1% Broker, Realtors

Description of Work: One Percent Broker handled everything that went into buying our first home from submitting bids, to helping us with inspections, to staying on top of every detail, and teaching us all about the home buying process along the way.

Description of Work: We used One Percent Broker, Realtors ® as our real estate agency. We bought a house.

Description of Work: Finding and buying a home was enormously stressful but Hugh made it as easy as humanly possible. His model is different than many real estate agents. You find the home you want to buy, and he help you from that point on, assessing the home, bidding, inspections, and closing. He refunds you 2% of his 3% commission, which is a considerable sum of money given the prices of homes in LA. Given accessibility of most listing on the web and having a good idea of the house we were looking for, this model worked perfectly for us. Not only did he provide exceptional service, he made us feel that he was looking out for our best interest, not just to make money off of us. He stuck with us for more than a couple of years as we were making offers and finally helped us close last year.

Description of Work: Hugh and Alan helped us purchase our first home and was involved in the process from beginning to end.

Description of Work: My wife and I discovered the One Percent Broker on the internet. What grabbed our attentiion was his pricing structure. We're all about saving money, as I'm sure many of you are, too, but we didn't want to sacrifice at all on service and quality. Choosing Hugh to be on our team gave us the best of both worlds--high quality service and saving money, lots of it. To decide whether I was going to select Hugh as my broker or not, I literally had an "interview" meeting with him at his office. He and his associate answered to our satisfaction every one of our questions, all 40 of them. Given that both my wife and I know how to search for houses on-line, Hugh's model worked well for us. (It's simple and with fifteen minutes of practice, you'll be a veteran home searcher, too.) Though he is called the One Percent Broker, we were getting all the services and attention of a full-service broker, except that we had to find the house ourselves. Because we didn't want to be ferried around by an agent going from open-house to open-house at the agent's convenience, Hugh was the perfect broker for us. Since we attended the majority of the open houses on our own, Hugh saved us THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of dollars. After we found our "dream home", that's when Hugh's expertise and skills really came into play. He was a MASTER at the offer/counter-offer process, ensuring that we got the best price possible. This whole process is like a game of chess and he is a grandmaster, one of the very few out there. He got us to checkmate in the fewest number of moves. (Any broker can get you to checkmate, but how m any moves will it take, and will it be for the lowest possible price?) Once our offer was accepted, he deftly cooordinated all the players in our home buying process, and there were many. Hugh was no different than a conductor who gets the orchestra to create its symphonic sound simultaneously. Hugh got everyone working together on our behalf to get us into our home, all the while SAVING US MONEY EVERY STEP OF THE WAY. Hugh not only navigated the intricacies of the real estate field for us, but he also successfully on our behalf interacted with a challenging seller and challenging seller's broker. No matter how challenging our seller's broker made it, Hugh never lost focus of the goal of getting us into our dream house while saving us money. What I really believe I can add to these reviews that no one else has directly said is that Hugh acted as our FIDUCIARY in that he ALWAYS put our interest before his, and this is not what always happens out there in the real estate world. There were times in the process where Hugh could have made a quick commission and "steered us to a house" when we asked for his opinion, but he pointed out all the negatives, many of which we did not see, and, thus, allowed us to make trully informed decisions. After one particular showing of a house that my wife and I were ready to make an offer on, my wife and I said to each other, "Did Hugh just tell us all the reasons not to buy this house?" we ended up not buying that house but later on, some three months later, found a house that truly was perfect for our family. Had Hugh "held back" and not told us what he really thought, we would have bought that house, and he would have made a quick commission. He truly put our best interest before his. I am pretty sure that most brokers would have "pushed" us into the house to gain their quick commission. At times, Hugh acted as our therapist. When things didn't go our way, and they didn't many times, he picked us up, dusted us off, and gave us the motivation to keep looking. From our direct dealings with The One Percent Broker team , they gave us service par excellence, and at the same time, they gave us and got us the best price possible on our home. This combination will make you a very satisfied home owner. It did for us.

Description of Work: We have found working with realtors to be a frustrating experience. Then we found Hugh! He was the utmost professional. He helped us negotiate a bidding war on our original home. He stuck by us during our long home search and long negotiation. All the while, he was prompt in responding to us and made document signing easy from a distance. We have found Hugh's strategizing to be top notch, he provided creative solutions to problems, and he gave us guidance on handling everything from inspections to requests for repair. His assistant, Donald, was always polite and helpful. We highly recommend him for anyone who wants a professional real estate broker who saves you money to put towards your new home.

Description of Work: Representation in the finding of and purchase of a property.

Description of Work: We were buying our first home and knew which house we wanted. Hugh walked up through every step in the process from submitting our initial offer, negotiating our deal, inspections, navigating complications with our lender to making sure we closed escrow as quickly and painlessly as possible. We are now in our new home!

Description of Work: It is late Sunday evening, and I am writing my evaluation of One Percent Broker in my warm and toasty bed in our lovely new home. We are so happy that we chose Hugh and Sarah to help find and purchase our house. At every step in process they provided just the right touch, guiding us through what can be a daunting and draining process. Hugh and Sarah really take seriously the fiduciary duty of the professional -- putting their clients' interests above all else. Put more simply, Hugh and Sarah were kind, wonderful people, who were also tremendously competent. An unusual and winning combination. Hugh and Sarah were the best, and we look forward to using their services in the future!! -- Jane and Des

Description of Work: Home Purchase

Description of Work: Brokered real estate sale in Mar Vista, CA

Description of Work: Hugh assisted my husband and me in 6 months of house hunting, terminating in the purchase of a short sale property in West LA.

Description of Work: Pre-offer: Sent us broker's and Sunday open house listings, arranged for us to see houses that didn't have open houses, and answered our questions about the entire process Offer: Provided comps, advised us on offer strategy, got us information from the seller's agent's office, wrote the offer/counteroffers, gave us advice on "sweetening" our offer in a multiple offer situation

Description of Work: Researched listing, submitted offer with well-written, customized cover letter, followed up with counter offer, negotiated final offers and repair credits. Every step of the way, provided intelligent, unbiased suggestions and advice on the process.

Description of Work: They helped with he purchasing process of my home. The fee was one percentage of the purchased home.

Description of Work: Hugh represented me from start-to-brutal finish in buying a home in this short-sale, foreclosure environment.