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Lyn Sims

Broker Associate

 

  • Social Media Agent
  • Over 25 years of full-time real estate experience in the Northwest Suburban Areas of Chicago.
  • Working with one of the largest and most successful firms in the area, Lyn can give you the greatest competitive advantage whether buying or selling!
  • Member of the #1 Listing and Selling Office in Schaumburg and Hoffman Estates areas. You deserve and you can expect great service in whatever town I serve! 
  • Lyn's personal website (this one you're on right now) is one of the top 50 RE/MAX agent websites in Northern Illinois for 2011 thru 2006 (hey, there's 2100 agents). Currently for April 2012 Lyn is in the top 15!
  • Let Me Google That For You 
  • 'Google this Address' where buyers can find your listed home with my mobile search feature anytime they choose.
  • Mobile Blog 
  • Primary Specialty is Residential, Investment Properties, Corporate Relocation, Foreclosures, REO.
  • Selected for Cover Story on First Time Home Buyers in the Chicago Agent Magazine, September 2009.     


    Buyers - How Lyn can help you in your search - Do you know about 'Buyers Agency?'

   Sellers  - Why choose Lyn Sims?

   Commitment and Dedication to you as the client!

   Why Re/Max and Lyn Sims?

   Want to Sell .....  Want to Buy ....

 Lyn Sims, September 28th, 2009 Issue 

  

Professional Qualifications


  • While other real estate companies are barely holding their market share, RE/MAX and I are outproducing our competitors year after year! Within the Northwest Suburban Market Area (MRED) for 2011, RE/MAX had 22% of the market share!  That's almost 1 out of every 4 homes in the area were sold by us - no one else comes close to our results!    Check our market share over our competitors!  
  • Market Share for Schaumburg for January thru December 2011
  • Market Share for Hoffman Estates for January thru December 2011
  • Market Share for Elk Grove Village for January thru December 2011
  • First licensed in 1983 and started her sales career with Quinlan and Tyson which became Merrill Lynch Realtors in Schaumburg.
  • Joined RE/MAX Suburban in 1989 also at the Schaumburg location. May 2009 awarded 20 years with RE/MAX.
  • Currently holds the title of Broker Associate since 1985.
  • April 2012 RE/MAX Suburban is included in the Power Broker Report which totals the Top 300 Brokerage Companies in the U.S. Placing 206th for transaction totals and 161 in total sales rank.
  • July 2011 RE/MAX is awarded the J.D. Power & Associates 2011 Award for offering best service for Home Selling Experience and Home Buyer Segments.

  

Professional Designations and Affiliations

 

  • RE/MAX Club Memberships & Awards: 100% Club and Hall of Fame, Sales Advisory Council Member.
  • MRED Multiple Listing Service of Northern IL, Illinois Association of Realtors, National Association of Realtors, Realtor Association of Northwest Chicagoland.
  • Nationally syndicated and recognized blogger.
  • Nationally syndicated author for real estate consumer information. 
  • Lyn's Civic Activities and Charities Lyn is involved in: Childrens Miracle Network Sponsor (my company's donation total was over $23,600 for 2011) the RE/MAX Northern Illinois' donation total was $102,000 for 2011; Various campaigns against domestic violence;  Save the Manatee (know what they are?) Organization in Florida;  Kevlar vests for our Illinois Police Dogs;   Locks of Love Hair Donations of which Lyn donated 10" of her own hair in 2006;   Helping Our Heroes  which raises money for Illinois Military Personnel in financial distress due to deployment;  Pet adoption at Petfinders and Almost Home Foundation. (Go to Local Pet Adoption Search here)
  • Lyn has no time for hobbies - it's all real estate, all the time!  She does enjoy: Her overly happy and healthy Brittany Spaniel 'Bella', horses, shopping (hey, especially for shoes), international travel, helicopters, planes and all types of flying!  Lyn will tell you that she's been fortunate enough to climb a pyramid in Egypt and explore Abu Simbal by camel in Aswan.  She's flown a 1940's navy trainer in an aerial dog fight and found out that being upside down in an airplane is really not that bad!  Lyn's ridden elephants in Thailand and yes, they really are as big as you think they are and very, very quiet!  Lyn has kayaked the waves in the Andaman Sea, climbed volcanic cones and rode horses on the beach in Phuket where they had the big tsunami. The Eiffel Tower was great and Lyn really enjoyed seeing the Palace of Versailles and a few other castles when visiting France.  So ... she has been involved in a few other things besides real estate!


 

RE/MAX Northern Illinois Activities and Involvements

 

RE/MAX of Northern Illinois is one of the largest RE/MAX regions in the system and Chicagoland's ongoing leader in real estate, closing more 28,000 transaction with $5 billion in sales for 2011. RE/MAX Northern Illinois agents average more experience and have more professional designations than other agents, plus they outproduce the competition in average units sold and dollar volume. The RE/MAX Northern Illinois network encompasses the top third of the state of Illinois and consists of 107 offices with over 2100 agents.

 


 

Northwest Suburbs of Illinois and Chicagoland

Bartlett, Barrington, Bloomingdale, Carol Stream, Elk Grove Village, Elgin, Glendale Heights, Hanover Park, Hoffman Estates, Inverness, Itasca, Medinah, Palatine, Roselle, Schaumburg, South Elgin, Streamwood.

 

Bartlett Subdivisions       Village Site       Lyn's Blog Village Highlights

 

Bloomingdale Subdivisions       Village Site

 

Elk Grove Village Subdivisions       Village Site       Lyn's Blog Village Highlights

 

Hanover Park Subdivisions       Village Site       Lyn's Blog Village Highlights

 

Hoffman Estates Subdivisions       Village Site       Lyn's Blog Village Highlights

 

Palatine Subdivisions

 

 Roselle Subdivisions       Village Site       Lyn's Blog Village Highlights

 

Schaumburg Subdivisions       Village Site       Lyn's Blog Village Highlights

 

Streamwood Subdivisions       Village Site       Lyn's Blog Village Highlights

 

 

 

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