A small brokerage
with deep experience and a hands-on approach.
Mike and Michele have each been licensed since 2006, and Skyler has been licensed since 2018. Throughout these years, Bodander's experience has grown across commercial sales and leasing, multifamily, retail, office, property management, contracts, negotiations, 1031 exchanges, and residential real estate.
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Qualifying Broker
Mike Westphal is Bodander’s Qualifying Broker and has been licensed in New Mexico since 2006. He combines an engineer’s careful, analytical, and detail-oriented approach with more than 20 years of real estate experience, including commercial and multifamily sales, commercial and residential property management, and 1031 exchanges. A graduate of MIT with a bachelor’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering, he played varsity hockey and later spent 14 years at Intel as an engineer and laboratory manager. Outside work, Mike has played hockey since age three and enjoys cycling, including the annual Lobo Cancer Challenge.
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Qualifying Broker and Transaction Coordinator
Michele Sequeira brings a distinctive combination of engineering, operations, leadership, and real-estate experience to Bodander. Licensed in 2006, she is a Qualifying Broker and Bodander’s Transaction Coordinator. Michele has experience in commercial property management, 1031 exchanges, land sales, real-estate contracts, and residential sales. Michele earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Materials Science and Engineering and a master’s in Management with a concentration in Operations from MIT, where she walked onto the varsity fencing team and fenced competitively for 3.5 years. Her leadership roles at Ethicon and Intel included engineering, organizational development, software engineering, and manufacturing. She brings disciplined organization, clear communication, and careful attention to detail to every transaction.
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Associate Broker
Skyler is a real estate professional who lives it. He has several years of experience working in the real estate market, including commercial property management, commercial leasing, commercial development, residential property management, and residential sales. As a former walk-on for the NMSU Aggies Football Team and later a scholarship player, he learned that hard work always pays off. After playing football, he wanted a career in a field in which he would have the same passion as he did for sports.
What is a Bodander?
Bodander is a rocking horse. (In the photo, Bodander is pictured with its original owner.)
We named our company after this rocking horse because it reminded us of all the things we love about real estate: it’s tangible, it’s fun, it’s family.
At Bodander, our clients are like family. We work with only a few clients at a time so that we can give them our full attention. We talk with them to understand their needs and to anticipate the needs they can’t express — or don’t even know about yet.
We can’t do everything for our clients. We refer them to other experts when needed. But we can help our clients think about their real estate transactions in the context of their overall plans. And we can help them complete their tasks on time.
Diligent, respectful, focused, trustworthy. It’s how we prefer to work.
