Dominique Rychlik

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"Dominique is truly a rare gem, one of a kind real estate agent and an amazing person. She worked with us to buy and sell a house during the 2008 financial crisis and sell a house during the COVID-19 pandemic. What makes Dominique unique is her personalized approach in working with clients. Dominique fosters a true team feeling that we are all in this together. We have found her to be professional, enthusiastic, empathetic, patient, warm and understanding. She also has a tremendous ability to connect, communicate and counsel. This is in addition to her vast real estate knowledge and many years of experience working in the Washington and Maryland real estate market.

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" We worked with Dominique to sell the house we had lived in and loved for 24 years, having decided to out of the area. We are happy to second the comments of others regarding her knowledge, expertise and temperament. We want to emphasize how understanding and flexible she was under our unique circumstance. We bought our out-of-town house with a closing scheduled several months away shortly after we engaged Dominique in pre-pandemic times. Then the extent of the pandemic became clear, and we extended our already delayed exit from D.C. until we felt comfortable traveling across states. Dominique was patient with our fits and starts and changes, including our decision not to begin work on staging until we had exited the house entirely as a precaution against the worsening pandemic. We then proceeded to work with her entirely remotely. She found a buyer and we reached agreement in record time, and she insured that then-unnecessary staging items we had scheduled did not proceed, saving us significant dollars. We highly recommend Dominique."

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" Dominique exhibited tremendous patience and worked tirelessly for months with us to find our dream home. She thought out of the box and suggested a neighborhood we had not thought of. We fell in love with the area and lived in our dream house for 11 years. In the meantime, Dominique helped us sell our first house during the height of the financial crisis. There were many foreclosures in our neighborhood and our house needed a renovation. Dominique helped us to find the right and organize the renovation. We were able to sell the house quickly for a good price during a difficult period.

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" We recently sold our second house during the pandemic. We interviewed several top who sell houses in our neighborhood. Although Dominique doesn’t sell houses exclusively in our neighborhood, her presentation was more professional, detailed and thorough than the other . Dominique consulted with us and stood us during every step of the selling process. We originally planned to put the house on the market in May and decided to it up to March when news of the pandemic broke. Dominique quickly responded; staging the house, scheduling the photographers, and putting the house on the market a week and a half later. We were thrilled with the staging and the photography. It was difficult selling our house during the pandemic with bad news coming out daily but Dominique remained confident and positive during the entire selling process. Eventually we received multiple offers. Dominique thoroughly reviewed each of the offers including their finances and recommended the best offer. Dominique constantly used a team approach and was very comforting during the whole process. We couldn’t imagine working with another agent. We were blessed to have worked with her. We can't recommend her highly enough." - Yann L.

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"We cannot recommend Dominique more highly! Our house sold for a much better price than it might have otherwise if not for the terrific efforts and guidance of our realtor, Dominique.

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"We had a great house, but with an aging interior, which she expertly guided through a complete remodeling to bring the house up to modern tastes and requirements and allow the house to truly shine like the gem we and she knew it was.

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"During the remodeling, no matter how busy things were, Dominique always made herself available to discuss issues, solve problems, suggest solutions and provide guidance. She has a knack for getting things done efficiently and in the best way possible. She has excellent taste, and the remodellng was beautiful.

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"Her vast experience and knowledge of our neighborhood and what likely buyers would be looking for, was proven again and again the enthusiastic positive feedback we received from prospective buyers who toured the house and viewed its online.

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"Dominique handled every step of the sale process magnificently - like managing a three ring circus. From prepping the house with excellent staging, to creating a terrific online with wonderful photography and detailed write-up, to very smoothly all the paperwork and evaluating all the offers for us. It was a thrilling ride! And thanks to Dominique we had complete peace of mind from start to very successful completion.

★★★★★
"If you want to sell your house you cannot do better than having Dominique as your realtor. We could rely on her and trust her completely. In addition to all her superb realty skills, she is simply a wonderful person. Honest, smart, cheerful, has unflagging energy, always friendly and has a great smile and laugh. She has a wonderful family. Dominique previously worked for years with her mother who was also a terrific realtor and role model. Dominique is simply the best!" - PG, Brookdale, Chevy Chase MD

★★★★★
"We cannot recommend Dominique highly enough. She is an extraordinary realtor and person, and you know you will be in fantastic hands when working with her to sell (or buy) a property.

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"Our recent experience speaks volumes about Dominique’s excellence. In short, our home had been on the market for 7 months, with numerous open houses that did not result in an offer, before we decided to hire Dominique. After that, the momentum shifted. Dominique conducted a detailed and comprehensive market evaluation, after which she generated a strategic plan for putting the house back on the market. This included her recommendations for meaningful and reasonable updates to the property and a creative and practical approach. each step along the way, she was there for us - answering our questions, sharing updates, making recommendations/ suggestions, and checking in with us, generally. Under her gracious and skilled shepherding, after our first (and only) open house, we received four offers, three of were for over asking price.

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"There are so many reasons you will want to work with Dominique. Some of those many reasons are below. First, and most importantly, you can trust her. She will work hard for you, she will communicate with you often and transparently, she is reliable, caring, and ethical, and you know she is working in your best interest. Second, she will do what is needed in a timely and professional way, but then she will go the extra mile for you. This was evident in the way she approached everything she did for us, including keeping us regularly apprised of recent house sales/data, well beyond the initial valuation process, reaching out to give us detailed updates on every part of the process, and being available, if needed, well beyond traditional working hours.Third, she is creative and thinks outside the box. For instance, she thought our house would look particularly beautiful at night, and asked if she could market the house, in part, with a photo of it at night. This night photo was lovely, and several neighbors remarked on it to us directly (as Dominique had sent postcards of our house to our neighbors). She also had the idea of decorating it virtually (we were no longer living in the house when she came on board, so there was no furniture in it). So, she worked with a designer to choose furniture that would look great in the space and would be visible to those looking at our home online. Instead of seeing empty rooms, online viewers viewed beautiful and stylish furniture that looked like they were made for the spaces. Fourth, she knows well the neighborhoods in which she sells and cares deeply about them, including our rather unique neighborhood, Carderock Springs. This knowledge and care inform her work, and we knew that she understood the special offerings of living in our neighborhood, well beyond our house. Fifth, she is a great coach. While she has been working in real estate for decades, she has a degree in social work and she is highly emotionally (and otherwise) intelligent. You will no doubt benefit from her noteworthy ability to connect, empathize, and counsel you, when you feel like you need it." - JW and MW

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"Dominique is wonderful and I recommend her for both buyers and sellers without reservation. She's the perfect combination of smart and knowledgeable, calm and pragmatic, but you always know that she's working to get the best result for you, the client. She's so easy to work with -- she's responsive, personable, and really genuine; you never feel like she's just trying to get the deal done, but that she's really looking out for you. She was also great about understanding who we were as buyers and sellers -- what sort of things were important to us, how to keep us calm when things got stressful, etc. And she gave straight-up, practical advice when needed, but also understood when to back off, or when to just accept our idiosyncrasies. When we told other that we were working with Dominique, they always said "Oh, you're in good hands, she's great. I like working with her." She was great at dealing with the pretty intense first-time buyers on the other side of our transaction and their less-than-ideal agent, managing to talk them through some common first-time buyer anxieties, while also talking us through the stress of being on the other side of it. And honestly, with 4 Type-A lawyers on either side of the transaction, we probably not the easiest bunch to deal with. Dominique did it in stride, without batting an eye, and was never once ruffled. Furthermore, she's a really GOOD person. She volunteers extensively in the community, and you can tell it's not because she feels like she should, it's because she really cares. That compassion that she brings to her volunteer work, she brings to her clients, along the experience, knowledge, and tactical skills to get the best result for her clients. If we ever buy or sell again, I wouldn't consider any other agent than Dominque." -Iyssa919

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"Selecting Dominique to handle the sale of our house in the Brookdale neighborhood was easy. She knows the neighborhood and has all the skills needed to manage the process from start to finish. I can't imagine the sale of our house could have been more professionally accomplished. Dominique's knowledge of the area resulted in setting the price at exactly the right point. The advertising and the brochure she prepared showed the house to its best advantage. I recommend that anyone selling a house in the Bethesda / Chevy Chase area talk to Dominique before selecting a realtor." - Don

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"Dominique turned a potentially incredibly stressful situation of preparing our home of 17 years for sale and getting it on the market with top-notch advertising and home video in record time. We entered the market at the beginning of the spring season and we had a solid, accepted offer within two weeks. She recommended a sale price that was right on the money. Her knowledge, intuition and personable nature as well her generosity with her time and her attention to detail make her the best in her field. We have recommended her to many friends and if we back to Maryland, would absolutely go through Dominique to buy a new house." - Kristin

★★★★★
"Dominique Rychlik was extremely easy to work with throughout the process and extremely professional. She was quick to respond to all communication and we would definitely work with her again." - Carol

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"As first-time home buyers, we felt incredibly lucky to connect to Dominique Rychlik as our agent. She was kind, funny, responsive, and above all patient as we looked at several dozen houses and figured out how to find the right home that fit our criteria of geography, cost, and personal taste. Dominique listened carefully and quickly a good sense for what properties were likely to appeal. She was quick to point out features of properties--both positive and negative--that we wouldn't have thought to consider. We never got the sense that she was trying to simply "make a sale" -- she clearly wanted us to be happy with the home we eventually ended up with.

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" During the offer/negotiation process, Dominique continually gave us very good advice and was able to "read between the lines" of counteroffers. Finally, we were uniformly pleased with all of the inspectors, , and financing organizations she recommended. All were professional, customer-oriented, and reasonably priced.

★★★★★
" Overall, we cannot imagine having found a better agent for our first home purchase than Dominique. We highly recommend her." - David

★★★★★
"I was extremely impressed with Dominique. Always available, very knowledgeable, extremely patient, and went the extra mile for us on several different occasions during the many months we worked with her from out of state. She never pressured us despite our uncertainty. Early on she made a point to ask us what we liked and didn't like about houses we saw, so that when new things came on the market, she had a good sense of whether to show it to us. When she sensed we didn't understand something, she explained it to us and even made phone calls to local officials on our behalf, because she sensed (correctly) that she could figure the issue out faster."- Jeff