In today's real estate market, its important to feel you have someone on your side that you can trust to guide you through the process, that understands, communicates and has the knowledge and experience you can rely on.As the Keefer Fischer Team Lead and founder, I would love the opportunity to share a little about myself and how the team got started. I was born and raised in Battle Creek Michigan; however, I have lived my entire adult life in the Kalamazoo County area. I love to be active - doing just about anything; fitness, travel, & real estate especially! I am married and have one adult daughter attending Chiropractic school. I worked for Pharmacia & Upjohn (now Pfizer) in Kalamazoo as a Project Coordinator until my position was transferred out of state, then chose to go after my passion in health and fitness and served as the General Manager for a 3000 member fitness club.Then in 2007, my best friend of over 30 years and I started our own company where we buy and sell investment properties. Our strategy has been lease options, flips, and rentals (long and short term) of both single-unit and multi-unit properties. Exposure to the world of real estate made me realize this is where my passion lay. With extensive experience in business management, marketing and selling; and with my love of real estate; becoming a Realtor in 2011 was a natural career choice and way of life for me.In 2017, I started a Real Estate Team, to ensure I could keep up with the changing demands in our market place and went on to acquire my Associate Broker's license. Building a team of top notch educated Real Estate Agents, has been a big focus. In shifting markets, its extremely important that our clients understand what they can expect on any given day, have someone that listens to their concerns, and walks them through their real estate needs at a pace each person is comfortable with. Each team member, has been vetted to fit into a very special culture. They are expected to learn, grow and share experiences and ideas through collaboration amongst the team.To our buyers, we know you want an agent you can trust that has your best interest at heart. We aren't trying to sell you any particular home, but listen and help you find the right home for you. To our first time home buyers, we have the patience to walk you step by step through the intimidating process of buying a home. We welcome your questions, and won't rush you into making a decision and encourage you to see enough homes to feel comfortable having identified the right home for you. To our relocating buyers, we look forward to helping you see and feel all that Southwest Michigan has to offer. We look forward to answering your questions about our area, community, events, schools, neighborhoods, etc. During your initial visits, we are happy to tour you around the town and various neighborhoods so you can get a feel where you would like to live and help you understand local market values.To our local sellers, we will bring you a marketing plan that will lay out exactly what we will do step by step before and after we get you on the market. We will help you identify ideas for staging and readying your home for market, give you fair market value, teach you what your competitors are selling for, and then explain the marketing strategies we will implement once we hit the market and communicate with you along the process. We will work together with you, to get your home sold!This team has been blessed to have served hundreds of clients over the years and honored to be among the Top 1% in our area. We look forward to bringing that experience to you, to help facilitate your next steps. We are very low pressure and will work hard to earn your trust and loyalty! - Kerry