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We strive to exceed your expectations, as developers of real estate, builders, property managers, and restoration and maintenance experts, we have gained a unique perspective to serve from.
Our insight and first-hand experiences have given us the expertise, knowledge, and drive to partner with you whether you are looking to develop, build, restore, maintain real estate assets, excel in your real estate career, invest in real estate, or selling real estate assets.
We offer a unique opportunity to work with a team that has a century’s worth of combined experience and knowledge to help you reach your real estate goals and your investment goals. Our most important asset at Equity Harbour is our pool of talent.
Our team is caring, honest, hardworking with a large range of expertise and talent. As you learn more about us, you will see this is our passion, it's what we love to do, and it's what we do well. We developed our first real estate development in 1990 and have had crews in office buildings and factories maintaining them daily for the past 30+ years. We have served one client with multiple buildings for the entire 30+ years.
We recently took on the Andek line of products so that we can restore the roofs and other surfaces of the facilities we help restore, protect, and maintain.
Current Service Area
Affordable Living
An Affordable Home - Making the dream of homeownership within reach of those who otherwise might be stuck renting is a true joy. We have been selling and developing residential real estate since 1987. We specialize in affordable living in rural markets. We build modular constructed homes and permanently affix manufactured homes to residential building sites. We have a variety of financing options including a 95% LTV construction/end loan from Triad Financial.
We permanently affix manufactured and modular homes on single-family homesites, making all the site improvements to 3-4 bedroom, 2 bath homes. Rising rents continue to climb and locking in a monthly housing cost has its advantages. By attaching your home to land it is now an asset that typically increases in value over time, even during inflation. The same as a stick-built home. It's cliché, but it's reality...owning real estate that costs the same or less than renting is the BEST Long-Term investment for future wealth. We are convinced that bringing affordable homes to west Michigan is one of the best things we have done! It’s true that record levels of home price appreciation have spurred significant equity gains for homeowners over the past few years. And we want that for you too! We manage all the activities from land acquisition to site improvements, selecting the manufactured home, and making home improvements and upgrades once the home is permanently affixed to the home site.
We do for our Home Buyers and Sellers
Equity Harbor Realty delivers the most value possible to our clients from commission dollars spent. We offer packaged discounts, and if needed, additional funds from a full- service company with highly experienced agents.
Equity Harbour protects our client's home equity when buying and selling their next home with us by saving our clients 50% of the listing fee. Lowering our listing fee down to 1.5%. If clients qualify, Equity Harbour offers programs to eliminate PMI Insurance or make home improvements. We can accommodate this by using our fees and or real estate commissions to fund a 2nd mortgage program for our clients
What
Sellers of Land
Knowing how to maximize the value of a property that has been in the family, or held as a long-term asset is important, you only get once chance to sell.
We take the property through the approval process to verify its highest and best use. We are very transparent with landowners, and they will know every step of the process and our intentions and goals while we take the property through the approval process.
Our agreements will be grounded in a win-win relationships and we never try to purchase property below “market value”. As we take the property through the approval process, we add value to the property and make the property more than just a vacant piece of property, it becomes an approved development, and maybe as far a shovel ready.
Affordable Home
Making the dream of homeownership within reach of those who otherwise might be stuck renting is a true joy. We have been selling and developing residential real estate since 1987. Our Affordable Home program is very rewarding.
We permanently affix manufactured and modular homes on single-family homesites, making all the site improvements to 3-4 bedroom, 2 bath homes starting at $229,00.
Rising rents continue to climb and locking in a monthly housing cost has its advantages. By attaching your home to land it is now an asset that typically increases in value over time, even during inflation. The same as a stick-built home.
It's cliché, but it's reality...owning real estate is the BEST Long-Term investment for future wealth.
We are convinced that bringing affordable homes to west Michigan is one of the best thing we have done! It’s true that record levels of home price appreciation have spurred significant equity gains for homeowners over the past few years. And we want that for you too!
We manage all the activities from land acquisition to site improvements, selecting the manufactured home, and making home improvements and upgrades once the home is permanently affixed to the home site.
Sellers
We find a blend of multiple marketing efforts exposes homes to the most potential buyers, including local MLS to market to other local brokers, national real estate sites to attract buyers directly from Realtor.com, MichRIC.com, Zillow, and Trulia along with having a social marketing expert on board to expand exposure to more potential buyers on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn.
Equity Harbour agents are prepared to sit down with you and paint the broad picture of your marketplace and actual market values and compare different home sales, and ideas that will create more home sale value like repairs and home staging. Our goal is to make your home more appealing to home buyers and exceed their expectations and yours.
Buyers
Two of the biggest challenges home buyers face are:
- Rising home prices
- Limited number of homes for sale
- The intensity of bidding wars
With our affordable home program, you can purchase a 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 1500+ sq. ft. home on a 1/2 - acre 2 acre setting for as low as $179,000. We also have programs in place to help with financing.
- Rural Development financing
- 2nd mortgage program
- Builder program
We are Developers and Builders who purchase and build homes on the land we have developed. And we specialize in helping clients qualify builders based on what is important to you:
- Location
- Land
- Improvements
- Amenities
- Plans and specifications
- Builder reputation
- Total cost
We are convinced that bringing affordable homes to west Michigan is the best thing we have done! It’s true that record levels of home price appreciation have spurred significant equity gains for homeowners over the past few years. And we want that for you too!
We manage all the activities from land acquisition to site improvements, selecting the manufactured home, and making home improvements and upgrades once the home is permanently affixed to the home site.
Careers
Equity Harbour Realty and Investments offers opportunities to grow your real estate career by:
- Helping you to create short-term income
- Long-term income
- Exposure to capital investors.
In our business there are a select few with the know-how to develop property with long-term income streams. What is uncommon is the opportunity to benefit from the resources you build for yourself.
We have spent the past 15 years developing relationships in the private equity markets to attract capital investors so we can build long-term assets and have inventory control to keep our phones ringing.
I purchased a RE/MAX franchise with 20 agents from two brokers that owned and operated the franchise together. Back then less than 30% of RE/MAX franchises were profitable on their own merit (as a business), both owners were actively helping clients buy and sell homes to make a living, The difference between them was, one had real estate holdings working for him that afforded a higher standard of living. The other did not. I have always believed in building strength for future wealth. It is going to rain, life is going to happen and there will come a day when you will be happy with your decision to build a pool of assets that will serve you well.
