5 Stars for Catherine are just not enough. No amount of stars could do justice to Catherine's work.
We have tried to sell our home 3 times, and had the misfortune of picking the worst agents we could have possible picked. One of them happened to be an agent we previously used who wasn't too bad but still couldn't get the job done. The approach most agents take is "list it and forget it", they let the MLS do all the work. They say they invest a lot in your property upfront, but you can tell by the pictures, staging, brochures and flow of buyers walking in, how much time and money they have invested in your property, if any at all.
I had always seen signs for Catherine near our house on the border of Brea and Fullerton, not sure why I never called her first. Finally I called her, and from the very first visit I knew she was going to be the one who will sell our house. It's the aura she had, she projected confidence and not the kind projected by used car salesman, but a deep genuine confidence. She was so excited to see our bathroom renovations that I was taken back by it, almost couldn't believe that she never seen bathroom as gorgeous as ours. I loved how well she communicated along with a motherly concern and guiding approach. The connection I felt with her on the first meeting, that I signed her on immediately and I wasn't even planning on it. I just thought I would meet her and think about it, because I had heard plenty of car sales pitches, except for homes.
What did Catherine do for us, besides sell our home. She immediately brought a huge team, where everyone walked through our home, got ideas, asked me all the features of the home, which none of the previous agent ever took time to do. Brought in a stager, brain stormed ideas, and got to know our house. Gave us instructions on what we needed to do to help the stagers. Once the staging was done, she brought in wonderful photographer, we had discussed exactly how i wanted the photos to look, we went through all her previous work and pointed out which photos I liked and what I didn't like. Between the photography and staging they produced such great pictures of our house, even we thought it was unreal. Almost thought of not selling it.
Catherine's team produced gorgeous brochure which we had not seen from any agents before. We kept that brochure as art work and show it to friends and family all the time. She scheduled a realtors open house, followed by public open house. Well we never even got to the public open house, some how we had multiple buyers who had sneaked in to the realtor's open house with their realtors. Immediately after the realtor's open house we got amazing feedback from the realtors and multiple offers.
Now that's magic, I honestly don't know what she did or how she did it. I know all the things she did right, but my gut tells me she probably did so much more that what I saw on surface. Because to get so many buyers show up like that and get multiple offers before even public got to see the house it unbelievable.
Every Real Estate transaction from now on will always be with Catherine Houston. I loved working with her and Lynn. It's sad that our house is sold and I don't get to interact with Catherine and Lynn like I did during our transaction. Their knowledge and advice was so sound, grounded, clean and honest. Based on her action and outcome, I can tell she was honestly on my side, as opposed to other Realtors who say they are on your side but really aren't. For anyone reading this review, I can't imagine picking another agent besides Catherine. Trust me when you can't sell your house, you will call her, if anyone who can get it done and get you the most it's Catherine.
Thank you Catherine for everything you did, from the bottom of my heart. read more