I'm a Southern California native that never wanted to leave. Slowly one by one all my friends and family ended up moving out-of-state for one reason or another. I'm not leaving! My beautiful home in Temecula was the perfect base between San Diego and LA; my work territory. One dark day the company I work for closed its doors. Not long after that, my wife (a teacher Looking for work) Informs me that Las Vegas is starving for teachers. My field is refrigeration and surely there would be work for me. Damn! I'm leaving California! Now to get to the point of this review, we started interviewing real estate agents. One by one they came to our home, walked around, and then sat down with us to convince us that they were the best agents to sell our house. Personalities ranged from a wet behind the ears trainee ( I think his mom drove him) to a slick poker player type that was extremely pushy. I checked on a couple of properties he was selling and found they were on the market for six months. Maybe that's why he recommended a low price for our house stating that the market was sluggish.
Finally, John Goga from RedRock comes to the rescue!
First of all he's a local area resident and knows how prices are trending currently.
He came prepared with relevant comps and pointed out all of the reasons he expected we would most likely get top dollar for our home. A few things that I would say about John is that he is experienced, competent and has a down to earth personality. We decided to hire him and he got to work right away. He had a sign in our front yard the next day, and began helping us with the process of staging and preparing for show. We had lots of communication by text message and he was always quick to respond to our questions. When we listed our house we got lucky and found a buyer within 24 hours! They only wanted to shave $2000 off of our asking price to cover the cost of painting the fence and something about the trim on the facia boards. What a score! Quick sale of course makes you think you could've asked for more but I know we were priced right, I've seen what other houses better than ours went for and we weren't far behind. John followed through with the buyers agent and made the sale seamless and relatively easy in our view. I don't doubt for one second that he would have fought a hard fight had we not been so lucky with the quick first offer.
The bottom line is I highly recommend John Goga of RedRock and would definitely hire him again if I returned to buy a home in California someday... read more