ServiceLink AuctionReviews of servicelinkauction.com

Olivia made my experience great! I've called a few times with questions and she's been kind and compassionate.

Customer service has been so helpful in answering all of our questions right away.

The most important thing that makes my experience great, is the people you employ..I have dealt with Mandy several times, and find her very nice helpful,and willing to go the extra length to ensure that each customer is well satisfied.She would be a definite asset to any business she was exposed to.

I asked for interior access (person, video, inspection report)...reluctant to bid without completing due diligence. Mandy kindly explained the auction conditions. too bad, i was very interested.

Quick and vey informative. Greatly appreciate the live chat feature.

I had a question about when payments are due and I got a prompt response. Thanks H&M!

Fast reply and super friendly help!

I've bought two houses from Hudson and Marshall auctions so far, and will be buying more. The first house, I paid 18.4k all in for, and sold it a month and a week after winning the bid for 38k. After commissions, I cleared 15.8k in profit, and all I did was walk around, pick up some trash, and had my agent list it for me. The second house was more involved, I had issues with getting them to have the foreclosing lender release the abstract to my title company, it took over a month for my title company to get permission to pull the title. This was either a problem with Service link's title agents, or the lender who foreclosed, either way, it was very excessive and caused my capital to be tied up for longer than is acceptable for my business model. Still, I painted the railings for the deck, cleaned up the trash, had the carpets cleaned and paid my roommate 100 bucks to mow the yard, and sold it for 32k more than I had into it, it's in closing right now, and I expect to clear 24k profit off a 67k investment, in a total of almost four months. Overall, I have been happy with the action house; However, I do wish they would exclude certain sellers from being able to list in their actions, due to poor performance. Or at the very least disclose to me who the seller is so I can refuse to deal with companies who have screwed over my family members in the past (selling all their possions after an insurance claim), and it just so happens that same company is the one who took over a month to release the abstract to my title company. I really would prefer not to do business with certain companies who have a history of dropping the ball and screwing people over, so my largest complain is that they will not tell me who is selling the property, although that can be found at the county clerk's office, I'm just generally too busy to do so and leave the title work to my awesome closing agent. Ing the future, I will be sure to check before bidding that a company who has a history of bad business dealings isn't the one selling, if H&M could disclose this information not buyers who have demonstrated that they consistently close on their winning auction, that would make me happier. As it is, I was on food stamps 7 months ago, never having made more than 12k in a year because of mental health issues that prevented me from maintaining employment. I got a 22k settlement from being hit by a mail truck on my motorcycle, moved 2000 miles to where the market was favorable, and started into real estate. I don't owe my success to H&M, but they were the avenue that to me from struggling to feed myself and provide shelter, to having tens of thousands of dollars in profit. The credit goes to me, for carefully choosing the right deals, but H&M did make the process pretty easy, since that bid for 17k~ was the first ever home I bought, and now I am in a position to buy one for myself to live in, while still continuing with my "wholesaling". I am thankful to them for providing the avenue to my escape from perpetual poverty. I've lost every job I've ever had because of my mental health issues, and I've never been successful in business either. Still, I kept trying, and once I had enough money to buy a house, I did, not to live in, but to sell. I was actually committed ion the mental hospital against my will when the title company came out for my signature. I made almost 16k while locked up in the mental ward, more money than I have ever made in any year of my life previous to this one. I will forever be thankful for this platform, for providing an escape from agonizing and inimical poverty. While I know it was my own persistence, strategy, and willingness to take risk that really made all the difference, H&M was kind enough to provide a marketplace for me to succeed in. I am a special case, I have asperger's, complex ptsd, but a very high intelligence quotient and years of preparation. Still, I am learning more every day, and I hope to utilize H&M to the fullest extent, and achieve my goal of reaching millionaire status within just a few years, or less. I know that I am capable of doing it. In the end, it doesn't matter if I've had over three dozen jobs, only ever keeping one for more than three months, because I've found my niche, and I've found a company that while not perfect, is good enough to enable me to find the deals that each provide over a years worth of income to me after I sell them. Goodbye poverty, and hello to my friends at Hudson and Marshall, I wish you all the best, from the depths of my soul. And while I would rather not encourage competition to join the Frey, I must say that this company is the real deal. These guys who have left poor reviews, they simply haven't done their own due diligence. If you're going to buy a house, you need to look at it either in person or by sending someone you trust, and you need to have a title company that is experienced, knowledgeable, and in the same area as the house you buy. If you can do math, and figure out the value of the home you are bidding on, in it's current condition, then you can find good deals, despite the fact that many sellers expect unreasonable amounts for houses that you cannot inspect or finance. Just don't bid on those houses, not above what you are willing to pay, and wait for a good deal to come along. The sellers will generally resist them for a lower price, or try to sell. them elsewhere. I'm not interested in trying to buy a house for substantially less than the seller wants, it goes against my policy of making everyone happy. The people who bu7y houses from me are happy, the people I buy them from are happy, my agent is happy, and I am happy, that is the only Real way to succeed in business, and it it comes at the cost of some profit, the benefit of having good working relationships and reputation far outweighs a few extra thousand dollars squeezed out of a deal. My Agent goes to bat for me, going the extra mile, and people love to buy from me, because I will make sure that they are happy with their deal. The reason why so many people fail is because they are selfish and greedy. Use your brain to find a good deal, and use your heart to spread that deal around, people will notice, people will talk, and everyone will want to work with you as you demonstrate that you're a team player. H&M, my only other fault with you is that I need to be a licensed real estate agent to view the inside of the houses, my agent does not have the time to show me 3 houses a week that are an hour or more away. You really aught to fix this issue, it makes it much more difficult for me to screen the properties at auction, and much more frustrating. I'm not going to strip the copper or anything, I've spent $80k at your auctions, can you just let me into the house so I can estimate the repairs more accurately? That is a huge barrier to me performing my due diligence, and is frankly unacceptable to me. My agent does not make enough money off of me to follow me around for 15 hours a week as I investigate deals, and not everyone is able to get a real estate license. This policy is seriously unfair, and morally contemptuous. I realize that you need to protect the homes, but I have been a consistent customer who should be allowed to view the insides of the properties before I buy them. Both houses had to have been purchased without going inside them at all, and if you are unable to get me access to these homes, I will have to solve it myself, which may be in a matter that is deleterious to you or the sellers whilst with you. The bottom line is, right and wrong matter to me, and if I need to break the law to make things right then I will, without guilt or care of the consequences. Right is being able to see the inside of the house before I bid on it, and it is right to take matters into you own hands to make things more equitable if others will not or cannot do what it the right thing. 30% of the time, the house is left unlocked by the "trustworthy agents" anyways, is it really that difficult to give me the access code when you give it out freely to anyone with a license, even if they are not going to be responsible with it? You see, there is no reason not to give me the access code, I have been a consistent and honest person who buys houses for cash. So the next time I call in, you will give me the code, or I will just go in anyways. If I need to take my power drill to the deadbolt then I will. Because if something is not right, and you will not make it right, I will make it right. And I have nothing to lose. If you cannot provide your established buyers with the courtesy of accessing properties they intend to bid on, then you lose the amount of respect that I'd need not to drill holes in locks or cut and smash open lockboxes. There's nobody here who can stop me. So you can either do the right thing, or I will do illegal things to make it right. That has always been my policy. Because at the end of the day, nobody is going to make sure that I am afforded equal opportunity and equal treatment expect me, when I take it from the people who do not give it. There is a special class of people gets to look at any property they want at any time they want, but I am left buying things with a blindfold on, and that same special class often doesn't even secure the property when they leave, then it is not only my right, but my duty to even the playing field, regardless of your policies, or the state's laws. Because at the end of the day, I'd rather take a change of spending the night in jail than go back to poverty and food stamp because I wasn't given a fair opportunity to evaluate the property I wish to buy. And you can be the ones to explain to the management company why someone is destroying their locks, because you give out free access to people who cannot be trusted, but refuse it to the people who can, and I won't feel the least bit guilty about it either, cuz right and wrong always trumps laws and policy.