Client Reviews

Catherine and I would again like to thank you for your tremendous work in selling our CdM home and helping us purchase a new home in Newport Beach. In an uncharted economy and facing horrific comparable sales (including short-sales), your team professionally marketed our home, generated significant interest, solicited multiple bids for our property, and ultimately sold our home for a price that met our goals.
It was a pleasure to work with you, and we remain thoroughly impressed by your highly personal and exceedingly professional approach.

Matt and Catherine Anderson, Newport Beach

Getting the most out of our real estate investment was crucial – and challenging in this market. Michelle and Eliisa worked very effectively to get us 99.6% of our asking price.

Hoby and Alanna Darling, Newport Beach

Corona Del Mar is a very unique market and your team has an incredible depth of knowledge and understanding of the market. This proved to be value in so many ways.  When dealing with brokers and buyers, you were able to authoritatively educate them, to my advantage, on pricing, physical condition of properties, neighborhood and other issues.  Your experience and business savvy proved to be invaluable in accomplishing a sale in a difficult and changing market. You took a level-headed and evidence-based approach to the market, helped us stage our home, and followed through faithfully on everything that you promised.  I took great comfort and confidence in aligning myself with your team and wish you continued well-earned success.

Clay H., Newport Beach

Michelle and Eliisa searched for a year to locate the perfect home for us. We truly appreciate their persistence and professionalism. We are confident we chose the best agents!

Ray and Kathy Fidel, Phoenix AZ and Corona del Mar

After searching for my dream home with no success, I met Eliisa and Michelle at an open house and within 24 hours they showed me a pocket listing that perfectly suited my criteria. They have the connections in this market to best meet a buyer’s needs.

Mario Marovic, Corona del Mar

The Brown And Stowell team were incredibly helpful, patient and professional in every aspect of my home search, which lasted well over a year. They not only negotiated a great price, but they also found a qualified tenant for my existing home in just 48 hours. You won’t find a more qualified, hardworking team.

Roger Feldman, Laguna Beach and Corona del Mar

Bianca has a wealth of knowledge and was always willing to go the extra mile.  I could not have asked for a better agent or a better company.  I will work with the Brown And Stowell team on any and all future home purchases.  They are exceptional.  

Jennifer B., Newport Beach

Michelle and Eliisa are her associates are a pleasure to work with!  Easy to talk to, good listeners, easy to contact, and always prompt at returning calls and answering our questions. Best of all, they are realtors that strive to meet your goals rather than their own.
We absolutely recommend them to anyone looking to buy or sell a home.

Lauren and John, Newport Beach

The Brown And Stowell team were wonderful in helping us relocate to southern California.  The research they provided for us prior to our house-hunting trips made the time we spent with them very productive, and after only two visits, they found us the perfect home.

David and Marci Paul, Portola Hills

Eliisa and Michelle were wonderful in helping us make the relocation to southern California. They did a fabulous job in taking the time to get to know us and the needs of our family. The research they provided for us prior to our house-hunting trips made the time we spent with them very productive and we were able to cover a lot of ground and see several homes and areas.

This information also educated us and gave us a real feel for what we were looking for and helped us as we narrowed in our search. We greatly appreciated their flexibility in scheduling chunks of time with us for house-hunting expeditions since we were flying in from out-of-state. We know it was not always convenient for them and we very much appreciated their willingness to work around our tight schedule.

They are a very professional duo and quite knowledgeable about the housing market in Orange County. They were both so responsive and wonderful at finding answers to all of our questions and wise to give us space when we needed it and advice when we asked for it.

>David and Marci Paul

Eliisa and Michelle were incredibly helpful, patient and professional in every aspect of my home search, which lasted well over a year. They not only helped me purchase my dream house and negotiate a great price, but they then found me extremely qualified tenants for my condo within 48 hours and handled every aspect of the transaction. You won’t find a more qualified, hardworking team than Eliisa and Michelle.

>Roger Feldman, Laguna Beach

Eliisa and Michelle,

Catherine and I would again like to thank you for your tremendous work in selling our CdM home and helping us to buy a new home in Newport Beach. In an uncharted economy and facing horrific comparables (including short-sales), your team was able to professionally market our home, generate significant interest, solicit multiple bids for our property, and ultimately sell our home for a price that met our goals. We were impressed by your frequent and straight forward communication that enabled us to make smart decisions quickly. On the buy-side, your team did a great job of educating us on the market, you found multiple listings (on and off the MLS), and helped us to narrow the search and bidding process down to a single home that we purchased for a great value.

It was a pleasure to work with you, and we remain thoroughly impressed by the highly personal and exceedingly professional approach that you took as our representative. The results speak for themselves as we continue to see wonderful properties (our old comps) on the market that have not yet sold while we settle into our new home.

Thank you.
Matt and Catherine Anderson

Getting the most out of our real estate investment was crucial – and challenging in this market. Michelle and Eliisa worked very effectively to get us 99.6% of our asking price.

>Hoby and Alanna Darling, Corona Del Mar

There are many agents to choose from, but Michelle and Eliisa’s marketing and sales experience far outperforms any agent, and therefore, they get the final rose!

>Chris Harrison – Host, The Bachelor and The Bachelorette

Michelle and Eliisa searched for a year to locate the perfect home for us. We truly appreciate their persistence and professionalism. We are confident we chose the best agents!

>Ray and Kathy Fidel – Corona Del Mar, CA & Phoenix, AZ

After searching for my dream home with no success, I met Eliisa and Michelle at an open house and within 24 hours they showed me a pocket listing that perfectly suited my criteria. They have the connections in this market to best meet a buyer’s needs.

>Mario Marovic, Corona del Mar and Newport Beach Business Owner

I was very pleased and impressed with the real estate team I worked with during the sale and purchase of our homes in Corona del Mar. Both Michelle and Eliisa were incredibly professional, congenial and hard working. Their follow-through was excellent, and they navigated us through the long process, remaining calm at all times. We felt confident representing us, as they were both level headed and logical during the negotiation process. They continued to offer their assistance with various issues, even after the close of both escrows.

>Tim and Kim Donahue, Corona del Mar

I would recommend the Brown and Stowell team to others based on the following:

1. Corona Del Mar is a unique market and you have an incredible depth of knowledge and understanding of the market. This proved to be of value in a number of ways. For example, when dealing with brokers and buyers outside the market you were able to authoritatively educate them, to my advantage, on pricing, physical condition of properties, neighborhood and other issues.

2. Your experience and business savvy proved to be invaluable in accomplishing a sale in a difficult and changing market. You took a level-headed and evidence-based approach to the market and sales process that gave me great confidence in your team and the advice that you were giving me. You were also willing to re-evaluate your strategies and recommendations as market conditions changed.

3. Again in a difficult market, you were steadfast in your focus on selling my home. Due to your relationships, you were not only able to offer me strategies, such as staging my home and freshening its look, but also able to introduce me to vendors that offered exceptional value and convenience.

4. You followed through faithfully on everything that you said you would do. The sales process is inherently uncertain, but I took great comfort and confidence in knowing that I was aligned with my sales team and could rely upon your word.

Again, thank you for doing a terrific job for me and I wish you continued well-earned success.

Clay H.

I first found Surterre Properties when my family was interested in investing in a residential triplex about two years ago. I quickly got a response from a member of the Surterre group, Eliisa Stowell, who was very helpful and courteous and we set up an appointment for that weekend. At the time I was looking at investment properties for my family to purchase. After all the excitement, I thought maybe I will just by my own house! I reached back out Surterre at which time I met with Bianca Avila. My experience with Bianca has been one of the most pleasant home buying experiences I could ever ask for. She answered every single question I had, did so quickly and did so with a smile. Bianca had a worth of knowledge and helped me understand the current market conditions market, helped me select the best houses based on what I was looking for and always was willing to go the extra mile to ensure I had a pleasant experience.

I honestly can say that I don’t think I could have asked for a better agent and I will continue to use Surterre for any and all of my future home purchases including when my family decides to invest again. Surterre has proven to have vast knowledge of the market, provided me with unparallel and exceptional service and made my home buying experience the easiest I could have possibly imagined! I highly recommend Surterre Properties for any seller or buyer who is looking to have great agents who will work hard on your behalf to ensure you get what you want out of a property.

Thank you,

Jennifer B.

In all transactions Michelle and Eliisa were organized, thorough, and personable. They offered us an objective viewpoint on each house we toured, thereby helping us with our decisions. We found them to be knowledgeable about aspects of realty that surpassed just the legalities of buying and selling properties, and furthermore we were consistently impressed by their willingness to research questions they couldn’t answer right away. They were always expedient in returning our calls, searching for properties, and setting up tours.

As a team, they are a pleasure to work with! Easy to talk to, good listeners, easy to contact, and always prompt at returning our calls or answering our questions. Best of all, they are realtors that strive to meet your goals rather than their own.

I absolutely recommend Michelle and Eliisa to anybody looking to buy or sell a home

Kind regards,
Lauren and John

August 10, 2011

Shari and John Mikulka
1120 White Sails Way
Corona del Mar, CA 92625

To Whom It May Concern:

I am writing to recommend the services of Michelle Brown and Eliisa Stowell of Surterre
Properties. Our first meeting was on January 8, 2011 to discuss the sale of our home in
CDM and from that day forward they impressed us on a daily basis.

From day one they were organized, proactive, efficient, passionate and always prepared
to help us sell our home quickly for the best price possible. They are experts in the CDM
and Newport Beach market. Michelle was our main point person but they are a team and
that flexibility really works.

They gave us “staging” advice because they know what appeals to buyers. We had
received advice from another Real Estate team to pour quite a bit of money into our
property before we put it on the market but Michelle & Eliisa felt that wasn’t necessary
and they were correct. Michelle and Eliisa are very strong negotiators and within about
a 2 week period helped us find the right buyer for our unusual property. We closed on
our sale before the end of March and they also negotiated from the new buyer a very fair
lease back price for us. They go above and beyond and work extremely hard– 7 days a
week.

Michelle and Eliisa spent a good deal of time showing us property to find our
replacement home. They are well connected so they seem to get first shot at looking at
houses before they officially come on the market. They found us our “Dream Home” and
it was well priced so we found ourselves in a bidding war for the property. They were
able to negotiate us into the first position on the house and we moved in on June 3, 2011.
We are in love with our new home and plan on spending many years to come in this
house.

John & I are happy to recommend Michelle Brown and Eliisa Stowell wholeheartedly.
Good luck and you’re in the right hands!

>Shari Mikulka