Tustin · North Tustin · Irvine · Orange County
A boutique residential brokerage on El Camino Real. Thirty-nine combined years in these six towns, and a record you can check line by line.
The record
Escrow, start to close
Negotiated for a seller who needed to move fast, at $180,000 over the listing price.
In under a week
On a rental property, closed inside thirty days.
Combined in residential real estate
Across three licensed agents, all of them local.
The year Sue started
After qualifying as a CPA and controlling the books for a Southern California homebuilder.
Five-star verified reviews on Zillow
Their own published count, earned one transaction at a time.
Past results describe past transactions. They are not a promise about yours, and we will tell you honestly what we think your property can do.
How we work
Most arrive at one of these and end up doing two of them with us over the years. That is rather the point.
For buyers
A needs analysis before a single showing, finances in order so you arrive as a serious contender, and a data-driven offer that holds up under scrutiny. Seven stages, and we are beside you at each.
The buying process
For sellers
A real comparative market analysis rather than an automated guess, then stagers, photographers, window washers and contractors who make the house worth the asking price before anybody walks through it.
The selling process
Quietly
Some homes should not be advertised, and some buyers would rather not bid against forty strangers. We run an off-market lane for both. One client credits it with their forever home.
Off-market listings
Before it goes live
Most of the price is made before the first open house. This is the part sellers rarely see described.
01
The first twelve feet decide the showing. Hedges cut back, the drive clean, the number legible from a slow-moving car. We walk it the way a buyer will, then the way an appraiser will.
02
Photography is booked for the hour this elevation actually gets sun, not whenever the calendar had a gap. Our stagers, photographers and window washers finish before the camera arrives, never after.
03
In Orange County the garden is a room and buyers price it like one. Planting, shade, and where you would actually sit in August all belong in the listing, not just the square footage.
04
Buyers are choosing neighbours and a school run as much as a floor plan. We call the local buyer's agents who already have someone looking for exactly this block. That is the step most listings skip.
Where we work
Erin grew up in North Tustin. Wendy is a third-generation local who went to Foothill High and came back to raise her children here. Sue has worked these streets since 1991. Local knowledge is either earned over decades or it is a claim on a website.
Who you actually work with
Founder | Broker Associate · DRE #01110196
In real estate since 1991, and a certified public accountant before that.
Sue built her reputation on going the distance and guiding clients toward choices that build wealth. She was routinely named among the top ten agents at her former Newport Beach brokerage, and she has represented everyone from first-time buyers in the starter market to investors and buyers of upper-tier property.
Realtor · DRE #00971257
Grew up in North Tustin. Married to a local homebuilder.
Erin came to real estate from a successful career in advertising sales, and she brought the discipline with her. Hard work, honesty and living up to her word are the values she names, and buyers, sellers and investors across North Tustin, Tustin, Irvine and Orange have made her reputation for her.
Broker Associate · DRE #01996248
A third generation Tustin local, with new-home sales and appraisal behind her.
Wendy grew up in North Tustin and moved back with her husband to raise their two children here. She is a Foothill High School graduate and a UCLA alumna, and she is genuinely well versed in the schools, the preschools, the parks and the restaurants, because they are hers.
In their words
Erin and Sue bring such a terrific business sense and down to earth perspective to the home selling process, it is amazing! We needed to sell our home fast, and Erin and Sue delivered for us in spades by negotiating a 7 day escrow at $180,000 over our listing price! And their team of stagers, photographers, window washers and contractors are all top notch.
Erin and Sue are truly the best of the best, as well as an absolute pleasure to work with. Their guidance, support, know-how, and killer intuition helped us secure our forever home off-market, and, on the flip slide, made selling our previous home a truly seamless and hassle-free experience.
Sue and Erin rank among the most exceptional residential real estate agents I've had the opportunity to work with. With over two decades as a commercial real estate agent myself, I appreciate the knowledge, persistence and experience required to steer any transaction through an exceptional result for the client.
Sue and Erin are the best. Always available!! knowledgeable and SMART negotiators. They do their homework and will help you to strategize in this crazy market. Have known Sue for 30 years and she has helped us with multiple transactions from first home to even advise on an out of state purchase!
Straight answers
Since 1991
No obligation, no pressure, and no automated estimate pretending to be a valuation. Just three agents who have been selling in these six towns for thirty-nine combined years.
Sur West Homes, 2913 El Camino Real #105, Tustin, CA 92782.
Broker-of-Record Hilary Saunders, Side, Inc.
Corporate License No. 02014153. Equal Housing Opportunity.
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