Denisen moved heaven and earth to find us our dream home! She was a joy to work with, super responsive, very prompt, and the perfect mixture of encouraging and pragmatic when assessing the homes that we toured. We couldn't be happier with her and the process!
Denisen found us our dream home in just a couple of weeks! She was super responsive, always prompt, and moved heaven and earth to get us to an early offer and a quick closing. She was a perfect blend of encouraging and pragmatic when evaluating the homes we looked at and was able to provide detailed and specific knowledge about different neighborhoods, school districts, and developments as we weighed the different factors. Her help was invaluable and we couldn't be happier with her and the process.
My husband Jamie and I recently came into a condominium through the passing of his father. It was quickly decided by us that it would not be an ideal place for us to settle down and we decided to sell and use the proceeds to buy a home. Now, neither one of us has ever sold or owned any property, so to say it seemed like a daunting task was the understatement of the century! Luckily for us, Jamie was able to find Denisen Hartlove on Yelp. When I say that neither of us had any idea what we were doing and needed our hands held throughout the entire process, I mean it. Thank God for Denisen! Not only did she hold our hands throughout the entire process, she never had a single problem doing it for the entirety of us working together. She is endlessly patient, kind, available (when she says you can contact her anytime you have any questions of concerns, she means it!), friendly, funny, and insanely knowledgeable about things we never would have even thought of. Even if you are hands off and clueless like us, she will make sure that you know what is happening every step of the way and will never leave you in the dark. She has contacts and insider knowledge throughout every facet of the home buying and selling process and is happy to pass them all on to her clients. She also advocated for us every step of the way and make us feel that she genuinely cared about what happened to us and where we would live. Needless to say, she sold our condo for the price we were hoping for and helped us to find and successfully purchase our dream home! I honestly don't know what we would have done without Denisen. I can't imagine going through this process with any other realtor and we will be recommending her to everyone that we come across. Working with Denisen would be the best decision you could make for your future and you can quote me on that.
I hired Denisen to sell my home quickly and for top dollar. She fulfilled my objectives by helping us accept an offer that came in on the first day on market for well in excess of our asking price. Mission accomplished! Thanks Denisen!
Denisen is a great realtor. My wife and I had a great time finding a home with her. She was by our side through the entire process. Denisen showed us a lot of hokes to find the perfect house and we found it. She is a joy to work with I would recommend her to anyone needing a realtor for anything.
As a real estate broker, I have worked with many real estate professionals. When my wife and I decided to sell our Clayton home, we chose Denisen Hartlove because of her local market knowledge and her "can do" attitude. We were also impressed with her expertise in staging, marketing and legal matters (she previously worked as a paralegal). Denisen's customer service orientation and attention to detail exceeded our expectations. She handled our transaction flawlessly and stayed in touch with us every step of the way. I would highly recommend Denisen Hartlove when you're ready to buy or sell a home in the East Bay!
Denisen is knowledgeable, helpful, and just a pleasure to work with. She is super responsive to emails and calls, and has professional resources to assist with making your home look as good as possible. I couldn't have asked for a better experience with selling my home. Seriously, if you need a realtor, Denisen is the way to go.
Denisen is a great realtor and just a pleasure to work with. I was a first time seller, having bought my place a decade and a half earlier, and she walked me through the process and helped me understand every step. She responds to emails super quick and clearly knows what she's talking about. I couldn't have asked for a better experience with selling my home. Seriously, if you need a realtor, Denisen is the way to go.
She was a pleasure to deal with and worked really hard to help us get our house onto the market. She was able to get us a great deal and the house sold super quick! I will definitely recommend her to anyone I know.
By the time I found Denisen I'd been through three lenders, two realtors who clearly didn't have the time for me, and a sea of unreturned calls to other realtors. I was looking to buy my first home, in November, with a small down payment - I was a less than ideal client. None the less I kept searching and during my digging on home buying apps I kept coming across great reviews for Denisen. Assuming she wouldn't return my call, I left her a message anyways and later that day she called me back...and my life was forever changed - seriously. Within a month of working with Denisen I figured out what neighborhood in Concord I wanted to live in, found the perfect lender (thanks to her), and was in escrow for my very first home (under asking price and with a closing credit btw!). Denisen was with me every step of the way. From day one she listened to what I needed, what questions I had, and most importantly, made herself available every step of the way. When I met her I wasn't exactly sure where I wanted to live but I knew what I didn't like - she asked the right questions and made great suggestions that helped guide me towards my own decision. She also put up with me playing realtor in my free time (aka texting her everyday with a "what about this house?" message). Once I found the home I wanted was when the real business and panic set in. Denisen stayed by my side and was a huge support during my most panicked of times, answering my questions and if she didn't know the answer she found someone who did. Denisen is smart, sharp, warm and one a helluva real estate agent. If you're even THINKING of buying a home, especially your first, give her a call. Thanks D!
My wife and I first met Denisen at an open house she was showing. Granted I was eves dropping but Denisen was talking to a perspective buyer and her candidness and honesty about the neighborhood was really refreshing. Denisen is a go, go, go person and she will always be honest, she listens to your wants, and is very good at pointing out neighborhoods and houses that for your criteria. She thinks outside the box and will see what your boundaries are, rather than just trying to sell you on something you can’t afford and maybe not what you really want. When my wife and I would bring up a house in a neighborhood that was outside our normal search Denisen was alway happy to take us on a tour, she advised us to look up the neighborhood stats such as crime to make sure we were make an informed decision. Denisen always had our back and she was able to grease the skids when needed. All that being sad, Denisen is also a very kind and warm person. We would highly recommend Denisen for the purchase or sale of your home.
When I first started looking into buying a house, I assumed I wouldn’t need a real estate agent, because much like encyclopedias and travel agents, I figured the Internet had just killed them all off. But it quickly became apparent that trying to buy a house in the Bay Area is singularly miserable, because you’re always competing with someone who owns a tech company or an oil field or whatever people own in China and so home sellers look at your pathetic offers and are all like HAHA WTF IS A MORTGAGE PLEASE GO AWAY. So, I needed help. I contacted Denisen via her Web form based on her glowing Yelp reviews, and she called me literally 45 seconds later; by the next week she had already spent hours showing me properties, even though she could probably tell from my shoes that I had no money. In fact, she spent so much time with me that I honestly wondered if she had any other clients (she did). Anyway, long story short, I finally had an offer accepted on a great place and it was, amazingly, not the highest offer. I wish I could say it was because of my heartfelt letter to the seller, but I’m mostly sure it wasn’t because I was too lazy and never wrote it. I really couldn’t have done it without Denisen, and even after closing she followed up on some items that I should have received but did not. Above all, she really cared about finding me a place that was a good fit for me, no matter how long it took. I’m glad I contacted her, and I’m sure you will too.
