Michele Westhoff Email & Phone Number

Michele moved to California in 2001 and has resided in the Bay Area since 2015. She is a licensed attorney who has forged a rewarding real estate career based on the skills she developed as a litigator and her passion for homes. Her unmatched professionalism, strong interpersonal skills, and robust work ethic, combined with her innate ability to connect with people, allow her to guide buyers and sellers through real estate transactions with empathy and competence. Michele prides herself on the relationships she builds with her individual clients, not only by providing technical real estate advice, but by being constantly available to answer questions and discuss the emotions that often accompany a major life decision like buying or selling a home. She remains actively available as a resource long after a transaction closes, assisting her clients with interior design, providing referrals and recommendations for home-related service providers, and answering questions regarding anything and everything related to home ownership. She has a special affinity for first-time buyers and loves guiding them through the home buying process. Michele immensely enjoys the process of buying and selling property: studying the market, the hunt for the right place, maximizing a home’s appeal in preparation to sell, the excitement of negotiating offers, and everything in between. She has bought, gutted, renovated, and sold three of her own houses, and has designed a new construction home and a renovation of a 1912 house for friends. Actively participating in her renovation projects has taught Michele a great deal about home and landscape construction, and given her a keen eye for design and “fixers” with investment potential. She has a knack for helping buyers visualize changes and improvements that will make a home work perfectly for them, and for helping sellers identify and complete strategic updates and improvements to maximize their home's sale price.Michele is a National Association of Realtors Green Designee. She knows buyers are increasingly searching for homes with better energy performance that can provide a healthier, more environmentally conscious living space and lower energy costs. She is uniquely positioned to help sellers capitalize on their homes’ green features, and to help buyers evaluate the green features of homes they’re interested in purchasing.Michele also loves animals and once co-founded a non-profit animal rescue in Los Angeles. For each real estate transaction closed, she donates 1% of her commission to animal rescue organizations.