Laurie Satushek – Keller Williams

The BEST in the business! Laurie has helped me to buy and sell four homes, and each transaction has been a great experience. I wouldn’t ever use anyone else. She is an absolute professional in every sense of the word, plus she is a caring person skilled at listening for what a buyer wants and needs to find their dream home.

My wife and I were looking for a condo with a view, in a nice little town/​city near Seattle. Had an agent in each town looking for us. Friend in Bellingham recommended Laurie, who showed us lots of places every other weekend. At one point we made an offer on one in Bellingham, and it was accepted by seller, and we had it inspected by an inspector recommended by Laurie. His report came back reasonably OK, so we started the mortgage process (also with a broker recommended by Laurie). Got preliminary approval, made a counter offer, it was accepted, and then my wife got cold feet, so we cancelled the deal. Laurie took it well. A month later we started the process all over again. After looking at other properties we came across the one we just bought. It had just come on the market (not Laurie’s listing), so before the 1^st open house we took a look, and it looked great, so we put in a full price offer, with no contingencies, then went on a week vacation. Our offer was accepted while we were on vacation, so when we got back we had it inspected (Laurie’s guy came out on a Saturday to do it!), and re-​applied for mortgage (again, with the broker Laurie had recommended). Got another preliminary approval. Three week later we owned the condo. So it was 32 days between offer and ownership. While we have great credit, I know things can go wrong when there are so many people and organizations involved in a real estate transaction, and government requirements take some time, so I have to credit Laurie for being on top of things all the way. She’s very patient, and yet no grass grows under her feel. And she responds quickly to email. Can’t ask for more that that! Now we have a contractor building bookcases around the fireplace, and he’s another Laurie recommendation. She well-​connected, and that sure helps when one is new in town.

Laurie and Jen are great to work with! Jen on Laurie’s team was available whenever we needed her and always responded quickly. She alerted us to a new listing when we were heading out of town and quickly arranged a walk through and we placed an offer the next day. She even went up in our attic herself to look for a roof leak after we had closed on our home. I would recommend Jen to anyone, she’s the best!

We were extremely pleased with Laurie’s approach to finding us the perfect home. Upon initial consultation she asked us to identify our needs and also our wish list. After viewing any given house she asked us to rate it on a scale of 1 — 10. If we were anything below a 9 she would have us move on. After beginning to think we had to lower our expectations we finally found the house for us and Laurie locked it up same day without anyone else having a chance to even view it in a sellers market where both other houses we were interested in previous had numerous offers. Highly recommend Laurie and her team!

Laurie sold us a duplex for rental purposes and she doesn’t mess around! If you want a real estate agent who will work to get you what you are looking for and really listen to what it is you want, she is your person. She works tirelessly to help your transaction go as smoothly as possible and to be sure all goes well. She was also my agent when I needed to sell my home, again she was excellent! Couldn’t have asked for a better experience or realtor. Thanks Laurie!

The Bellingham market is tough. The best houses go off the market very quickly. My wife and I started out working with the wrong realtor. He was slow to respond. He didn’t listen to us or understand our needs. He didn’t understand the Bellingham market very well.
We wasted a lot of time because we didn’t have a good agent.
Then we found Laurie Satushek.
It’s a funny story, actually.
The day we were referred to Laurie, the perfect house came on the market. I had already called Laurie that day to set up our first meeting the next week. When I saw this house, I immediately called her back.
And then she went into action.
Let me say this: You want Laurie on your side. She worked very hard in a very compressed time-​span.
The house we purchased came on the market on a Friday. We toured the house the next day. We had a very intense bidding process that began immediately. Laurie knew exactly how to handle this very stressful process.
If we had any other real estate agent, we would have been left out altogether. The house would have disappeared before we even had the chance to put in a bid. But because Laurie understands the market and knows how to move quickly, we ended up with our dream home.
We feel so fortunate to live in such a wonderful house. It would not have been possible without Laurie.

Laurie Is a TEN STAR agent!!! We were selling our Bellingham property from out of state and put our trust in Laurie based on phone conversations and emails we had with her. That trust was not misplaced… she kept us updated on every move she made on a daily basis and sold our property in 16 days… in a building where other condos had been on the market for almost a year!!! Her level of expertise, suggestions and know how with regard to financial and marketing strategies combined with a winning personality make her number one in our book… and we didn’t even meet her until after the property sold! We thank our lucky stars we had the good sense to work with her!!!

In the process of buying in Bellingham with Laurie. What can I say? Really impressive so far. Very impressive, quick and an expert on the area. I’ll update when we have an accepted offer!!!

We were thinking of moving to the Pacific Northwest, and were particularly attracted to Bellingham because it is more of the kind of small town, college town place we are used to living in. We decided to make the trip cross-​country to check the area out, and wanted to tour with a realtor so that we could get a really good idea of what our money would buy us in Bellingham.
I read a lot of realtor reviews both on Trulia and here on Unilocal.The glowing reviews here pointed me to Laurie because of the detailed descriptions of how helpful and easy to work with she was.
After I contacted her and told her what kind of home we were interested in, she sent us quite a few listings to help orient us. Then, when we arrived there for our visit, she was kind enough to arrange for us to tour houses in the area on a Sunday, which was perfect, because it was after we had spent some time exploring on our own and right before we had to head back to Seattle to fly home.
Laurie packed so much information and actual house tours into a few hours that we came away feeling that we had gotten a thorough overview of quite a few of the nicer neighborhoods. She showed us homes at quite a few different price points, too, so that we had a better idea of what we would be getting at the different price levels.
She was so patient and answered all our questions. She also told us about lots of local activities that might interest us.
She came across as a really genuine, concerned, decent human being, as well as an informed, intelligent real estate professional.
As it turned out, we decided that as much as there was a lot about Bellingham that we really liked, moving across the country to Bellingham from our home in New England would be too stressful, expensive, and disruptive to our family’s business.
But if we had decided to move, it would have been a pleasure to work with Laurie. I know she would have worked very hard to help us find exactly what we were looking for without undue pressure.
So thanks to the earlier reviews here who pointed us to her, and if you are reading this and looking for someone to help you find a home in Bellingham, give Laurie a call.

Hi Laurie
You are a great real estate agent. We really enjoyed working with you. Every challange and questions we had you handled well and very quickly! You made our home purchase fun and a very smooth transaction!!! If we buy another home we will be calling you! Keep up the good work! The Lehns
Update 2014
We did a review of Laurie back in 2013 when we purchased our first home in Bellingham. We had it rented out and then we found a home we liked better. I called Laurie and asked her to look at the place as we were out of state at the time. I spoke to Laurie and we decided to take a look at the property since we were going to be in Bellingham a couple weeks later. Laurie made herself available to go see the home as soon as we got to town. She did some research and was able to show us the comps in the neighborhood also. We fell in love with the home and thanks to Laurie’s hard work we purchased the home and even got to stay in it for a couple nights before we had to leave town 16 days later! We then used Laurie to list our other home we had and it sold quickly! She made suggestions on what is important to do before selling your house and staging it right to sell. Well it worked well and the house sold in 24 hours! She definitely knows Bellingham and the neighboring market and did a great job making our real estate experiences positive ones for buying and selling our home! Thanks again Laurie!

Laurie Satushek is a brilliant realtor. She is passionate about her work — this is fun for her! She loves Bellingham and is a knowledgeable resource about the area.
As first time homebuyers, we struck gold when we found Laurie. Having fallen in love with Bellingham on vacation, we began daydreaming of a move from Texas. After some online searching, Laurie contacted me by phone. I told her we weren’t moving for a year or more, but she offered to stay in touch, and send some available properties by email once in a while.
Over the next year and a half, she did just that. She’d check in with a personal note now and then. Eventually my partner began the job search process and wound up working in Seattle temporarily. While I was still living in Texas, Laurie met up with my partner and oriented her to Bellingham. A few months later I visited and we found ourselves calling Laurie (out of the blue) on the off chance she had any time to meet with us over the weekend.
Laurie was AMAZING. She accommodated our crazy schedule and we met at her office the next morning. We talked about criteria, reviewed homes online and then hit the road — completely prepared and organized thanks to Laurie. She gave us a printout on each property we’d see, a clipboard and pens. It was really something — she is very thoughtful and made the process easy and fun. She is so talented and passionate; her energy kept us going all weekend. Laurie kept us focused; she is a clear communicator and was incredible to work with.
With Laurie’s talent, and a little luck, we found our perfect first home!
She made the process so much easier than I could have expected, working with me in Texas and my partner in Seattle. Laurie surrounds herself with wonderful people and had excellent referrals for us for everything from lenders/​inspectors to dinner.
Like I said, we lucked out; we didn’t just find a home, we found a friend (and our realtor for life).

Laurie Satushek is the person you want representing you if you are a buyer in the Bellingham area. I know this from personal experience. In fact, I hadn’t even planned to purchase a home in Bellingham, and was just visiting a friend in town, when I was introduced to Laurie. One thing led to another, and in a day, I was out looking at properties. Laurie is FROM Bellingham, and knows and understands the market there as well as any one person could. This knowledge base is of inestimable value.
She showed me properties that fit the very narrow constraints of what I was willing to spend, what I was looking for in terms of an investment, the return I expected to get, etc. In other words, Laurie LISTENED to me. She didn’t show me things she THOUGHT might work for me. She showed me properties that fit EXACTLY the parameters I was working in. This is a rare thing today in Real Estate. Agents are often so desperate to close that they’ll show properties that have only the most remote connection to what the client has stated they are looking for.
Also, Laurie was available to me at virtually all times, and always responded to my calls and e-​mails in the most timely of fashions. I have been buying and selling houses for 20 years, and I wish I had met Laurie earlier. Having worked with people across the ability spectrum I can honestly say that I’ve never had an agent go so far above and beyond the job description as she did in helping me find the property that was exactly right for me. To call her tireless would be an understatement. And. I got the impression she had plenty left in the tank. Add to that integrity, honesty and a great sense of humor, and you get an agent who is not only a pleasure to work with professionally, but someone who makes the multiple hours involved in hunting for, inspecting, and ultimately making an offer on a home seem virtually effortless. But the effort is there.
If you’re looking at homes in or around Bellingham, Trust this review. Don’t buy a property in this area without first consulting with Laurie Satushek of Keller Williams.