Two years ago, Mike Sylvia (owner of The Terrier Group) helped my husband and I buy our first home, a 2-bedroom condo in Southie. We used him as our buyers' agent and he was excellent. He talked us out of buying a condo that we thought we really liked (and which was more money than we intended to spend) because he thought it was overpriced. I knew then that he had a great deal of integrity and that he was a Southie expert. He ended up helping us buy a gut renovation on the east side of South Boston. It was an amazing home with parking and he got us a great deal.
Two years later, our circumstances changed and my husband and I needed to move out of state and sell our home. Honestly, I was just hoping we would break even because we had planned on staying there much longer. Given our awesome first experience with Mike, we knew we wanted to use him to sell our condo. He was so helpful and honest once again - no surprise! Our home sold in 2 days and there was a bidding war. In 2 years, we made 20% on our home, which was completely unexpected. I have no doubt that part of that was due to Mike's expertise, professionalism, and salesmanship.
Mike is pleasant to work with, incredibly responsive (it felt like emails were returned immediately, almost all the time), professional, and truly an expert in the biz. Mike is an amazing real estate agent on both ends of the game - if we were still living in Massachusetts, we would absolutely use him again!