Team Erickson

Eric & Sheryl Erickson

Eden Prairie

11200 West 78th Street

Eden Prairie, MN55344

Cell: 952-769-7724
Direct: 952-942-4728
Office: 952-829-2900
Home: 952-443-3251
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Welcome to the Erickson team website!

We are a professional husband and wife real estate team who has worked together for over 15 years, Eric has 30 years of real estate experience.  We welcome the opportunity to help you reach your real estate goals! Our job is to educate and advise you in helping you to assess your options and provide the knowledge and expertise to sell or purchase a home to your best advantage. Our philosophy is to provide exceptional service to you along with honesty and integrity to create a relationship of trust and mutual respect, along with open communication and our positive responsiveness to your needs!

Our expertise is in residential real estate, assisting buyers and sellers in the metro area. We also work with distressed properties. If you are looking for assistance in upper bracket homes, recreational property, commerical property or land, we are NOT the Realtors for you. If you need a referral for any of these interest, let us know and we will direct you to a qualified agent.

 


Professional Background

Our background:

  • Broker's license since 1980
  • Certified Residential Specialist
  • Graduate of the Realtors Institute
  • E-Pro
  • Certified Distressed Property Expert
  • RE/Max Hall of Fame

 


Professional Interests

Our team is focused on traditional residential real estate sales and distressed properties. As a Certified Distressed Property Expert team, we know how to help families who are experiencing the financial stress of not making house payments due to job loss, medical issues or other serious issues impacting income.

We want to help families know that there are options to foreclosure that can save their credit scores and let them reenter the option of home ownership within a short period of time. One of these options, the short sale, where the lender agrees to accept less money in the sale of the home gives the seller and the lender a win/win situation. Most sellers are not aware that the lender pays both the commission to the real estate agent and the closing costs.

Foreclosure with reduce your credit score by 250+ points and remain on your report for many years. Get the facts before you make a decision!!

 

 

 


Education

Eric earned a  commercial and instrument pilot's license hoping to be an airline pilot in the early 60's. Unfortunately, Vietnam came along and he became a helicopter pilot instead flying in Vietnam and Germany. After returning home, he completed his BA at the University of Minnesota and then went on to Denver University and received his Masters of Social Work in 1976.

Sheryl earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota.  After working in this field for a few years, she met her husband Eric, moved to Colorado and obtained ad advanced degree in Social Work from the University of Denver.  After working for two years, Eric changed careers, went into real estate and we moved to the mountains and ended up living in Breckenridge, a lovely area with great skiing and natural beauty!

We moved back home to MN in 1983 and after awhile Sheryl received an advanced degree in Education and worked in the school system in Eden Prairie for several years before joining Eric in his residential real estate business in 1995.  We have worked as a husband and wife team for over 15 years now!

Eric got his certification in May of 2009 to work with distressed properties and is now a Certified Distressed Property Expert (CDPE) which our company RE/MAX has been promoting this year.  See the article and link below.

 

 


Certified Distressed Property Expert team

In the past 2 years our economy has been turned upside down. As a result, many families have lost jobs and become financially overwhelmed. Our special training can help homeowners who find themselves upside down on their mortgages and unable to make payments before they go into foreclosure.

Rather than go in to foreclosure and loose 250-300 points on your credit score which will last for at least 7 years, there are alternatives. Loan modification is an option if you can still make a payment but need it lowered. Another good option is the short sale where the lender accepts a lower price than the loan amount. They do this because it is a better option for them than foreclosure.

This process takes training, understanding and patience in working with the seller, lender and buyer. Making sure the process is carried out exactly as the lender requires is a very important part of a successful sale.

We know what to do and how to work with the appropriate system.  It is important that you always work with an agent who is specially trained for this! Most agents are not aware of the pitfalls and requirements of the system and cannot get the sale completed.

It is our goal to try and help people find a better resolution than foreclosure if this is possible.  Timing is critical and we need to reach people before the foreclosure process has been completed!

For More Information on Distressed Property and Related Topics go to: www.cdpe.com

New York Times Article on the Mortgage Meltdown go to:  www.nytimes.com/2007/08/19/business/19credit.html

Minnesota Housing Information go to: mnhousing.gov/consumers/home-owners

MN  Foreclosure information go to: mhfa.state.mn.us/homes/homes_foreclosure.html

 

 


Designations

Certified Distressed Property Expert (CDPE) Certified Residential Specialist Graduate, REALTOR Institute E-PRO Equal Housing Opportunity RE/MAX Hall of Fame

Community Involvement


Personal Interests

Eric enjoys tennis, golf, motorcycles (Harley guy), boating, and baseball!  When he has time to just relax and take it easy he likes to work out, walk the dog, be outside and explore different places and restaurants.

Sheryl enjoys music (sings in a choir), golf, riding her bike, going for a nature walk, and reading a good book!

Together, we enjoy walking our dog Rascal, having friends over for dinner, spending time with family, going out to try a new restaurant, seeing a play or musical, or just hanging out at home and relax.

We have enjoyed being in Florida for a winter vacation and like spending time down there when we can.

 

 

 


Personal Background

Eric served as a combat helicopter pilot in Vietnam, survived Hodgkin's disease (cancer of the lymphatic system), has been in remission since 1975, has a Masters of Social Work and worked with children in pre-school and public school settings. His real estate career began in Denver, Co where he worked door to door with a partner, then became the broker of a company in the mountains of Breckenridge, CO. Returning to Minnesota in 1980, he worked with two real estate companies as a sales associate until serving as the sales and marketing director for Steiner & Koppelman, an upper bracket custom home builder. In 1995, he teamed up with Sheryl as a husband & wife real estate team. In 2004, he received his broker's real estate license in Florida hoping to work with the 2nd home market there. Guess you know the rest of the story since 2007!

Sheryl grew up in the Minneapolis area and earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota. She worked in the field of social work for a few years, met Eric, and moved to Colorado where both Eric andSheryl earned an advanced degree in Social Work at the University of Denver.  We moved to the mountain area after a few years when Eric had changed careers and he had become a residential realtor with Moore & Co.

We enjoyed living in Breckenridge and liked both down hill and cross country skiing in the mountain areas. After moving back to MN Sheryl got an advanced degree in Education from the University of St. Thomas.  She worked in the schools for several years in the western suburb of Eden Prairie.

In 1995 Sheryl joined Eric in the real estate business and we both joined RE/MAX RESULTS!  Our purpose was to focus on the needs of our clients and build strong relationships with them, building a referral based business in which we could help others and give them quality services!  It is our intention to take great care of our clients!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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