Michael Thomas – @properties

We were very happy in every regard with Mike and Lene Thomas. They provided invaluable advice at each stage in the process, from getting our house ready to put on the market, to staging it, and advising on the price negotiation for the sale. In particular, we really valued their input on what needed to be done to present our house at its best, and their ability to help us quickly execute on the various tasks, whether paint touch-​up or providing accents and finishing touches to the house. We had an offer within a few days of putting our house on the market, and the sale closed within two months. The entire process was seamless, efficient and ran smoothly thanks to Mike and Lene!

Mike and Lene are an incredible team. Their communication is unsurpassed as is their patience. We have worked with them on four occasions and only have positive things to say about our experiences. We felt well represented. We have always found Mike’s knowledge of the market in Evanston as well as other north shore suburbs to be very accurate and current. Their success is based on honesty and a fantastic work ethic, not billboards and advertising.

I can’t imagine a better representative for me than The Thomas Team. Mike & Lene are just awesome. They helped us sell our condo in a really tough market, and then worked with us patiently until we found our dream home.

Mike and Lene were recommended to us by one of my preceptors, and we could not have been more pleased to work with Mike. He listened carefully to our requests, showed us a ton of places, helped answer our million and one questions, and seemed to really care about us and have our best interests at heart as first time homebuyers. We’ve lived in our new home for about a year and a half and will still randomly email The Team for various recommendations and advice. Whenever we decide to move, you can be sure that we will be using Mike and Lene to sell our house, and likely to help us find our new place! I would recommend Mike without hesitation — he and Lene are truly among the kindest, most hardworking, and honest people I’ve met.

Michael and his wife Lene are a fantastic team. We hired them to sell our Evanston house in October of 2007 (right when real estate was crashing). Throughout the process of staging, listing, and showing, Michael was a calm and informed presence. He had in-​depth, up-​to-​date data about listings in Evanston, Wilmette, and north Chicago (he grew up in Evanston).. We sold our house in six weeks and were thrilled with their support and availability.
According to his website (
), he is now with @properties instead of Coldwell Banker.

We worked with Michael throughout the entire process of buying our first condo in evanston and could not be happier with our choice.
Michael was great to work with, full of good ressource, knew the neighborhood very well (he lives and grew up there) and was very patient. We loved working with himbecause there no pressure and he was not pushy as other realtors we had met before. He was very direct and to the point and did not upsell the property we were visiting. He listened carefully to what we wanted and we are very happy to have found the perfect place! 6 months after buying we still hear from him from time to time and it is good to know that we can count on him when we need advice with our mortgage or anything else relating to real estate.
Would greatly recommend him.