Service Co’s

Find Your Elected Representatives: KnowWho.com
Fine Your Elected Officials

Property Clean Up (see also Trade section below)
CLEANING AND HAULING
Mrs. Montes (562) 421-4154
Juan and Lupe Parra (562) 644-0016

ESTATE SALES
Olli Makela, Estate Sales and E-Bay Services (626) 818-5531 rocketage@verizon.net Olli and his team evaluate, organize and sell items via ebay, craigslist, estate sale etc. Owners get 70%. They donate or dump what doesn’t sell and leave the property cleared out.

STAGING & DESIGN
Backstage Mikka Johnson, Staging and Organizing (310) 310-1971 marikka8@gmail.com will make a plan for client to follow, plus pick out paint, flooring etc. like interior design. Will declutter, rearrange, rent furniture for you.
Perception Is Everything Sabine Bryttegard (562) 728-7640 Sabine4re@cs.com Full staging services. Will rent furniture to you or use your own. She rearranges and uses her plastic food, wine etc. to set up lifestyle areas like brunch areas, dinner parties etc. to make a client feel at home

MOVING & STORAGE
Alex Moving and Storage owend by Allied (800) 231-4765 Erika Eburke@alexmoving.net
Two Guys and a Truck Moving (714) 596-5979
Curbside Mobile Storage (562) 596-5979

TEMPORARY HOUSING
See the dedicated site with lots of info and ideas – use this link

Real Estate
1031 EXCHANGE Anchor Seaport Escrow Jennifer Sterud (562) 596-5979 jsterud@anchorseaport.com 5602 E. 2nd St., Long Beach, CA 90803

1031 Exchange Services – AniX31, Inc. Carla Polkinhorn, Attorney (877) 494-3139 5582 McFadden Ave. Huntington Beach, CA 92649

ACCOUNTANCY FOR REAL ESTATE
Green-Zahn Joan Green, CPA (562) 799-4440 joan@greenzahn.com 1700 Pacific Coast Hwy., Seal Beach, CA 90740
**Tax Deductions for Real Estate Agents info
Gerald Bobrosky, CPA 562-596-5717 jerryb110@aol.com 1945 Palo Verde Ave. #207, Long Beach, CA 90815

APPRAISAL
WRES Pre-Listing Appraisals Craig Wallace, Wallace Real Estate Services (562) 673-1138
$2012 prices: 30 Value Check, $100 Desktop Review, $125 Exterior Only Appraisal, Complete Appraisal $275, $100 Measure house and provide sketch

ESCROW
Anchor Seaport Escrow (562) 434-4437 Jennifer Sterud jsterud@anchorseaport.com 5602 E. 2nd Street, Long Beach, CA 90803
1031 exchanges and more. Daniel Lopez dlopez@anchorseaport.com also does mobile homes.
International City Escrow Patreece Coburn (562) 497-9777 Patreece@icescrow.com 5000 E. Spring St. #120, Long Beach, CA 90815

HOME INSPECTION
US Inspect 888-874-6773 Schedule an Appointment on Web Jerry Blodget JBlodgett@USInspect.com, Kevin Deleskiewicz, Sandro Leveratto
888-225-3755 Commercial Properties (separate department) Request a Proposal for Commercial Property Inspection

HOME WARRANTY
First American Home Warranty Lizz Nowak 800-698-0422 -2 -1 x6255 (818) 760-4715 – private cell for agents only lnowak@firstam.com

INSURANCE (property)
Allstate Insurance Gary Jolif (310) 791-0444 – Gary can send to other companies as well

LEGAL COUNSEL FOR REAL ESTATE
Spierer, Woodward, Covalis and Goldberg Steven Spierer (310) 540-3199 707 Torrance Blvd. #200, Redondo Beach, CA 90277
Attorney Sidney Mendlovitz (562) 420-1351 (562) 420-8219-fax 4010 Watson Plaza Dr. #100, Lakewood, CA 90712

LOANS
Progressive Funding (562) 592-7500 16390 E. Pacific Coast Hwy. #200, Huntington Beach, CA 92649

  • Carrie Beyer (562) 889-6199 cell cbeyer264@aol.com NMLS# 253845

American Financial/ iServe Lending (562) 494-4222 2248 Obispo Ave. #202, Signal Hill, CA 90755

  • Julio Sandoval (310) 941-8074 cell NMLS# 1076097
  • Vince Tran (562) 207-2400 cell NMLS# 259986

Specialized Lenders

who can do specialized and unusual loans:

  • All Unusual Situations and Properties: Iron Financial, Ron Ready (949) 433-6269 cell NMLS” 320985
  • First Time Buyers Carrie Beyer (562) 889-6199 cell 1/2% and 1% down programs, VA/FHA, CHDAP, city programs
  • Flip Loans for Property Flippers Action Funding, Ari Waldstein (818) 914-4437 (818) 337-2418-cell 6320 Canoga Ave. #1500 BRE# 1243910
  • Hard Money Loans Woody Financial, Dave Woody (562) 439-3344 5580 E. 2nd St. #211, Long Beach, CA 90803 BRE# 604535
  • Investment Property and Apartment Buildings: Stratis Financial, Christopher Reid (562) 472-1121 cReid@StratisFinancial.com NMLS# 321852 Lawsuit Builings (i.e. Marina Pacifica)

LBS (see above)
Hans Stone, TNG Mortgage 714-243-0034 hans@hansmortgage.com 714-644-8228-fax 4332 Cerritos Ave. #208, Los Alamitos, CA 90720 BRE# 1704140
OYO’s Own Your Owns
LBS – Long Beach Financial Credit Union Josie Truong 562-598-9007
Stock Coop Lenders
Chase Bank, Doug Kromer 805-739-2655 doug.kromer@chase.com (Arroyo Grande) NMLS ID# 670885
NCB, Jeremy Morgan 866-622-6446 ext 3425 (Hillsborough, Ohio) NMLS# 507536

MOLD TESTING : See below for Water Damage Restoration for mold remediation companies
American Environmental Specialists 714-379-3333 testing only 15183 Springdale St., Huntington Beach, CA 92649

NATURAL HAZARDS Admin usually orders
LGS / JCP Natural Hazards Reports (800) 814-5599 (admin orders on files)

TERMITE / PEST CONTROL Admin usually orders
Brother’s Termite (562) 927-5541 562-928-8504-fax Robert Cooper, 6241 E. Florence Ave., Bell Gardens, CA 90201 admin@brotherstermite.com
Coleman’s Pest Control (323) 731-8771 323-731-1220-fax Coleman Hart, 4919 1/2 Adams Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90746 colemanpest@sbcglobal.net

TITLE COMPANIES
USA National Title (714) 908-5220 Rep Robert Toffel (949) 702-3027, Stuart Dingwall, Title Officer 5582 McFadden Ave. Huntington Beach, CA 92649
North American Title (949) 419-9400 Steve Lopez, Title Officer 2100 S.E. Main St. #450, Irvine, CA 92614

TRADES See also: Remodel & Ideas

GENERAL CONSTRUCTION AND HANDYMAN
MM Home Improvement Manny Montes (562) 421-4154 (562) 239-7025c mannyvmontes@aol.com A licensed general contract who does small jobs reasonably including plumbing, heating including floor furnaces, electrical – just about everything.

CHIMNEYS
Oliver Twist Chimney Sweep (562) 595-5122 Long Beach, (310) 377-8163 South Bay, (714) 843-9944 Orange County

EARTHQUAKE SHUTOFF VALVES AND SMOKE ALARMS ETC.
Metro Retrofitting, Inc (800) 450-3660
LGS Retrofitters (800) 771-5971
Compliance Alliance Retrofitting (818) 768-8000 24 hour

SEWER, DRAINS, UTILITY CONDUITS
Kohler & Sons (310) 375-2725 South Bay Replaces and repairs sewers, drain lines, water service, conduits for underground utilities – residential and commercial.

ROOFING
Adam’s Roofing Adam Thorin (562) 961-9299 or (714) 965-0245 adamsroofing@live.com

WATER DAMAGE AND MOLD REMEDIATION
Ewell Construction Inc. Darrell Ewell (310) 793-2239 sales@ewellconstruction.com

RETROFITTING
Retrofitting is common practice in West Hollywood and other parts of Los Angeles, it protects the seller.

Solutions Retrofitting 818.908.8945

Metro Retrofitting, Inc. 818.340.3060 Theresa Gonzalez theresa@gometroretro.com

LGS 800.771.5971 Alex does the proposals

Retrofit Express, Inc. (818) 883-8772 Brenda Barbabella contact@@retrofitexpress.com

Note: The above info is NOT meant to be a recommendation, but rather a resource to check into.