Wells & Bennett Realtors

Through a friend, I was introduced to Elisa Uribe and Zhong Lei to start my new home hunt. They both did a wonderful job educating me and giving me the tools to embark on a successful, relatively stress-​free, first time home-​buyer house search.
Zhong spent a lot of time communicating with me and showing me houses and neighborhoods to help me narrow my search.
Due to the time crunch I was under, I ended my new home purchase with Elisa when Zhong was out of town. Elisa made sure I understood each step along the long paper trail, inspections and negotiations.
Zhong and Elisa make a superb team and I would not hesitate to partner with them next time around.
Well done ladies! I couldn’t be happier in my new home and neighborhood.

I have been leasing a commercial property from Wells & Bennett for the last ten years and I have to say Berry and Brett are extremely helpful, Specially Brett, Any time I need something to be done, he will make it happen. Of course things does not happen over night, unless it is a safety issue.
Keep up the good job.

I would have loved to give these folks a great review but, I CAN’T lie. My family and I found a listing from this company on
. We went down and saw it, needed a little work but decided to apply. We literally were a few minutes behind Teri, turning in our applications. Fast forward to today and I basically had to beg to know what was taking so long. I was then informed that someone else had gotten the property!!! WHY COULDN’T YOU JUST CALL AND SAY THAT!!! People may want to stop being so money hungry and be honest and upfront with applicants.

I sold my home in Crocker Highlands in January 2011 while living in Seattle, WA. Jeff Hilgert managed the sales process with expert care. He not only did all the «normal» things a realtor does but also went above and beyond — attending all the inspections, polling all realors that attended the brokers open/​open house and reporting back to me immediately. Jeff walked me through the process delicately, knowledgeably, and professionally.
Jeff not only earned his commission but my respect as well. I highly recommend Jeff to any one considering buying or selling real estate.

Thanks for the call Berry! I appreciate you calling and trying to make things right after the bad experience that I had with the leasing agent. It shows that you truely care and pride yourself on customer service. I hope to give it another shot if the situation presents itself in the future.

Heidi Kearsley is awesome. She helped me buy my first home in Davis. She even purchased a home warranty for us out of her own pocket. During the process, i was lost most of the time. She calmed me down and rationalize me throughout the whole process. With her help, I got the foreclosure place with a great deal. She is great. Pick her if you choose wells & Bennett.

I rented a property (Montclair area, very expensive) from them. They are completely unavailable when you need something, but nag and call constantly when they want something. They have lied to me, charged me for repairs that should have been the owner’s responsibility, lost a rent check that I mailed on time to their office, and threatened to charge me late fees (when the check turned up in someone’s briefcase they did not even acknowledge or apologize for falsely accusing me of paying the rent late). They are incompetent, and don’t even care. They will deduct $ from your cleaning deposit even if you leave the house spotless. In short, they will pick your pocket at every opportunity and treat you with total disrespect, and there is nothing you can do about it once you sign a lease. AVOID THEM IF POSSIBLE!!!

So I was going to purchase a home, but in the end I did not. However I have nothing but great things to say about Wells and Bennett and Heidi Kearsley. Heidi was sooo very helpful and knowledgeable. She took me to see many homes (and I saw quite a few, even those I knew I couldn’t afford) and was so very patient with me as I was a first time home buyer. She educated me on the home buying process as this all really new to me. She listened to what I wanted and clearly explained what could and could not happen. Although I didn’t get a home (due to the seller sfailure to do what they needed to do in a timely manner) I walked away feeling stronger in the process of home buying and like I have a friend in real estate.

With the addition of our daughter, my Fiancée and I decided to purchase our first home recently. We felt very good working with Patrick Nagel. He was extremely knowledgeable and aware of what it was we were in the market for. Patrick treated us with the utmost respect, and was a lot of fun to work worth. With time, we were able to locate our dream house! He is very professional, and a super nice guy. We received several listings at a time, and he (several times) went on his own time to narrow down our options. I HIGHLY recommend Patrick. He’s the best!

I called Nicolletta at wells and bennette when I was searching for a house for me and my girl friend, I have never in my life seen a realtor this helpful, she truly went above and beyond the call of duty, weeks if not months, she tried to find us a perfect opportunity where Brina and I could afford and be happy in it, alas, our loan never got approved for what we finally settled to purchase, throwing hundreds of hours of this woman in the drain, there were moments I thought she is gonna say F, K this, you guys are so not worthy of my time… but instead she became even closer to both me and my GF. Thank you Nicolletta, you will be the only agent ever for me and Brina.

I enlisted the help of Shaun Martin from Wells and Bennett because I was breaking my lease and needed a screening and lease set up. Originally tried to go through AMSI, which is who our landlady usually uses and man don’t even get me started on them. What a disaster! Thankfully, I got in touch with Shaun and she was amazing. Got everything done in under 2 business days– we were under some serious time constraints with everyone leaving on trips. She was extremely professional, helpful, and on the ball! I would highly recommend her for all your real estate needs!

What a disaster!!! I cannot even begin to list all the issues we had with our realtor at Wells and Bennett. But long story short she screwed up our closing so badly that it was two months late, costing us god knows how much extra rent after our expired contract. She missed a huge problem with all the paperwork and we are currently in litigation, soooo not what I need to deal with. Every piece of advice she gave us was a flop and anytime I stood my ground she got snappy with me and gave me the «I don’t know what else to do for you» Avoid this company for all you buying needs.

When we finished closing on our house, I turned to Stan and Sharon and told them they had spoiled me terribly. I’m used to the realtors that don’t really do their homework. The ones who think their job is about driving you around for a few weekends and then collecting their commission at the end.
The Hammonds sort of become your guardian angels. They check the guts of the house to determine if it’s built well, they give you lessons on venting and insulation, they refuse to let you buy a house if it’s too close to a fault line. I think other realtors saw us walking through at times and were wondering who was actually buying the house — Stan or I.
We were looking for a house from 2,000 miles away and can’t imagine it going well without them as realtors.

These people are shady. Avoid them at all costs.
We just bought a house listed by Mary Neuberger of Wells & Bennett. Turns out one of the shower pans was leaking from the get go after we moved in. Wasn’t caught by inspectors because they don’t water test shower pans above finished ceilings unless there’s staining. .. coincidently enough the room under the leaking shower was painted prior to going on the market. .. staining? Nah!
Barry Bennett, the broker and one of the owners «gets involved» and the only thing that comes of it is the absurd statement that this leak must have happened after the close of escrow and the first shower we took. .. 1 day. If you could see the severity of the leak (water is pouring, not dripping out), I think it would be obvious to anyone that this is not something that just started now.
Not to mention, prior to closing, we saw that the sellers and listing agents had a Pest Inspection where they deliberately asked the inspectors to not look at an outer stairway that has obvious rot and damage and needs to be replaced. Hoping a buyer wouldn’t notice this multi-​thousand dollar repair need? Luckily we did our own Pest Inspection.
That plus how they are handling the shower issue puts their entire company’s ethics in question, IMO. I know they don’t want to admit wrongdoing, but just split the costs or something and put it behind. Now we have to go hire an attorney.
Who knew replacing a shower was so expensive?!? Bleh!