Amy Cimetta-RE/MAX Estate Properties

For the purchase of our amazing home in the South Bay, we worked with Amy for 6 months. She is the best.
Here is what working with Amy was like: she consistently asked great questions and listened to us describe what we wanted. She helped us clarify our price range, preferred neighborhoods, and desired home type. Where we were unsure, she listened closely and patiently, and she honored our perspectives.
Together, we looked at many homes and Amy was always available, dependable, organized, and responsive. We eventually found a fixer-​upper in the perfect neighborhood. Drawing on her knowledge of the area, her professional experience, and a great cast of inspectors and contractors, Amy helped us uncover every problem with the house. She made hundreds (literally) of calls and sent hundreds of emails in the process. She helped us tally a realistic cost (with repairs) of the home. Her work in these areas certainly exceeded our expectations and allowed us to know exactly what we were getting into.
As we negotiated the price of the house with the seller, Amy skillfully used the cost of needed repairs to our advantage. Her work in this area was masterful and we are very grateful that we had Amy by our side.
She is a also great person. Warm, funny, and thoughtful. She genuinely cares about people, and she worked hard to produce an excellent result for everyone involved. We thoroughly enjoyed working with her, and we recommend her without hesitation.

As good as they get, Amy is the consummate professional and an expert in the SouthBay market with a clear focus on what’s best for our family. Five Stars without hesitation.

I am very grateful that my sister and I, out-​of-​town sellers at two separate locations, met Amy, who helped us through a very long and complicated process of a Probate Sale of a condo. Amy is the ultimate role-​model of professionalism. She gets to know you and finds out your goals and will be there every step of the way; sharing her precious gift of time, presence, expert knowledge, wisdom, patience, resourcefulness, perseverance, her compassionate/​caring big heart, and hard work. She has a Can-​Do attitude and guided my sister and me through a long road, fraught with challenges and stumbling blocks. She helped us find a buyer who would appreciate the place as we have, and sell the condo at a much higher price than what we had expected.
Because of the remaining lease of our tenants and the court’s requirements, it took us eight months to sign a listing agreement. Throughout those long months, Amy was there for us in spite of not having a listing agreement. She interacted with and supported the tenants. She took the initiative to get quotes and worked with me and the HOA to embark on and complete a long-​overdue building maintenance project that was a source of potential buyers’ concern. Above all, she carried out the usual tasks of sellers such as determining how best to fix/​improve the unit, picking out the ‘right’ material/​color/​style, engaging a contractor and overseeing the project. Once the unit was listed, she took time to meet prospective buyers and their realtors to explain the Probate Sale process and our goals (i.e., to provide a clean blank canvas to allow a buyer to move in and create a home with his/​her/​their personal improvements, find a buyer who would appreciate and enjoy the home for a long time). She used her networking and people skills to quickly identify multiple buyers, who truly wanted the unit and made offers above listing price, and subsequently competed over the unit. After delays and waits that come with a Probate Sale, the sale confirmation court hearing resulted in even higher price than the original price we had accepted.
Amy carried us through so many challenges, listening to us and reminding us that all would work out as long as we kept hope and did things right for prospective buyers. We are so grateful to have had her guide us through this difficult project with the best possible result.

If you want to be represented by the best, then call Amy Cimetta, because she’s the absolute best there is in the South Bay. We first met Amy at a Redondo Beach open house (she had the listing) shortly after beginning our home search. She even gave us an awesome swag-​bag at the open house, but that wasn’t the reason we wanted to work with her. We decided to engage Amy because she was friendly, professional, knowledgeable, patient and, most importantly, did not pressure us at any point throughout our search. Amy took time to carefully explain the many intricacies that come with a search, negotiating and then making an offer, signing a purchase contract and seeing the transaction through to closing. Amy was also extremely generous with her time, and spent countless weekends shuttling us around to various showings, while also accommodating both our work schedules and new-​parent duties during the week by taking late-​night calls to review listings and our obligations once we were in escrow. We absolutely recommend Amy for all of your real estate needs in the South Bay and beyond, and are grateful to her for helping our growing family get into our first home!

I met Amy at an open house she hosted and eventually had her represent us in our home purchase. It was a difficult, 6 month process but Amy stuck with us and in the end helped us secure our first home.
Positives:
+Knows Redondo Beach extremely well. This is one of the reasons we choose to work with her. The neighborhood is pretty small and having a broker who is in the «club» helps a lot.
+Is excellent working behind the scenes coordinating with others: mortgage bankers, appraisers, escrow. This was particularly important for us because our purchase was a probate and had a few extra hoops to jump through.
+Has a great network of contractors to help with repairs.
+Is good at estimating the market. We made several offers that were ultimately not accepted– working in Finance, I have a hard time offering more money than someone is asking. Each time, Amy’s suggested bid was pretty close to the final sales price. On the final house, we went with Amy’s suggestion and the bid was accepted. While our bid was over asking price, we 1) avoided a second counter offer round and 2) had the sellers accept several repair requests including a new roof. These repairs when added onto the asking price exceeded our accepted bid by about $ 5K. In short, following Amy’s bid strategy paid many dividends.
Should we need to buy another house, we’d likely ask for her help again.

Amy Cimetta’s personal statement says, «dedicated to exceeding client expectations,» and she did exactly that with me.
Generously working on her own time, she coordinated an in-​depth and comprehensive apartment search for me. She took my many requests in stride, and offered me countless valuable points of advice throughout the process. Amy quickly developed a feel for exactly what I was looking for, and it really felt like we were on the same page with what I wanted in a residence.
I had dealt with multiple realtors prior to meeting Amy, and none of them seemed to genuinely care the way that she does. She constantly surprised me with courtesy and kindness, and her skills and experience were instrumental in securing me my dream place within a very tight window of time. I truly could not have accomplished any of it without her.
Consider yourself lucky to have stumbled upon this Unilocal posting. She’ll find exactly what you are looking for.

We met Amy at an open house early in our months long look for a new house.
We liked the house but continued to look, not yet ready for an agent, and met many along the way.
We kept Amy’s card. She stuck me as honest, to the point, no pressure, but well informed and experienced .
When we found THE HOUSE, we called Amy .
In her case, first impressions were spot on. She was incredibly helpful and knowledgable. Responsive to questions and made the whole process less overwhelming .
I would heartily recommend Amy without reservation for any real estate transaction .
Finding Amy is like finding a great mechanic or dentist, MD etc .
What a relief to find competence without question and as well as easy to work with demeanor.
JoAnn Noonan

In the sea of agents that cover the South Bay, we were so fortunate to find Amy. She recently helped us sell rental property. From the beginning, Amy was extremely helpful by educating us on our options and the market. The pricing strategy she implemented materialized just as designed. The offer we received a day after it was listed was well above the comps. Amy did an amazing job working with the appraiser to ensure he was aware of all the unique features of the property, which helped to justify the selling price. Most importantly, Amy always had immediate follow through and was excellent communicating throughout the process. We would recommend Amy to everyone!

We hired Amy to help us find and purchase a new home in the South Bay area of LA (we ended up buying in Torrance). She was recommended to us by friends who also had a superb experience with her in the purchase of their home in Redondo Beach. From the first time we met Amy, she has always been super professional, knowledgeable, hard working, personable and always has the best interests of the client in mind. She is patient, gives objective advice and you will never feel any pressure. She is very thorough and, in addition to all of the negotiation, paperwork, etc. related to the purchase, she went out of her way to help us with anything else we needed to ensure we had a pleasant experience and enjoyed our new home. This continued throughout the deal and, even after the deal, she has followed up periodically to make sure everything is OK. She is a tireless worker, very responsive and will make herself available late nights and weekends to get the job done.
Bottom line is we feel Amy Cimetta is a «10», would absolutely recommend her to anyone looking for a home in the South Bay and look forward to working with her again in the future

I have worked with Amy Cimetta for more than four years, providing financing for her clients in their real estate transactions. In over 20 years as a mortgage originator, I have rarely come across a Realtor with such knowledge, passion, and caring about her business and her clients.
Amy makes my job easier. She keeps the transactions running smoothly with her efficient project management skills, and her ability to keep her clients focused, invested and motivated. Her deals close on time or early with few problems because she adheres to deadlines and anticipates issues, finding solutions before a transaction can be derailed. The end result is an extremely positive client experience which has ultimately led to repeat business for myself and Wells Fargo.
I recommend Amy emphatically. Her clients can always count on her expertise before, during and after the transaction. She is a world class Realtor.
— Cyrus Shargh, NMLSR ID 448 552, Branch Manager, Private Mortgage Banking, Wells Fargo

It took me and my husband sixteen months to find our dream home. Amy patiently guided us through the process with a positive and hopeful attitude. She was able to help us see not just the structure on a lot, but what the potential could be. Amy was always available to meet us at properties and was flexible with our busy schedules. As first time buyers, we were filled with lots of emotion. The closing process produced much anxiety and Amy was always available to talk to us and help ease our minds. Amy is a very knowledgeable and experienced professional. If you are buying a home, Amy is the Realtor to choose.

At the end of 2011, it became clear to me that my first house was no longer a sound financial investment. This was distressing news made much easier with the help of Amy Cimetta who remained a bright light through this ordeal.
Throughout the entire process, from learning about the differences between short sale and foreclosure to the closing, Amy was prepared, informed and responsive. Amy’s intelligence and social skills were obvious assets. Amy was gracious and prompt in all of her communications, both with me and with lenders, buyers and workers. She defines professionalism.
If you’re looking to work with someone who is extremely able, intelligent, dependable and compassionate, hire Amy. Through months of negotiations, she kept me informed and served as a wonderful advocate. It gave me tremendous peace of mind to have her on my side. I would work with her again in a heartbeat.

Amy Cimetta is THEE BEST around… Hands Down! Not only does she put in work for her clients, she builds a relationship with them and gets to know their wants, needs, likes and dislikes. She is very personable and knowledgeable. Being that this was my first purchase, I found the process to be extremely tedious and time consuming. Amy went above and beyond the call of duty for us. Without her, I do not know that we would have made it all the through the process. I could not have asked for a better agent. Any questions, concerns, doubts, etc., we may have had, Amy always had an answer, resolution and/​or an honest answer/​opinion. If at any time we became frustrated, Amy was right there to listen, advise and «talk us off the ledge.» There was never a point where I felt as if she attempted to just «sell us a house.» With every property we looked at (and there were plenty), we never felt as if she was attempting to just put us in a house for the «sell.» Amy wanted us to be sure we Loved the house and due to the relationship we were able to build with her, she could at times determine if we really loved a house or were «trying» to love it. She went above and beyond to ensure the process went as smoothly as possibly. When we ran into any «hiccups» they most definitely were not on Amy’s behalf and she made sure to smooth them out in an expedient and professional manner. We look forward to getting fully settled in our new home and having Amy over for dinner. After all of her hard work, that is the Least we can do for her. Should we ever find ourselves wanting to sell our house and/​or buy another, there is no doubt as to who our agent will be… AMY CIMETTA! THANK YOU SO MUCH, AMY!