This is a long overdue review for Rosie! My wife actually knew about Krista and Rosie from 10+…read moreyears ago when her brother was in the market for a home. Roughly 7 years ago, we linked up with Rosie to help us purchase our first home, and she was so helpful along the way. As we slowly started to outgrow our first home, we worked with Rosie again for a new home last year, and she was so incredibly helpful and encouraging every step of the way. Throughout both times, she was always super responsive, made time to meet with us, and answered all of our questions throughout the home-buying process. We never felt any pressure from her to act on any of the houses we visited, and she always had a calm and relaxed demeanor that put us at ease. Rosie's recommendations & suggestions for insurance providers, lenders, or handy people were also great, and definitely helped us out in a pinch. Rosie made the homebuying process a relatively simple one, and we really couldn't have it without her help. She was really flexible with our schedule, super prompt when we had any last minute questions, and feels like a long-time friend at this point. Rosie provided us invaluable + realistic information around the comps for all the homes we visited, which ultimately helped us land an awesome new home. If you're looking to buy a home, we can't recommend Rosie enough. Thank you so much, Rosie!

Selling occupied rental property is challenging and you need an agent that knows how to work well…read morewith tenants. Krista had done OK with a prior sale of a vacant condo (although in retrospect she pushed me to spend on some costly and unnecessary upgrades and I had to remind her to pursue the offer we got) so I asked her to be an agent to sell an occupied duplex. She confused the tenants such that they thought they didn't have to do showings and estoppels and tried to extort me for this and it was difficult to clear this up. Worst of all she did not supervise the inspector well so he left the oven on for about eight hours scaring the tenants when they got home and creating a serious safety issue. She claimed she took a photo of the oven showing it was off before she left but the time stamp showed the photo was in the middle of the inspection about an hour before it was done. This created much difficulty with the tenants and I had to start over with another realtor delaying the sale by about a month. I suggest using a different realtor who is more focused on your sale.

Long story medium short. My TIC building partner in an SF duplex needed to sell. I have no idea how…read moreshe found Ren Grandahl, although I heard he was recommended by the owner's friend on the East Coast where she had relocated. That's how to pick an agent? Owner listed the place at $930K, way out of line. Mr. Grendahl should have shown her comps and counseled her. Perhaps he did, but overpriced property rarely sells; it hurts. Two or three price reductions later, two offers were made that apparently the owner turned down. These reductions also reduced the perceived value of my portion of the building. Ren should have involved me, my attorney says, but no. This all took Ren a YEAR to accomplish virtually nothing. A YEAR of sporadic open houses. A YEAR of occasionally not showing up for advertised open houses, or not advertising open houses at all. Their web site was regularly out of date. Near the end of that year, I had called the stager to offer to rent the staged furnishings myself so her place would look good. The stager agreed, and I sent him a check, but Ren poked his nose into it and claimed that was illegal (how exactly?), and advised the stager to clear his nice stuff out. I believed him too, but my real-estate attorney said that's not so. Gee, thanks Ren, it cost me $3500 to RE-stage the place because of your bull-headed attitude when I could have made things easier for all concerned. Where's that at? Just destructive. The owner was broke, underemployed, under water, and wasn't paying her mortgage or insurance, and couldn't afford the 5% commission. She would have killed me with a thousand cuts and I'd lose all. After some stressful legal maneuvering, Ren convinced the owner to grant her place to me via a Grant Deed and my foregiveness of all her debt -- BUT he wanted half of the sales commission in exchange! For what? A YEAR of total failure? Y'all, that's almost $11K, when MY brokers advertised and showed the place and MY brokers sold it almost immediately. (See my reviews of Jesse Fowler and Pete Brannigan, coming soon, who had to eat half the sales commission. Now THAT'S service!) This episode was a wasteful and costly total DISASTER! (Except Ren got to line his big pockets.) And don't be in the same room when Ren flips to angry mode. The above is all true. Negative stars are in order for negative results.

I was looking for a place at the St. Regis and Rob was great in helping me with a rental I wanted…read morein the building... he was always very responsive to my emails and phone calls... and was very, very patient acting as a mediator between the owner of the unit and me... Unfortunately, the owner turned out to be crazy and very vexatious....and she pulled out of the lease four days before I was supposed to move! (you know... since its a great housing market and all, it makes sense to change your mind at the last second and sell your place after trying to rent your place for 8 months...ehh) Needless to say, my frustration was immense... and Rob sent me a bottle of champagne as a token of good will, even though it wasn't his fault... and he also quickly reimbursed me for my deposit....very nice guy

Monica gave me a fantastic realtor referral for my home in Southern California. Thanks to her…read morerecommendation, the selling process was smooth and successful.

Monica was wonderful to work with and helped us close on the first property, a condo, we loved…read moreenough to put an offer on. She was a good communicator and ran a very organized process. We would definitely recommend Monica for anyone looking for a realtor in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Kristin is a great realtor. She helped us to find our dream house. She is very professional and…read morefriendly. She is responsive and very good in communication. Highly recommend.

Such a great team! Attentive, hard working and some of the best people you could work with. They…read morehave taken great care of me in the past on my last couple of house purchases, and I will continue to use them in the future when looking to buy or sell my next home.

Anya and Collette were my agents for the sale of my home in Berkeley. They did what they said (got…read morethe best price) they promised to work in my best interests (and they did). And, they did this professionally and responsibly. The home was in perfect condition to be sold. I could not recommend more highly the fine work these women did. They are the best in Berkeley.

Okay, folks...there's another star in the real estate firmament!…read more We went to a number of open houses in our area today.I know, we're real estate junkies but what do *you* do of a Sunday afternoon when you're all dressed up with no where to go without spending money? Stumbled in on a spectacular house that had been remodeled under our watchful eyes. It was a golden opportunity for us to see how gentry lives...this house in Albany, CA is listed at $995,000 and they are going to get the full price for sure! Alexis Thompson was showing the house. The the house had an open fire place, cherry flooring, Mediterranian kitchen, private upstairs balcony...the setting looked like a portrait from Architectural Digest. It was wonderful indeed. To her credit, Alexis didn't ask us to take our shoes off. In fact, she was genuinely nice, genuinely interested in us, and most charitable *not* to notice our doggy bags of take-out Thai. I exaggerate. We ate *after* the open house. But you get my drift...Alexis treated us like interesting folks who just *might* have enough money to plunk down on the house despite our outward appearances. We wish her well on the sale of this house, and in her real estate career. She'll do well. Grubb people, you have yourself a winner! And I say this despite my love of chocolate chip cookies. The cookies were sadly lacking....but Mykah Larkins had them at her open house just down the road. Mykah was showing a sweet little two bedroom that we could easily see would soon occupy a young family who wanted to be near Harding School. Alexis, Mykah...you guys ROCK as realtors! Good to know that real people are in the real estate business! Keep shining, ladies!

I want to share a review with Yelp but also, secretly and selfishly want to keep Linda just for…read moremyself; she is an amazing relator and advisor! Linda has helped my family purchase our two, dream homes. We've been so impressed with her "Whatever/ Whenever" approach to service and professionalism, we've become exclusively, Linda Slagle clients. There it is- It's out now. Phewwwww.

Linda was such a pleasure to work with when she helped us sell our condo (that she helped us buy a…read morefew years earlier) and buy our dream house! From a seller's perspective: we appreciated that Linda listened to what our wants were (in terms of staging and price point) and provided guidance, but was never pushy. Our condo had offers within days of being listed and the selling process was quick and easy. From a buyer's perspective: we ended up looking at over 20 houses, which was quite a lot in a COVID-19 environment. Linda was very accommodating when scheduling tours. She always listened to our opinions about the house before sharing with us what she saw as the pros and cons. Linda was great at communicating with other agents and guiding us when we decided to make offers. I would recommend Linda to all of my friends and family!

Jennifer Masse represented my wife and me to sell our house. We cannot say enough about how great…read moreit was to work with her. Her recommendations for improvements to be made to create the most value was so well thought out and proved to be more than worth the investment. She acted as the project manager to manage all the work since my wife and I had already moved out of state. Her attention to detail and her taste is impeccable. She was very patient and thorough with us through the whole process. The marketing was fantastic, and the sales transaction was smooth. To top it all off, the house was sold on the first open house weekend with multiple offers at above asking price. We highly recommend Jennifer to anyone looking to be represented by a top-notch sophisticate agent!

Working with Jennifer Masse was truly one of the best decisions we made during our home-buying…read more From the moment we met, she felt less like a realtor and more like a trusted friend who just happened to know everything there is to know about real estate. We never felt like "just another client"--Jennifer took the time to understand what really mattered to us, what we were nervous about, and what we were hoping for in a home. She answered every question with patience and honesty (even the late-night texts and repeated questions!) and guided us through the process with clarity and warmth. It never felt transactional--it felt personal, thoughtful, and deeply human. When visiting open houses, Jennifer would always point out the good and the bad of a home. She seemed to know exactly what we were looking for without us having to state every desire necessarily explicitly. She came to know my style and would reassure me what could and could not be fixed. When we hit bumps in the road--as you seem to do in real estate--Jennifer stayed calm, focused, and fiercely on our side. She always knew just what to do. We always knew we had someone advocating for us who genuinely cared about the outcome. Thanks to her, we're not just in a new house--we're in a new home that we truly love. Never did I think we would love a home this much! We're so grateful, and we'd recommend Jennifer Masse in a heartbeat to anyone looking for someone they can trust and enjoy working with every step of the way. I can honestly say she's now a part of our family.

Buying a house from 3,000 miles away is a crazy idea, but Jessica made it work anyway…read more We tried other 5 star agents first. Fancy portfolios, polished pitches, no clue how to find what we wanted. Jessica knew. She sent us video after video and caught things other agents would've walked right past. She pointed us toward the good deals and flagged the landmines before we stepped on them. Nothing was beneath her or beyond her. She crawled into a bug-filled crawl space. She got blasted by an alarm sprinkler. She went to the library archives (the archives!) to research a property. All with the same unflappable chill, which is exactly what you want when your home search drags on and the market does not meet your expectations. She never pushed. She never sugarcoated. We could be blunt with her, she could be honest with us. Honestly, chatting with her made the whole thing oddly entertaining. We weren't expecting house hunting to be enjoyable. She made time whenever we were in town and dealt with the difficult agents so we didn't have to. And there are a lot of difficult agents out there. Jessica wanted us to find the right house, not just a house. She earned our trust and never dropped it.

My husband and I were first-time homebuyers, and after spending about four months in the market…read morewith another agent, we weren't seeing the results we had hoped for. It started to feel like homeownership might not even be possible for us. In January, we visited an open house where we met Jessica, and from the moment we spoke with her, we immediately connected. She was warm, personable, and easy to talk to. Even before we officially started working together, she went out of her way to send my husband listings--without us even asking--and somehow, every single one matched exactly what we were looking for. Once our previous contract ended, we scheduled a virtual meeting with Jessica to explore working together. After that conversation, it was an easy decision. She is incredibly knowledgeable, hardworking, and genuinely invested in her clients. She answered all of our questions in a way that was clear and easy to understand, and her transparency throughout the process immediately eased our anxieties. For the first time in months, the home-buying process felt exciting again. We were unsure about where we wanted to live and whether a townhome or single-family home would be the best fit. Jessica patiently walked us through the pros and cons of each option and helped guide us toward a decision that made sense for our future. Within just two months, we found a home we loved. We toured it on a Saturday afternoon, and by that evening, Jessica had already reviewed disclosures, contacted the listing agent, and prepared a strong offer. By Sunday night at 11 PM, we found out our offer was accepted! Even more incredible--we weren't the highest offer. We truly believe that Jessica's responsiveness, strategy, and strong communication made all the difference in helping us win our home. We are beyond grateful for Jessica and everything she did for us. She made what could have been a stressful experience feel smooth, exciting, and ultimately successful. We can't recommend her enough!