The Wise Listing System Team Doug James

My Track Record and Experience Benefits You

Real estate is a people business, no matter how you slice it! It revolves around money, facts and figures, but more important are the human relationships at it's core. I am the CEO, broker and head listing agent of our firm, and I'm an expert at what I do. I understand the minutiae of the business, but can also see the larger picture, which is one of the things that has made me a consistent top producer over the years. I work with a team of seasoned professionals who compliment my strengths. Making my transactions smooth and seamless.

In this changing market I am always educating myself on how to help our clients the best. To assist home sellers with a possible short-sale or to prevent a foreclosure I've recently earned the prestigious Certified Distressed Property Expert designation. This is invaluable expertise to offer at a time when the area is ravaged by "distressed" homes in the foreclosure process. With over 30 years of experience in the Real Estate Industry (since 1979) I offer the most knowledge and expertise in today’s market. Visit us at www.WiseListingSystem.com or call at 303-814-3684 for more information on how you can get the most money in the shortest time with the least amount of hassle when SELLING your home.

Areas of Expertise

Using our "Guaranteed Sale Program" we sell more single family homes than the average Realtor in Denver. Home of the TV commercial 'Your Home Is Sold, Or I'll Step In And Buy It Myself', we set ourselves apart. We specialize in selling homes Fast & For Top Dollar through attention to details, extensive and customized marketing programs and a full staff of professionals to provide extraordinary service. For additional information, please visit our website at www.WiseListingSystem.com or contact us at 303-814-3684. We think you will find the benefits of doing business with us over any other average agent - remarkable!

Testimonials

Over the years we had slowly began to outgrow our home. The girls were getting bigger and the time was right to move up to a larger home we had found. Standing in our way was the fact that we had to sell an existing home before we could move to the next one. To make matters worse, the owners of the house we wanted to buy wouldn’t take a contingent offer. We loved the home and the thought of not getting it filled us with worry. “Doug’s Guaranteed Sale Program Saved Us”Lucky for us a local Realtor named Doug James had this “Guaranteed Sale” program where he would step in and buy your home so you could move up to your next home without the worry and stress of having to sell and buy simultaneously. At first we were skeptical because we assumed that he would offer us some ridiculous price for our home. We needed every penny out of our existing home to place as a down payment on our next home. When we met with Doug he clearly explained the Program, how the offering price would be arrived at, and how much money we could expect to net if he bought our home. We were pleasantly surprised to find that we would net enough money, and we could time our move to our next home without having to move twice. Another great relief was that when we went to make our offer on the home we wanted to buy we were able to make that offer without the contingency for the sale of our home since it was already “sold.” We’ve lived in our new home for almost four years now and we love it more and more each day. To say we were pleased with Doug’s Guaranteed Sale Program is an understatement.

My husband Joel had been commuting very long hours each way to his new job. The time the family was apart was becoming too much for us. Sometimes it seemed all we ever saw Joel was in the morning and at bed time. It was physically draining and emotionally taxing. We decided that selling our home and getting the family back together more each day was the right choice. But here’s where we went wrong. We hired the first agent we spoke to. Never were we given any advice on how to stage our home for sale. As days turned into months with no offers we kept asking our agent what we could do. The answer kept coming back, “The house looks good just be patient.” Finally after three months we’d had enough. Our listing expired and we called Doug James.

Doug Showed Us How A Few Quick and Easy Changes Could Cure Our Problem”When Doug met with us he took a tour of our home, carefully examining each room. Doug said our home suffered only from a curable case of “clutter-i-tis.” He showed us how a few quick and easy changes could cure our problem. Nothing he suggested caused us any inconvenience, and frankly, it made us feel like we had wasted the previous ninety days with the first agent. Well guess what, in only a few days we had a great offer on our home! What Doug did was to take the time to be direct and work to get us to see how selling a home was completely different from how we live in our home. A great agent does more than advertise a home, and Doug is one great agent.

I had watched Doug’s team sell the home across the street from mine very quickly and my impression was that if the neighbor’s home could sell so easily, my home could too. Figuring I could save money on the commission I listed with the local Help-U-Sell office. In hindsight I definitely should have interviewed more than one agent before I signed on. Perhaps if I had taken the time to educate myself I would have known that only 69.7% of the homes listed for sale in my market area actually sold during the year. I cut corners in the hiring process and I paid for it. I had no pre-determined way to pick the agent that was going to handle one of the biggest and most important financial events of my life!

“I Was Thinking With My Wallet Instead of My Brain” After three long months I had enough and called Doug James and the Wise Listing Team. During our meeting I learned that selling a home is a process, and that a smart seller is prepared to interview an agent the same way a Fortune 500 company would interview prospective new hires, purposefully and thoroughly. I had made my previous hiring decision on who charged the lowest fee instead of who could help me get my home sold right. Doug’s team sold my home at the full asking price in less than thirty days. Yes I paid a slightly higher commission than the $4,995 offered by Help-U-Sell, but I sold my home for a nice profit that more than made up for the slightly higher fee. I guess you could say I got a graduate education in realestateology 101, and with Doug’s team leading the class, it only took a month and not four long years for me to graduateFinding a buyer to pay your asking price in this market isn’t as tough as fighting and winning the appraisal war that often follows. When our home appraised for $23,000 less than what the buyer agreed to pay we thought we were in real trouble. When the appraisal came in below the contract price we had three choices and none of them were good. First, we could lower the sales price to meet the appraised value which meant we’d be getting $23,000 less than we planned on. Two, we could scrap the sale and start all over again which meant we’d wasted nearly two weeks of time not to mention we’d already made plans to move. Finally, we could renegotiate with the buyer asking them to come up with cash to make up the difference between the appraised value and the contract price, and the buyer already nixed that idea.

Doug took charge of the situation and fought hard with the appraiser. He supplied more comparable sales than what the appraiser had been initially willing to use and he made the appraiser understand that prices were going up so fast that the comps were not in and of themselves indicative of the current value of our home. After all the negotiating and hard work Doug was able to get the appraiser to raise the value all the way up to within $5,000 of our contract price. Then, to our utter shock Doug gave us a $5,000 Cash Reward Certificate that will put those lost thousands back in our pocket. We’re moved now, and when we look back at our sale, we feel lucky that Doug was on our side, he’s the guy you want next to you when you’re in an alley fight with an appraiser who is trying to take a big chunk of your money.

I had listed my home with a well known major real estate company because I assumed it would bring me more exposure. Unfortunately after three months my home hadn’t sold and I was at a loss to understand what to do different the second time around. I was worried that my home would be seen as a retread by buyers and agents in our area. The stress of my recent failure to sell was beginning to consume me. I needed to sell soon to meet my deadline to be moved to my new home community and my daughter was getting ready to go off to school so I couldn’t afford for my home not to sell again. Luckily for me I made a smart decision to hire Doug and his team the second time. It didn’t take long for them to make me feel comfortable. They explained that when a home doesn’t sell there are very definable reasons why. It was almost like conducting an autopsy. They asked a series of probing questions about the home, what transpired during the first listing, and they carefully explained the current pricing trends in the market. By the way, my first agent didn’t do any of the things Doug and his team did during this first meeting!

They Made My “Old” Listing Look “New”

Doug’s team set about reintroducing my home to both the buying public and area agents via flyers, ads, emails, and his approach to using the comment section of the MLS. The results were impressive. I had more showings in the first week than I had in the previous four weeks when I was listed with my first agent. Within two weeks I had accepted an offer at my asking price with a closing date that was perfect. In a way, selling a home is a lot like cooking. Having both a great recipe and a great chef makes all the difference. Doug’s team are definitely great chefs.

The most difficult part of selling my home was dealing with the home inspector. It seems that these guys come into your home and often come away with recommendations for repairs that are just plain wrong. In my case it cost me my first sale. Our home sold within the first few days of going on the market but ultimately we lost the escrow because the home inspector scared the buyers into believing that our roof trusses were substandard as a result of an whole house fan I had installed some years ago. When our sale collapsed we were angry and frustrated. We felt the home inspector unjustly torpedoed our sale and misinformed the buyer.

“The Home Inspector Torpedoed Our Sale”Doug advised us to talk to the contractor who installed the fan and request a written guarantee for the work they had done, which they eagerly did. To head off any further problems we finally followed Doug’s advice and had an independent home inspection done. With the exception of a few minor items that were previously unknown to us, the home inspection came out fine. We quickly fixed the flagged items. When we received our next offer we were ready. This time everything went very well. When the buyer did their home inspection they didn’t ask for a single repair! In the end it all worked out fine, but if I had it to do all over again, I would have followed Doug’s advice at the beginning, and at the time of listing, I would have done a pest, roof, and whole house inspection. Doug even provides his clients with a free 19-Point Home Problem Prevention Audit that identifies the most common problems home inspectors discover, and how to quickly and inexpensively eliminate them before they come up. Doug’s method to protecting his clients gives a whole new meaning to “home owner’s insurance.”

Some years ago when we sold our home back east we had the unfortunate experience of having to cancel the escrow at the last minute because the buyer couldn’t finalize their loan. The agent representing us had failed to obtain the necessary loan pre-approval from the buyer within the contractually required time lines, and to make matters worse, we didn’t even know there was a problem until it was so late in the game that we were left with no options but to put the home back into the market. The stress and heartache that resulted was so emotionally devastating to us that we were determined not to make the same mistake again. When we interviewed agents to sell our Highlands Ranch home we focused our attention on finding an agent who could not only locate the buyer, but help us insure that the financing would be in order and we would close escrow as scheduled. Lucky for us we hired Doug and his team to sell our home.

“Doug Inserted Language into the Contract That All But Guaranteed the Buyer Could & Would Qualify” Doug’s team used special proprietary contract language in the counter offer to protect their client’s interests. They inserted this language into our contract that eliminated 99% of the doubt that the buyer would qualify for their home loan, and they stipulated that if for any reason the buyer did not close escrow as agreed upon, the buyer would forfeit a rather large earnest money deposit Doug’s team negotiated on our behalf. Our home sold and closed without a hitch. Finding the buyer isn’t so tough in a really hot market, but keeping the buyer you find is always nerve-racking, unless Doug James is your agent. We learned the hard way about signing a long term listing agreement with an agent. Our last sale was a mess. When we were asked to sign the listing agreement we questioned why it was for four months? We were told it’s normal and not to worry, if we changed our mind we’d be let out of the listing. Within weeks of signing we knew we had made a mistake and wanted out. Our agent told us we would be held to the agreement. Boy were we mad! We told his broker that he promised we could cancel, but the broker said “sorry” it’s not company policy to let people out of the listing agreement prior to its expiration. We learned a valuable lesson, and the next time around we would not make the same critical mistake when selling our a home. We were Told “Sorry, It’s Not Company Policy To Let You Out of the Listing…”When we decided to sell our Aurora home we were ready to fight any request for a long term “locked-in” listing agreement. But a funny thing happened. When we met with Doug’s team it never came up. Why? Because they offer their clients an unconditional right to cancel, upfront in writing, before you sign the listing agreement. At any point, before a contract to purchase is accepted, for any reason, you can call up and be free from any further obligation to work with his team. Their proven track record of selling homes coupled with their philosophy of accountability put us at immediate ease. Our home sold in a few days for the exact price we wanted and we needed to move out of state. A good agent like Doug is willing to put his client in total control of the business relationship, anything less than that and you’re taking a big risk.

We were the poster children for bad real estate transactions. Our last move should be a training video for every home owner on how not to price a home. We interviewed three agents, and ultimately hired the agent who gave us the price we wanted to hear. Can you guess what happened? Our home didn’t sell. Everyday was like having hot needles stuck in your eyes. Dashed hopes, wasted time cleaning the home only to end another day with nothing to show for it. We lost the home we wanted to buy because we couldn’t get moved on time. Eventually our home sold. If we priced it correctly initially we know we could have sold it for more than we ultimately did.

This time around things turned out much better. We hired Doug James and the Wise Listing Team to sell our home. The funny thing is that a neighbor told us that Doug James under prices his listings, that’s how he sells so many homes in the area. We found it to be exactly the opposite. Doug’s team carefully went over two very detailed pricing reports that made it obvious where we should price our home to sell for top dollar. They didn’t use any high pressure “price your home low to sell fast” approach. In fact, they listed our home for more than we thought it was worth! Doug and his team sold our home within a few weeks at 99% of the listed price. A good Realtor does more than put a sign in the yard and an ad in the paper. They provide you with “facts” and they have the conviction to be upfront and truthful, even if it’s not what you want to hear every time. Take it from us, if you’re lucky to find a guy like Doug, hire him and then listen to him. You’ll thank yourself on moving day.Years ago when we sold our last home we were traveling a bit and not around to see what was happening with our sale. With each passing week we wouldn’t get a call, or if we did speak with our agent it was only after we’d called his office. Most times he wasn’t in and it would take days to get a call back from him. Quite frankly we felt abandoned. After ninety days our home hadn’t sold and when our agent called us (imagine that!) to ask for a renewal for the listing we politely declined. The house was eventually sold but the memory didn’t fade. “Quite Frankly We Felt Abandoned”

When Andy’s job transfer came up and we knew we’d be moving back east we called Doug’s team to interview with us to sell our home. What struck us immediately was their commitment to making sure we felt informed throughout the process. I was shocked when they offered us five written guarantees one of which promised to return our calls within four hours, not four days, and his promise to call us each week with updates and progress reports. When they showed us a printout of their “Listing Activity Plan” the team uses, and the pre-scheduled calls, mailings and market updates they send their clients, we were sold. Each week we spoke to our customer care representative. It ended up that we spoke multiple times a week with his office about our sale. There wasn’t a moment we didn’t feel connected with what was going on. After our home was sold (for 100% of our asking price in less than two weeks!) we continued to get calls informing us about what was happening as we moved towards closing. Our only regret was we couldn’t take Doug’s team with us when we bought our next home. But they did call to say hello after we got settled in!

It seems like more and more these days that selling a home is a “renegotiation of the negotiation” after the home inspection is completed. Just when you think everything is fine and the worry lifts from your shoulders the home inspector flags some item and the buyer wants to get into your wallet. Apparently our sunroom addition wasn’t up to code. When the buyer submitted an addendum asking for thousands of dollars in repairs we about had a heart attack. We had made a pretty good payment to our new home builder for upgrades and if our home didn’t close on schedule we could lose both the home and quite a bit of money.

“Doug’s Approach Prevented us from Losing Thousands of Dollars in Profit we Needed”

What I hadn’t remembered during all the paperwork was that Doug had inserted language into the counter offer that protected us from unforeseen repairs that would require us to pay unlimited amounts of money as a result of any upcoming buyer inspections. Doug always talks about the difference between just getting a home sold, and getting a home sold “right”. We learned that there’s much more that goes into good real estate practice than what an agent charges and who they work for. Like most people we focused on the obvious, and lucky for us that Doug and his team do so much more than the obvious. It’s what you don’t see that often times is the thing that hurts you the most when you hit it. We are so thankful that we chose Doug and his fine team of professionals to protect us and help us keep the hard earned profits we were counting on when we accepted our offer.

We’ve moved a few times in our lives. The one thing we can say that we wish we didn’t have to go through ever again is showing the home to so many “unqualified” buyers. It reminds us of Hollywood casting-calls where hundreds of actors line up and stream in and out all day. We were constantly being kicked out of our home day after day, most times when it was highly inconvenient for us, like dinner time or just before the ending of a great movie we’d spent two hours watching. Lucky for us our kids are grown and gone but can you imagine having to rustle up the kids and leave your home multiple times a day only to find the buyer didn’t like your home, or worse, didn’t even show up? No wonder people feel like going postal after only a few weeks of their home being listed for sale.

“We Were Constantly Being Kicked Out Only to Find the Buyer Who Didn’t Like our Home”

When it was time to sell our Littleton home we chose Doug’s team. We watched in amazement over the years how well their marketing attracted lots of interested buyers and how many darn homes they sold. What we didn’t know, and were really happy to find out, was how good they are at sifting and sorting through those buyers we love to call “tire-kickers”, and how their specific three step approach gave us a higher quality of showing appointments which saved us time and greatly reduced the frustration ordinary sellers face. Our home sold in less than a month to a buyer we were happy to have take over our home. Doug’s team even gives you a written Qualified Buyers Guarantee that pays you $500 at closing if they ever show your home to a buyer who later states they can’t afford your home!

It’s so frustrating to drive past a for sale sign in our area and not be able to get the information about the home because the flyer box is empty. We recently read that 51% of buyers drive neighborhoods where they want to live. We always ask each other “do you think the seller would be happy if they knew that 50% of their potential buyers were driving off without being able to get any information on their home?” When it came time for us to list we planned on calling the one agent who has a contingency plan for the empty flyer box problem, Doug James.

“50% of Their Potential Buyers Drive Past a Home Without Being Able to Get Any Information on It”

Doug’s homes “talk” to every interested buyer. His special recorded messages broadcast up to a 5 minute message about the house he’s offering for sale. Every time you drive by one of Doug’s listings you simply call the toll free number listed on the outside brochure and you can hear, from the comfort of your car, a compelling and very informative message about the house. How smart is that? Doug’s sellers never have to worry about interested buyers driving off without getting the information they want and need. It’s such a simple solution to the empty flyer box problem that it’s genius. We chose Doug to represent us because we knew we wanted our house to “talk” to every buyer who passed by in their car. Does it work? You bet. We had four offers within a week from buyers who had driven past our home and became interested in it, called their agent and quickly wrote us an offer above our asking price. When you list with Doug’s team no one drives off, they stop, listen, and they buy!

Being a pilot and an experienced home seller I know the importance of attention to detail. A good pilot never takes flight without completing a flight checklist. Apparently the same attention to detail is the exception and not the rule when a home is placed into the Multiple Listing Service. I’ve seen far too many MLS sheets with all kinds of critical data missing. If a buyer is looking for a home that faces North, and the listing agent doesn’t complete that field, they’re going to miss that listing. And it gets worse. Home internet search systems like Realtor.com receive their data from the MLS. So both agents and customers could miss a great listing because the MLS input sheet wasn’t completed properly. And according to an article I read in the paper nearly 90% of all homes sell as a direct result of the MLS.

“Nearly 90% of all Homes Sell as a Result of the MLS”

When I needed to sell my home I demanded a complete and thorough job of marketing my home in the MLS. Doug’s team uses all ninety seven data entry fields if applicable on the MLS input sheet . He uses trained specialists to handle different parts of the selling process (just like an onboard flight team) to guarantee nothing is overlooked. Doug’s MLS specialist came to my house and carefully took down all the data about my house, painstakingly measured each room, and took magazine quality color photographs of the interior and exterior to be used for the virtual tours and photo section of the MLS search sites. My home sold in eight days for full price. With Doug’s team at the controls I had a very smooth home selling flight. I suggest you let them take the controls for your home sale too.

The problem with selling a home is that it disrupts your normal way of living. You have all these people traipsing in and out, and sometimes they leave you a nice muddy reminder of their visit, or worse, they bring in the germs they’re carrying if they happen to be sick at the time. As a medical technologist I know about germs and pollutants and the exponential increase in risk of spreading those germs when your home is exposed to hundreds of new visitors. So when we were ready to sell our home we were very uncomfortable with the thought of all those people parading through our home. But Doug James and the Wise Listing Team saved us from the thing we feared most.

“We Were Very Uncomfortable With the Thought of all those People Parading Through our Home”They have a special “Buyer In Waiting Program” that matches your home to their in-office VIP Buyer computer database. Their database contains hundreds of ready-to-buy home buyer contacts they generate from all of the advertising they do. The VIP Buyer computer automatically sifts and sorts through hundreds of buyer profiles, identifying those buyers who are a good match for your just listed home. We were so impressed by this use of technology and marketing genius that their was no doubt that we’d hire Doug’s team to sell our home. Before our home even hit the multiple listing one of Doug’s “buyers in waiting” bought our home for $5,000 ABOVE OUR ASKING PRICE! We were so relieved that nobody else had to come into our home we could hardly contain our joy. Like most people we like a good parade, Doug’s “Buyer in Waiting Program” just made sure the parade route wasn’t through our home each and every day! Our custom home sits adjacent to a nice “tract” development where home prices are lower per square foot. Then to make matters worse two other custom homes around the corner from us priced below us. One home dropped their price $39,500 below us right after we hit the market, and the other home listed one day after us for $15,050 less than the price we were asking! Like most sellers who have sold homes before, we chose a specific list price when we entered the market. After we found out that these other homes were dropping their prices below ours it began to show up in the showing activity our home was getting. We were getting nervous since we were expecting to get a certain price for our home to help us move to our next home that was already in the process of being built. “One Home Dropped Their Price $39,500 Right After We Hit the Market, and the Other Home Listed for $15,050 Less Than We Were Asking!”

That’s when Doug made a suggestion that changed everything back in our favor. He said he wanted to use a technique he’d used with success in situations like this called “Value Range Pricing.” By offering the home using a price range instead of a set price, we were able to quickly generate more showings because the low end price in the range was the thing that agents and buyers saw, this in turn created instant interest where there had been none, and within days we had an offer that actually EXCEEDED the high price of our range! Doug’s quick thinking and his experience got us the price we wanted and needed to comfortably make our move. Any agent can list your home, but an experienced agent like Doug brings more “Value” to both your home and your pocketbook.

In a good market finding a buyer hasn’t been difficult for most sellers. But selling your home to the “right” buyer is always a concern. We didn’t know that potentially cataclysmic problems lurk hidden within each offer. If undetected, they can result in costly delays and the incalculable cost of stress and anxiety, and in our case, could have caused us to lose the escrow for our next home that we had fallen in love with. Luckily for us we had a very experienced Realtor who was able to uncover the truth. “A Potentially Cataclysmic Problem Lurked Hidden Within the Offer that Could Have Caused Us to Lose the Escrow on the Home We Wanted to Buy”

We received an offer that was non-contingent with a rather large $200,000 down payment. On the surface everything looked great. But Doug had suspicions that we might be dealing with a “hidden contingency.” With 28 years of negotiating experience something apparently didn’t add up in his mind. He suggested we write a counter offer with very specific language that would flush out the truth. It turns out he was right. The buyer had a home listed for sale and was planning on using the equity from that sale to secure their large down payment on our home. By uncovering the “hidden contingency” Doug was able to save our sale by having the buyer secure a different loan to be able to truly be non-contingent. Many home sellers incorrectly assume all Realtors do the same things and have the same level of skill. Nothing could be further from the truth. Experience doesn’t cost, it pays. Finding the “right” buyer is a heck of a lot easier when you hire the “right” Realtor, and Doug is thatguy.

As we began the process of looking for our next home we quickly realized we faced the very real possibility of selling our current home before we had a place to go. We didn’t want to feel pressured to rush into a buying decision just because our home was sold. We were so uncomfortable that we decided not to list until we found a new home. Sure enough we found a great home but when we offered on it we got rejected because the seller didn’t want to consider a contingency. We felt helpless, like we had no control over the process, and we wondered if we would ever be able to buy the home we wanted and needed. “The Longer We Looked, and the More Homes We Saw We Liked but Couldn’t Buy, the Crazier it Made Us Feel”

After a few weeks of this we were ready to do whatever we could to solve the problem. I guess you sometimes miss the important until your mind is open to it, because our agent Doug James had been telling us about a special method he had used many times before to help people out of the situation we were in. He called it a “reverse contingency.” When you accept an offer on your home, you use the special “reverse contingency” that guarantees you don’t have to move until you find your next home. We finally followed Doug’s advice and sure enough he sold our home for a great price and the buyer had no problem accepting our “reverse contingency.” When we ultimately found the home we wanted to buy the seller accepted our offer because our home was already sold. Any Realtor can put a sign in your yard or show you homes, but real estate “experts” like Doug and his team know how to solve problems and get you from where you are, to where you want to go, without the risk.

Experience Matters

We have had previous experience with Doug James and the Wise Listing Team. Six years ago we had a transaction with Doug and his team. The kind of thorough knowledge and experience we were exposed to definitely raised our standards when it came to our real estate goals and needs! So when it came time for us to sell our home and purchase another, we didn’t waste any of our time looking for an agent. We called Doug. We knew that only Doug and his team could serve our purposes better that anyone else. In all of our transactions with Doug and the Wise Listing Team we have not only had a quick sale, but an unbelievable amount of follow up. Since our first transaction with Doug and his team we have heard from him often, assuring us that his services don’t just end when he gets a paycheck. Between Doug’s exceptional services and the support staff we had a flawless and smooth transactions. Why would anyone waste his or her time with anyone else?

Verne and Robyn Johnson

Being married to a military man has many benefits, and one drawback. They can station you any where at any time. My husband and I were facing relocation and had no idea how to even start the process of finding a new home in our soon to be new state. Luckily a friend of ours new a great local realtor, that gave us a referral. Whew, a starting point. We were relieved, but still a little skeptical, we had dealt with realtors before and they all seemed to behave like used car salesman. I decided to do some research, to my surprise I was ecstatic to find that Doug James and The Wise Listing Team were the best that Colorado had to offer. After several discussions with Doug and his team members I was completely at ease and felt that he was listening to me and working for me. All of our questions were handled immediately with professionalism and sincerity; we never had to wait for someone to get back to us. Doug and his entire team were quick, accurate, honest and reliable. They superseded our expectations; and we will refer Doug James and The Wise Listing Team to anyone we know in needs of their services.

I’ve dealt with people who are at the top of their game for years! It was my job, I was the Vice President of a Fortune 500 company.

It takes something special, and a lot of it to catch my eye, and more importantly my business. As an executive for a successful builder, I have dealt with every kind of agent out there. In fact we utilized many agents from different brokerages all the time. That is where I met Doug James.Doug, was one of the agents selected to carry our listings, he came highly recommended. From our very first meeting, I did more than just like him; I respected him. When I was speaking with Doug I was comfortable, I could see he was receptive to the companies expectations as well as my own. He wasn’t here to make a friend, he was here to do business, and do it right. I just couldn’t get over the overpowering sense of professionalism he radiated. He was a Pro, no doubt about it. My concerns and questions were never dismissed or put off.

Doug was always direct and honest, no strategic buck passing productions; that I had begun to expect from many of the other agents we had enlisted to help with the sales. It was refreshing not to have to sit there and hear yet another agent yammer on about how they just haven’t had the time to effectively market the property, or how so and so has been sick for two weeks, or whatever the popular excuse was at the time. All of my transactions with Doug and his exceptional Team of professionals went smooth and expediently…

So when it I decided to retire, and sell one of my properties, the only agent I would even consider was Doug James and the Wise Listing Team. As usual Doug gave me all the professionalism and effort you would expect if you’re feeding him business from a large business, but this time it was just me. Our years of acquaintance and friendliness did not hinder the process, Doug did not treat this as the final transaction between us, rather conducted himself as if were the first. Doug and his Team sold my house in 20 days for 100% of my asking price. My personal transaction with Doug and the Wise Listing Team has been amazing. I have seen first hand why they are so successful. I have had the pleasure of watching this extraordinary team assess and devise a “Top Gun” marketing and sales plan. This is bar none, a fiercely aggressive, expertly trained band of specialists’ in the real estate industry.

It is so devastating to lose a home, especially with a young family. You lose so much hope. So many times we sat back and felt like we had failed the kids, failed ourselves, failed our family. I just can’t tell you how difficult that is. While sitting around with friends one night having a nice little social evening we began talking about houses, I mentioned that I couldn’t wait to find one we could buy. My wife and I knew a couple of our friends were in real estate, we didn’t have the specifics or anything. One of our friends slips me a card with Doug James on it, another asks about the financing, I did explain it would be tricky and laid out the circumstances for her. She then mentioned Doug James; I told her that I had a card of his from Greg (she worked with him and we are all quite tight). I called Doug the next day explained everything. Doug insisted that I call the preferred lender he uses. I did, we were pre-qualified within a week and out viewing home the next. It only took two homes before we found ours. Doug and his Team were amazing. I am glad I have friends that care enough to refer me to the best, our family is settling in well and so happy! We just never could have accomplished so much in such a short time without all of Doug’s help. He managed to handle everything from pre-qualification to closing documents. We had NO distress whatsoever during our transaction. - The Burke Family

Relocation is a nightmare if you are going across town, let alone jumping across a couple of states. It was very hard to get the ball rolling, our friends, family business associates were all here in California. What was the first step? We called our California based real estate agent to see if he could lend us a hand in finding our new home. Without hesitating he referred us to the Colorado market leader Doug James, and we are so grateful he did. We had given Doug and his team an idea of what we were looking for, the areas, the price and the non- negotiable items needed in our future home. Overnight we began receiving emails of potential properties. We were excited and impressed that these homes were so well matched to our wants and needs. We scheduled a trip out, and after one afternoon with Doug we made an offer that very day. Now, relocating is still a nightmare, but this part of our transition has been so smooth, while Doug and his team have many clients and several transactions going at any given time we really felt that our needs were top priority. Doug and his team are very thorough in their communications; it was a real pleasure dealing with every member of Doug’s team. - Paul Moran & Denis Marelich