Glenn Shelhamer – Sotheby’s International

This is a realtor who truly pays attention. Every single house he showed me met my criteria 100%. He’s great with getting back and understands the urgency of closing a deal amidst all the foreign cash depositors.
If you’re looking for a solid, insightful, enthusiastic and friendly realtor, Glenn is the guy! And by the way, I don’t think it’s the commission that drives him as much as the win. He’s persistent as heck and that is exactly what you want … need!!!

Glenn is a delight and seems to know his stuff when it comes to real estate on the east side of town. His
is a great resource as well, check it out, check him out, and get into this market while the getting is good (but Glenn, you must save that architectural gem-​fixer that is a steal for me!)

If only I were in the fun position of looking for a new home in Silver Lake, the only neighborhood in LA that I’ve called home. If I were, I’d love to do the search with Glenn. He quickly understood what it is for me that makes a house or small corner of a neighborhood special. He’s got taste and charm, and I bet he’s also a really good negotiator. Until then, I’ll continue to enjoy his blog,
, which has some of the best local photography I’ve seen.

First off, I found Glenn from
. He follows and covers the real estate sales in Los Angeles, and his blog website is informative and very easy to navigate. I used Glenn this year as my real estate agent twice, as both a seller and a buyer. When he first stepped into my condo he gave me great advice on what could be fixed and how the furniture should be staged. I did everything Glenn recommended and WOW did the condo look great and ready to show. Glenn recommended I have a date to have all offers come in. Instead of taking them as they came. Which was great because one week later we collected 7 offers. Glenn came over my place and we went over all of the offers together, we countered a total of 3 offers and ended up having a bidding war. We ended up closing over the price we thought we where going to get!
To backtrack, I was a little nervous about the listing price Glenn suggested as it was slightly under the market value. But it was ultimately the right decision as we did it!
Once I was into escrow we started our search for my new home (time to upgrade thank you!) Which went very smoothly. We ended up closing right on time.
Glenn really made the process go pretty smooth from start to finish. We had a few leander bumps as to be expected. Glenn will fight for you and is in your corner 100%. He made sure I understood what was going on every step of the way. Glenn handled everything like a pro, if you are looking for an agent that truly cares about your needs — This is the realtor for you!

Glenn came highly recommended and my husband and I were so pleased that we had the opportunity to work with him.
My husband stumbled upon Glenn’s blog
which we find a great resource for neighborhood information and local business.
We’re a young professional couple, who’s been looking for a house on the LA Eastside specificaly Silver Lake or Echo Park for a little while. Glenn was instrumental to our eventual success in finding the ideal home for us in Silver Lake. Yeah! He was particularly transparent, sharing inside knowledge with us. He would also go out of his way to ensure that our offer would stand out from the others. As a relevant piece of information, staff from the listing agent of the place we eventually bought was also impressed by his dedication and professionalism. In a competitive housing market condition in Los Angeles, it was comforting to us to know that our agent was working as diligently (or perhaps even more so) with us to help close the deal. Glenn was very responsive — most emails (even on weekends or in the evening) were answered within a few minutes to a couple hours. In all, we would recommend Glenn Shelhamer 100% with no reservations. Thank you, Glenn.

I can’t thank Glenn enough for helping us find our perfect home! He’s a wonderful agent and we could not have asked for a better experience especially being 1^st time home buyers. We loved his energy, professionalism, and positive attitude! He worked around our schedule which included several late night calls/​updates and we always felt like he had our best interest.
We had a very specific wish list and it took us several months and multiple offers before we found our home. One of the greatest part of working with Glenn was how resourceful and responsive he was. He connected us with vendors and inspectors whom were all great individuals. When we made an offer for our condo he reached out to various tenants for feedback on the community and even had us connect with our future neighbors!
If you are considering selling or purchasing a new home, you are in great hands! Thanks again Glenn for everything and we wish you all the best!

We hired Glenn to sell our house and look for a new house simultaneously. We had been following him on
which is a terrific neighborhood resource.
He met with us, explained his thoughts on the listing price and gave us his reasoning. He was confident that it would sell for over asking. Then he brought in an excellent photographer and stager. Well, he was right about it all! We had 9 offers, at or above asking within 4 days of our listing. Glenn also helped us negotiate a leaseback at no cost so that we had a comfortable amount of time to find the perfect new house.
We looked at several houses and found one we really liked. We knew that there were several offers on the house and there were a couple that the sellers were seriously considering. Glenn, knew the listings agent and spoke with him. We submitted an offer, along with a personal letter to the sellers, that Glenn suggested. The agent came back and informed Glenn that the sellers really liked us — long story short, our offer was on the one accepted!
Glenn did an excellent job. He is fun and easy to talk to, making the process of buying and selling as fun and exciting as possible. He followed through on everything he promised and was quick and efficient. We couldn’t be happier with the success we had and would recommend Glenn to anyone. We will absolutely use him again! Thank you for your dedication and hard work!

Glenn is the kind of guy that you’re happy to see. Friendly and courteous, upbeat and helpful, tall, dark, and handsome (at least, I assume so – definitely tall to me). Clearly, this guy loves his job, and enjoys it. Not sure what else you could ask for, other than making hard sales happen, and getting people into the Eastside, where everyone should be (you don’t have to though, it’s ok, I think we’re all filled up).
The property he just sold isn’t mine; I’ve been a tenant for 6 years and I’m staying put. I have been absolutely pleased with all of Glenn’s hard work and positive energy throughout the process, and I’m especially grateful that the new owners seem to be an excellent follow-​up to my now ex-​landlord who I loved.
I’ve got his card and I’m keeping it for when it’s finally time for me to make my move, hopefully not more than 5 minutes from here. Glenn? You better be reading this.
Great guy, solid realtor, and from what I can see here on Unilocal — a nice long list of well-​pleased people, which, having experienced some beyond questionable realtors in the past, makes him what I call: a LOCK. Done. Call him.

Glenn is an all around good guy! His magnetic personality will not only make you feel completely comfortable, he brings that energy to the table when dealing with other agents, sellers, brokers and anyone else involved. Glenn is the consummate professional real estate agent.

My families story with Glenn began last December 2014, when my Dad and I were just starting to think about selling our Beverly Hills house. I heard about Glenn through a friend and left him a message asking him whether it was worth meeting up before we were ready to sell. He immediately called me back and set up a meeting at our house. He came prepared with lots of details, stats, and graphs on our neighborhood and the housing market. Our three french bulldogs were jumping all over his paperwork and my mom was so embarrassed, but Glenn gave them hugs and kisses and immediately made us feel comfortable. He also gave us advice on waiting to put the house for sale until after the holidays, and how to begin preparing for the sale. He also explained in detail the seemingly scary task of selling one house and using the profits to buy another –without ending up homeless! Afterwards, he sent us thank you notes with Starbucks cards, a thoughtful gesture before we had even committed to using him as our realtor.
Several months passed, and my mom was sick so we didn’t want to put the house on the market until spring. When April rolled around, we decluttered as Glenn had recommended and then invited him back to the house. My mother was feeling better and Glenn brought flowers. We discussed all the numbers and Glenn’s updated research on the area, including our projected net profit from House #1 and our projected closing costs for House #2, and then felt comfortable to commit to using Glenn as our realtor.
A few weeks later, we were ready to put our house on the market. Glenn hired an incredible photographer at no cost to us who made our house look amazing and a website. He also organized two great open houses with a lot of traffic, besides the appointment walk through. Our house was only on the market for 9 days and we got our asking price, even though it was well above average for a house our size in our neighborhood. In fact, we got seven offers in five days. Around this time, we began house hunting. Believe it or not, the third house on our list was the one we ended up falling in love with. I think we even saw it on Easter morning, which was really nice of Glenn to come out with us even though it was a holiday. Glenn knew the realtor representing the seller and was able to have her talk the family into considering our bid even though we did not have the funds from our house yet. We put in a bid below asking price, without a penny yet in escrow, and they accepted!
The next few weeks were a blur, but they were smooth and stress-​free. Glenn arranged for all the escrows to fund in order and walked us through the home inspection and other contingencies with great advice. Within two months of our second meeting with Glenn, our house was sold and empty and we had moved into our new house, which my parents love. It was amazing!
We are so happy with Glenn and recommend him to anyone who is selling a house. Though we were located in Beverly Hills (house #1) and his office was in Los Feliz area, he never complained about coming to us for walkthroughs, inspections, etc. and always took great care of our three monsters (dogs.) We also got the house we wanted (house #2 Silver Lake) for the price we wanted, and our old house sold quickly and at the price we wanted.
Great job, Glenn! And to any potential home buyers or sellers, check Glenn Shelhamer out! He’s the best.
P. S. On the day we moved in, Glenn gave us an incredible welcome home basket filled with thoughtful gifts that related to our interests. SO thoughtful!
P. P. S. He also always answered all of our questions, no matter how many we had or how silly they seemed to us. He was constantly available through text and email, and helped us understand every part of the process.

As a broker myself, I’ve had the pleasure in working with Glenn on several occasions and believe me, it’s been great every single time. Glenn is extremely intelligent and a great problem solver. Above all, he is relentless in his approach, persistent and extremely charismatic. Anyone who is in real estate knows very well these are all traits that cannot be taught and are essential for a successful real estate practice.
I was extremely impressed when he was helping a particular client who’s purchase price was well below Glenn’s average. It was so low that some would consider that transaction a «waste of time.» Glenn treated that client as if she was purchasing a multi-​million dollar home in the bird streets. I remember him picking up his lady at the bus stop and driving her to work and home as well! It was very heart warming. That showed me how genuine his intentions really were.
If I was purchasing or selling, I’d want Glenn on my side.

When I started my search as a first time homebuyer I considered three different agents. Glenn Shelhamer was the only one I found on Unilocal,the other two were referred by friends. By the end of the meeting I knew Glenn was my guy. As the other people have pointed out, Glenn is smart, strategic, straightforward, patient, a great listener, funny, reachable, polite, professional – basically everything you could hope for in an good person not only a real estate agent. This is important, because given today’s market it could take you a long time and several attempts before you find a place. It took me about six months. (I was looking in Hollywood Hills, Los Feliz, Silver Lake. If you are, prepare yourself.)
Before I found my home, Glenn helped me make solid offers on seven different places. Take it from me, losing a house correctly in a bidding war, is as important as obtaining a home. You don’t want to bid too much – that’s a given, but you also don’t want to feel like you lost your dream house when you would have bid more. Four times cash buyers blew my offers out of the water and a few more just weren’t meet to be (Glenn helped me understand that philosophy). Each time stung, but I was able to move on knowing that Glenn and I had come up with great offers and that I was only beaten by buyers with way more enthusiasm or money.
Somewhere along the line, it began to dawn on me that I have a knack for picking homes people go bat s**t insane over. Maybe I just have great taste ;)
If I wanted a home, I’d either have to join the insanity or change my strategy. Glenn helped me shift from looking at turnkey properties that would have earned him a bigger commission to fixers with little charm, but lots of promise. Again, Glenn was extremely patient. We looked at many fixers and he was invaluable in detailing what it would take to renovate each home. I’ve never owned a home, let alone remodeled a place, so I wanted to make sure I didn’t bite off more than I could chew. In the end, Glenn helped me find a fixer with great bones where the remodel wouldn’t be too extensive.
We still had to fight for the home – flippers saw what we saw and swarmed. Making the offer was intimidating and Glenn was right there the whole time helping me craft offers and counter offers. Because of Glenn’s diligence, I was able to save a considerable amount of money!
I don’t believe in fate, but if I did I’d feel like it was fate to have met Glenn, and fate to have waited until the SEVENTH round to land a home. The house is in a better location than any of the other properties I bid on, it’s roomier than ones that were much more expensive, it’s got great light, a great back yard, a logical layout (many don’t in Los Feliz), I can walk to places, it’s a stone’s throw from the Silver Lake reservoir, etc. I can’t believe how lucky I got finding my new home and it’s all because of Glenn.
I would highly recommend Glenn Shelhamer as a realtor to anyone looking to buy or sell in Hollywood Hills, Los Feliz, Silver Lake… Anywhere in Los Angeles come to think about it. Simple put, he is the best!

Glenn delivers the best, what can I say!
Family of mine were relocating to the LA area and looking for a real estate agent. Efficiency was key! They needed someone who was quick, to the point, and would work around their busy schedules. There was zero time for B.S. He exceeded all expectations.
Glenn is very down to earth and a pleasure to work with. I will gladly continue to refer clients Glenn’s way since I know they’ll be in the best of hands!!! Glenn thank you again for making it a great experience!!!

Glenn is a go getter! He also one hell of an agent he knows his stuff and he knows how to get a deal done. I might add Glenn has great charisma and is heck of a fun guy to be around.

Glenn is an excellent Realtor who knows what his clients need and desire. His innate sense and marketing abilities sets him apart. Whether you’re interested in a loft home in downtown LA or a view home in Los Feliz, Glenn is an agent to definitely work with. He’s very available but never pushy.

My parents own income properties so we understand the process of buying and selling real estate, and had interviewed several real estate agents before deciding to work with Glenn Shelhamer to sell my Los Feliz house. Glenn made it very clear he was the best person for the job. He was very knowledgable and knows the Los Feliz area very well.
Glenn helped us put a plan together and kept us up to speed every step of the way. Ultimately, we made a very fair and profitable sale. Yes there were bumps in the road with inspections and the buyers loan, however, Glenn didn’t get rattled and keep the process moving forward.
Highly recommend Glenn Shelhamer to anyone looking to buy or sell property!

Thanks Glenn for making my experience of buying a property very easy and for working with my schedule. I really appreciate you taking the time to ask the necessary questions that later turned out to be essential in my decision making process! Your knowledge of materials, construction and design makes it a no brainer for me to recommend you to other buyers! Not to mention you are very pleasant and entertaining to make business with!
Thanks again!

Thanks for all your help Glenn! You went above and beyond and your professionalism is unmatched.
Anyone considering an agent, look no further, he is so friendly and a joy to be around.

I had the pleasure of getting to assist Glenn in hosting an open house for a studio loft in DTLA. It didn’t surprise me that his friendly, outgoing, dynamic, and genuine character that I’ve gotten to know as a neighbor extend to his professional identity. I was incredibly impressed with his knowledge of the real estate market and the property he was showing, as well as his ability to attend to potential buyers’ needs. He is consistently dedicated to helping his clients find exactly what they are looking for, without settling. As a human, Glenn has an impeccably ‘real’ nature that I would hope for in a real estate agent. When I am ready to buy (and someday, sell) a property, I’ll be looking forward to having him in my corner to help me find the perfect space!

Thank you Glenn for all your help. You are a true professional and look forward to working with you again.