Ace Estess - Realtor Stockton Ave, Capitola

Working with Ace was the best decision we made when buying our first home. She met and exceeded her already stellar reputation. As first time home buyers, especially in an extremely tough market, we felt completely taken care of. She was incredibly supportive, kind, patient, knowledgeable, and strategic. We trusted her completely, and it was very reassuring to have her on our side. As a bonus, she’s just genuinely enjoyable person to work with. With something as stressful as buying a home in this market she was a calming force. We have no doubt we got our home because of her, and enthusiastically recommend her. She definitely has our future business.

Ace Estess really is a dream catch! Buying a house is a big undertaking, full of big decisions, which can be intimidating for a first-timer like me. However, from our first conversation, Ace’s down-to-earth nature made it easy to be myself, share my dreams, honor my needs, and overcome my fears. Her unique approach to real estate transformed my house-hunt into an opportunity for personal discovery, and an experience I will always cherish. As someone living at a distance with physical disabilities, I am especially grateful to Ace for her compassion and care. Walking around properties can be challenging for me, and she was always kind and understanding, moving at my pace and finding me a seat when I needed a break. She also saved me hours of unnecessary driving by visiting properties on my behalf! Because Ace took the time to understand me and what I was looking for, I trusted her to represent me, and to provide honest, informed input along the way. Supported by her extensive local knowledge, professional experience and versatile skill set, I was able to confidently navigate a competitive housing market in a new town. With Ace on my team, the real estate game was fun to play! Together, we found an incredible home that perfectly meets my needs within just a few months , and when the papers signed, she was the first to welcome me to the community. Overall, Ace is ace! If you are considering buying or selling in the Santa Cruz area, I 100% recommend her and her team at Dream Catch Properties.

Ace is a fantastic agent! She was reccomended to us by a friend when we wanted to jump on a property quickly. I called her and told her we went to an open house, were very interested and wanted to put in an offer. She returned my call promptly and she immediately starting getting paperwork together to put in an offer that same day. She was very confident with our offer and we got accepted! She helped us through the entire process from start to finish. Her communication was clear and direct, she is very knowledgeable and advocated for us. She has numerous reputable contacts from insurance agents to general contractors and was able to get multiple inspections completed in a short time period. We so enjoyed working with Ace and love our new home!

Ace is the easiest person to work with in our area, but don’t let that friendly easy side fool you…she has a tremendous work ethic and she will work like crazy to make sure you get what you need. She does it with professionalism and ease throughout the entire process. If you want someone to do what they say they will, to work hard for you, to deliver…she is your person. Knowing you have someone who is always in your corner fighting for you is an amazing feeling. I’m so impressed with her, she’s exceptionally responsive, she works to understand exactly what you need and then manages to make it happen. Above and beyond in all areas. Can’t recommend her enough.

Ace is an absolute rockstar of an agent and will go above and beyond! I recently decided to move back to Santa Cruz after years of being away and was referred to Ace by a mutual friend. Ace knew all of Santa Cruz County like the back of her hand. I consider myself a local as this is my hometown, but damn she put me to shame. She knew everything around here! Ace never stopped, even when we ran into some issues and we lost out on a house I wanted, she kept going. If you want an agent who will hustle, go above and beyond, and truly care about you as a person and not just a client, Ace is your gal!

This was the easiest transaction I have ever experienced. Ace is a top notch realtor and just flat out a great person to work with. I highly recommend her and I’m confident you will not regret it. Thank you Ace for everything!

I highly recommend working with Ace Estess (dreamcatchproperties.com). 1st: she listened and understood our priorities. 2nd: she is extremely knowledgeable of the Santa Cruz market, providing due diligence as well as access to local resources, while helping guide us through multiple potential house offers. 3rd: she is friendly, smart, and quick, reacting in minutes to advise, put together and close a competitive offer all within 1 hour! Ace provided an honest, informed perspective about every property we viewed, and when we were ready to make an offer, she made the process seamless and efficient, within a very fast timeline.

Ace is an incredible realtor! We were first time home buyers and Ace guided us from finding our dream home to walking us through the buying process. She made the process so easy and efficient for us. She’s very responsive and was always available to answer our many questions (as it was our first time). We were impressed by how quickly she set up tours at homes we were interested in and how well connected she is in Santa Cruz to be able to show us homes before they were even on the market. We highly recommend Ace to help you find your dream home!

Ace is an excellent buyer's agent.  Ace and her team worked with us for about 2 years in a very challenging market for our first home purchase.  We investigated many properties and made a number of offers until we finally found the right property at the right price. Ace's diligence is amazing and her follow up is outstanding.  Even with unexpected blips and roadblocks (from the Seller's side) Ace is calm, creative and thinks outside of the box to move the deal forward.  I understand that Ace is also an excellent Seller's Agent, too. We highly recommend Ace as an outstanding Agent for both purchasing and selling property.  Ace is a wonderful resource to help catch the property of your dreams ~. Happy New Homeowners ~

We have lived in Santa Cruz and been homeowners for over a decade and have worked closely with several local realtors during that time. Ace is hands-down the best realtor we have worked with and we can’t say enough good things about working with her. We worked with Ace during a really emotional and difficult time, after a wildfire forced us to sell our first home and unexpectedly threw us back into an extremely aggressive housing market. The buying market in Santa Cruz right now is easily one of the most challenging markets in the US, with record low inventory, sky high prices, out of town buyers squeezing out local families, massive bidding wars, and many properties in our price range in extremely poor condition. We also had precise parameters for what we were looking for—an older home with charm in a walkable part of town—and our resources were limited. At many points we worried that finding a new home was out of reach for us. Ace worked with us patiently for months, visiting properties with us, alerting us to new listings before they went live so that we could be the first people to see new (or off market) listings, helping us strategize about how to make strong offers in a uniquely tough market, remaining encouraging while keeping our expectations realistic, and advising us throughout the process. Ace is a true Santa Cruz local who grew up here, and she knows the ins and outs of properties here in meticulous detail. She is incredibly knowledgeable and detail-oriented about how to assess the condition of a home, and knows exactly what questions to ask, what problems are serious and what problems seem serious but are easy to solve, and where to get answers when something about a property is unclear. Any time we had a question about anything, she was immediately on top of it, reaching out to contractors to get price estimates or to city officials to get detailed information about a property’s permitting history, so that we could make the most informed decisions possible before making an offer. Ace also earned our trust by steering us away from properties that she felt were too risky for us—this made us really appreciate her honesty and feel that she was looking out for us rather than trying to make a quick sale (we have worked with other realtors in town who we felt were trying to push us into making decisions that felt uncomfortable). When we finally found the place that we ended up buying, we had to make an incredibly fast offer with no contingencies or inspections. Ace got us to the listing on the first possible day, and then very quickly brought out a contractor so that we could unofficially inspect the property before we made a no-contingencies offer. With any other realtor, this would have been a really scary way to make such a big purchase, but we trusted Ace to guide us through this process . It honestly feels like a bit of a miracle that we’ve finally found a new home, and it is 100% thanks to Ace!