After more than 20 years as a full-time real estate agent, Garry Glidden formed Agent-Proof Me in 2014. Having seen the extreme range of licensed Realtors® and knowing the significant impact a real estate agent has on a family that is buying or selling a home, he became determined to do something to help people find not just good, but exceptional, agents.
This expanded into Mortgage Experts, Home Inspectors and Real Estate Lawyers.
Finding great professionals
The lure of large commission cheques attracts many more to this business than does the desire to become a true real estate professional. With approximately 55,000 licensed Realtors® in Toronto and the GTA alone, and a large percentage making one or fewer sales per year, the numbers speak for themselves. In this environment, it’s the consumer who suffers.
So what do people really want in a real estate agent? We did some research and it turns out the key traits are:
- honesty
- integrity
- trustworthiness
- market knowledge
- caring personality
At Agent-Proof Me, we search for Realtors®, Mortgage Professionals, Home Inspectors and Lawyers who excel in all these areas and who love working with first-time home buyers/sellers and young couples and families.
Our process
To ensure we only get the best, we developed a strict, in-depth process for vetting which includes ‘blind references’, researching professional bodies for misconduct and multiple one-on-one communications. You won’t find hundreds and hundreds of ‘directory-type’ professionals on this site. Anyone can upload data. Our process limits us to adding only a few professionals per month. And we will only list a maximum of three professionals per city.
So when you browse through the experts on our website, you can trust that we’ve personally screened them – and will continue to vet in order to ensure that we only display exceptional, caring professionals for your choosing.
“I’m proud of the APM family of Realtors, Home Inspectors, Mortgage Professionals and Real Estate Lawyers and hope that you will consider interviewing one of them for your next home purchase or sale. You will be blown away by their service and care.”
Garry Glidden, Founder & President
Why People Like Using Agent-Proof Me