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Danielle Lazier - Zephyr Real Estate
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Category: Real Estate Agents [Edit]
Neighborhood: Noe Valley4040 24th Street
(between Noe St & Castro St)
San Francisco, CA 94114
(415) 695-8805
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13 reviews for Danielle Lazier - Zephyr Real Estate
In 2009, we set a goal as a family to finally leave the ranks of the renters and buy a home. After four months with our first Realtor, we realized that we needed to find someone with the experience and creativity necessary to find us a home in San Francisco. We found Danielle, and within two months we had closed escrow and moved into our new house.
Danielle applied her incredible knowledge, experience and creativity to our search for a home. She was able to recommend properties that we had not considered based on the needs we articulated, our price range and the still very competitive market in the City. We ended up buying a house she found and suggested we view.
Danielle and her team were fantastic. She provided mortgage broker recommendations, market research, and neighborhood listings and recommendations. She uses technology to provide an efficient, time-saving process for her customers. We signed documents online and transmitted a lot of information by email. As time is of the essence in a competitive market, it's very important not to be tied to a FAX machine or have to show up in person for every signing.
No only did we have all the tools we needed to make a decision about where to buy, but we got a huge amount of support. From the first offer on which we were outbid to the delays with the bank while in escrow, she was there with sound advice and pep talks. We couldn't have done it without her.
Danielle is a great agent to work with. The process of getting our first place in SF was a breeze with Danielle recommending lots of great options and then handling everything in an efficient and timely manner once we settled on a place. She's also friendly and makes a scary process easy. If you're considering buying, I would definitely recommend giving her a call to set up an initial meeting to see if you get along. It's important to work with some you trust and like when looking for a home, and Danielle was that person for my fiancee and I.
I can't say enough good things about Danielle. Danielle helped me and my husband buy our first house a few years ago and then helped us sell it 2 years later at a huge profit.
The buying process was a breeze with Danielle. We were really motivated, so we went to a lot of open houses on our own, but she also took us to look at countless houses after work and I was always happy to have her experienced perspective on homes we were considering. As first-timers, we were nervous and ignorant, but Danielle held our hands every step of the way. With Danielle's help, we were able to get the first home we bid on - I couldn't believe how easy it all was.
Two years later, when the market was just beginning to soften, we decided it was time to try to upgrade. We hired Danielle to help us sell our home and also spent a few weeks looking for a new house in San Francisco. Danielle spent hours taking us to look at houses after work, but we eventually realized we couldn't afford to upgrade within the city.
During this process, I always felt like Danielle was looking out for our best interests, not just trying to make a sale. After a few weeks, we were getting desperate and discouraged and the nastiest places started looking appealing to us. I remember looking at 3 houses in particular that my husband and I were interested in and Danielle quickly pointed out their flaws: one house had been inhabited by a smoker and the smell was absolutely oppressive and possibly permanent; in another house, Danielle pointed out that you could hear the TV loud and clear from next door in the middle of the day ( I work from home, so this would have been a nightmare); and the third was remodeled really cheaply and therefore not worth the price. It was clear that our happiness was more important to her than a sale.
We ended up buying a house in the East Bay with different realtors (at that point, Danielle wasn't as familiar with Oakland), but Danielle still represented us in the sale of our Bernal Heights home. This was right when the market was beginning to soften and it was definitely a buyer's market. Danielle helped us figure out how to fix up and stage our house for maximum profit. She had a professional photographer take photos and printed up beautiful flyers. She really understood the importance of marketing. Our buyers ended up being outrageously demanding, but Danielle worked tirelessly to help us get the best price possible and fielded the buyers' demands with the perfect mix of grace and steel. I don't know what we would have done without her.
I would highly recommend Danielle without any reservations.
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Buying a home for the first time is a very emotional endeavor. Danielle led my wife and I through the process with consistently helpful advice. After sitting down with both of us to make sure that we would work well together (both the buyer and the agent have to be on board!), we identified the areas of SF in which we wanted to live, and discussed what our ideal place would include.
Danielle sent us notes whenever a suitable listing came up, and within about a month we had found a place we wanted to make an offer on. At that point, we met with her and just went through all the documents in one evening. (After putting in the offer, she even negotiated an additional seller-paid inspection and added a contingency to address specific concerns about the unit.) Our emotional experience between our offer and closing was certainly trying (after all, buying a place is a huge decision!), but Danielle was able to help us see the situation in context, and help us leverage the situation to make a stronger offer.
Lastly, Danielle's recommendations for everything from a mortgage broker to a handy man were excellent... we use them to this day!
Danielle will definitely be the first person we call whenever we consider any new real estate transaction -- she's trustworthy, fun, and works really hard to ensure her clients become customers for life!
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I had been looking to buy my first loft for over 3 years, with another agent and by myself. Then was referred to Danielle - she was so great. I started out terrified and overwhelmed, but she was so patient and went through every step (many times...lol). I felt like I was her only client! I could be totally honest with her about my unique needs for my live/work space. And WE FOUND THE PERFECT LOFT! yay! She put in an offer, they accepted same day...now I have had the loft for 3 years. It has helped launch my career!
I just got a job offer in NY and contacted Danielle to see my options to sell or rent. Danielle spent the entire day with me, showing me similar lofts on the market in my area. Real estate isn't the best right now (aug 2008), I'm thankful that Danielle was so honest with me about what my loft could realistically sell for, etc. She told me the truth, rather than pumping me up with unrealistic expectations. Of course, it was hard to hear but thank gawd she was so honest. I really appreciate her help. And I'm so thankful that she took an entire day out to meet with me, see lofts & consult about my current loft...all this when she knew selling wasn't the best option now!
I decided to rent for now, wait for the market to come back up. I know Danielle will be there for me when I decide to sell, because....
DANIELLE LAZIER TOTALLY ROCKS!!!!
Thanks Danielle!!!
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Danielle has been a fantastic ally and a wonderful resource through several real estate transactions over the past six years. We have found her extremely personable, knowledgeable and professional even through some very difficult circumstances.
We found her through her website during our first home buying experience. She helped us understand what we could afford, what the process would be, and how to get in an offer that would be accepted. She's very knowledgeable of the San Francisco neighborhoods and the real estate market. Unlike the stereotypical agent who's only out for herself, we felt Danielle was honest, friendly (but not in a superficial way), and truly had our best interests in mind.
Years later when we sold that house and bought another, we didn't even think of going with anyone else. She helped us navigate a very contentious situation with a neighbor and got the house sold at a good price. Even though it was very stressful for us and very time consuming for her, she was constantly calm and cool-headed, and always had time for us. When we found a house that we absolutely loved, she helped us get it even though there were 13 other offers.
On top of all that, she has great relationships with other professionals in the area: lawyers, electricians, movers, stagers, etc. She's like a one-woman Yelp!
I just can't say enough good things about her! Feel free to contact me if you still have questions.
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There are several things that make Danielle a great realtor: her quick response time (she had me touring a house 3 hours after we chatted about it), her relationships with other realtors (the fact that she is respected by her peers speaks volumes and enables her to get responses to questions quickly), her knowledge (from the pros and cons of brick & mortar foundations to TIC contracts, she is an encyclopedia of information), and her industry connections (she can move you quickly through the process with her network of professional contacts) -- to name just a few.
But as a first time home buyer, what I think really makes Danielle the right realtor for me is that she "gets me." She listens and has an intuitive sense of what is right for me and what isn't. She is truly part therapist, part financial advisor, part sprint runner, and totally professional.
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My wife and I love Danielle. Perfect? No, of course not. But very very good at her job? Yes, indeed. I don't generally give out 5 stars (check my other reviews), so I hope that I convey with my 4-star rating that Danielle is among the best realtors in S.F.
She got us into our first home-- for a good price in a great neighborhood. She went through mountains of paperwork. She gave sage advice on many things related to home ownership, not just the purchase. She kept in close touch even afterwards, checking to make sure that things were going well. Perhaps best of all, Danielle is a calming influence -- I felt virtually no stress in what could or should have been a high-pressure situation.
I can understand that not everyone will have the same good experience -- in fact, I think a smart consumer owes it to themselves to check out 3-4 agents before committing to one. But you could certainly do worse than to see if Danielle's style meshes with yours.
It's not easy to describe in just a few paragraphs what a great real estate agent Danielle is. I have very high standards for professionalism and mastery of one's own domain and Danielle's performance has been spotless.
A few months ago, based on our own instincts as well as all the pundits forecasting a rare "buyer's market" in San Francisco, my fiancee and I decided to look and see if we could pull off our dream of homeownership in San Francisco. Having already done some reading about buying homes, it was clear to me how crucial working with the right real estate agent in all of this is. I wanted to find someone who is not only an expert in San Francisco real estate, but also youthful and well versed in modern technologies and would be easy and fun to work with. I came across Danielle through her blog, her website, her answers on Trulia, and other online reviews about her and was immediately impressed with her knowledge and enthusiasm.
Danielle was our trusted partner, from the very first consultation (to which she showed up with several binders of prepared material tailored to our situation) to recommending our excellent mortgage officer, to sending us two movie tickets when it seemed like we could use them, to the day we were holding the keys to our first home in our hands (along with -- of course! -- more nice and thoughtful gifts which I won't give away to her current and future clients).
We found our favorite property pretty early on, after seeing it during an open house. Danielle still took us to tour several others to see a good sample of what's available and in our range right now, but in the end we made an offer on our favorite house. We trusted Danielle's instincts and offered quite significantly below asking. She was right: our offer was accepted. The escrow process was dogged by difficulties caused by a seller who seemed bent on skimping on his responsibilities. This would be a recipe for a disaster, unless you have a great agent such as Danielle. Especially listening to some of our friends' stories about their RE agents, I shudder to think how incredibly different it all could have turned out. We could be living in a house that we bought at a higher price, and dealing with a leaky roof, cracked furnace, and last-minute changes made without permit. Or, in no house at all! But Danielle cut through all the crap and she fearlessly negotiated great deals for us, making sure our seller did everything he was supposed to do, the way he was supposed to (and we know, he tried not to!). Rest assured that with Danielle on your side, nobody is going to pull a fast one on you. Those friends I mentioned, have all meanwhile been supplied with Danielle's contact information, btw. :)
Danielle clearly has a passion for her job. Yet, equally importantly, beneath all this enthusiasm and love for real estate is a consummate professional and a tough (but fair) negotiator. Trust me, I speak from experience when I say that when the contents of the sewage pipe in your dream home hit the fan, you want Danielle on your team. She was truly an expert guide, comfortably ahead of every other player in the transaction, carefully guiding the process to its successful completion. Her communication was excellent. She educated us, anticipated obstacles and worries before we saw them, and also made us think about things we wouldn't have thought of otherwise, but are important nevertheless -- such as estate planning, for instance. Some crucial things were a breeze with her: when the time for inspections came, she already had her (very competent and thorough) inspectors lined up and out on the property with us within 48 hours. Still, during the entire process, she also truly made us feel like we were the ones in control. To be able to do all this is a very rare talent and also requires a lot of skill. Danielle's assistant Cici has been also very helpful and contributed to our success.
Kathleen and I highly recommend Danielle, and we know that we have found our real estate guide for life!
Friends of ours recommended Danielle to us and really, we owe them a lifetime of favors for it. I can't imagine anyone else helping us navigate through our first time home buy... and it was a very difficult one at that!
We'd put in 4 offers before we went into contract and were dealing with a lender who missed deadline after deadline. Danielle's ability to understand personalities and her diligence kept the sellers in the deal every step of the way, and in mid-July we moved into our new home in S.F.!
No bones about it - the girl worked her tail off for us and was always available to talk business (and "business" at times meant listening to us whine about how frustrated we were with our lender)! Danielle is always on the ball, responding to emails late at night or early in the morning. She absolutely made us feel like we were in completely capable hands and we felt she *always* had our best interests at heart. I think that has come across on a few of her reviews here. It's obvious she wants her clients to be happy and she will be brutally honest with them - even when they may not be happy to hear that honesty. TRUST HER, though... she's always looking out for you and makes it work in the end!
We are forever grateful to Danielle and will never work with anyone else for a real estate transaction. If she ever goes into retirement (blasphemy!) we will unfortunately have to drag her kicking and screaming out of it to work with us again. O:-D
P.S. - Sean M. made a great comment about Danielle being like a one-woman Yelp - it's so true!!! :-)
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Let me step up and say our experience with Danielle Lazier was pretty much the opposite of everything the Chuck M. described.
She sold our house for us in June-July of 2008. We initially contacted her a year prior, then took the interceding time to find our new place before putting our house in SF on the market. Still, she was very low pressure, not pushing us to get our place on the market, and she kept in contact periodically to see how we were coming on our own house hunt.
Once we were ready to list our house, she jumped to the task, creating a timeline for how things would progress once we were out, offering to-do lists and friendly nudges to keep us on track, arranged for a handyman to come in to take care of any blemishes in the property, and helped us find a painter as well as our moving company. She also was very clear about mapping out her strategy for selling the house, how it should be priced, and when to put it on the market.
After we moved out we were a little apprehensive as we were several hundred miles away, but Danielle took charge of getting the place ready, having it staged, and arranging for some last-minute repairs that cropped up. Also, she was very proactive about keeping us informed as to what was going on, and answered all of our calls promptly.
Well, long story short, she nailed it. Things worked just as she said they would. We had a ton of interest, both on broker tour and when the house was open to the public, and many showings in between. We got multiple offers (which in this market is no longer the norm that it was several years ago) and ended up accepting one from a well qualified buyer that was well over our asking price. Escrow went without a hitch and we closed slightly more than a month after the place first went on the market. We were thrilled and are very happy we went with her as our representative.
I can't speak to Chuck's experience, but suffice to say ours was nothing like that, and I would recommend Danielle to anyone to help them buy or sell a home--and in fact, we have!! (As an aside, I think Chuck should have mentioned earlier in his review that it occurred five years ago, rather than burying it in the last sentence.)
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In September of last year I took a job in a town about three hours drive from San Francisco...tried to do the back and forth thing, but by December it was obvious: my husband and I needed to relocate. This was a life changing decision in and of itself, but complicated by the fact that we were facing either renting out our San Francisco home (even though neither of us really wanted to be landlords) or selling it in what was perhaps the worst market for sellers in decades...
We decided to sell, but were very apprehensive. Next step was to find a really good Realtor, as we were going to need a whole lot of help to make our decision happen! I went on the internet, and after a bit of research came up with several names, including Danielle's. Of the several realtors we interviewed, Danielle was clearly the best prepared: she came to our first interview with personalized information about the market, comparable prices for houses like ours, and more. The other realtors we interviewed were nice, but not even a tenth as prepared! Indeed, one of the other realtors asked my husband and me how much we'd like to get for our home, and I remember thinking to myself, "well, of course I'd LIKE to get a million dollars, but those days are gone: I was hoping you'd tell me what you think it is worth and why". Danielle did give us her recommendation as to listing price, and most importantly, the reasons for the recommendation (with plenty of research and information to back it up): It was then that I knew: Danielle was the right choice for us!
We moved out in January, and then took a few weeks to paint, re-do the floors, and get the house 'spiffed up' for sale. We told Danielle that we were on a budget, and she gave excellent advice about where to spend money and where not to during the preparation process, and then went the extra mile to get us bids from contractors within our budget. She and her team (especially her very capable assistant Cici English) did an excellent job of managing the work and making sure that everything was done right; a very important role since it was tough to deal with while living several hours away. The end results were very impressive: my adult son told me he didn't even recognize the house once it was ready to sell, and hubby wistfully wished that someone could do a similar makeover for him personally!
Bottom line: we listed the house in mid-February of 2009, and within a week we had two offers, both for over asking! The offer we accepted came in on my birthday; talk about a wonderful birthday present! In my opinion, Danielle nailed the suggested listing price. Even in my daydreams, I didn't imagine the process going as smoothly as it did.
I cannot stress enough the difference that Danielle's attention to detail, computer savyness, assertiveness in representing our interests, knowledge of the overall market and micro-markets in San Francisco, and marketing strategies made in the sale of our home. Moreover, she and Cici both kept us calm during the inevitable bumps in the road (though, to be honest, even the bumps seemed very minor thanks to their professional demeanor).
We are now only a few days from closing escrow in SF, and in the process of buying a home here in our new town. We love our new home-to-be, but do have one regret: we wish it wasn't too far away to make it practical for Danielle to be our realtor here as well. Our new realtor is doing a fine job, but every once in a while hubby and I look at each other and sigh, " XXX(Insert New Realtor's Name Here) is ok, but she is no Danielle". I think "He or She is a Danielle" may become our new code words for "He or She is the best".
When I say Danielle is the BEST, I mean it! I give her my absolute highest recommendation, and wouldn't dream of using any team but hers for a SF Bay Area real estate transaction.
Danielle Lazier was my realtor for my current home in SF, and she helped make the process very smooth and easy. I described what I wanted in broad strokes, she helped narrow it down, and knew enough about the homes on the market to know which ones were most likely to appeal to me. I saw a bunch of places (at my request) but sure enough, I decided on one of the handful she thought would be best for me. I'm currently happy here, plan to stay a while longer, and when I decide to sell I'll give Danielle a call.
