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I Love Making My Client's Dreams Come True In True The Heart Of Southwest Michigan I've always been passionate about real Estate—ask my wife about it. How?

In our 20 years of marriage, we've moved seven times and owned multiple investment properties. Originally from the Western Suburbs of Chicago, we finally moved to Southwest Michigan after purchasing a second home in South Haven. We fell in love with the area and made it our permanent residence in 2014. In the Fall of 2014, I became a realtor. Real Estate is a local business, and serving Berrien County in SW Michigan means knowing each unique community. Through my hard work and my commitment to my clients, I've been able to demonstrate an unwavering commitment to them and an in-depth understanding of a complex real estate market year after year. My secret skill– I love negotiations. I honed my skills during my career in Reinsurance, and now I use those skills to maximize the value of your transaction, whether you are selling your home or purchasing your dream home. Besides ensuring I represent you during the negotiations, I strongly believe in customer service and strive to make the process simple, productive, and a seamless experience. You deserve an agent that follows through to ensure deadlines are met, documents are handled, and every I is dotted, every T is crossed- so when you show up to closing, there are no surprises. I will proactively guide your real estate transaction from contract to closing with thorough attention to detail. My goal is to provide you with options. We do more than sell homes– we are problem solvers, creating solutions to complex problems. We connect the dots throughout the process. Through deduction, industry expertise, and an unwavering commitment to customer service.

11/02/2026

Good Morning St. Joseph, MI

11/01/2026

Well said

10/31/2026

Great read.. This is what it's about.

Out in the sandhills of Nebraska, a farm dog rides along for 15 years, and a dog like that leaves a hole. When the old dog goes, plenty of men out there won't get another one. They say it's the cost of the food, or that they don't want to leave a dog behind.

Lyman has run the feed store in town for 46 years. He's 79 and still unloads the trucks himself. Two winters ago he noticed how many of his regulars were coming in for coffee and not buying any dog food anymore.

So he painted a sign on a piece of plywood and leaned it against the front of the store. Adopt an old dog from the county shelter, and the store gives you a bag of dog food, 50 pounds, every month for the rest of that dog's life.

His wife, Bernadette, did the math at the kitchen table that night and told him he'd lost his mind. He said he'd been selling feed long enough to know what a bag costs.

The first one to try it was a man named Dewey, 72, who'd buried his border collie in March and hadn't said 10 words at the counter since. He came back from the shelter with a yellow mutt nobody could put a breed to. The dog had been there 15 months. Dewey named the dog Gravel, after the road home. The next week he brought Gravel into the store to show Lyman, and Gravel stole a rawhide off the counter display.

After that it went from pickup to pickup. A widower took a gray heeler mix that kept trying to herd the shelter cats. There was a couple in their 80s who took two old black Labs so neither dog would be alone. One retired rancher drove 60 miles to the store just to ask if the sign was real.

It's been two years. As of this fall, 83 old dogs have ridden home from that shelter in somebody's pickup with a free bag of feed waiting. The store's dog food bill runs about $2,000 a month now. Lyman says the coffee customers have started buying their cattle mineral from him again, so it about evens out.

On the first Saturday of every month there's a line of pickups backed up to the loading dock by eight o'clock. Lyman swings the bags down onto the tailgates himself. Gravel always stands up in the bed of Dewey's truck to sniff the new one before it even lands.

10/31/2026

A special Announcement From Gus the Real Estate Pup... He is still leaning my name

10/29/2026

Open House November 1st 1 to 3pm
11053 Gast Rd Bridgman, MI

10/29/2026

Another Beautiful Day in Southwest Michigan.

10/12/2026

Another happy client getting their property under contract in the first weekend. 2 Bedroom 2 Bath townhome in New Buffalo MI's Warwick Shores.

10/10/2026

Gus a roooooooo

10/03/2026

Sleeping Bear Dunes, Michigan

09/30/2026

That where Kim and I will be for the next three days.

Address

2525 Lake Pine Drive
Saint Joseph, MI
49085

Telephone

+12699853716

Website

https://www.atproperties.com/site/garydepa, https://instacard.co/Gary-Depa

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