
Looking to sell your property, buy a new home, or just need some expert real estate advice?
In January 2011, Pat purchased the Lakes Realty Group and built a team of experts to make it a strong, local real estate office. Since its purchase, she has brought the company into substantial growth. She sponsors many events and organizations, including the annual Fox Lake TriAthlon, NICC Ice Fishing Derby, St. Bede Halloween Hustle, and more.
She has one son and lives on the lake with her husband, where summers are spent on the water enjoying activities like kayaking, swimming, tubing, and wakeboarding. She enjoys traveling, especially to Europe.
Ratings & Reviews
4.9
Pat Smarto did every aspect of the sale of my property in an outstanding way that left me assured that I chose the right agent over others I had considered. Pat is a role model to all real estate agents. Through my observation and research I found that Pat is greatly involved in her community which also contributes to her standing in it and her profession.
All of these attributes gave me a feeling of trust in Pat that you will realize also.My recommendation of Pat Smarto is without reservation!
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Pat did what a good realtor should do and that is get as much traffic/showings as possible to sell the home.. Pat is quick to respond to potential buyers and brokers who show interest and works with the seller to make it happen.
My first deal did not happen, not due to any fault on her part, the buyer withdrew but she quickly moved back into action to show the property and get it sold. She has a very positive, forward looking attitude, never gives up.
I highly recommend her as your realtor.
Will definitely work with Patricia Smarto again.
Amazing broker!
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Spent the time to understand exactly what we were looking for and then worked closely with us to make it happen. Was always available whenever we needed anything. Her motivation from Day 1 was to find us the best house—not the first house. She gave us objective advice on every listing we looked at. It paid off.
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Best thing we did was choose Lakes Realty and Pat Smarto.
We picked Pat specifically, because Lakes Realty had a home listed we were interested in, and when we called, she answered our questions completely and offered to show us the property that same day. Her approach is business first, yet you felt like you had a friend with you while you went through many, many homes.
It was a pleasure to work with an agent with her excellent ethics and professionalism and always without any pushiness. She was patient and factual and we were VERY impressed. Over the course of a year to find the perfect house , we finally found the lake and house to make our forever home. Pat is knowledgeable about the different lakes, and the different communities. She was a joy to spend a lot of time with us and treated us like we were her only clients,
Had it not been for Pat, we would have never ended up with our dream home!
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Pat is in tune with the market in my area.
I highly recommend Pat Smarto. She is the best realtor I have ever worked with and that is saying a lot because I have moved a lot! Hopefully this is my last move but if I do I will definitely call Pat!
Pat did a very good job.
We were very pleased with her.She gets back to you in a timely manner when you have a question. She is very knowledgeable.
We wanted someone local who was realistic in the pricing and very experienced. Pat was perfect!
Pat Smarto knows was she is doing and does is well. She had the professionalism and knowledge we wanted as well as being a friendly supportive along the way
Highly recommend and will use again in the future!
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We explained our financial situation with Pat, she advised us to talk to someone she knew about a mortgage and her connection got us a higher mortgage at a lower rate then to first person we had been talking to.
She was also very honest with us if a house would work before we wasted time to see it.
Pat is amazing to work with great personality and even with a mask on you could tell she was always smiling:)
We never would have gotten our dream house without her and the Lakes Team we can't thank them enough.
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Professional Info
Brokerage
16 E Grand Avenue
Fox Lake, IL 60020
Licensed
IL 471.000052
Awards
- Mainstreet Association Top 1% - 2023
Specialties
- First-time buyers
- Military
- Recreation & Vacation
Designations
- ABR®
- BPOR
- e-PRO®
- PSA
- SFR®
- SRS
Hobbies
- Community Activities
- Entertaining
- Food & Cooking
- Health & Wellness
- Outdoor Activities
- Reading
- Travel
- Volunteering
Education
Associate’s Degree, Business
Top Cities *
Fox Lake
- 33 sales past 3 years
- 54 days on market
- $275K median price
Antioch
- 28 sales past 3 years
- 57 days on market
- $378K median price
Lake Villa
- 18 sales past 3 years
- 48 days on market
- $290K median price
Service Areas (42 cities)
* Sales data is calculated based on transaction information available to Agent Pronto at the time of publishing and may not accurately reflect all transactions for a given agent.