About
I am Michael Affeldt, a Realtor with Counselor Realty and The Boen Team, working with buyers and sellers across the Twin Cities metro.
I grew up in Orono and studied law enforcement at Metropolitan State University. In 2014 I joined the Metro Transit Police Department. I served seven years and was named Officer of the Year in 2018. I was medically retired at the end of 2021.
That work is the reason I do this one the way I do. Police work is mostly paperwork, procedure, and telling people the truth about a situation they did not choose. A real estate transaction is not an emergency, but the mechanics rhyme: deadlines that do not move, documents that mean exactly what they say, and one person in the room whose job is to explain it plainly.
I read the contract to you. Contingencies, timelines, what you are committed to and what you can still walk away from. Not a summary. If you do not understand a clause, that is my failure, not yours.
I have swung the hammer. I spent years as a handyman and painter, and I remodeled my own house. I know what a five-thousand-dollar problem looks like next to a fifty-thousand-dollar one, and I know which one the photos are hiding. That shows up at showings and it shows up hard during inspection negotiation.
I do not sell urgency. If the timing is wrong, I will say so. If a house is a bad buy, I will tell you before you write, not after.
I offer the Homes for Heroes program, which returns roughly 0.7% of the home price after closing — about $2,800 on a $400,000 home — to educators, law enforcement, firefighters, EMS, healthcare workers, and military. It is funded from my commission on your side of the transaction and is never added to your costs.
I did not come to this program as a marketing angle. I bought my own first home through The Boen Team using it, as a police officer, and joined the team afterward because of how that went. I know what these careers pay and I know what they ask.
I live in Saint Louis Park with my wife Jessie, our son Teddy, and three dogs — two German Shorthaired Pointers who were bred to hunt and one rescue who was not. We spend our time on house projects, travel, and hiking. When the wind is right, I kiteboard on a local lake.
If you are weighing a move and want a straight read on it, call or text. There is no presentation and nothing to sit through.
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