Françoise Borel is an outstanding realtor! She is incredibly knowledgeable, organized, detail-oriented and focused helping us understand the options and finding the perfect home for us! We are so grateful for Francoise’s assistance and can’t recommend her highly enough.
We had the pleasure of meeting Françoise through a friend. My husband and I have been coming to Longboat Key for years, and love it even more since we now have a boat. It’s such a beautiful place, peaceful, luxurious, and the tropical landscape is gorgeous! I always wanted a beach house here but knew we could not afford it. When I first met Francoises, I was tagging along with a friend who was interested in finding a condo here. I listened carefully as my friend asked questions, and Francoise always had the answer, the correct answer. I knew she was not embellishing the facts about the island, because I’d been coming here for over 30 years and knew the answers myself. My husband and I decided to take a look around and Françoise found only places she knew would be within our budget, and within my parameters of “needs”. As we suspected, nothing was very appealing to me. So we dropped the i…
We had the pleasure of meeting Françoise through a friend. My husband and I have been coming to Longboat Key for years, and love it even more since we now have a boat. It’s such a beautiful place, peaceful, luxurious, and the tropical landscape is gorgeous! I always wanted a beach house here but knew we could not afford it. When I first met Francoises, I was tagging along with a friend who was interested in finding a condo here. I listened carefully as my friend asked questions, and Francoise always had the answer, the correct answer. I knew she was not embellishing the facts about the island, because I’d been coming here for over 30 years and knew the answers myself. My husband and I decided to take a look around and Françoise found only places she knew would be within our budget, and within my parameters of “needs”. As we suspected, nothing was very appealing to me. So we dropped the idea. 10 months later, we thought maybe we would sell our home, and move, lock, stock, and barrel to Sarasota. I called Francoises, feeling a little sheepish because we didn’t have any success the last time we looked. She was very kind, understanding and encouraging. We looked at houses in Sarasota because we couldn’t afford LBK. From that experience we determined we wanted a water view, that it was necessary for our “pleasure” of being there. So we quit the housing search. At this point, we were disappointed to say the least. My husband kept up his search online, hoping to find a “needle in a haystack”. We did find a few “possibles” and continued looking. After much soul searching we had decided we really wanted to be on LBK. Again, Françoise showed us several condos we had selected. And we finally found our gem! Françoise is extremely intelligent, worldly, professional, and has a sincere ability to connect with people. She knows her craft. She understands the search for the perfect home, whoever you may be. She is thorough, punctual, and extremely personable. We enjoyed working with her and remain friends, still. Her famous motto: “Looking for a home is a process of elimination”, you have to eliminate what you don’t want. If you follow her lead, you are much more likely to find your dream home!
My husband and I had the good fortune of being introduced to Françoise Borel by Deborah Zvibleman, an agent at John R. Woods who we worked with when looking at homes in the Naples area. We have shared our most impressive of experiences working with Françoise with everyone who knows us. She is the most competent realtor we have ever had the experience to work with buying and selling property. In addition, she is always responsive to our questions in a timely manner. Though it may be cliche, Françoise truly proved to us to go above and beyond in every way helping us navigate house hunting in the Sarasota area. Her dedication to us as prospective clients, as well as our respect for her depth of knowledge as a real estate agent and the market here, will have us feel forever grateful for our paths crossing and the contact made originally on our behalf.
We recently had the pleasure of working with Françoise on the purchase of our Meadows Condo. She was a joy to work with, always professional, knowledgeable, available, and enthusiastic. Along the way, she dealt not only with us but our son Joe, who stood in for us in the early stages of our search. Françoise offered valuable insights and suggestions throughout and painlessly guided us through the Florida purchase process. As a result, Joe recently listed his Lakewood Ranch home with Françoise and should the occasion arise, she will be our choice for future real estate activity.
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