Erika Shinzato – RE/MAX

David & Erika have been instrumental in the sale of our previous home and purchase of our current one. Their team is top notch — they came prepared with professional photographers who took pictures as well as video of our home, including drones for an aerial view. They brought in stagers who made our home look even more stunning. And they even had a cleaning crew who made sure that everything looked neat and tidy.
We were looking for a real estate agent who wasn’t pushy, who listened to our needs and wants, who understood our situation and didn’t pressure us one way or another and we definitely found that in David. He was truly invested in our search for a home and was by our side every step of the way.
Erika is a pro in her own right and really knows how to make a property desirable. We already had a beautiful home but she transformed it into such a magnificent place that we didn’t even want to leave!
We are so grateful to have had Erika, David and their team walk us through this process. They made everything so easy and we are so pleased with our new home. We could not have done this without their expertise. All our friends and family can’t get us to stop raving about them!

Erika and David are great! They sold my condo in West LA very quickly and helped me with everything which made it a very organized, efficient and positive experience. And they got me an excellent price on the sale of my condo.
They were always available to answer questions and were very professional and knowledgeable. I felt I was in very good experienced hands.
Their professionalism and service are outstanding and I highly recommend them to anyone.

Erika and her team did a great job in expediting my move to the new home in Monrovia. My lender told me this was the fastest close he has ever seen which was completed in just over 3 weeks. She first started with understanding what I was looking for with respect to family, school, proximity to our offices, and neighborhood. She then found several homes within the San Gabriel Valley where we were able to view them all in one weekend. After taking a couple of days to consider all my options, I decided on the first home we visited and soon after an offer was placed. What made the process so easy was being able to electronically sign each agreement during each stage of the process. This also allowed the seller and their agent to receive and accept the offers electronically. She further instructed me to copy her on all email correspondence with my lender so she could ensure she stayed on top of the process and any follow up documents needed by the lender. There was a slight hicup with the lender and seller’s agent where the loan contingency needed to be extended as requested by the lender, however, the seller’s agent became alarmed by this request thinking there would be a risk I would not be approved for the loan. In reality, the lender just needed a few more days to ensure they had sufficient time to process the underwriting, but the seller’s agent need more assurance that I would be approved. This is where Erika and her team decided to seek the help of another lender who was able to provide an objective assessment of my creditworthiness to the sellers and their agent and agreed to extend the loan contingency. This also provided me a back up lender should my first lender not come through in time to close as agreed. As we were waiting for the lender to complete their underwriting process, Erika and her team worked closely with the seller’s agent and my lender to stay on top of the process with ordering the appraisal, home inspector, and termite inspection and treatment. Her experience and professionalism is what enabled the process to move so quickly because she knew what I was looking for, she understood how to negotiate with the seller, and she knew what was need to be done to satisfy the loan requirements. I would recommend Erika and her team to all my friends and family.

Erika and David did an outstanding job selling our Pasadena townhouse. With over 24 years of combined experience, Erika and David are true real estate professionals. They understand the A-Z’s of the real estate business and have trusted partnerships that facilitate your sale or purchase. They walked us through the entire process of pricing, listing, staging and selling our townhouse. Once the property was on the market, we received multiple offers after one open house and went into escrow in only 11 days! We know it is because of Erika and David’s marketing that we received so much activity on the townhouse. Erika and David worked diligently to make sure that the entire process went smoothly and that we closed escrow on time.
My husband and I are more than happy to recommend Erika and David to anyone who wants to work with ONLY the BEST PROFESSIONALS in the business. Why settle for anyone less?

Erika helped sell my home in Rowland Heights recently and she did an excellent job.
She took the time to advise me and walk me through the entire process of selling my home. Erika and her team were very caring and understanding of all my needs when scheduling all the showings on the property. Her assistant was always available from Monday thru Sunday for appointments. It is important to me that all showings could be accommodated since you never know who will end up liking the house.
It was truly my pleasure to have such an amazing team to make all the necessary transactions and meeting all the requirements within such a short time. The team’s dedication and valor performance is what made them all stand out among others and we are forever grateful to have met and work with this team.
Wishing each and everyone of you continuous success and prosperity.
From the bottom of our heart, we sincerely thank you and the team for your service and support.

I wanted to commend Erika and her real estate team for helping me and my mom sell my property in Chino Hills. I currently live out of state with my wife and kids and my mom was living in the house. I went online and researched several agents and Erika has some great reviews. Erika was very responsive and keep us updated on the transaction completely even though I lived out of state. The buyers of our property had to sell their own house so the sale took a bit longer than normal, but we were confident that Erika and her team would get it sold one way or the other.
I am very happy that we picked the right real estate agent. She helped me and my mother with the transition to the next step of our lives by selling our property.
Thanks Erika!

I would like to commend Erika and her staff on doing such a great job on selling my home. I was referred to Erika from a friend of mine that also sold her house thru Erika. She had wonderful things to say about her marketing and staging.
My family and I also decided to go thru staging. Erika really transformed the house into an amazing home. I showed it to my family and friends and they all could not believe that it was the same home. I honestly could not believe that it was the same place that we grew up in.
Erika assured me that she would get the house sold and I think we had at least sixty people at our first open house. I couldn’t believe that there were so many people looking at the place and I couldn’t be happier with the results. We received an all cash offer and multiple other offers as well. Erika closed the escrow in 12 days.
I would highly recommend Erika and her staff to anyone looking to sell their property. They do amazing work!
Sincerely,
Kristine

My husband and I just closed escrow on our home in Chino Hills and we were very happy with Erika and her team. We initially met with Erika and she showed us her marketing plan. It really showed how detailed Erika and her team are. My husband and I both have careers in IT and our schedules are very hectic so we wanted someone that could sell our home that we could trust would get job done right.
Erika showed us how we would get the most equity from the sale of our home. Once she listed the property, she was able to get us an acceptable offer within 1 month. We were very pleased since it normally takes several months to sell a property in our Ridgegate Community. I guess I should not have been surprised since Erika’s sold another property in my community pretty quick as well. That is also another reason why we hired her since she has experience selling in Chino Hills and in our neighborhood.
I really appreciate everything that Erika and her team did for us. Erika made everything easy and less stress for us. She made sure everything is taken care of so that we don’t worry about the transactions and that we can concentrate on getting everything on our side in order. I will not hesitate to use her team in the future if I ever need to sell or buy a property.
We made the right choice in picking her to sell our home and could not be happier. We highly recommend Erika.
Sincerely,
Joy

My family and I had a wonderful selling experience with Erika and her home selling team.
They were on point thru the entire process and the transaction flowed very smoothly.
My family and I are relocating to Northern California so there were a lot of things to prepare.
I was very please with the fact that I would not have to make additional mortgage payments for the existing home and also payments on the property in Northern California. Her marketing was amazing and we received multiple offers within the first 2 weeks of being on the market.
We would highly recommend them to all our friends and family.

My family and I are very happy with our new home in the Vellano Golf Course Community. Erika and her team really made our real estate transactions very smooth. We originally owned a property on 4448 Torrey Pines in Chino Hills and decided that our family needed a larger property. Erika and David were very patient with us and showed us multiple properties before we settled on our current place, which also has a lovely casita separate from the main house and pool.
Erika and her team really did amazing work in helping us prepare our original home to show to buyers. She really pays attention to all the details and honestly at the end of the day, I wanted to buy my own house all over again! I listed my home with another agent previously and that agent was not able to sell our home.
I was also a bit nervous since I had to sell my house in order to purchase my replacement property and I know that can be a very complicated and stressful process. Erika and her team were able to find the buyers for my home and they were able to work out all the details with the buyers to give us enough time to move into our new home. Erika & David really worked extremely hard to make it work, since the sellers of the property we were buying also had to move into another home and the owner of that property also needed to move out. Luckily it all worked out.
I am very happy with Erika and her team. We were introduced to Erika thru my son who incidentally also sold their home thru her. Erika was also able to find the buyers for that home as well.
Thanks So Much!
Susan K

My parents’ property in Diamond Bar needed to be listed and being the only son who lives out of state I needed someone who we can trust and relied upon completely. There is nothing like being able to trust someone in today’s business dealings and that is why we are so glad that we found Erika. She kept the whole process transparent and we were informed way ahead of time every step of the way during this process. She was patient when we needed time and when we had questions. She was kind and understanding when we had many special requests for a sick family member. We closed escrow this month smoothly and we can not ask for anything more from an agent. Erika is certainly an excellent agent but what impressed us even more is that she has a wonderful and kind heart.
Thanks again for your help!
John

I had a wonderful experience with Erika & David. I was originally referred to them thru a relative who had used them to buy their first home as well. Initially I was a bit scared about the entire home buying process, but now that I finally closed escrow on my new house, I feel so relieved and grateful to work with such wonderful real estate agents. They honestly care about my needs. I have a large dog and I needed to get a property where the backyard would be large enough to hold him.
Erika and David were wonderful thru the entire transaction and they even formed a good relationship with the owner of the home and it made the transaction flow much smoother. We were so happy when the seller decided to give us her washer, dryer and 2 refrigerators along with the house. Any money that we can save is a bonus and I have great realtors to thank for that!
I am so excited to move into my new place. I highly recommend Erika and her team and will be definitely using them to sell my parents home when I am ready. I know that they have my best interests at heart and that is so rare to find.

Just closed another escrow today with Terra. She opened and closed this escrow in 5 working days which was absolutely magnificent. I represented both the buyers and the sellers and she did a great job working with everybody. Worked with my title company rep as well as my transaction coordinator and everything went smoothly. Closing documents for all parties are already ready to be picked upat 12:30 pm.

Erika and her team just finished closing escrow on my property in West Covina. I am sincerely appreciative of all of their team’s efforts from the amazing marketing of the property to the complete escrow process. They are truly exceptional real estate agents and although escrow can be stressful at times, their professionalism and hard work really made the escrow close smoothly. I was able to get my property sold within a very short time period and they got me an offer above my list price. Her marketing is extraordinary! Take a look at the website that she created for my place.
Erika really went out of her way to work with many different people on getting my property sold. She got professional cleaning ladies that did an amazing job cleaning the property. She stayed late into the evening to get gorgeous evening photographs of my home. It really shows the amount of time and effort that she put into my home that she really loves what she does.
My family and I are really happy with Erika and her home selling team. I would highly recommend her to anyone looking to buy or sell property!

We had a terrible experience from a real estate agent and a broker who handled our initial attempt to purchase a new house. We were getting a bad loan package and so eventually we lost our deposit. We found Erika and David on Unilocal and it was a blessing. They were on top of everything. Armond their broker together with Erika and David, we were able to purchase a bigger property with even better loan package. Highly recommended! You will never regret it!

I’m lucky I came across Erika and her Team. They are all very professional! Their response time is excellent and how they work is very quick at getting problems solved. I sold my house through Erika back a few years ago but I kept in touch with her.
Her marketing is absolutely out of this world. The attention to detail and taste is really tailored to sell higher end homes but still provides it to «all her sellers» even like me that only had a small 3 bedrooms townhouse in San Gabriel. She made my home look really unbelievable. Before, I didn’t know that agents can do these things with marketing now days but actually later I realized it was only Erika that takes it to this level and quality in her work. I am really happy to got lucky to come across with her and her Team. They are very well organized and she has a very friendly staff. The way they work you can feel comfortable that they know what they are doing and that they did this one too many times to be this good. You just have to try Erika and her team to understand what I’m talking about how positive, knowledgeable and pro-​active this team really is.

Erika and her team helped us to find our residence in Pasadena. It’s a wonderful home. There were over 30+ offers on the property. We were very happy that our offer was accepted. Erika’s team was also very helpful making sure that the escrow closing process went smoothly.
‘Home is where the heart is.’ Thank you so much, Erika!

My family and I were looking to buy a property for two purposes. My relative currently in Taiwan might eventually emigrate to Los Angeles and we needed a property that had good schools and we also needed a property that could be rented out quickly to provide a good stable return in the short term prior to my relative coming to the United States.
Erika found us a great property in Arcadia. It’s perfect since the property is walking distance to the middle school and very close to the Arcadia Mall as well. We are very grateful to Erika and her team for assisting us in getting the property rented almost immediately to a very nice family. We wouldn’t have known what to do without her valuable input.
She made our buying experience very enjoyable and understood our family’s needs. Thanks Erika!

My family owned a 12 unit apartment building that we listed with Erika Shinzato and her team. She exceeded all my expectations in the sale of the property. Initially, I was worried since I live out of town and the property is in Southern California. Throughout the entire transaction, Erika and her team spent a lot of time over the phone with us and met with elderly relatives of mine in the LA area while taking the time to really make them feel comfortable.
Her team works efficiently and was able to sort through all the financial documents including profit and loss statements, tax returns, utility bills & lease documents, etc that was needed by the buyer’s lender. Erika also speaks Spanish fluently which really helped in dealing with some of the tenants during the escrow process.
Erika and her team helped us through the entire transaction from A-​Z and we didn’t even have to travel to Southern California during the process. They put forth 120% effort in getting the units sold in record time and we sold above the asking price and above appraisal value for the property. Erika and team are true professionals and their expertise in residential apartment units is very impressive. I would wholeheartedly recommend them.

I just moved into my first house! I am really happy and I wanna just thank Erika for making my dream come true. I honestly feel really bad cause I took up a lot of Erika’s time asking her tons of questions, but she never got upset about it and I saw from her website that she specializes mainly in luxury homes. I worked with another realtor previously and he never called me, just emailed me listings and told me to drive by the homes and then call him.

My experience with Erika was awesome. Erika took me to see almost 30 homes+ so I really saw all the places in the neighborhoods that were available. I like it that she was open with me in tell me her opinion of what she though about each property (Good or Bad). She didn’t just push me to buy the first home she showed me. I really t rusted her opinion and experience and she really treated me with respect, even though I am a first time buyer.

Thanks Again Erika.