Ralph Garrow Real Estate

Ralph is a conscientiousness and remarkable real estate professional. He assisted me with a complicated sale of a difficult property. By listening to Ralph’s salient advice we were able to navigate the difficulties and obtained a price we hoped for. Many thanks for all the great work.

This review is from a year ago. I forgot I wrote it and was waiting on our deposit before posting for fear he might withhold it. I just found it on my computer.
As far as buying or selling Ralph may be good, I don’t know. But if his honesty and integrity are called upon you should look elsewhere. We moved to NorCal a year ago and did not know the neighborhoods. Ralph was the agent for some rentals we were looking at in Antioch. We did not like the area at all. He said «if you want the nice area with nice houses you have to up your price range.» Ok we did that so he showed us a house on the other side of the 4 by Brentwood. The house was great and the neighborhood seemed nice. He assured us that this was a good place to raise a family (we already had a 2yo and told him we planned for more). We trusted him after all he’s been doing business in the area for years (15+)right?
Wrong! He saw us coming a mile away. He knew we didn’t know the area or reputation and just lied to our faces. He saw an upper middle class family who would pay the rent on time and not damage the house and fed us what we wanted to hear about safety and this being a good neighborhood. In the year we lived there almost every house on the street was broken into, including ours. When we told him he said «ya it’s going around, did they damage the house?» Nvm asking if we were ok. The neighbors across the street are drug dealers, the neighbors 2 houses down had 12 people living there with huge loud parties every weekend. The gang activity at the park 1 min from the house spilled into our street multiple times with about 17 thugs in the middle of our street at 2am yelling how they are going to kill each other and their kids while my 2yo and baby sleep. We never felt safe. I’m a stay at home mom and after being accosted while walking a block from our house I refused to go walking with my kids anywhere. We were trapped in the house all day for our safety.
Obviously Ralph did not cause these things to happen but he knew very well what the neighborhood was like and straight up lied and told us it was the good part of antioch, it was safe and family friendly.
Oh and at the pre-​move out inspection he couldn’t find anything to charge us for so he went around wiping the window blinds to look for dirt and complaining that the cleaning service left ajax residue on the counter. He said «I could charge you for that». Give me a break. I feel bad for the owners because I’m sure when he sold them the place he told them it was a great investment in a good area (they are from out of state). These poor people are going to have such a mess of a house with the type of people who live in this neighborhood renting their house.

Ralph handled the sale of my mother’s house in Antioch. The house was not without its issues, and this complicated the sale. Ralph made sure that all of the things which needed to be done to unblock the sale were done, from having companies come in and do necessary repairs and cleanups, to managing the process through escrow, title, and closing. I was very pleased with the service we received, and because Ralph handled so many of these issues for us, the process was much easier for me. I highly recommend Ralph, given the job he did for us and how he went out of his way to make sure that everything which needed to be done was done, and done right.

I sold my parents’ house (my childhood home) in May and Ralph helped me through the entire process. I really enjoyed working with Ralph. He was very professional, clearly knew the real estate business and was very easy-​going. He was always available when I needed to talk to him and answered all of my questions. It was truly a pleasure working with him.

Many of friends have used Ralf Garrow for real estate services for many years. When it came time to our house on the market he was obvious choice. As promised from my friends, Ralph was very knowelegable about the market, real estate, and what my house should sell for. This process was much easier than expected and I am now living in a lovely new home!