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2026
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Lake Elmo, MN
2026
TOP AGENT
Afton, MN
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Lake Elmo, MN
2026
Afton, MN



View All ListingsStephanie and her team have gone above and beyond in helping us purchase our home. She has been top notch in her communication with us and everyone involved in the process. She is kind, professional, friendly, and nothing was too much of an ask. We have been in the best hand the whole step of the way. Stephanie has made the whole experience of buying a house an absolute breeze and I would highly recommend her and her team.
My experience working with Stephanie was seamless! Very organized, professional, and knowledgeable. She followed through on everything she said she would. Stephanie went above and beyond, guiding me through the process of purchasing my first home on my own. She and her team had great communication skills and were able to work around my busy schedule. Stephanie was always available to answer any questions that I had, and her expertise in the local market and her negotiation skills helped me to secure my townhome at a reasonable price. She is kind, thoughtful and really cares! I would recommend Stephanie to anyone looking to buy or sell!
Stephanie went above and beyond, guiding us through the process of purchasing our first home in a fairly limited time frame. She and her team had great communication skills and were able to work around our busy schedule to facilitate multiple private showings in the Twin Cities metro area. Stephanie was always available to answer any questions that we had, and her expertise in the local market helped us to secure our beautiful home at a reasonable price. I would recommend Stephanie to anyone looking to buy or sell in Minnesota!
Stephanie is wonderful! Very organized, professional, and knowledgeable. She followed through on everything she said she would. Most importantly, she cares. With a family of 4 small children, selling and moving was incredibly stressful for us. She was very understanding, and constantly checked in with us to see how we were doing and offered support. She helped make the process a lot less stressful than it would have been. We look forward to working with her again when we are ready to make our next move. Thank you Stephanie!
Our experience working with Stephanie Checkley was so positive it truly deserves more than 5 stars. She is responsive, an excellent communicator, and gets things done immediately while still having the patience to explain and walk us through the process. As our buyer's agent, she was trustworthy and had our best interests in mind -- there was never any pressure and she helped us find a house that was the right fit. We recommended her to friends who both had equally as good experiences!
Stephanie is fantastic! She is kind, thoughtful, incredibly professional, and has a wealth of knowledge. We were out-of-state buyers and had to rely on her for local knowledge and expertise. She did not disappoint. In a very competitive seller's market, we found our dream house. She continues to share local information to make our new home more enjoyable, e.g., turning off outside water for winter, how to keep pipes from freezing in sub-zero temps, best booths at the State Fair, and best orchards in the area. She is a gem!
I wouldn't trust anyone else to represent me in the largest financial transaction of my life. Stephanie provided consistent communication and was very responsive to requests. We had been eyeing homes in the East Metro for two years, and she expertly guided us through the buying process when we found what we were looking for. I've already referred her to my best friend who is looking to buy his first home!
Stephanie was a true Godsend! My wife and I are so blessed to have been able to have Stephanie as our first home realtor. Stephanie and her team are in constant communication throughout the entire process and very flexible. Her and her team made our first experience buying a home 10/10 and I would recommend her to anyone.
Stephanie was the best when I started the selling process until the last minute! She followed thru at every turn! If you need a perfect Realtor, Stephanie Checkley checks all the boxes!
highly recommend Stephanie as a realtor! She was so responsive to my questions and concerns. She walked me through every step of the home buying process from beginning to end. I hadnt bought a home in 21 years so I had a lot of buying anxiety. I really needed a lot of patience and someone that had a lot of knowledge about home buying and market experience. I definitely got that with Stephanie. She was also very strong with negotiation skills!
Stephanie helped me buy my first home. I have never been through the process before, but she took charge and directed me through the entire process, while educating me, and making sure I understood everything that was happening. She also laid out all the options we had in every situation and let me make an educated decision. Her communication is very high level, the process moved very fast and smooth in a result of that.
I have nothing but amazing things to say about Stephanie and her team! She is so kind, intelligent, and responsive. As first time homebuyers, my husband and I were so grateful that we had her to walk us through all of the steps with support and guidance. She made us feel so cared for and was so patient with everything. We will absolutely be using her in the future if we need it! Highly recommend!
Excellent. We were making a major life changing move from Florida to Minnesota to be closer to family. We met her during the 2024 holiday season while visiting family to set up the plan to purchase a home. She kept us informed of properties that matched our wishlist until we sold our Florida home. Once we had an accepted offer we were on a plane to Minnesota and had a couple days to find a property. While we had our top 10 list of properties when we landed in Minneapolis search on Zillow revealed a property just came on the market that really interested us. There was to be an open house on the weekend but we asked Stephanie if we could see it before then. She got us in and compared to the other properties on our list this one was the winner. She developed a strategy for our offer should there be multiple offers. There were and we won. It was a great real estate adventure with Stephanie.
Stephanie and Juli were amazing! Without their help and hard work, we would have not gotten the house we wanted. The seller's agent mentioned that Stephanie calling and reaching out over the phone, which the other buyers agents did not do, made the difference and put us ahead of two other offers. She was attentive and responsive at all times, even on the weekends. I don't know when she sleeps!
Stephanie helped us find the perfect home for my elderly mother. She is amazing, as is her mortgage team. I highly recommend Stephanie if your buying or selling a home. Stephanie is attentive, honest, very personable, and strives to ensure you are totally satisfied with the entire process.
Stephanie has been great through our entire house purchasing process. Her communication has been prompt and clear. Anytime we had a question or concern she was able to give us the relief of knowing what our concerns were. Would recommend anytime.
Finding the right property can be challenging and complex. We used Stephanie as our buyers agent. From showing to closing, her team delivered exceptionally. We have bought and sold many homes during the best and most challenging market cycles. We have worked with many realtors over the last 30 years, in many states and several challenging circumstances- from the 2009 housing crash, to bank owned, to sellers hiding secondary loans,to hot markets with multiple offers given prior to listing. Primary homes to lake homes to investment properties we have seen a lot and dealt with many agents. Stephanie is the best of the best. Works through every issue and has an awesome team from showing to closing to help finding inspectors and contractors. She does the best. Could not be happier to have found this team. Looking forward to working with her whenever the need arises! Exceptional !
Highly recommend working with the Stephanie Checkley team! We experienced prompt service, knowledgeable advice, efficient processes and great adaptability and problem solving. Navigating with Stephanie and her team we closed on a tricky property quickly and smoothly.
Stephanie's professionalism at an open house showing impressed my husband and I so much that we kept her business card in hopes of using her skills to sell our own place some day. Six months later we were ready to sell and called her. She walked us through the process of selling our place and purchasing a new home seamlessly. She was always available by phone or text with any questions we had, and kept us informed of the status of things regularly. She is warm, friendly, and very knowledgeable of the ins and outs of home buying/selling. We felt like we were in excellent hands the entire time! We are so thankful for Stephanie's expertise in helping us sell our place quickly and purchase our retirement dream home! I highly recommend Stephanie Checkley for your next real estate transaction. She is a gem to work with!
Working with Stephanie and her staff was the best decision we could have made. From the initial meeting we knew this was the right choice. Stephanie came prepared with market analysis and a game plan for selling our house. Her advice on getting our home ready for showing was very helpful. Our house sold in 3 weeks for the asking price! If you are looking to sell or buy, her team is the best in the business!!!! I would highly recommend her!!!
Stephanie and her team did a fantastic job. Very smooth from beginning to end. Stephanie did a great job of communicating and providing updates on her work behind the scenes until the house was sold. Highly recommend.
Stephanie helped us sell our house in no time during a stressful and difficult situation. Our house had been on the market for about 6 months with 2 different agents. Neither of those two yielded any meaningful results. After we hired Stephanie, the first thing she did was take the house off market temporarily, stage the house, get it cleaned up and take excellent photos. This created more demand and when the listing became active again, we had an offer on the third day of reactivating. Stephanie is a really positive, diligent and honest person to work with. She goes to great lengths to achieve results for her customers and therefore, I highly recommend her whether you are buying or selling!
Stephanie was wonderful at helping me purchase my first home! Her morgatage team was also really fast and efficient and helpful. They all did a great job at making this experience easy to understand and a good experience for me.
Stephanie was amazing! I was an out of state buyer and she made everything super easy! She went above and beyond at finding houses and was one of the most professional realtors I've ever worked with! 10/10 would hire her again. Thank you!
It was a delight working with Stephanie on the sale of our house. My friends recommended her but I did my research on her before contacting her. Two things stood out to me about her past sales - how wonderful the houses looked in the photos and quick sales usually over asking. From our initial phone conversation and first meeting to the sale of our house, she was very professional, courteous and very knowledgeable. She expertly guided us through the entire process from listing to sale to closing. For the listing, she offered free interior designer to make staging suggestions, recommended a painter for touch-ups and refresh, free deep cleaning, recommended a fair sale amount, great photos (of course) and listing description. Within 24 hours on the market, there were multiple showings and 2 offers OVER ASKING!!! She guided us through the negotiating process to get even more!! And the house went under contract within 48 hours of listing!!! Throughout the entire pending process to the closing, she represented us expertly and excellently. She was always on top of stuff and carried us along as well. I GLADLY RECOMMEND HER!!!
Stephanie is amazing! She was very knowledgeable, professional, on top of things, and very responsive when we had questions. More importantly, she is just a wonderful person, and we thoroughly enjoyed getting to know her and working with her on the sale of our home. Selling a home and moving can be a very stressful time, especially with 4 young children! Whenever we were stressed or had questions, or needed help, Stephanie was there to add her professional and compassionate support, even when a couple challenges came up during our move that weren't even related to the sale of our home! We are so grateful to have been able to work with her! We highly recommend her and very much look forward to working with her again when the time comes for us to buy our next home! Thank you Stephanie!
Stephanie was a great help in finding our new home! She provided us great input, resources, and knowledge of the area we were looking for in order to help us make a decision. Her attention to detail and responsiveness to questions, was greatly appreciated. She truly cares for all her clients, and it shows!
Stephanie has been delightful to work with, she is a fantastic real estate agent. What started out as a very casual aEURoemaybe somedayaEUR? pipedream became a reality for us, and she made the entire experience a happy one. Stephanie took the time to personally show us numerous properties so that we could figure out what felt right for us, and to see past a lot of distractions. Her depth of experience has given her a remarkable eye for value. She was also extremely helpful in recommending individuals to help fix, arrange, install, or clean up things that could use some attention aEUR" all her recommendations have been spot on. Absolutely would recommend working with Stephanie when buying or selling a house, and I have already referred her to a friend.
We met Stephanie at an open house and she immediately became our realtor to sell our home and buy our next home. We couldnt be happier with the results we got working with Stephanie. Shes very responsive and was extremely helpful every step of the way. We got a great deal on our new home and she helped us navigate multiple offers on the sale of our home.
Stephanie is a fantastic realtor. We have purchased with her help twiceaEUR"a condo and a home. She also helped us sell our condo in a tough market for condos. She is very knowledgeable, is completely committed to getting you the best price, and has a huge network of colleagues she relies on to inform her work. Stephanie gives everything 110% and is forthright and professional. Cant recommend her enough!
Stephanie has been so wonderful to work with! She is very knowledgeable in the real estate field, professional and thorough in finding you the perfect home! Stephanie made our first time home buying experience seamless and helped us in every step of the way. We will definitely be recommending Stephanie to others!
Stephanie is wonderful! She was referred to us by our realtor in the state we moved from and was so great to work with. She is very friendly and personable, but also knowledgeable. She was very committed to helping us find the right home in the quick timeline we were working with. I would definitely recommend Stephanie for any anyone looking to buy or sell a home!
My husband and I hired Stephanie to help us sell our lake cabin. We had the month of June to get it ready before putting it on the market, during that time, she guided us on the things that needed to be done, she was our cheerleader because there was a time we thought our cabin wouldnt be ready on time but she was there encouraging us to keep going. Our cabin went on the market right on the 4th of July, we had lots of showings, had an offer right away and it was sold on August 9th. We trusted Stephanie during this process and she helped us to sell our property fast. My husband and I highly recommend Stephanie, no doubt, shes one of the best realtors in Minnesota!
We hired Stephanie to sell our lake cabin. We were stressed, but Stephanie was a voice of calm and reason. She encouraged us to get our property ready to market at the appropriate time, and we followed her advice. Because of Stephanie's advice we recieved an offer within 5 days after our property hit the market, and closed within a month on the sale!!! It was a pleasure working with Stephanie. She was very responsive to all of our questions related to the sale of our property, and achieved an excellent result for us within a very short period of time. I highly and enthusiastically recommend Stephanie if you are looking to sell your real estate! SHE IS AWESOME!
Stephanie was helpful and friendly throughout the entire home buying process. She offered helpful tips on how to save money on future home repairs. On the day of the move she ordered us gourmet pizza from the local pizzeria after we arrived at our new home.
I cannot recommend Stephanie Checkley highly enough! From the moment I reached out to her, she was professional, knowledgeable, and truly went above and beyond to help me find my dream home. She was always available to answer my questions and address any concerns I had throughout the entire process. Her attention to detail and expertise in the market were evident in every step of the home-buying journey. Thanks to her guidance and support, I was able to find the perfect home in the neighborhood I wanted to be in. If you are looking for a dedicated and trustworthy realtor, look no further than Stephanie Checkley!
I definitely recommend working with Stephanie. She did a great job staying on top of my home buying process. And, thanks to the tips and resources she provided, I felt prepared to owning my first home. I had a great experience working with Stephanie and I am looking forward to working with her again in the future.
Stephanie was so attentive and responsive to us during our home buying experience. Anything we needed, she was able to help us achieve, while also keeping in mind our best interest! We were given lots of tips and tricks during the whole process.
Stephanie found out that we were interested in a specific area and had a list of requirements for our future home. She made sure to keep us informed along the way and worked to find us the best match. She provided numerous tips to make our offer the strongest of the five and communicated professionally with the Seller's Agent. We got the house! She has been available to provide all types of resources to make our move and our customization of our home as easy as possible.
Having been in real estate and having closed a few thousand transactions, when it came time to sell my own home after being out of the business for many years, I searched until I found Stephanie. I cant say enough positive thoughts about her and her team and all the effort she put in, in such a short of time. I am thankful.
Knowledgeable, responsive, professional and kind; Stephanie was everything you want from a realtor and more! My family was very lucky to find her. If youre looking for someone to work with, your search is over. She helped us get important issues taken care of by the buyer before closing. Our offer was accepted quickly and she even helped with resources for renovations that we wanted to move forward with after the purchase. She is definitely top-tier!
Stephanie was outstanding to work with and helped us find just the home and location we wanted. Shes personable and highly responsive and most importantly NOT pushy. We definitely recommend her!
Stephanie did a great job with our home search process. We moved across the country and Stephanie worked to make the process as simple as possible. Throughout the process Stephanie kept us informed of the requests from the sellers as well as logistics issues. Though we were far away, Stephanie connected us with great local resources to assist with the home inspection and cleaning services once the house was closed. Though I am not looking forward to moving again anytime soon, Stephanie made the process great. I would recommend Stephanie to any future buyers.
Stephanie was super helpful in finding us our first home. She was referred to us from a coworker, and I would refer her to anyone of my friends/family who are looking. As first-time buyers, we didn't really know what to be looking for on tours, and she was extremely knowledgeable about all of the homes, helping point out all the important things to be looking at during walk-throughs. She was very easy to communicate with, either through text & email, and accommodating to our busy schedules - most of our showings were scheduled for Sundays, or after regular work hours. Another bonus is that she is very resourceful, and has a great list of contacts to refer you to if needed. We were able to close on our home quickly & with ease - we will definitely keep in touch!
I normally dont do reviews, but I must say working with Stephanie was amazing. She was extremely resourceful, helping point out the good and bad issues with all the homes we looked at. All my questions were answered extremely fast. Even with my busy schedule, she was able to set up every showing when I was available. From first time meeting Stephanie thru the closing of my home, the whole process was flawless and easy. Everything worked out amazing and was perfect. I will use Stephanie again for any future real estate transactions!
Stephanie was a new friend and neighbor of mine. So when I found my dream property on Zillow, I felt comfortable enough with her to call and ask her to help me. She set up a viewing that same day! Stephanie helped me navigate every step of the way through the purchase process. she handled and resolved all our questions and issues. She is very knowledgeable in her work and she represented us well to a successful conclusion.
Stephanie was excellent to work with! We worked with her for our recent home purchase as first-time buyers. We found Stephanie thanks to friends of ours who also purchased their homes through her. In addition to listening to our wants and needs, she provided valuable insight on the home-buying process and helped point out important things to look for in homes. Stephanie always responded quickly to our messages and calls and was able to accommodate our viewing schedules. Once we had an offer accepted, she kept us updated throughout the contract period through closing. I would 100% choose Stephanie again in the future!
Stephanie is a next-level agent! She is extremely responsive, a great advocate, respectful, and friendly. My wife and I used her to buy a new home and sell our former residence. She was excellent in helping us understand the whole buying and selling process, forecasting and navigating around potential issues, all while being a level-headed and calming presence. We had some out-of-the-ordinary situations come up both when buying and selling, and Stephanie took all situations in stride, helping us navigate all issues with aplomb. Stephanie was also extremely resourceful- she seems to have a list of trusted resources to contact for any scenario you can think of. I have already recommended Stephanie to two others, and will continue to recommend her without reservation to anyone else I know that is looking to buy or sell a home.
Stephanie is amazing and I would give her 10 stars if I could! Our family was dealing with the really difficult situation of selling our aging parents house and Stephanie was empathetic, patient, and made the entire process really easy for all of us. She explained the process clearly, was very responsive and communicative, and worked really hard to help my parents get top dollar for their house. We benefited from Stephanies network of contacts as well! Through Stephanie we found reasonably priced movers, people to help remove junk/items from the house, etc. I highly recommended Stephanie. I'm going to refer everyone to her from now on because I know Stephanie is an ethical, hardworking, fantastic realtor!
I would give Stephanie more stars if I could. We moved from out of state and had LOTS of questions. Stephanie knows the legal, economic and local nuances of real estate. She is immaculately organized, so intuitive with tons of experience, and created a seamless home purchase for us with her extensive network, from inspection to offer and then closing. She is an incredible joy to work with too, think the family member you wish you had! She is thoughtful, two steps ahead of the process at any given point, and always accessible - we were able to move quickly and close on our dream home because of Stephanie!
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