Welcome to Santa Barbara Real Estate Voice
Santa Barbara Real Estate Voice is an online resource for Santa Barbara Real Estate, Montecito Real Estate and the surrounding areas. When you work with a real estate agent to sell or buy a home, it will in all likelihood be the first or second largest financial decision of your life!! That is a very big decision.
With that in mind, Santa Barbara Real Estate Voice is here to help you with finding information for all your real estate related questions and needs for Santa Barbara, Montecito, Summerland, Goleta, Hope Ranch, Carpinteria and the Santa Barbara Wine Country.
- You can search the Santa Barbara area MLS…for free
- You can sign up to receive Santa Barbara area listings with detailed information, pictures, maps etc. The listings will be sent to your personal email address and will meet only your specific needs and criteria…for free
- You can sign up for RSS feeds which provide you with updated information and articles that are written about the Santa Barbara area with such topics as market statistics, market updates, neighborhood info, schools, events, things to do etc…for free
- You can read about market statistics, market updates, neighborhood information and schools
- You can read about buyer’s and seller’s resources
- You can read about dining, shopping, community events, things to do
- You can read about architecture, green living and more
Santa Barbara Real Estate Voice is an engaging site that will provide you with all the above information. If you have any questions at any time, please feel free to contact me. I look forward to hearing from you.
Kevin Schmidtchen - Sotheby’s Int’l Realty - Realtor.
Mission Statement
My commitment is to be the best Realtor for you and to provide you with the best resource for real estate information in the Santa Barbara, Montecito and the surrounding areas. I respect you giving me the opportunity to work with you and in return I will provide you with expertise, professionalism, loyalty, knowledge, service and clear communication for all your real estate needs.
My Passions
Family for me is my first and ultimate passion. In addition to family, I thoroughly enjoy surfing, skiing and boarding, traveling, reading (although this is now harder with our little boy), the outdoors and being with friends and new people that have world travel and experiences behind them and ahead of them. Being a Realtor as a profession also provides me with a lot of wonderful experiences working with people to realize their dreams in home ownership.
Areas of expertise - Why Choose Kevin?
I have been a real estate professional with Sotheby’s Int’l Realty here in the Santa Barbara and Montecito areas since 2001.
As the result of satisfied clients, I have succeeded in building a wonderful referral base of single individuals, couples and families who are happy to recommend my services to their friends, families and colleagues. Many past and current clients express their gratitude in working with a Realtor who is a both a local and has such a relaxed demeanor in which they feel no pressure. Key also in the relationship between myself and my client is trust and understanding that the home that my client is looking at is not just another home for them. Having a client close on a transaction is wonderful, but as important, is knowing how my client got there.
Please let me know where your needs are at with regards to real estate in Santa Barbara, Montecito, Goleta and the surrounding areas. Buying or selling, I can assist you with luxury real estate, beachfront homes, oceanfront homes, view homes, vacation homes, gated communities, new homes, real estate development, single family homes, condominiums, town homes, income property, and land.
Who am I besides being a Realtor? - A Short Bio
A native of Santa Barbara, I grew up with a wonderful family and very involved with sports that I continue to enjoy today… surfing, skiing and snowboarding. While attending UCSB, I left to Europe for the summer after my freshman year to play on the professional tennis satellite circuit. While the tennis went well, I felt completely energized by the culture over in Europe and the opening of my eyes to so many different ways of life and thinking. I returned to UCSB and focused on my junior year in which I then studied abroad in Salzburg, Austria. Both of these events changed me and lead me to have one immediate major goal in my life… to travel around the world. Four days after I graduated from UCSB in 1992, I left on a one-way ticket back to Europe. I spent roughly the next 4 years working abroad in Austria, Germany, Japan and New Zealand while traveling often to over 50 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, South and Central America and the South Pacific.
After much adventure I returned to the U.S. and lived in Telluride, Colorado and Lake Tahoe, California before attending Thunderbird– The American Graduate School of International Management where I received my MBA in 1999. Upon graduating, I very much wanted to return home and moved back here to Santa Barbara in late 1999. I am now married to a wonderful Dutch woman, whom I met while doing an internship in the Netherlands during my second year at Thunderbird. We also have a wonderful boy born in July 2006.
Personal Work Experience Before Real Estate
Before finally settling into a career in Real Estate in 2001, I worked briefly with 2 different companies in Sales and Marketing from September 1999 to August 2001. The first company was an Internet start-up that folded after 10 months. The second company was Islands Media which is a Publishing company (Islands Magazine, Spa Magazine, Resorts and Great Hotels). Here I was in charge of sales for our clients media needs which consisted of photography, print, CD’s, websites, videos etc.
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