ZillowVERIFIEDThis writing is to recommend, wholeheartedly and without reservation, realtor Zach Krasman. He recently helped us sell our home of over 20 years to facilitate our move from Southern California. We bought the house in 2001, then upgraded certain features, landscaped, and did some remodeling. Time passed, and while we kept up the premises, some maintenance was deferred as we worked on our long term plans to leave L.A. We found our current home, away from L.A., in October 2022, and bought it, thinking we would either rent out the L.A. home if the market for sale was bad, or sell it, then began meeting with realtors. We liked some of them, but each had their own approach and none really clicked with us. Then the realtor who helped us with our new-home search, who is also a long-time family friend who did a great job for us in buying our new home, researched his companys database of realtors and interviewed several, ultimately landing on Zach, who he recommended to us. We liked Zach right away. But more than that, we were impressed by his clear-eyed professionalism. After spending a few minutes getting acquainted and touring the premises, he explained how he approaches selling a home. We will leave that to Zach to explain to prospective clients, but what he said was straightforward and made great sense. What he told us differed from the varied statements we got from the other agents who sought to list our home. We met with him a couple more times before listing with him; he remained consistent in his approach, never pandering, and offered up an understandable analytical model as to pricing the house and marketing it, and as to what we could expect. Another benefit was that he had a contractor who provided an amazingly reasonable price to address the deferred maintenance and make some upgrades to facilitate the sale. What we wanted was to work with a solid, knowledgeable and experienced professional who would handle things. We signed the listing agreement with Zach in December 2022, then moved from L.A. on December 15, We told Zach he had carte blanche with respect to design and color choices for the house, as well as to when and how to market the property. Throughout, he checked with us on everything to make sure we approved, and we said yes to everything he suggested. Zach entirely managed the entire remodel project as we were living outside of Southern California. We got out of Zachs way and gave him the space and freedom to treat the remodel and sale of our home as it if if it was his own investment project, which, in a way, it is, since a realtor gets paid only if and when the property sells. Zach delivered big time. His instincts as to when to activate the listing process, first through his companys private listing service, were spot on, especially given the impact interest-rate changes were having on the real estate market during January and February 2023. His contractor did great work (we visited the house once the work was done) at an amazingly reasonable price. As a result of Zachs handling of the project, we had multiple offers well above ask before the property hit the MLS, all from his efforts through his companys private listing service. It played out exactly as Zach said it would, except that the ultimate sale price was above what he intimated it could be. When the first offer fell through, Zach had two others waiting and ready, one at the same price as the first, another higher. We relied on Zach for guidance and advice while navigating the different offers. He never pushed one over another, but would explain different aspects of each to us, then when we expressed out our thoughts, he would respond analytically, still leaving the choice to us, but with guidance. Then, during the inevitable hiccups that plague anything associated with human affairs, Zach remained calm and analytical, and guided us through the close with sober, cogent advice gleaned from his years of experience and sound approach to selling homes. Zach did us right, three times over. We recommend him wholeheartedly.
