportunity to thank you for the work that you did in marketing our home, as well as counseling us on the process and strategy.  I thought you were very professional and easy to work with, even in the more difficult discussions around lowering the price of our home when it became necessary.   This was certainly a difficult market to sell in, and I think you did a great job for us.

Please also thank Anne for me....the two of you make a great team.