Willis Allen Real Estate

Where do I begin? From our first interaction with Summer Crabtree through the close of escrow (and even after that), our experience left us feeling so grateful we chose Summer and Willis Allen to handle the sale of our home and purchase of a new one.
We initially contacted Summer after two separate friends recommended her. I called to ask her if we were crazy to think we could sell our home in Clairemont in this terrible real estate market. She came by to see the home, ran some comps, and gave us an honest assessment of the situation. We decided to go ahead and try to sell our home, knowing it could be on the market for a while. Summer gave us tips about staging it nicely, had a photographer come out to take beautiful photos, created a photo-​montage video for YouTube, then hosted an open house for us and we could NOT believe it — we had a great offer 5 days after listing the house! In this awful market! Summer is AMAZING.
Escrow had its share of snags and Summer handled each one with just the right mix of experience, professionalism, and resourcefulness. She is funny when comic relief is called for and reassuring if things get nerve-​wracking. She had a ton of great ideas and her persistence paid off for us in more ways than one. I believe 100% that we would never have sold our home as quickly as we did, for the price we did, if we hadn’t worked with Summer and Willis Allen.
We also worked with her to buy our new home, and again, without her, I don’t think we would have gotten the home we wanted. We both work and she made herself available to meet inspectors, contractors, you name it, at the house when we couldn’t be there. She helped us navigate the purchase of a bank-​owned home and her tenacity made it possible for us to get what we felt was a GREAT deal from the bank. She handled all the tough stuff so we could focus on the bigger picture. She made it all possible and we feel so lucky to have worked with her.
We’ve bought and sold 4 properties over the past 10 years and this was the first time we worked with Summer and Willis Allen. Hopefully we won’t be moving again anytime soon, but if we do, we will never use anyone else.

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