Canaan Realty 8645 East Seneca Turnpike, Manlius, NY 13104

"Allen Olmsted is the best Real Estate Broker I have ever worked with! I have purchased and sold multiple residential and undeveloped land parcels in several states. Allen leads an excellent Real Estate team. Especially notable among key staff I have worked with is Samantha Leader. Grace Roberts and Isaac Olmsted were also very helpful with selling a farm I owned. Allen and Samantha were recently very responsive in assisting me with finding a home to rent. My choice will be Canaan Realty whenever I want help buying or selling real estate property!"

"In a very tough situation, a dilemma brought about chiefly by a very competitive real estate market, Mr. Olmstead very correctly chose to fulfill his legal obligation and fiduciary duty to his clients. Simply put, he did his job and put the best interests of his clients first above all else. He is loyal, professional, affable, patient, and of the very highest character. He goes way above and beyond as a matter of course, and is an outstanding credit to his profession. If you want the best, go see Allen Olmstead and his most excellent team. He and his team are, undeniably, the very best!"

"Allen and his team did a great job. I am usually not a big fan of realtors, but Allen went above and beyond, providing good and timely advice and assisted in ensuring the final sales price and closing was successful"

"We recently interfaced with Allen through our agent. We had a very difficult experience and now we are not moving into a great home we worked hard to find. We put in an offer on a home and it was tentatively rejected due to an escalation clause. We removed our escalation clause and the realtor (Allen) said we needed to come up. The realtor (Allen) asked for the best and final offer. We decided that we could offer higher. After some back and forth. They approved our second offer and accepted. We signed, the homeowner signed and the offer went to legal teams. We started making arrangements on our end to sell our home, move our family, etc. The next day after waiting on our attorney, Allen let our agent know that they received an even higher offer that day and asked us to come up. We unfortunately couldn't go over asking as it wasn't in our budget. Now, I understand they wanted the few thousand dollars extra and this isn't illegal. But, it's incredibly bad form. They made a commitment to us and backed out of their word. Realtors are making the housing market even harder by not following a code of ethics. What's the point in best and final? What's the point in a contract? Realtors can play games to drive up the price and he did that here."

"ALLEN Olmstead & ALL his staff were EXTREMELY PROFESSIONAL & VERY GENUINE! ADELINE was a NATURAL "people person" that was very knowledgeable of the business overall & yet always patient & kind. EVERYONE had a way of making you feel special & were very DOWN TO EARTH & easy to work with. Smoke Tree Farm was in our family for many generations & therefore was not easy to sell for us personally but they took that into consideration & helped us through every step of the process. No question was a stupid question & they always got back to us with a smile to top it off! Highly recommended!!"