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Martin Bouma
Referred by his
peers
Martin Bouma has been awarded the Most
Referred™ Real Estate Agents designation for 1998-2003. Most
Referred™ Realtors/Real Estate Agents have been selected by a national
survey of their peer Realtors for the following areas: Ann Arbor, Saline,
Dexter, Chelsea, Old West Side, Pinckney, Superior Township, Ypsilanti, Burns
Park, Travis Pointe.
Over 52,000 Realtors were surveyed and asked
who they would recommend to their friends for honesty, integrity,
professionalism and market knowledge, if they themselves were not available to
sell real estate in Ann Arbor. Martin Bouma is among the Top 3 Realtors in Ann
Arbor, MI as a result of this survey.
Whether you are selling a home or buying a
home in Ann Arbor, you can count on Martin Bouma for your real estate needs.
Martin Bouma will assist you with information about Ann Arbor, MI, including
providing you with details on homes for sale, home listings, reports on air
quality, schools, crime rates and much more.
Awards, Achievements,
Designations
- MRR - Most Referred Realtor Award
1998-2000
- Member of Star Power
- Member of several Master Minds Group
- GRI, ABR, NAR
With over $52 million in sales in 2005,
Martin and his team helped 188 families move into new homes.
Martin Bouma's name is synonymous with the
utmost successful real estate selling. His total commitment to service is
second to none. Martin has perfected his unique, cutting edge marketing
strategies. His reputation has spread throughout the Washtenaw County brokerage
community as a professional who gets the job done.
Martin acts as a "mini-company" within
Keller Williams Realty. His tremendous sales production and listing inventory
requires him to have six full-time licensed assistants, a networked
state-of-the-art computer system, and top-of-the-line communication system, all
dedicated to his clients and customers. Martin is always available to provide
service and guidance to his clients during the transaction and after the sale -
whatever their particular real estate needs. Expertise of the current
marketplace gives Martin the latitude to guide his clients to make prudent and
informed investment decisions. When you hire Martin you are hiring more than
just Martin Bouma - you are hiring his entire Team. For the past seventeen
years, Martin has maintained an active high profile in the real estate
community. His knowledge and marketing ability is unsurpassed. He is
consistently the Top Producer for his brokerage, and his production puts him in
the top 1% of all Realtors in the Ann Arbor Area Board of Realtors. He served a
3-year term as Director of the Ann Arbor Area Board of Realtors.
The Home-Sellers Edge
Martin lists
or sells a home every 1 to 2 days. Remember, nationally, the average agent
sells a house every 52 days. Martin Bouma is not average. He provides the edge
you need to sell your house in today's highly competitive market.
Dynamic
When you want action, you
want Martin Bouma. A tireless professional, he works long hours for his
clients. His client's goals are his goals. As a result, he perseveres. He
delivers. Over half of his business comes from referrals or previous customers.
His clients endorse him.
A Special System
Drawing on years
of experience and private research, Martin has developed a unique system that
sells homes faster. This "High Impact Marketing System" represents an
opportunity to sell your home quickly. Take advantage of his "High Impact
Marketing System." It works!
Always time for you
A dedicated
professional, Martin Bouma will put all of his knowledge and his energy into
selling your home. Along with his licensed staff, Martin is able to provide his
sellers with service over and above anything you would ever expect. That's why
he's Washtenaw County's Leading Home seller.
On The Move
Energy,
determination, uncompromising dedication and long hours are required to
establish records in any field. Martin Bouma sets records!
Martin is only a telephone call away, and
can be reached through his direct line at 1-734-761-3060 or
1-800-920-9666.
Martin was featured in Real Estate Business
Magazine - Fall 1997.
PERFECT
LISTINGS IN ABOUT AN HOUR
[Agent] Martin Bouma in Ann Arbor, MI, could
be the Lencrafters of real estate. Just as the mass-market optician makes
"perfect lenses in about an hour," Bouma and his team of assistants work to get
new listings in front of consumers in the same time frame.
He takes exterior and interior photos with
his digital camera, which his assistant downloads into a computer, and uses
them to create a postcard, brochure and photo web listing
Bouma's rapid response is part of a fully
automated real estate sales approach. He and his two assistants - one who
concentrates on presentations and office management and another who shows
properties - each have computers linked in a local area network. He has two
printers and a scanner plus cellular phones and pagers to keep the entire team
in constant communication.
Bouma also has a personal web page
(http://www.bouma.com) that has all of his listings, plus census and school
information about the Ann Arbor area and a profile of Bouma and his staff.
Riders attached to all of his yard signs list his e-mail address so buyers can
contact him electronically. He also has an 800 number for out-of-towners
relocating to the area.
"We get 20-30 hits a day to the Web site and
average about one e-mail a day," Bouma says. "We probably average about one
transaction a month (from contacts originated on the Internet), and we just
sold a $300,000 property from someone (out of town) who pulled the listing off
the Web page. Between the Web page and the 800 number, it was just so
convenient. They called us, and we put it together."
Since starting his web page two years ago,
Bouma has revamped it three times. Keeping it fresh and constantly resubmitting
it to Internet search engines helps keep the page close to the top when
consumers key in "Ann Arbor real estate." His web site now has 30-40 pages
because of frequent updates and additions.
Bouma also tries to take maximum advantage
of the other listing vehicles on the Internet, such as the REALTORS®
Information Network and Ann Arbor Board of REALTORS® site. He pays extra so
that all of his listings are hyper linked directly to his home page, something
he says only about one in 20 agents does. Nevertheless, it is essential to
making the process as simple as possible for consumers.
Bouma likes the technology, so learning the
ropes isn't hard. Even so, he hires experts for some chores, such as creating
and updating his web page.
To learn about new technologies and
techniques, Bouma has found the best sources are other top agents, whom he
meets through regular attendance of seminars and retreats. His assistant also
calls assistants of other agents he's met at such functions for advice on
technical subjects.
"All these things really speed your ability
to do your job and get the information out," Bouma says. "When I go to a
listing appointment and show them everything I'm going to do to make the
property take off, and I'm up against an agent who just has an MLS book, where
would you go? Your productivity goes up because you get more of the listings
when you go on appointments. People realize that you're serious about their
business, and they want to work with you."
Pg. 38, Real Estate Business - Fall 1997
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