Marisa Atamian – Alain Pinel Realtors

I really enjoyed working with Marisa. She is very savvy with how homes and built and what upgrades are worth while. Marisa is also very good with researching a lot of different factors such as schools, neighborhoods, and investments that will best fit your needs. And most of all Marisa is a lot of fun to work with

Marisa is AMAZING! Whether you’re asking her to find your dream home or getting help with comps in your area, she dedicates herself to providing you the best possible service. She’s smart, experienced, thoughtful and a shrewd negotiator. You will not regret retaining Marisa to help accomplish your real estate goals. She will listen intently to your wishes and then make it happen.

I feel very confident giving Marisa a five-​starred review. She was amazingly professional, attentive to our desires and concerns, always available for on site visits as well as looong coast-​to-​coast telephone conversations. Interestingly, we ended up not buying a house through her services because of an opportunity that arose through a friend in a different location. However, she was extremely gracious throughout the process, and I can say that our move to California would have been infinitely more complicated without her selfless help and professionalism.
Even if our relationship did not end in a purchase, Marisa, I know we will be looking forward to your help when a need for a new house arises, or when a friend asks us for a good realtor.*****

When it comes to real estate, Marisa Atamian is the professional’s professional! She is smart, organized, thorough, resourceful, loyal, honest, nice and always has her client’s best interest in mind. Over the last couple of years, Marisa has given us sound investment property and mortgage advice. I highly recommend Marisa for your real estate needs — you won’t regret it.

I had the pleasure and honor of working with Ms. Marisa Atamian to purchase my first home. First of all, I should mention that I am a super-​picky and super-​organized person with very high expectations from myself as well as others in everything, and I do admit that working with me is not an easy task at all, in general.
I believe one of the most important virtues that a Real Estate Agent should posses is patience, for obvious reasons. Without a doubt, Marisa proved to be very (very!) patient! She had a plan of action for everything imaginable. We started the house-​hunting process by Marisa taking me to various neighborhoods that would be good fits to all the criteria (and limitations) I had in choosing my «sanctuary.» She clearly explained advantages and drawbacks of homes in various neighborhoods in terms of their physical conditions and compromises one should consider in each case, which were certainly educational for a novice like me.
After we settled down for a few neighborhoods that we were going to target (among them were North Berkeley and Montclair neighborhoods in Oakland), our weekly and super-​fun tours of the houses commenced; three to five houses each week. Marisa would masterfully coordinate with the seller or the selling agent to tour the properties outside of the public viewing time slots. We would spend a good half-​hour (and sometimes even more) at each property exploring every single nuke and corner discussing and comparing it with other properties we had seen before. What was truly amazing with Marisa, was the fact that she recorded almost every single word that came out of my mouth and every single face expression I made during our discussions. She would put all those pieces of «information» together and would make realistic and very precise conclusions about my taste, expectations, and likings. That was amazing!
After several months of searching and looking into (literally) hundreds of properties (and eating sour cherries!) we settled down on a property in Montclair — I call it home now — and it was time to write the offer and start the escrow process. I have no idea how I could survive the process without Marisa’s management skills and her great relationships with the financial institutions, top-​notch trades people for inspection of the property, her efficient communication with the seller and his agent, on and on. All I can do is to be grateful for all she did for me over the months we spent on this very important and big project.
We sat down and Marisa patiently (no surprise!) explained all the steps and procedures we had to follow during the escrow: Offer, counter-​offer, start of escrow, inspection, loan, final negotiations, etc. All I did was to follow Marisa’s instructions and recommendations and everything seemed so effortless to me. Effortless because I had Marisa as the Grand Commander and she took care of every single detail. All I had to do was to sign the papers and write checks! Isn’t it what CEOs do?! For a month, at least, I felt like a CEO!
I don’t think that I would be any luckier and more fortunate than having Marisa on my side helping me find my Sanctuary. I thank you Marisa for being so organized, skilled, connected with the best of the breed in the real estate business, and for being so pleasant to work with. I look forward to starting another similar project with her in a near future. I hope she does too…