Helen Luttemo

Helen is a great realtor who helped us buy our first home in Marin. She was always accessible and ready to answer any questions we had. She was great at showing us multiple options to ease our indecisiveness and we really appreciated her patience throughout the whole browsing and escrow process. We found ourselves in a crazy housing market competing with many other buyers for some properties, but through it all she gave great guidance. Her willingness to help us with offers even late into the evening at some times was really appreciated. Her use of DocuSign documents to draw up related paperwork for us to sign made things very easy for us. She’s knowledgeable about the different areas in Marin and understood our wants/​needs in a home. She’s very personable and accomodating. We would use her again and recommend her services to for buyers or sellers looing for a friendly, professional, and dependable realtor.

Helen went out of her way during the hectic Thanksgiving weekend to show us a couple of Tiburon homes. She is a very knowledgeable realtor and was very helpful explaining the Marin area to us in detail. We would highly recommend Helen to anyone looking for an awesome realtor.
Craig and Lisa

We are so happy we found Helen Luttemo. As first time homebuyers she was very patient with all our questions and took the time to explain the process in and out. In this competitive market you have to act fast and she really helped us get prepared to be able to do this, including setting us up with tech like Docusign where we could sign documents right from our phone.
Helen is very savvy with the Marin market and ON IT. She even turned up impeccable off market houses. One important thing we learned is the value of an agent who has A-​list networks and referrals. Every specialist, inspector construction professional Helen had us meet with were top notch.
Helen really listened to our needs and wants and she is passionate about what she does and wanted the best house for us. She is savvy, knowledgable, honest and reliable. You will be in very reliable and competent hands with Helen.

We’ve had the pleasure of working with Helen to find our first family home in San Rafael, CA. As first time homebuyers the process seemed daunting and overwhelming. Helen was friendly, professional, and extremely communicative from the start. Helen has extensive knowledge about the neighborhoods, schools, and market values within San Rafael. Helen understood what we were looking for in a home and helped us find homes within our desirable neighborhood and in our budget. When our dream house became available Helen was proactive and helped us submit an offer before the next open home and landed us in escrow. Throughout the escrow and inspection process Helen was very communicative and helpful in steering us toward reputable, honest, and fair inspections. We have finally realized our dreams of becoming homeowners and we could not be more happy or grateful to Helen for all her hard work and help throughout the process! We highly recommend Helen’s services!

Helen is wonderful to work. Her professionalism and wonderful people skills shine through in every transaction that I work with her on.
Gretchen, Loan Coordinator

In this crazy real estate market we are so happy to have Helen on our side. My partner and I were ready to leave SF and find an urban oasis in Marin. After visiting several open houses on our own we were a bit leery of the agents we had met. But Helen… she is the real deal! From the minute we met Helen, we knew we wanted to work with her. She completely understood what we were looking for and helped us find homes within our budget. She is personable, knowledgeable, and savvy. She knows Marin — from neighborhoods and schools to local market conditions — and is happy to share her knowledge. Helen is always accessible whether by phone, text or email. She is as good as it gets!

Very happy customers!
We first met Helen at one of her open houses as we began our quest to relocate from the Peninsula to Marin County. We instantly felt very comfortable with Helen’s friendly, low-​key, professional style and asked her to assist us in our search. She has a deep knowledge of the market and was able to use our time very efficiently. Her insights were extremely helpful in negotiating the purchase price and she is clearly liked and respected by her business contacts (title company, various inspectors, other realtors), which made the escrow process seamless and pain-​free.
We recommend Helen strongly and would not hesitate to have her represent us again in any real-​estate transaction.

We cannot say enough about the excellent service we received from Helen Luttemo at Marin Modern when buying our new home in Marin. We were moving back to the States from many years living abroad, and even when our move was months away, Helen was in constant communication about available properties, both online and on a couple of 2 – 3 day flying visits. The feedback we were able to give her enabled her to get a better idea of what we were looking for and what our financial comfort level was. Once we’d actually relocated to Marin, we found Helen to be a great listener, an outstanding communicator, and a person who always follows through on commitments to getting things done and to obtaining answers to questions when she doesn’t have ready answers. We loved going through homes with her because invariably she pointed out pluses and minuses that we would not have seen. Her knowledge of the Marin residential market runs deep. Once we homed in what we thought we wanted, she used that knowledge, coupled with her own instincts, to show us houses that would work for us. She didn’t waste our time (or hers) showing us houses that she knew wouldn’t be right for us.
Once we found the house we eventually purchased, Helen was ever-​present throughout the process; from negotiating the sales agreement, to scheduling all inspections so quickly that we were able to remove our contingencies within a week of making our offer, to closing a week later. We were living in short-​term rental accommodation so the quicker the better as far as we were concerned. Helen took us from offer to close in two weeks! After the sale, she opened up her not-​so-​little black book and recommended decorators, builders, handymen, landscapers, cleaners, etc. who have followed through just as promptly as she had.
Always professional, Helen is also warm and very personable. We highly recommend her and would certainly use her services again if we purchase another home in Marin.

If it wasn’t for Helen, we likely wouldn’t own a home today.
Buying a first home is a scary, complicated process; yet with Helen as our realtor, it seemed almost effortless. (Well except for signing the final papers; but that’s not something she could have helped with)
Helen quickly understood what we were looking for and showed us places that were within our budget, desired area and design preference. She was personable, communicative and diligent in her search.
Once we found a place we liked, though, that’s where her skills really shined. She put in an offer before the next open house and secured the property for us. Once we were in escrow, she found the necessary inspectors for us (ones that were familiar with the intricacies of an Eichler), helped us find a mortgage broker (who got us an interest rate much lower than I would have likely found on my own) and used only tools which allowed us to review and sign documents using our iPhone.
I can’t even imagine having gone through the process without her.

Helen has been incredibly helpful over the past few months while we have been examining the Bay Area real estate market. Even though we were thousands of mile apart, she went above and beyond by providing us numerous listings, emails, and answering our endless questions. Thanks Helen!!!

Helen Luttemo helped us find our dream house in San Rafael. She is very easy to work with, very organized, and makes sure the home buying process goes smoothly. She asks a lot of questions at first to get a feel for what type of house you are looking for and doesn’t waste time showing you homes that aren’t right for you. She is very knowledgeable about all aspects of home buying, including negotiating with the seller, getting the proper inspections done in a timely fashion, working with the lending agent, and recommending contractors for any work that may need to be done. Helen is very down to earth and friendly. We enjoyed working with her very much!