Melissa Selvig-Mantilla and Love the Mitten support equal housing opportunity. Everyone deserves the same quality of service, the same information, and the same respect.
The commitment
Real estate service is offered without unlawful discrimination. The same effort, the same candor, and the same standard of care go to every person who asks for help.
Brokerage services
Real estate brokerage services are provided through Key Realty and remain subject to applicable fair housing law, brokerage policy, and professional obligations. More about that relationship is on the brokerage disclosure page.
How this website is written
Community guides and local content on this site describe objective, verifiable features: location, housing stock, commute and travel times, amenities, and public data. The site does not sort, rank, or recommend communities based on who lives there.
Where a community fits your life is your decision to make. School, tax, municipal, and district information should be confirmed through official sources rather than taken from an article, because those details change and boundaries are not always what they appear to be.
Questions about neighborhoods
Some questions cannot be answered, and it is better to say so plainly than to dodge them. Melissa will not rank or compare communities by the protected characteristics of the people who live there, will not steer anyone toward or away from an area on that basis, and will not answer a question framed around who belongs in a neighborhood. Subjective claims about how safe or how good an area is are not offered as a substitute for official information.
What she can do is give you what you need to decide for yourself:
- objective property and listing information
- market data and how to read it
- commute, travel, and amenity information
- neutral, factual community information
- pointers to official public sources for schools, taxes, crime statistics, and municipal services
- help thinking through your own priorities and how to weigh them
Accommodations
If a different form of communication would work better for you, please ask. Reasonable communication accommodations will be considered. Accessibility of this website is covered separately on the accessibility page.
Raising a concern
If something on this site reads as biased, exclusionary, or steering, or if service you received felt that way, please say so directly at melissa@lovethemitten.com, by phone at (616) 856-6161, or through the contact page. Concerns about brokerage service can also be raised with Key Realty.