We are a husband/wife team living in Carol Stream for over 15 years and selling real estate full time for over 10 years. We specialize in the sales and marketing of homes in the West and Far Western Suburbs of Chicago including but not limited to Carol Stream homes for sale, Bloomingdale homes for sale, Glendale Heights homes for sale, Hanover Park homes for sale, West Chicago homes for sale, Roselle homes for sale, Bartlett homes for sale, St. Charles homes for sale, Geneva homes for sale and Batavia homes for sale. Search ALL Properties for sale. Do a property search for Illinois homes for sale and Illinois properties for sale available through the Multiple Listing Service of Northern Illinois (MLS) covering the Chicagoland 6 county area including but not limited to Cook County homes for sale, Dupage County homes for sale, Kane County homes for sale, Lake County homes for sale, McHenry County  homes for sale and Will County homes for sale. Save your property search criteria and we will send you an email alert whenever new listings matching your criteria come on the market. Sign up for email alerts by clicking Save this search on the property results page. Rick holds a real estate broker's license while Lynn is a dedicated REALTOR. Together we provide twice the attention, service and dedication for the price of one. We work very hard to educate and help find that perfect fit for our clients. We feel the best decision one can make is a well educated decision. We are consistant top producers, committed to bringing the highest level of professionalism to the real estate industry. We are committed to the client service based on personal attention, follow-up and follow-through. We are also committed to the successful sale, not just the listing of your home. You can search over 130,000 homes in the Chicagoland area and learn more about the services we provide by visiting our website at www.rickorze.com  We pride ourselves on honesty, integrity, patience and the ability to listen. We love what we do and we are never too busy for your referrals!

We specialize primarily in Residential and Relocation real estate in Illinois. We work with both buyers and sellers providing both personalized and sincere service. Rick handle most of the listings while Lynn takes care of most of the buyers needs. Since part of our job description is educating the client we love working with first time home buyers and home sellers. It is very rewarding to help people through their first real estate experience! We are strong contract negotiators treating each transaction as if it was our own.

We are very excited about what the world of marketing has become. We have a strong internet presence, advertising in some of the largest real estate website (ie. REALTOR.com, RE/MAX.com, craigslist.com, Chicagotribune.com, DailyHerald.com, ActiveRain.com, Localism.com, etc.) We are always trying to keep on top of all the latest and most innovated marketing tools. We provide professional property brochures, property CD's played to easy listening music and website flyers. We take our own virtual tours or photo shows (played to easy listening music) that do not present properties in a "fish bowl" like manner. We also market to the area with "Just Listed" postcards that help get the word out about your home being for sale. In addition we provide our 24 hour Real Estate Marketing Hotline that offers direct connection to our office, fax on demand and voicemail options. 

Contributions and Accomplishments made by These Dupage County REALTORS

1. We have completed hours of specialized training perfecting and mastering the art of negotiations and home marketing. We are consistant RE/MAX 100% Club members and are members of the ELITE RE/MAX HALL of FAME.
2. RE/MAX helps families in more ways than just with real estate. The RE/MAX Northern Illinois Network has been a major contributor to Children's Miracle Network (CMN) for the last several years. All funds raised for CMN in Illinois benefit Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Last year alone RE/MAX Northern Illinois raised $389,602 for CMN. The RE/MAX Northern Illinois Network is currently one of two Platinum-level corporate sponsors of Children's Memorial. Platinum sponsors contribute more than $100,000 in a calendar year. Our office, RE/MAX All Pro - Bloomingdale, Illinois has been awarded the "Miracle Office" status for the last 4 years. In order to receive this status, each agent in the office personally makes a contribution to CMN. We have made a commitment to make a contribution to CMN from each commission check we receive. This is just one of the many ways these RE/MAX All Pro agents give back to the community.
3. We also have given back to our school district community, Community Consolidated School District 93 (CCSD 93). Rick has been a Community Consolidated School District 93 Mentor for the last 3 years helping bridge the gap that some children feel in school with teachers, administration and/or peers. He has also served on the Western Trails Elementary School Building Leadership Team (BLT) as well as on the Community Consolidated School District 93 Leadership Team (DLT) and is now serving on the Jay Stream Middle School Building Leadership Team (BLT) and is the parent representative once again on the District Leadership Team (DLT). Rick served as Vice President of the Western Trails Elementary School PTO/PTA for 2003-2004 as well as serving as President of the Western Trails Elementary School PTO/PTA for 2004-2005. He has volunteered within the Carol Stream Park District as a Baseball coach and Manager and in 2004 Rick was nominated and named Carol Stream Citizen of The Year. Lynn is currently serving as Western Trails PTO/PTA Treasurer for 3 terms and has been an active volunteer for the school.

 Our Interests Outside of Real Estate:

We are a family of 4 and are very luck to have children that have grown to enjoy the similar hobbies that we have enjoyed for so many years. When time permits, it is not uncommon to find us all playing a round of golf at the youth links. Our son just completed his first year of Carol Stream Travel Baseball. Rick was our pitching coach. It was a very exciting year and mom and sister never missed a game! We are the boys BIGGEST FANS!! Although we don't get to relax too much, we never miss an opportunity to spend a little time fishing for walleye. During the winter months we all enjoy our bowling leagues. Although mom and dad are having a difficult time keeping up with the kids. They are both middle school age and have bowled a few more 200 games than mom and dad. It is hard to keep up with them but we enjoy the challenge!

Rick and Lynn,

I wanted to write a short note to thank you for an incredible job. I have dealt with many types of business and you both are by far one of the most professional teams I have ever had the pleasure to work with.

Lynn is absolutely incredible! I told her what I was looking for and she did the research to find the best match. I find this outstanding because all the other realtors I have dealt with just gave me a big stack of listings and wanted me to do the work. As you know, I ended up buying the second house she showed me. I really appreciate you negotiating the best selling price of my house and the best purchase price for my new house. You are a real pro!

It's always a real pleasure working with professionals that obviously love what they do. Thank you for a job well done and a great buying experience.

Mr. Skinner ~ West Chicago, Il

"Helping Dreams Come True"

Thank you so much for helping our dream come true. You will never know how much we appreciate all you've done. Your constant availability to go see a house, re-see a house and then go see it again. Your attentiveness to our phone calls, your patience with our panic attacks and fears. You're awesome! Thank you for always listening to us when we called & calming our fears- and boy did we have fears! We sure didn't have far to look far to realize how lucky we were to be dealing with such professionals!

Thank you for so many things!

Sincerely,

Mr. and Mrs. Boyle ~ Carol Stream, IL

"Let The Experts Do The Work"

Thank you so much for making the sale of my house so easy! I literally sat back and did nothing. I recommend you guys to everyone. If I ever move back to Illinois you guys can help me find my new home.

Best Regards!

Ms. Cooper ~ Glendale Heights, IL

"Integrity"

Wow, where do we even start? Thank you for all that you did to help us sell our home! We don't think it could have worked out any better. Thank you for helping us find our new home, and all that you had to put up with in the process. It was a real pleasure to work with you. You are quite a team!

Thank you again,

Mr. and Mrs. Paul ~ Carol Stream, IL

"Educating First Time Home Buyers"

Thank you so much for all your help, you really showed us the ropes for buying our first home!!

The Williams' Sisters, Bartlett, IL

"Dedication and Trust"

We are so thankful for the many hours of hard work and dedication you each put in to helping sell our house and finding our new one. It felt good to be able to trust and really like the people we were working with. You guys are great! And make an awesome team. We recommend you to everybody!

 Dr. and Mrs. Pyka, Glen Ellyn, IL

"Knowledgeable"

Thank you for your wonderful help. There are so many things that we are greatful to you and Lynn for. With the sale of our house, everything went so smoothly and quickly. What we had hoped for came to pass. We especially appreciate your patience. Rick, you made us feel that none of our questions were dumb and we felt comfortable with you and you geniunely cared for what we wanted. Your know what you are talking about and you are very knowledgeable concerning Concord Pointe. That was a huge factor for us.

Rick---you ARE the best!!!!

 Mr. and Mrs. Peterson, Carol Stream, IL