John-Michael Kyono

Look no further! John Michael is great. We just finished working on a transaction together and he is the epitome of professionalism. John Michael works very hard to assure his client were well-​represented and got the best deal possible.
I would highly recommend John Michael to any one in Alameda or the East Bay!

John-​Michael helped us find our first home, fought like hell to get us the best price (and the most credits) and really just made the process fun and awesome. He also taught us how to find the secret problems in properties that sellers are trying to hide, and what to look for to make sure we’re not being ripped off. He was amazing. Seriously. Absolutely the highest recommendation.

When we started the search for a home, the market in Alameda was full of lots of buyers and not a lot of properties. So we realized we needed a realtor who would really hit the ground running in the search for a home for us. We needed someone tenacious, professional, and reachable. We found all of that and more in John-​Michael. Within two months of working with him, he helped us get our dream home on at a price we felt was a deal in the Alameda market. Overall, he went above and beyond with all of the details. We highly recommend him!

If you need a home, John Michael of Alameda Victorians is the person to talk to. We were looking for our first home, and after going through another online resource, and being less than thrilled with their idea of customer service (very generic, impersonal, and more interested in our financial status and preapprovals than in helping us find a real home for our family), we decided to get a real realtor.
Some friends recommended John Michael as being the best they’d ever seen, and what do you know, they were right. John Michael has been everything we could have wished for. Responsive, interested, determined, and best of all, perfectly willing to say when something is a Bad Deal. He will help you find the home that is right for you, not just the one that’s is the quickest sale.
Additionally, if, like us, you’re a first time homebuyer, then you couldn’t ask for a better guy than JMK. Probably one of the nicest things about him was his ability to translate the minutia and technicalities of the process into something that we, inexperienced new homeowners-​to-​be that we were, could understand and make use of. That skill alone makes him invaluable, but when you add it to his determination to get a good deal, his negotiation skills, his vast wealth of knowledge about homes, construction, and market trends, and his affable nature, well, it’s pure win.
My husband and I really cannot recommend him enough, and, if we ever find ourselves in the real estate market again, for any reason, we know exactly who we’re calling. John Michael really is the greatest.

As first time homebuyers timidly dipping our toes into «just looking» at houses, my husband and I were searching for a home, in no particular hurry, with astoundingly unreasonable requirements (large enough, «cheap» enough, in Alameda, good bones, etc., basically our dream home as first time home buyers with a very small budget. Which does not mean 500k, people).
We weren’t looking for a buyers agent (silly us), we just wanted to look at a house we saw listed on craigslist. Plus, we didn’t want any of the pressure we assumed an agent would bring– and besides, do we really need to be told how lovely the light is in the living room? Please. We can see the good stuff. Tell us how we might be screwed, that’s what we really want to know! Enter John Michael.
In an effort to make this a short post, I will emphasize the following: John Michael is a rock star. We are beyond happy and astounded at the end result of our work with him.
He comes highly (*highly*) recommended for anyone searching for a home: including bank owned, short sale, and other mind boggling and potentially horrifying forays into the housing market.
Please ask us about our house and experience, so that we can continue to brag about the house we have ended up with (entirely thanks to JM) — we’ve already alienated many of our friends and family for being so «lucky».
In short, we found JM to be knowledeble, professional, and extremely trustworthy. Also almost equally important, he is creative — finding solutions that are «outside the box», resulting in the best possible outcome for the buyer.
Being used to doing our own legwork and being informed, we expected a certain level of help from our buyers agent, but we were consistently blown away with the lengths that he went to help us, answer questions, inform us, and overall go above and beyond.