“I Rode With Carlos Gutierrez. I Ain’t Got No Complaints.”

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“Hi, my name’s Paul Rudy.  For the past nine years this beautiful townhome has been my home.  I never, ever thought I would leave.  But then one day, on a luck, surfing through the MLS listings, I found a place in Ocean Beach and just like that, my life was about to change.  It all started with a phone call to my real estate friend, Carlos Gutierrez.  I said, ‘Carlos, I’ll sell this place, but for this specific number, this price, not a dollar less.  And this place in Ocean Beach; I’m interested in it.  But I am only going to pay this amount, not a dollar more.’  Perhaps the numbers weren’t reasonable.  The challenge was laid down.  My good friend, Carlos Gutierrez, accepted it.

“First Carlos checked out the place in Ocean Beach to make sure it was structurally sound and a reasonable investment.  And then the challenge became pretty clear:  we had to sell this property before someone bought the Ocean Beach property out from underneath me.  A: We made an offer.  The offer was accepted and the 17 day clock started ticking.  Now there were complications.  Keep in mind, this particular property is under litigation which makes the loan process for a new buyer all the more difficult.  Then throw in the glut of downtown properties and the fact that the economy is in the tank, and, pretty much, this looked like Mission Impossible.
 
“Day 1, my townhome was staged and photographed.  The fisheye lens making the old girl look as good as she ever has.  For any of you that have surfed the MLS listings, you know how important those pictures are.  So does Carlos.  He made the place look good and attractive.

“Day 2, the property was listed.  Mailers went out and Carlos hosted a broker only party.  And then also personally contacted every one of the top brokers in the downtown San Diego area, making them aware of my property and by day 3, the walk-thrus had started.  The hook was set.
 
“While perspective buyers were touring the property, Carlos’s team and associates hit the ground running.  A special mention has to go out to Jeannete Lizarraga, who handled my financing seemingly overnight.  And then Carlos’s Prudential teammate, Jaclyn Doelz, got the new place appraised and handled every one of my whimpering phone calls with a steady calm.
 
“By day 5, the first offers were coming in: Halleluja! But the first offers are always cash-only, low-ball offers.  They’re more annoyance than anything else.  But Carlos is a professional.  He counter-offered everything.  Folks, he had his hands full with the multiple counter-offers, but more importantly acting as a psychiatrist for me.  Buying a home is tough.  Buying and selling a home at the same time, tougher still.  Buying and selling a home quickly, like 17 days quickly, is downright gut-wrenching.  I can’t tell you how many nights ended with me on the phone to Carlos, him, talking me, off the ledge.
 
“Day 12, our sixth offer was a legitimate one.  The offer at the number we were asking.  But the buyer was out of the country and wanted to finance the purchase.  Now, how do you get overseas finances and a loan approved in the five days we had left?  Even worse, the seller in Ocean Beach wasn’t interested in extending our seven day window.  All seemed lost.
 
“And folks, this is why I think you should consider Carlos Gutierrez as your real estate broker.  In what could only be described as a real estate miracle, Carlos got the buyers at my place to come in all cash.  That’s pretty impressive: tough to do.  But more importantly, he arranged a face-to-face pow-wow with the seller in O.B.  Convincing, a rather stubborn seller, to give us just a little bit more time to close the deal.

“And the rest is history.  We sold the downtown condo for the exact price we intended to sell it for, what could only be described as ‘fair-market value.’  We bought this place for what can only be described as a ‘buyer-friendly price.’  In a bit of irony, we were actually ready to close this deal before the O.B. seller was; the O.B. seller who didn’t want to give us the extra time.
 
“In the end, Carlos set us up with people that made the process better: be it Jaclyn, be it Jeannete, be it the appraisal company, be it the escrow company, be it the moving van people.  We actually had to rent our own place back to us for a few days.  Carlos made that process happen, as well.  He made it happen professionally.  He made it happen quickly.  In the immortal words of the Outlaw Josey Wales, ‘I rode with Carlos Gutierrez.  I ain’t got no complaints.’  Neither will you.  If you have real estate needs, whether it be buying or selling, give him a call.  You won’t regret it.”