Raphael Fetta – Bohemia Realty Group

Rafael is a great broker and always does the right thing.

Raphael helped us resolve an issue where the last-​month-​free clause was missing from our contract after a change in property management and building ownership. He did this nearly one year after move-​in and with no immediate financial incentive. Stand-​up guy and top-​notch broker.

Raphael is energetic, patient, and very helpful. We always received prompt reply and detailed explanation from him. Definitely an agent that we can rely upon again.

Moving to New York is overwhelming– to say the least. I contacted several brokers who never got back to me and some who took several days to get back to me and were less than helpful.
Raphael, on the other hand got back to me instantly. He responded quickly to every message I sent him. In every dealing Raphael was flexible, courteous, laid back, knowledgable and extremely helpful.
He showed me numerous apartments and ultimately I did rent a great place. The approval and lease signing were effortless.
Do yourself a favor and get in touch with Raphael.

Raph is absolutely amazing. He found me the best deal on a gem of a 1 bedroom apartment in Harlem to buy. Its been rented out since the day I closed. Raph was expert in his knowledge, a real pleasure to work with and has some good jokes to. Highly recommended. I’ll be coming back to him when I need my next investment property.

Raphael is amazing! So nice and above and beyond what you would expect with a real estate agent. He takes his time and really listens to you. Very personal and honest. I couldn’t recommend him more!

Just skip everyone else and every other company! Raphael was the most incredible broker. We looked at 7 places in 2 hours and had our apartment that day! It was so painless. This was our first experience with a broker and having been from Ohio we were worried about getting scammed. He never showed us a place over our budget and always put safety and comfortability first. He is so personable and can find you your home so quickly. We are all moved in and we love it even more than when we saw it! He knew more about what we wanted then we did!

The past two times I’ve used a broker in New York I paid a broker fee and wrote it off as the cost of business to get a reasonable apartment in the city. Raphael delivered more than any previous broker and in the end I didn’t have to pay broker fee. If you’re looking for an apartment, particularly in northern Manhattan I highly recommend contacting Raphael at Bohemia Realty Group — really friendly, honest, responsive and showed me tons of really nice no-​fee apartments that actually fit the criteria I requested. He made the application process much less painful than others I went through and then provided movers and other helpful referrals after we were approved. If it weren’t for him I would have lost my mind find an apartment and moving. By far the best experience I’ve ever had in NY real estate.

Wonderful experience! Forget everything you know about real estate agents or you won’t believe this guy is in the business. We were prepared for ‘the usual’ agent to show up. When Raphael showed us the apartment and was such a great guy, we felt like it was fate telling us where we should rent. He is a genuine guy with a genuine goal of helping people. All the standard lines and standard slick behaviors of the real estate profession don’t apply. This was a real interaction worth Unilocaling about! On the downside, Raphael only shows properties he really believes in, so he didn’t show us everything in LIC. On the upside, he was RIGHT! The place he felt proud to show us became our new home 2 months ago and we have not regretted it for a moment. (Let me state here– just for reference– that we are not easy to please, we searched for months in LIC.) With most of the viewings that we had in LIC, we were either running from the agents because they were so sleazy or we were at least anxious to be done with them because they were so used-​car-​salesman-​like. We’re not stupid, but we felt like many of them had treated us like we would believe ANYTHING they said (no matter what we were seeing before us). Raphael was a real surprise. He was someone who spoke with us about what we were looking for and honestly discussed with us the pros and cons of the apartments we were viewing. He wasn’t trying to sell as much as he was trying to match and please, which was exactly our goal. A stark difference from everyone else we dealt with! He’s the kind of guy you want to have over for dinner. We pleaded with him not to change after being in the business for years because we want to have him help us find our next home when we’re ready to move to a larger place. Call him before real estate ruins him!!! He knows the good places to live and can be a great resource for you. And you may even want to invite him to dinner afterwards!