Michael Paris

Dear Mike & Michelle,As you know, we continue to settle into our new home in South Carolina. We have been here for about a month now and keep reminding ourselves to send you this note. As we look back on the experience of selling our Sierra Madre home, and then moving across country in such a short time frame, we think of you as probably the most important player in making it happen so successfully. Starting with our initial meeting we realized that we were so fortunate to have connected with such a wonderful human being. The combination of your professional style and personal character is incredible. Your level of sincerity, organization and competence are, in our opinion, beyond comparison. We are sure you well remember our hesitancy with some of your recommendations, but we were quick to learn that you simply get it right on all aspects of the project. You held our hand through the difficult process of the completion of the home inspection, keeping us focused and assured that everything would work out. We also recall your immediate responsiveness to phone calls or emails and your coming over at sometimes awkward times to discuss issues, rearrange furniture or hang pictures. We could go on, but the story is obvious -- you got the job done with our complete satisfaction. We were blessed to have Mike Paris & Michelle Chen Paris, help us to achieve the kickoff of our retirement plan.Please feel free to share this letter with others, including prospective clients. We will also be happy to talk with anyone on the phone.Mike, we wish you and your family all the best in the future. We hope to see you on one of our future visits to California.

After an extremely discouraging experience with another agent, I researched successful agents in my immediate area and fortunately discovered Mike and Michelle Paris. At our first meeting, I recognized their professional and dedicated approach to selling real estate. While marketing my home, Mike secured excellent advertising, held numerous well-attended open houses, and was available to answer questions that might arise in the process. By the time we were in negotiations with the buyer, my initial positive impressions were reinforced many times over. If Mike said that he was going to do something, he did it. And, he did it well. His business sense is solid. His manner is personable. His integrity is without question. What more could an anxious seller in a difficult market hope to find in a real estate agent? Absolutely nothing. I commend Mike and Michelle for their excellent work selling my home and, without reservation, recommend them to anyone considering buying or selling a home.

Thank you Mike & Michelle !You will be getting a high recommendation from me, especially because: When this project turned from a rehab to a re-model job, you were key in contributing & coordinating design requirements with the finish contractor & architect, given the peculiarities of that canyon. Way before it was marketable (bare see-through studs), you were a calming but authoritative voice about what the property needed and didn't need, to optimize it's value. Including doing leg work with the building department, coordinating with my Architect & Engineer. Marketing aggressively at the caravans, and soliciting feedback from other realtors, and reporting results to me on a weekly basis.Tailoring my advertising requirements list to that area. During the offer/counter offer process, whenever I had difficult choices to make you had all the alternatives spelled out, and the necessary paperwork in my email. While interleaving the revisits by building inspectors, and starts & stops by the various utilities. I'm recalling a 2 month ordeal where the electric company was telling us it is connected, while the street cables were not even strung, the inspector communicating it is approved, the cables go in, It gets signed off, then the meter disappears. Another inspector wants the ground rod moved down the hill. When you ultimately stepped into that to get the lights & heat on for showing the house, the Final Inspection Card in your hands, the current buyer was getting rejected by their mortgage company on their first go-round. The current buyer was unhappy that the house was being shown, and went to the 1st open house anonymously. Your wonderful people skills made a huge difference in moving me persuasively & tactfully to act when I had to make a myriad of "challenging" immediate decisions. When I say "challenging", you always had the solution, provided nearly in lock-step with recommendations from my mentors.

Mike Paris sold my father's house in Sierra Madre in 2005 and performed so impressively, I engaged him to sell my own house in Sierra Madre in December 2010 as well. Mike spent considerable time and effort to research the values of both houses very thoroughly and recommended a price for both of them that I felt was appropriate from the beginning. My father's house sold very quickly in 2005 and was purchased by persons from the Los Angeles area, which demonstrated the far reaching advertisement resources he utilized as a member of Coldwell Banker's Realty group. Mike also was able to find a buyer for my own home late last year in just a couple weeks as well and was very helpful in settling on an appropriate price despite a very down market and a slow time of the year. In both instances Mike (and his wife as well in the case of the sale of my own house), demonstrated superb capability, knowledge and wisdom in every step of the way. He provided me with his frank advice and demonstrated his expertise in negotiations with prospective buyers. I was always impressed that he was so energetic and on top of every detail of both sales and every aspect of both sales took place with incredible smoothness and quickness. I don't know how anyone could ask for a more capable and knowledgeable team than Mike and Michelle Paris.

Dear Mike,Thank you for all you did to help us sell our home. We had two difficult experiences with previous realtors and were quite leery about the prospect of working with another one. From the first day we felt comfortable with you -- your ethics, knowledge, willingness to listen and your commitment to helping us sell our home.I, Patti, especially want to thank you for holding my hand through inspection and ensuing repair process. It was an incredibly difficult time for me and it was so reassuring to know that you were willing to climb into the attic, get on top of the roof, and even bring in the trash cans on days I just just couldn't get home to do it!While the home selling process is not easy, your involvement certainly made it much more tolerable. And what better evidence of your professionalism and success than the fact that our home sold! Thank you. We have already recommended you to a friend who is moving. Please feel free to have your potential clients contact us for a referral.

Please find attached the subject letter of recommendation. You did a great job for us and we really appreciated the effort you put into the sales procedure. Much success in your career.Dear Mike & Michelle: We are finally getting settled here in Texas and slowly things are starting to fall in a routine. Thinking back to the sale of our home in Sierra Madre, we would like to let you know how well we thought you handled the whole procedure with all the details. It was done in a business like and pleasant manner. You stuck to your plan and it worked out perfectly. Thanks so much, Mike.

Dear Mike:Today is the closing on the house you sold for me in Sierra Mader CA, and I feel so fortunate in having made so many correct decisions, the greatest of which was listing with you.I had a number of difficult problems in the sale of my house in Sierra Madre, California when I lived in New Mexico and had legal problems to deal with first. My local attorney suggested I should list with a responsible realtor located near my property. I had received approximately 50 contacts from realtors to sell my house. Most realtors had submitted numerous offers, which made the problem more difficult. Yours, Mike, was clear and concise with only two contacts.I chose yours and immediately asked if you had a lawyer with which you dealt. You did and I accepted your recommendation and we were off to a good start. You have kept me constantly informed and helped me make many minor decisions about the sale. I still find it difficult to believe you took your own power washer and washed the accumulation of dust from the outside walls. I could never have asked for more consideration from any broker. I shall look forward to the opportunity to heartily recommend you to anyone who has a house to sell even if there are difficult side problems.I am so happy to say thanks and to understand how you can proudly report Multi-millions in sales.

Dear Mike,Today my mother's home closes escrow, and I wanted to let you know how much my sister and I appreciated the way you handled the sale of her home in Sierra Madre. First of all you managed to get us an amazing price, $25,000.00 over the listing price, and the sale went quickley even though tthe townhouse went on the market over the holidays. You were extremely helpful in handling many extra details. Perhaps even more important to my sister and me is the fact that you were sensitive to the grief and sadness we were going througt over the loss of our mother. Selling her long-time home meant painful finality for us, and you clearly understood the care she had put into it. You were kind, calm, reassuring, and very patient with all of our tears. Your calm professionalism made this painful time much more bearable than we had thought possible. We are very glad that we chose you to be the agent to sell our beloved mother's home. Thank you again for all your work and helpfulness.

Thanks again for being such a great realtor and newfound friend. Without your help we would have never been able to close the deal on either end of the transaction. Your professionalism and 'can-do' attitude was great. You made all the right moves to ensure a smooth transaction in a declining market, and facilitate our multiple levels step up purchase in Sierra Madre. You kept our spirits up when we had to back out of several deals due to our buyers backing out. You kept us focused on our purchasing goals and ultimately helped us close on our purchase of a really awesome historic house at a great deal. Your solid advice, strong drive, and genuine caring exemplified what we were looking for in an agent. We are extremely pleased with our purchase and your services. The house is everything we wanted and a fine example of historic Sierra Madre.

Dear Mike, Kris and I wanted to thank you again for all your efforts in helping us find our Sierra Madre dream house. We really appreciated the fact that early on you were willing to help us find a rental property if the right house did not come along. We thought it was going to require a lot of driving around over the course of a year but you helped us find it over just two house-hunting trips. Your experience and prep time certainly played important roles. Also, your suggestion to use Larry Butler as a lending broker was a good one as we structured the financing quickly and in a way to meet our short-term needs. We would certainly be happy to recommend you to anyone buying or selling a home.

To whom it may concern:It is my pleasure to recommend Michael Paris and Michele Chen, a husband and wife real estate sales team with Coldwell Banker in Arcadia, who sold our Trust's San Marino home at 440 Winthrop Rd. for $1,563,000 within five days of listing it. Additionally, we had a firm back up offer that was also reassuring. Michael's attention to detail was outstanding (he and Michele even watered the potted plants while the house was in escrow). His quick responsiveness to my questions was always appreciated and enabled a smooth and timely close. They knew the San Marino market and kept me up to date all the time.It is my pleasure to recommend this great real estate team.

[ link omitted ] reviewHow likely are you to recommend this agent?Highly LikelyRate agent on specific characteristicsLocal knowledge: 5 starsProcess expertise: 5 starsResponsiveness: 5 starsNegotiation skills: 5 starsSummary of their experienceMike & Michelle Paris were a pleasure to work with, got offer on home first day it was on market and handled entire transaction without a flaw. Mr.Paris took extra steps to bring un-told amounts of paperwork to our home for signatures, un-heard these days. The Paris's also assisted us locating our dream house out of state and assisted us, in- person, dealing with the out-of- state agents. Outstanding representatives of Coldwell Bankers.

Mike Paris:I want to say Thank you so very much for your outstanding service!When we started, we did not have any idea, who would be the right person to help us in our home search, back in March of 2013.To begin, I did a search on the web and you came recommended to me as a consummate professional! I am always a little suspicious of these things but I had little else to go on.So, we exchanged many emails and it was a long time before we meet. I imagine you were wondering if we were really for real.Before we even meet, you worked with Amy on that small farm property and kept us in the running down to the wire. That in itself was impressive as you guided Amy along the way.What impressed me the most was your trustworthiness, skill and demeanor, I felt you put Amy at ease and were able to convey her as a worthy candidate to potential sellers.And I could tell that you were not there just to make a sale, but to find the right property, one that would fit Amys needs and be in a safe neighborhood.We both know that today the market is very dynamic, right now and I was beginning to wonder if finding something for Amy was at all possible.But with the grace of God, and you as our guide, it happened!In the end, I had to count on you countless times on your experience and professionalism in getting the job done. I couldnt be there at times and you filled in for me.You made suggestions and really scrubbed the property for me. You were my right hand man!Mike, we could not have done this without you.Mike, its not often in life that one encounters someone of your caliber, but we are both very, very grateful.The house is ideal for Amy, and meets my highest expectations.Tomorrow she moves in!WOW! THANY YOU VERY MUCH!

Dear Mike,We have just finished the first week in our new home, and now that the dust has settled a bit, we wanted to extend our thanks to you as our realtor.Mike, we were most satisfied with your efforts on our behalf. Your knowledge of the market resulted in our receiving a price for our home that was substantially higher than the asking price another realtor had suggested to us, and our house sold in just three weeks. You were courteous and professional with every encounter, and we appreciated your personal integrity. Your promptness in returning calls was excellent. You kept in constant communication with us, which was all the more remarkable because while selling our house your wife gave birth to your first child, and then had an appendectomy shortly thereafter. Throughout those personal events your commitment to us never wavered. We found that quite impressive.It was a great pleasure working together with you, Mike. We would be happy to give a good word on your behalf to others interested in having you serve as their realtor.

Dear Mike & MichelleWe are settling in our new home slowly but surely.This has been an incredible time in our lives and we want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all your guidance and stellar experience in selling our (beloved) townhouse. You sold our home in record time! We never expected you to pull off such a feat in such a questionable economy. Not only did you sell our home so quickly, but you chose solid, qualified buyers who really expedited the closing process. Mike- Your experience and guidance were solid all the way through. You negotiated everything on our behalf as if the sale was your own. Michelle- your demeanor and communication skills are second to none. Your personality is delightful! We enjoyed meeting your awesome son John. You are not just a super team, your a super family! Thank you again for everything- it was an experience well never forget. You both were super and well always be grateful for your excellent assistance and sound counsel. Please feel free to have your clients contact us for a reference. Wed love to tell others about your skills and exceptional knowledge- well never forget this experience and how you helped make our move back to Illinois a reality for us.Blessings,

Re: Letter of RecommendationTo Whom It May Concern: I met Mike Paris in 2003 at which time he coordinated the purchase of my first home. Four years later, I again called upon Mike to help me sell my home and purchase a new one. Little of this process would turn out to be routine and the ultimate successful outcome would not have occurred had it not been for Mikes vast knowledge of real estate procedures. Based on Mikes market analysis, we strategically priced my condo in such a way as to garner an immediate, above list-price offer. At the same time, Mike helped me find a new property. We began concurrent escrows and Mike worked out the details so that we could complete concurrent closings. However, the buyer of my condo inexplicably back-out, forcing me to cancel my offer on the new property. Fortunately, Mike had already begun working on another offer on my condo at full list price, but the property I had initially wanted sold to another. Recognizing the need for timeliness, Mike arranged for viewings of every several properties, probably about 30 homes total. I eventually found the home I wanted, and thats when Mikes expertise really became evident. Not only was he successful in coordinating concurrent closings, but he was able to do this within an extremely short escrow period something like 10 days. Moreover, Mike helped negotiate a below-list-price deal on my new home. I presently live in a beautiful home and feel that I received the best outcome in both the sale of my condo and the purchase of my new home. I would estimate that Mike and I talked no less than three times a day throughout all of this. He was always available to field my sometimes rudimentary questions and explained things in terms I understood. I highly recommend Mike Paris to anyone invested in receiving quality service. He is straight forward, honest, and knowledgeable. He knows what he is doing in a field seemingly inundated with novice realtors more concerned about their bottom line than their clients best interest

455 N. MICHILLINDA, LOWER HASTINGS RANCH, PASADENAHi Mike thanks for the updates thanks for all you did to prepare the house for sale and bring it to a successful sale my sisters and I are very appreciative of your efforts and counsel:-)) To whom it may concern: I employed Mike Paris & Michelle Chen Paris of Coldwell Banker as my realtor to assist in the sale of my deceased fathers home, in the Lower Hastings Ranch neighborhood of Pasadena spring of 2010. I interviewed several realtors and was impressed with Mikes knowledge of the area and his overall energy, professionalism, and attention to detail.Mike was a huge help to me as I live 30 miles away and he handled a number of the small but necessary items needed to get the home ready for sale and to ultimate closure. He is a very good communicator and kept me well informed of all issues, offers and the status of all negotiations as they progressed with several parties. His intimate knowledge of the city of Pasadena requirements proved very helpful and he dealt with all inspection, occupancy, and closing requirements in a timely and complete manner.Mike knows his markets and his business very well and I would recommend you strongly consider him to assist you with the sale of any property.Feel free to call me directly at 310-453-7303 if you have any specific questions.

Dear Mike,Diana and I wanted to give you our sincere thanks and provide you with a referral letter so that future potential clients can understand what a terrific Realtor you are.Diana and I were in desperate need of a home upgrade due to family additions since the purchase of our first home. Mike quickly developed a specific plan to help us get our home in good condition to sell, developed an aggressive marketing plan, and reacted quickly to sentiment during open houses to keep our home priced competitively in a bad and falling housing market. We often wondered why Mike kept working so hard to keep interest up in our home even when we went into our first escrow, but quickly understood when we fell out of escrow. Mike had us in a second escrow in a matter of days. We cannot thank you enough for your hard work and know we would still be sitting in our first home, chasing the market downward, with a lesser realtor.Secondly, Mike kept up the hard work taking us to countless homes to find the one that would be our next home. Mike got to know our family and provided us with excellent council regarding which homes deserved another look, and while homes were unworthy of serious consideration. Once we found the right home, Mike helped us get the best possible price on an over priced home, leveraging the slow housing market that was previously our enemy.It is so rare anymore to come across a professional who takes their profession seriously and works as hard as Mike does. We believed that he felt personally responsible for finding us the right home and was willing to perform any task to see it through (including driving home from vacation to write the offer for our new home). Mike, we cannot thank you enough for your efforts.Sincerely,

Dear Mike,I have just got my new address and would like to inform you at the very first time. Since I started to work with you from the beginning of this year, you have become more and more like a friend to me rather than just a real estate agent. I had to move my home twice during this year, and you were one of the people who helped me the most to get through the difficulties of these transitions.Aside from the high level of professionalism and the quality of integrity that you have demonstrated through out of your work, I was most impressed with the effort you put in to understand what was that I really looked for in searching the home for my family of three. Even though I came from a totally different culture background, I did not feel this difficulty (which I usually felt when talking to many people who speaks English only) in communicating with you. This is why I decided to go with you without switching to an agent who speaks Chinese as well. As a result, you showed me the perfect house in San Marino in less than two months, kept making effort to impress the seller even when we were almost losing, and finally won the deal among 6 other competitors. It was such an excellent job!You are not only a competent real estate agent, but also a trustful and caring person. When I had to make the decision of moving out of our new home because of some unexpected changes in my sons preschool arrangement, you offered your help to put our house on market for lease and acted promptly. I believe the amount of time and work you had to put in equaled to those of selling a house, but you never delayed anything on us out of your busy schedule. Again, as a result, you got us a lease agreement in one week with desirable rental price. This time, it was such a kind and warm help!In one word, thank you for being my friend in real estate business. I really appreciated your honest, thoughtful work and all your other professional qualities!

Re: Michael Paris, Realtor[ link omitted ] was the best by far. We were so impressed by his websites organization and ease of use, we decided to call him and ask for some assistance. He was friendly, accommodating and made sure that the one weekend we were in town, tours were set up and he found us a house.The second time we used Michael was when we were ready to stop renting and buy our dream home. With three children and a physician husband, I needed all the help that I could get. I simply called Mike and told him what we wanted and, that day, he sent me several listings by email and was working on setting up tours for the following weekend. On that tour, Michael found us the gorgeous La Canada estate that we now call home.In all transactions Michael was organized, thorough, and personable. He offered us an objective viewpoint on each house we toured, thereby helping us with our decisions. We found him to be knowledgeable about aspects of realty that surpassed just the legalities of buying and selling properties, and furthermore we were consistently impressed by his willingness to research questions he couldnt answer right away. He was always expedient in returning our calls, searching for properties, and setting up tours.We would (and do!) recommend Michael to anyone, without reservation. No matter how large or small the transaction, he is dedicated to making his customers happy. He is also a wonderful husband and father, and we are proud to be able to call him a friend.

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: MICHAEL PARIS HELPED US IN BUYING OUR FIRST HOME. HE WAS EXTREMELY PROFESSIONAL AND PROVIDED EXCELLENT SERVICE. HE WAS HIGHLY MOTIVATED AND KEPT RIGHT ON TOP OF THINGS HAVING TO DO WITH OUR HOME. MIKES ADVICE AND THOROUGH KNOWLEDGE WERE VERY HELPFUL IN CHOOSING THE HOME THAT WOULD BE A PERFECT FIT FOR US. WE APPRECIATED HIS HONESTY, PATIENCE AND GUIDANCE THROUGH THE WHOLE BUYING PROCESS. WHEN MAKING SUCH A HUGE PURCHASE IT WAS REFRESHING TO HAVE A REALTOR THAT WE COULD TRUST RATHER THAN SOMEONE JUST TRYING TO MAKE A SALE. WE WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND HIS SERVICES FOR ANYONE WHO NEEDS ASSISTANCE IN BUYING OR SELLING THEIR HOME. GREAT JOB MIKE, WE WILL RECOMMEND YOUR SERVICES TO ALL OUR FRIENDS!