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2001-2010 Gary Lillie & Associates Listing & Sales Agent for Commercial, Industrial & Vacant Land Properties. Assembled tracts of land for development, sold numerous recreational properties and Started the Auction Division for this former Real Estate Company. This company evolved into the Sperry Van Ness/Lillie & Associates branch in Ann Arbor Michigan. With the passing of my first Real Estate Mentor Mr. Gary Lillie I transferred my License to Professional Real Estate Group. I was a Listing & Sales Agent for Commercial, Industrial & Vacant Land Properties with Professional Real Estate Group 2010-2013. For a 2 year period I spent majority of time handling the sale of my families business which had previously existed for 104 years. In 2015-2017 I was licensed with Swisher Commercial in Ann Arbor Michigan. In late 2017 I joined forces with my spouse Tina to form the Merkel Team at Howard Hanna Real Estate Services in Chelsea Michigan. Our Team Effort allows us to utilize each others skills and handle most any project when representing Estates and Trusts. The majority of our efforts focus on Downsizing, Relocation and the Sale of Assets acquired over generations.

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Dave has been specializing in local transactional services and corporate services/multi-market assistance since 1988. Dave has completed office and industrial acquisition and disposition assignments for corporate as well as entrepreneurial clients in Australia, China, Europe, Canada, Mexico and throughout the Americas. He has worked on North American acquisitions and depositions of land up to 940 acres and marketed Industrial and office buildings from 2,000 sf to over 1 Million sf.

Dave has been with Signature Associates for over 30 years and is the Director of the Office Division. He has extensive experience in Agency Leasing in many of the Detroit area's premier office projects. Dave has also led or co-managed some of the area's premier acquisitions and dispositions.

Specializing as both a Tenant Representative and Agency Representative (Listing Agent), Dave has completed over 1,500 transactions over $2.5 billion in volume since 1988.