We began our search for a Santa Cruz house from out of state (NY) and ran into Sean at an open house during a rare visit here. We thank our lucky stars we did. He impressed us right away with his exceptionally upbeat interest in helping us, his knowledge of the local market, and his focus on what we were looking for, hard as it might be to find. As our search escalated and houses came and went as they do in Santa Cruz, Sean was quick to return phone calls, negotiate on our behalf with sellers/agents, give a quick thumbs-down when a house or seller seemed lacking and, when needed, refer us to contractors even setting up appointments and showing up to help us listen and learn. (How he could operate this way with more than one client is still beyond us, but this is the root of his success.) Now, just a few months after the successful purchase of our rather unusual but perfectly matched (to us) house, we feel we could not have pulled it off without an agent of Sean's work ethic, integrity, and perhaps most of all, remarkable ease and skill working with everyone from contractors and agents to brokers, sellers, and buyers. It takes a village to buy a house, and Sean gets this: he orchestrates the community. In the months since the purchase, he has continued to support us in every way he can. In our 3+ decades of house buying, we have not seen his peer.