Since 1978, Doug Burger has been highly successful in Washington State real estate. Doug works to provide the absolute finest in service and support for his customers through the building of his team of top professional real estate specialists. While working under the RE/MAX International system, he consistently finished as their number one agent and team in the State of Washington and, during his last year in 2001, he finished as the top team in the four state region of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana as well as ranking amongst the top 100 in the United States. Since 2002, Doug has co-owned his own company, Olympia Real Estate, LLC along with his partner Heather Macy and continues to expand and improve upon his highly successful team concept of real estate.
Doug, who has lived in Olympia since 1978, grew up in the Northwest, boating with his family in the Sari Juan Islands. As a motorcycle racer, Eagle Scout, pianist, skater, archery champion and Phi Beta Kappa high school student, his youth was filled with awards and accolades.
Later, he studied at Western Washington University and the University of Washington. Doug graduated summa cum laude from Washington State University, earning a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1976 with a grade point average of 3.91.
Doug enjoys spending time with his two boys modifying their cars, riding quads in the woods of the Northwest along with the Oregon and Washington Sand Dunes, riding snowmobiles, camping out in the family motor home, and attending sports and music events. Amongst his many passions are art, travel, photography, music, exotic sports cars and esoteric audio/video systems.
Amongst his many real estate honors and awards, in 1979 Doug was RE/MAX Washington Rookie of the Year. He has captured scores of other sales and production awards from other real estate companies. Based on his wide experience and real estate education, Doug has achieved a Certified Residential Specialist (CRS) designation, Accredited Buyer Representative (ABR) designation, and a Broker?s license.
Doug is no stranger to selling. He began his sales career in grade school selling greeting cards and even garden snakes door-to-door, sold and delivered newspapers for six years, worked as a custodian at a yacht club in his high school senior year, an oil company laborer for two summers while in college, a pulp test lab tech for six years and did commercial salmon fishing in Alaska for two summers.
Few things are more important to Doug than honesty, He believes in giving his clients all the facts up front, rather than paint a rosy, but unrealistic, picture. It is why so much of Doug's business comes from referrals by satisfied customers.