Joel was an absolute pleasure to work with when buying our home. As first time home buyers, we were unfamiliar with every aspect of the home buying process. Joel worked with our family for THREE YEARS to help us find the best home for our growing family. From countless tours and endless text messages, Joel always responded at a moment’s notice (even on vacation!) with a positive attitude. When we finally found the home of our dreams, Joel walked us through each step of the process. He answered all of our questions, helped calm our nerves, and even held our 3 month old daughter during the inspection so both my husband and I could walk the property. We are thrilled to finally be in the home of our dreams, and would recommend Joel 1000 times over to anyone looking to start the home buying process. Thank you Joel for everything!

Being out of town, we were very dependent on Joel to take care of many things for us. He kept in touch with us regularly to keep us apprised of what was happening with the property. Joel is a high quality individual! If the situations arises, I would use him again and would recommend him to others!

Joel was flexible, attentive and knowledgeable of all the houses he showed us. Any question we had he answered or if he didn’t know the answer he would seek the answer out for us. It was a great experience and I would definitely use him again.

Joel is exactly what we needed to sell our townhouse. We have had multiple prior unsuccessful sales attempts with this property while utilizing other realtors. He was able to come up with a good game plan and price. He helped deal with a lot of the bumps along the road associated with the sale of this property and in the end helped us significantly. We cannot thank Joel enough.

Joel was an absolute pleasure to work with when buying home. As first time home buyers, we were unfamiliar with every aspect of the home buying process. Joel worked with our family for THREE YEARS to help us find the best home for our growing family. From countless tours and endless text messages, Joel always responded at a moment’s notice (even on vacation!) with a positive attitude. When we finally found the home of our dreams, Joel walked us through each step of the process. He answered all of our questions, helped calm our nerves, and even held our 3 month old daughter during the inspection so both my husband and I could walk the property. We are thrilled to finally be in the home of our dreams, and would recommend Joel 1000 times over to anyone looking to start the home buying process. Thank you Joel for everything!

Joel was amazing to work with, would highly recommend! He took great care of us and was very knowledgeable about the home buying process and location. His flexibility and hard work really paid off and was an integral part in helping us find our dream home.

Joel Zielke was amazing to work with throughout our selling and buying process even when we were thrown some curve-balls by other parties. Joel made us as comfortable as possible and helped us get the most out of the sale of our home while getting the best deal on the purchase of our new home. As an agent and resident of Elmhurst, his knowledge of the area helped us pinpoint some areas for our search finding the right home for our family. We don't plan on moving any time soon, but if we did, Joel Zielke, who we now consider our friend, would be our agent of choice. Thanks Joel!

Joel had helped friends of mine get their home and they only had fantastic things to say about him. We started the house hunting process with another agent but she was not as responsive to our needs. We switched to Joel and it was the best decision that we made. Joel walked us through every step of the process. He made it fun and easy to buy our first home. Joel was the best. He encouraged us to see as many houses as possible. He provided great insight when we asked and was very respectful to our ideas and needs.

Joel Zielke did a fantastic job helping my family buy our first home! We highly recommend him. He's relational, patient, and ready to serve you.

We consider it a lucky accident that Joel Zielke was connected w a property we enquired about after seeing it listed online. Joel was always positive and reassuring without ever seeming insincere and it never felt he was just in it for the sale; it felt he had our best interests in mind. We valued his honesty and genuineness. He assured us we could contact him whenever we needed to and a last minute glitch (unrelated to BHS or Joel) which led to very long closing wasn't a hardship. His easy-going way and relaxed conversation allowed us (me!) to not stress as our lawyer went to bat. Our whole experience was a true pleasure! We'd recommend Joel to anyone we know and hope to work w him in the future! Though we only know Joel, if he's representative of BHS we're impressed!! (To Joel's boss: give the man a bonus!! He earned it

Joel came highly recommended to me from a mutual friend. From the moment we first spoke he was friendly, attentive, and very willing to help me with my search for a new home. Whenever I wanted to see a property or had a question Joel answered it and scheduled a viewing promptly. Joel did everything in his power to make sure I was aware of everything and buying was a smoothe process. I would HIGHLY recommend Joel to anyone in search of a home/property. He is one of the most knowledgeable realtors I have ever worked with. I have not one bad thing to say about my home purchase thanks to him!

First time home selling experience can be nerve wrecking especially when you want to be totally honest with your potential home buyer!! Yes, this is the dilemma we faced. We wanted to focus on all the positives of our 70 year old charming and drop dead gorgeous home but at the same time not shy away from informing of its flaws to our next buyer. Joel helped us do exactly that and more. We were able to collaborate with Joel on some of our ideas on marketing the home. Be it staging the home, hosting open houses, reaching out to potential leads or simply connecting with other realtors to “pick their brains” about questions we had - Joel did everything effectively and kept us informed on what was important. We were able to sell our home very quickly and at a price we were comfortable with. I would definitely use Joel’s services again for we have not met as honest and friendly a realtor as him! Good luck and our very sincere THANK YOU !!