L Small
GBOrchard relieved a lot of the stress… Orchard relieved a lot of the stress with buying and selling a home. The greatest part was getting the equity advance which enabled us to purchase another home while our home was on the market. Our home sold above the initial offer and we received additional proceeds at closing. The Orchard team was fantastic and did everything they said they would do. I highly recommend Orchard to anyone looking to sell and buy another home,
Amber
GBNot Pleasant Orchard states that they are “radically simplifying the way people buy and sell their homes”. My experience with them has been such an emotional rollercoaster. First, the realtor that was initially assigned to my listing provided false information to me. We were working with a very tight timeline and were told that if we did not find another home, we could choose to terminate the contract. To me, that made no sense as I was the seller so I asked if there were any legal repercussions in doing so. I was told no. Then, I found out that was false when the realtor who was assigned to me called me to tell me the Buyer’s agent threatened to sue and we HAD to find another house. I will say that Orchard did negotiate a longer leaseback so we had the time to find another home. But, I can’t seem to understand how this ever happened. We were relying on the realtor to provide accurate information. Orchard replaced our realtor with someone who seemed to be much more experienced in real estate which is why I’m giving 2 stars. The new agent really tried to clean up the mess that was made. Finally, we got to the final walkthrough and the Buyer’s agent showed up at a time we hadn’t agreed to. We wanted to be polite about it, but wished that we had had the opportunity to confirm the appointment rather than it being dictated on us given how everything else went in this. I still don’t understand how Orchard can in good faith ask me to pay all of the commissions because the experience we received was far from radically simple. Given the chance to do this again, I would go with another agency to avoid the nightmare this has been for us.
Bob L.
GBOrchard worked well for us The services offered by Orchard worked well for us. Our home sold very quickly for more than we asked. Having the closing also handled by Orchard allowed us to close in 24 days from listing to closing. Our only disappointment was with the cleaning service offered through the Orchard Concierge service. The crew did a poor job which were had to follow up one ourselves. Otherwise, everyone from the listing agent to the closing notary was great. We would definitely recommend them.
jesse
GBIt was great working with Christine… It was great working with Christine Harvey and the rest of your team. You all made this experince stress free for myself and my family.
Javier S
GBHonest, transparent and convenient! Services were transparent, professional, and honest. The process of buying our new home and selling our old one was very convenient. No showings, fast access to funds (equity) that we further used as a down payment on the new home, and the costs of repairs of our old home were paid off until it got sold. Everybody in Orchard was very responsive any time I had questions. It was a great experience!