What a few of our clients are saying …

My family and I recently enlisted the services of David and Mischa Montagna in our search for a new home, which we are delighted to have recently purchased. Purchasing a home is always a grueling process but David and Mischa are truly remarkable professionals with great integrity. Both are wonderfully easy to work with - friendly, ethical and extremely competent - with plenty of savvy about the local market, people, and what it takes to make a real estate transaction come off with ease. Throughout the process they kept my wife and I well informed and prepared with facts. Both never failed to be available, responding to our questions and concerns immediately, and always in a positive and upbeat manner.

The service David and Mischa provided far exceeded our expectations. My wife and I highly recommend them to anyone requiring a REALTOR® in our area, either buying or selling, and would certainly choose them again for any future real estate transaction or even any advice on the subject we may require.

Barry V
Los Gatos
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David Montagna was the listing agent when I put my house on the market. David was energetic, focused, knowledgeable, and personable.

When we were losing our gumption getting the house cleaned up, David pitched in both physically and as a manager. He arranged for clean up crews and handymen to take care of the myriad details of getting the place ready. When we were staring at the detritus in the basement, David came to the rescue, helping us to put everything into the correct piles, organizing for the handyman, and helping to haul stuff up and out.

The review of the offers itself was intimidating. David kept the process moving along, and was able to simplify the data to make the choice easy. It would have been very easy at the last moment to have missed the most valuable offer without his attention.

The property was priced aggressively, but not so much that is scared off potential buyers. David understands the neighborhood and the city of Los Gatos quite well, and had an excellent feel for the marketing effort. His website was professional, and showed the house off well.

Finally, David is a terrific person, both friendly and intelligent. He was an excellent agent, and I would recommend him to anyone.

Michael F
Los Gatos / Menlo Park

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My daughter and son-in-law were looking for a house to buy in central VA and their realtor had not been very helpful through a year of searching! Mischa, although he is headquartered in CA, called and interviewed central VA realtors until he found one that, he said, "works the way I do." His pick did a GREAT job. When they saw a house they wanted she was very actively on their side, thinking of angles to bring the price down to what they could afford. Mischa did our family a great service!

Nancy M
Maryland / Virginia

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To prospective buyers and sellers of real estate,

It is my great pleasure to recommend David Montagna to you as your real estate agent

I recently completed the purchase of a home. It had been 20 years since I had purchased a house and, as such, was in many ways a first time buyer. I needed to familiarize myself with both the market and the process of purchasing a home.

I was looking for a property in Santa Cruz County that would balance competing needs of location, style, size and price. I happen to be an engineer and wanted as much information as I could get my hands on. David met this need in an exemplary manner.

I had an initial set of goals for the purchase. With some initial input from me David started me on the process of finding what was available and what appropriate pricing was. I wanted to do some initial neighborhood familiarization on my own. He supplied me with listings and maps that made this work smoothly. When I was ready to view some of them he accommodated my time constraints. He kept his eye out for properties coming on to the market that he thought might meet my needs. When I decided on a property he worked with me on a good strategy for making an offer. (To my consternation it was a multiple offer situation!). And our offer was accepted!

Every purchase has its special issues. In my case I was purchasing a home in a rural part of Santa Cruz County. I wanted to understand the neighborhood, what utilities were available, what easements were in effect, where the property lines lay, etc. David researched all this and much more. He put me in touch with all the professionals needed to complete the purchase. The amount of time and effort David invested on my purchase still impresses me.

Purchasing a home is stressful, especially in these times of multiple offers. David made this process as smooth as I can imagine it could have been. If I need to buy or sell again in the future I will call him immediately.

And I love my new home!

Most appreciatively,

Charles B
Mountain View / Boulder Creek
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Genius! That’s what you get when you cross an electrical engineer with a REALTOR®, and that’s the perfect description of David Montagna. Of course David is only half the complex equation. His son Mischa, an outstanding young man, completes the team. And what a team they make! Much like a tag team approach to wrestling, with David in the field scrutinizing properties and Mischa available to search the Internet for information about the properties, this team works for you.

David and Mischa exemplify two important qualities necessary in a REALTOR® engaged in the search for your new home. Accessibility and persistence. Accessibility is David’s middle name. He is available by phone or email anytime of the day or night. There’s never a problem getting a hold of David and his responsiveness to your questions is impressive. He is quick and he is accurate. Mischa often serves as researcher, incorporating the marvels of technology and the Internet for mining information in a hurry.

And the good news is, these are two of the nicest guys around. I enjoyed working with them and relied on their knowledge of the various neighborhoods, properties and general market conditions. They knew the properties we looked at, having previewed them on their own so as to not waste my time, and their judgment about the properties was right on.

I recommend David and Mischa Montagna without reservation and I thank them for the impressive work they did for me. I am the proud owner of a new home.

Portor G
Redwood City / Campbell
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David Montagna provided us with first-rate real estate expertise and terrific follow through.  He helped us sell our house in a short time period, to a reliable buyer, for a great price.

David educated us about the market, about pricing our house correctly, about "staging" our home, about choosing the right buyer, and about keeping our sanity throughout the process.  He's excellent with numbers, people and organization.   He was fun to work with and took care of many details so that the sale was as easy as possible for us.  David takes the extra steps, ranging from scheduling house cleaning to providing moving van information.

David Montagna offers time, care, and professional talent to his lucky clients.  He sold our house in less than a week for more than the asking price.  We'd hire him again and again!

Carrie and Kevin S
Saratoga / San Diego
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David went way beyond our expectations when we told him we wanted to put our house on the market. There was a lot that we had to do before we could put up a sign and let anybody in to look around. David gave us clear and concise instructions on how to stage the property to its best advantage. When our energy seemed to flag, he was there to revive us. He checked with us nearly every day to ensure we were not forgetting anything. The result was a great offer within two weeks, one we couldn’t afford to refuse. David consistently went the extra mile, including tracking down boxes for our move, getting the inspection and repair people, and just providing moral support. Even at closing, he dug out the fact that we lived in Campbell, not San Jose, which saved us (and the buyer) over $1000 in San Jose fees. Thanks, David, for many years of friendship and a superb business relationship; you are the consummate professional.

Mary and Mike R
San Jose / San Diego
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We came from out of state, just passing through while falling in love with a dream community. We were looking for a second home. One stop at a real estate office to meet David, review our needs, receive outstanding advise and we left the area. Several weeks later we received a call from David who said he’d found the place. It met all our needs. David took care of everything, leaving us just the tasks necessary to sign and move in. Of course, after a year we eventually changed our list of needs and David found another place that fit those needs and again, took care of everything including selling the first place. We’ve referred David to others who have been equally cared for. David takes real estate to a new plateau.

Jeff & Sue C
Seattle / Los Gatos
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