My husband and I had a complicated situation. We had to sell our house in Longmeadow, MA, while simultaneously buying our new house in Ellington, CT. (We had a "Hubbard clause.") We could not buy until we sold. Since we lived in Massachusetts, we were working with a MA realtor. My husband and I had been looking for a new house for almost a year. We initially were just looking in Massachusetts, but we became open to looking for houses "south of the border." (lol) However, our MA realtor was not licensed in CT, and we did not want to use a different realtor from his company who was licensed in CT, because -- although he was licensed in Connecticut -- he was not very familiar with CT. Thus, I reached out to Matt's dad (I did not know Matt was a realtor at the time), as I had heard raving reviews about him from people at work. (I work in CT.) Brian, Matt's dad, put us in touch with Matt. We were very happy to work with Matt. Matt did not make us sign a contract with him right away, which appeased my husband. After we were in touch with Matt, he immediately contacted the two properties we were interested in seeing at that time. He set up an appointment to see the house that was the better house first. While we were viewing the other house the seller's realtor was there, at the seller's request. The seller's realtor left us alone, and when we were leaving, Matt and he talked. Matt knew I really liked the house but since we had the Hubbard clause it didn't make us look like the best buyers. Matt worked behind the scenes with the other realtor to assure him that as soon as we put our house on the market it would sell right away (which it did). Anyway, all of this is to say that Matt really worked well for us. I am grateful to him for helping us buy our dream house. Matt is Matt calm, cool, and collected and very easy to work with. He is honest and will tell you his opinion. He is on top of everything. Hire Matt!
Matthew Banak
