Realtor Recommendation - Las Vegas

My husband and I are looking for a realtor in Las Vegas who can help us with a home purchase. We are primarily interested in homes on the west side (Summerlin area) but would consider other neighborhoods including outside of town if the location was convenient for climbing. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated! 

Josh Gale is a climber and realtor, and an awesome guy!

Rob Jensen is a local climber. I’ve met him once or twice at RR and/or Rifle and he seems like a good guy.

https://www.instagram.com/theotherlasvegas/

I'm currently beginning my search and using Austin and Sam. They are down to earth and not your typical Las Vegas type. 

Rob mostly does luxury real estate.  Great guy but primarily focused on guard gated over 900k

Nathan Petrosian is a climber and is who I used to buy my house- great guy and exceptionally knowledgeable.

Dan Daugherty wrote: If there were only good schools and a suburbia where we could find an acre or two around Vegas, we'd be looking at moving there too. If you happen to see that I'm wrong here, I'd love to know

If you have enough money you can make anything a reality.  Some of the higher end developments offer some space in the form of butting up against BLM in the back yard.  Otherwise, the conveniences of using the city sewers, water, trash pickup and electric means most housing is within city limits and relatively congested.  This is a general western US issue, it's very dry in most places and drilling wells is expensive and the aquifers are being depleted, so having to re-drill is common.

Don't have kids.  Don't know.  I've heard some people home school.

Any trade offs for an awesome outdoors life has been worth it to us, so far.  We had a nice quiet country home back in NY and only miss it when the neighbor's stupid dog barks at its shadow.

How has no one mentioned The Gibbons Group?!  Literally got the perfect house at the perfect price at the perfect time!!  Highly recommended.

Nathan Petrosian is a realtor and a climbing guide in Las Vegas. He guides out of Desert Rock Sports. 

Cpn Dunsel wrote: Only the ignorant and the dopes work with a buyers agent.    They prey on those people that cannot walk and chew gum simultaneously.

Well, that's one opinion.  I've bought 5 houses in my life and I've found them invaluable in each case.  For 4 of those purchases (2 investment properties and 2 for myself to live in), which were made in areas new to me, the knowledge of local neighborhoods and building codes was a huge time saver.  And there is no cost to an agent on the buy side, so you can get for free what they bring to the table.  You can still do your own due diligence, as suits you.  

In our most recent purchase, our agents, who have lived in this area their whole life, introduced us to the amazing and honest contractor (now one of our best friends here) who helped us do a gut remodel on our new house.  Unlikely we would have found him without them.

I agree with phylp!
I have bought & sold many properties. Both commercial & residential. I usually find properties I am interested in on my own, but real estate agents have help on the other end. The selling agent for the house I live in now also got me the contractor that then built my shop.
I always use a lawyer, it adds an extra $3,000.-$5,000. and is worth every cent! On commercial properties I ask for and have always gotten I price discount from the seller to cover my legal bill. Because there is only one agent the agent usually takes 1 or 2 % off of the sellers cost to cover what I'm asking for.

Nathan Petrosian is legit, and although he has plenty of listings, does a great job with buyers as well.  

http://www.nathanpetrosian.com/

Cpn Dunsel is treating you like you've also been in the business for years - for the majority of people, a good buyer's agent adds a TON of value.

+4 for Nathan Petrosian! Solid realtor

Nathanpetrosian.com

phylp wrote:

...which were made in areas new to me, the knowledge of local neighborhoods...

Exactly why we used a buyer's agent when looking for our Vegas home Fall 2018.  She was invaluable at teaching us (novice home buyers to begin with) what neighborhoods to avoid, what price points were turnkey (and why), and exposed us to several properties we would not have considered on our own.  We were also limited on the time we had to look, staying at an AirBNB with our life's belongings in storage.  Having that extra member of the team helping was important in accelerating the entire process.

At the time, it was a seller's market and any advantage the buyer's agent was for us likely paid off as we ended up (as it turns out) in the right home.

Not every solution fits every situation.

I'm with Captain Dunsel!  Realtors are parasites.

Maybe you home buyers know a little site called Zillow? Once upon a time, as the Captain says, it was the Uber of real estate. The listings were accurate, timely, and a non-realtor could find homes to buy and contact those listing agents directly. But the National Association of Realtors didn't like that, and they sued Zillow to where they are now, a useless, out of date site that packages pretty pictures. I have talked to realtors and they hated Zillow. They love making thousands of bucks for just leading buyers to properties and hardly lifting a finger.

Tim Stich wrote: Realtors are parasites...
...They love making thousands of bucks for just leading buyers to properties and hardly lifting a finger.

I agree.  But that's how the system is working right now.  In our case, 'fighting the system' had the potential of costing us thousands (or tens of thousands) so we played along and got what we wanted close to our budget.  Protesting would have hurt us, not them.

[we were simultaneously selling our home back in NY as well, dealing with a buyer whose agent was a prick... so yeah, not a fan but they can be useful when they're useful, which our buyer's agent was for us]

Kevin Heckeler wrote:

I agree.  But that's how the system is working right now.  In our case, 'fighting the system' had the potential of costing us thousands (or tens of thousands) so we played along and got what we wanted close to our budget.  Protesting would have hurt us, not them.

You can get your own realtor license to beat the system, which is what the Captain D did. Any moron can pass the test and it's worth the cost. 

Tim Stich wrote:

You can get your own realtor license to beat the system, which is what the Captain D did. Any moron can pass the test and it's worth the cost. 

To buy a house once that you plan on living in for 20-30 years?

I'm pretty sure you don't need an RE license if you are one of the principals (buyer or seller) in the transaction.

FrankPS wrote: I'm pretty sure you don't need an RE license if you are one of the principals (buyer or seller) in the transaction.

Careful Frank - that doesn't fit the narrative of the know-it-all-know-nothings 

Kevin Heckeler wrote:

To buy a house once that you plan on living in for 20-30 years?

No, to buy distressed properties and renovate them in addition to that. Or to sell the odd property here and there. You would have to make it worth the trouble, right? Also, it's extremely rare to live in the same house for 20-30 years. I have rarely made it past 10 years. We had more than six houses in my family over the years.

Tim Stich wrote:

No, to buy distressed properties and renovate them in addition to that. Or to sell the odd property here and there. You would have to make it worth the trouble, right? Also, it's extremely rare to live in the same house for 20-30 years. I have rarely made it past 10 years. We had more than six houses in my family over the years.

We're getting old and one move was enough (16 years in the last home).  That was partly the reason we were hell bent on finding the right home.  Only thing that could push us out is if Vegas runs out of water.