Lorin has an excellent knowledge of every aspect of buying and selling a home. Her personal commitment to her clients is amazing. She is extremely responsive and her negotiation skills are excellent. We can't thank Lorin enough for helping us navigate both the purchase of our home years ago and now the sale of that home. We would highly recommend Lorin to our friends.
Lorin was wonderful as she guided us through the process of finding a new location that suited us, found just the right place, and made all of the back and forth in buying it very smooth. Her response time through phone, email, texts, in person never missed a beat. In addition she provided us with many excellent referrals for inspections, painters, carpenters, plumbers, electrical, etc. This is our third home purchase over a few years and I would always choose to work with Lorin should it come up again. Right now, we have the perfect place thanks to her and her team!
I have worked with Lorin Ruttenberg and Erica Lockhart on multiple transactions over the past few years -- both buying and selling. Every experience has been fantastic. Lorin and Erica are consummate professionals -- knowledgeable, organized, efficient, and dedicated to their work. They know how to get things done and whom to call (inspectors, tradesmen, mortgage brokers and lenders, etc.); they address all the details of inspections, appraisals, showings, staging, negotiations – in short, truly full-service. And on top of all that, they are delightful people and great fun to work with. I recommend them highly to both buyers and sellers and will certainly use them again.
We absolutely loved working with Lorin and the entire Ahead of the Curve Team. They were always reachable when we had questions and went above and beyond caring for our home (and us) since we moved out before we put our Baldwin Vista house on the market. Lorin facilitated a number of contractors to paint and refinish the floors, even to do plumbing and electrical work to satisfy our escrow agreements and I never worried for a moment about how any of this was conducted. She had it covered. No problem. Lorin was trustworthy, professional, gave us sound and very correct advice throughout the process and we were so so lucky to work with her. Look no further, honestly. Lorin and her team are the best.
This was our second time time working with Lorin on selling our home and both times she has gone above and beyond to make the process as smooth and enjoyable as possible. She is extremely warm and personable but also a straight shooter and a consummate professional. Lorin's knowledge, hard work, and great communications skills always made us feel confident that we were in great hands. I highly recommend Lorin (together with Erica and the rest of their team) to anyone who is looking to sell their home!
"Lorin and Erica are a great team and made the entire staging, photography, listing and sales process as easy as possible. It is extremely reassuring to work with such experienced professionals who have deep knowledge of the Baldwin Hills neighborhood. I would strongly recommend Lorin and team for any residential real estate projects."
"Lorin is incredibly knowledgable, authentic, and helpful. I just closed my first home with her and my buying journey was beyond seamless, smooth and pleasant. First, her knowledge of Los Angeles neighborhoods is fantastic. She gave me an in-depth history of the area with all the pros and cons in an authentic way (she does not try to make things seem better than they are, but just shares facts, which I very much appreciate). Lorin also truly cares about people and communities, which comes through in the way she works. She is extremely "to-the-point" and did a fantastic job representing me on my home purchase. She also guided me through the loan process, which I know is out the scope of realtors. Lorin goes above and beyond to help. Overall, she made my experience buying my house a fantastic one. I highly recommend her services."
Throughout the entire process of selling a home(which can be daunting), you want to feel confident that you are making the right decisions and taking the necessary steps to make the transaction go smoothly. Lorin always made us confident with her knowledge of the neighborhood, the current market, and her overall expertise with the numerous ins and outs of real estate regulations and requirements. The results: we were able to close pretty much on our terms and sell above asking price!
Lorin and the team at Ahead of the Curve Homes have helped us find not one, but two great homes in the last few years for our family. One for lease, and one for purchase. Lorin finds a way to make the search for a home fun and stress free. Lorin was able to take our wish list and style, and show us a variety of locations while using her knowledge and expertise to explain the value in each. Lorin and team went above and beyond for us in the inspection and repair phase sending us recommendations for vendors that were extremely useful. We love Lorin and team and would recommend them to anyone looking for their next home.
I was a first-time home buyer with some strong feelings about what I wanted. Lorin was patient, but also really good at getting me to see what I could, and should, be more flexible about. As it turns out, she found my house when she was out door-knocking, so I was able to get in before it went on the market. Her knowledge of the area is fantastic and it's clear she loves the community.
I think we had the easiest purchase experience imaginable and a large part of that was because of Lorin and her team. Lorin was so attentive, helpful, communicative and efficient as we went through the buying process. She also had great advice for me as a first time buyer in LA which I really needed. I also really appreciated all the people that she connected us to for termite tenting, plumbing, etc - all exceptional. She herself is great to work with and her circle of connections in LA also makes the experience exceptional. We absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE our new home and am so appreciative that as home buys can go, ours was really painless thanks to Lorin.
Erica and her partner Lorin helped us market and sell our house. This included staging it: they hired someone they knew to stage it excellently. We followed their advice on pricing & strategy, and they correctly predicted what would happen. Both women did an excellent job of listening to & respecting what we wanted through the whole process from beginning to end. They know the local market well; the fact that they lived nearby was very helpful as we moved out of the house to another state before the house went on the market. We would strongly recommend their services to a friend and use them again if we still lived in the area.
