The Ricafort Team - Legacy Real Estate & Associates

This is the team that you can trust to sell your house. While interviewing other real estate agents a key concern for me is “who can I hand off my house keys to without having to worry”, and we felt comfortable with Francis and Willa. They are seasoned professionals and know how to take care of your property as if it were their own. On their own, they brought shoe covers for folks to use when working on the house and for perspective buyers to use while touring the property. They have an abundance of professional landscapers, movers, and general contractors that are priced better than my own effort of finding folks on Yelp. This was another positive note of hiring Francis and Willa that saved us thousands of dollars as well as our own time and effort. They were onsite to work with general contractors when we couldn’t be there, and this was just a huge relief for us, particularly since we had already moved out of state.

They are easy to collaborate with, as we desired to start our advertising video with 10 three seconds professional photos shots that highlighted our house, then transitioning to their typical video production.https://youtu.be/d1ZfAFNTFjw? Si=EIluRTWjzZvxJwcw

Francis and Willa were extremely patient to answer all of our questions during the contract signing and offering process. They never pressured us to go in any particular direction but merely provided information to allow us to make an educated decision. Having worked with them, we now know to always have a real estate agent when viewing properties and signing contracts. Getting the right real estate agent is always challenging but you can save yourself time, money and effort with the Ricafort team of Francis and Willa.

Post closing, we ordered items online and forgot to change the shipping address to our new address, we contacted Francis and Willa and they helped us out by contacting the home buyers and picking up our packages. We are grateful to see that the real estate service from Francis and Willa didn’t end once our property closed.

I had the pleasure of working with Francis summer of 2023 - with his help, I made an offer under the house's market value, and the offer was accepted.

In the competitive landscape of buying a house in the Bay Area post-COVID, my search for the perfect house was rough. After months of looking at multiple houses and making offers with different realtors, my rate of success was 0. I knew I needed to change my strategy, but I lacked guidance from my previous realtors.

When I finally made the move over to Francis, I immediately felt a shift of energy in the house search. He asked me all the right questions and provided deep analysis along with his expert opinion on all the properties I was eyeing. He was good at flagging bad actors from the seller side who inflated list prices, or had dubious behaviors when it came to disclosures, which saved us a lot of time.

The first offer we decided to go in on, he was there by my side guiding me on every move. We analyzed the comps along with the seller's needs and aligned on a price along with some other strategic moves. Within a few hours, my offer was accepted. Even after we closed our contract, he was still there every step of the way, whether it was questions for the seller, coordinating rent-backs and the move, or even questions with my lender, he helped out in every way he could.

Francis is great at what he does. Finding the perfect house is tough in the Bay Area, but working with him can definitely alleviate your stress, and increase your success rate.

Francis and Willa are fabulous realtors with selling and buying. Our house was sold in a weekend, with multiple offers, and above the asking price. They were thorough and professional and great to work with. I would definitely recommend them to whoever is looking to buy or sell a home.

This is our very first home ever. We worked with Francis from The Ricafort Team. He was very detailed and during our introduction he went thought the whole process in detail and answered all our question and made us very comfortable with the process and gather our preference and help set expectation based on our budget.

He send out a regular updated on the new homes and encourage us to go visit as many open houses as possible to get the feel for it. After we found our home during the bidding process he went though in detail about the home inspection report and also come in-person to the home to view the home to give the idea of what to look for. When we were deciding for the price gave walked through all the possible bid amount and other contingencies that are within the range and explained the possible exception on those offer and make a successful offer.

There were few hiccup along the way after the bidding and he explained us everything and was very communicative with the sell help putting use both in a ease. Even after closing the home we found few issue that the seller was not able to resolve but Francis was very diligent and followed up to helped get it fixed as a token of appreciation.

This journey for us was very quick, were we spend only a month with them, which speaks volumes for the work he did. Would highly recommend them!

Thanks for this amazing experience!

I recently had the pleasure of working with Francis to purchase our dream home. From start to finish, it was an absolute pleasure! From our initial conversations and throughout the whole process, Francis was professional. He is highly knowledgeable about the local market. At each step in the whole process, Francis made sure to Prioritize us and consistently found ways to get us the best deal possible. He ensured every detail was taken care of. I would highly recommend him for your real estate needs. Thank you Francis!

Really loved working with Francis in the process of buying my house. He is thorough professional and would go an extra mile to research about house, neighbourhood and competitive info. He would work passionately with other agent to secure the deal. Post deal he helped with different professionals to remediate issues. I would recommend him to all looking to buying or selling house.

- We are first time home buyers and getting Francis as our realtor is really a boon.

- Most appreciative aspect about him is the process he have and sticking to it at every step.

- Lot of learning throughout those processes from perspective of realtor and buyer.

- With more iteration of repeating the same process with every bidding, we were closer to getting our home matching all the criteria we were looking for.

- Overall, I would highly recommend Francis as a realtor especially if you are a first time home buyer.

We had a pleasure working with Francis and Ricafort team. Francis truly went above and beyond to help us find our dream house. Being first time home buyers we had lots of questions about the process and we were guided through the entire process thoroughly. He took the time to listen to my preferences and requirements and provided valuable insights that helped me make informed decisions.

Overall, we had a incredibly positive experience and I would highly recommend them to anyone in search of a reliable and trustworthy real estate agent.

Francis helped my family get our first dream house! The process of getting our house as a first time buyer was not traditional: On top of the usual - make an offer, escrow, close - we had a lot of extra back and forth with the selling agent that was not easy to work with. Francis was a trooper by helping us work through the back and forth and getting on calls within minutes to discuss anything as well as sending communications during late hours of the day to help us take hold of precious time during the time sensitive interactions in this buying process. I probably asked what felt like a thousand questions during this time, and Francis had the patience to answer and walk me through each question very thoroughly to help me understand and think through the process for myself. I think this is very important, so that no one makes a decision to buy a house just because. Francis does not push you to make any decisions at all; everything was completely up to me after he laid out all the options we could think of. I bought my house feeling this is what I needed and I had an incredible agent to help me obtain it.
A great example of Francis' proactiveness that was key to secure the house was that in the beginning, the house was pending with another buyer, but Francis did not give up and proactively stayed in contact with the seller agent to see if that buyer backs out. They did! So we had an exclusive opportunity to make an offer and get it accepted without competition. All of this would not have happened without Francis' close communication with the seller agent.
I recommend Francis to anyone who is looking to buy a house or constantly losing the battle of securing escrow. His proactiveness, willingness to listen and work with your needs and constraints, and vast experiences in different approaches in real estate will take you from point A to point closing only in a matter of time.

I used the Ricafort Team to sell my house in Fremont. They made several recommendations to upgrade the property and provided services to make any repairs and improvements. They always kept in touch and followed up with a progress report and were available anytime I called. Best service and experience.

We would happily and proudly recommend Francis and Willa Ricafort to anyone in the housing market. They are the best in delivering client-first service in the competitive bay area housing market.

We reached out to Francis Ricafort about buying a house and were amazed by his knowledge, patience, and systematic approach to home buying. During our first meeting, he explained to us all the steps and responsibilities of various stakeholders, discussion on neighborhoods and their relative merits etc, based on our budget.throughout the home buying process.

Francis provided immensely valuable feedback on the houses we shortlisted, and he is extremely diligent and quick in giving the input, which made the whole process prompt and thorough. He highlighted several aspects like return-on-investment, neighborhood, and affordability for each house, which helped us further shortlist the homes for the offer process.

Francis diligently explained the seller disclosures and home inspection reports for all the houses we shortlisted. He walked us through various aspects of those reports and how to estimate the impact of the issues listed in the reports on the overall house condition, repair costs, etc. Francis and Willa made this process extremely simple, informative, and confident for us. They gave their honest and fair opinion on each house we shortlisted, mentioning both pros and cons. This helped us understand the details that are generally overlooked by first-time homebuyers like us but are quite crucial.

During the offer process, Francis discussed the fair price, contingencies, etc, and continuously updated us about the discussions with the listing agent. Francis and Willa always have the clients' best interests throughout the process. Francis worked tirelessly for days preparing the best offer, negotiating with the listing agent, etc. Francis and Willa further negotiated and reduced the selling price even after signing the contract, demonstrating their dedication to the client's best interests.

We were extremely comfortable working with Francis and Willa throughout the process. They made all the conversations extremely pleasant and confident. We are forever indebted to them for helping us throughout this process. We cherish the home buying experience with them forever.

Finally, to all the prospective homebuyers, we can confidently say that you will be in safe hands with Francis and Willa Ricafort We sincerely recommend you to go with them for all your real estate needs.

Francis and team are highly experienced and dedicated folks to work with. Francis has an incredible work ethic and invaluable insight when it comes to real estate. He's super responsive, has an incredible eye for detail, has been doing this for a long time and it really shows! You cannot go wrong with Francis and Willa and I strongly recommend them to anyone in the market for a home.

Francis and Willa were able to help us meet our short-notice goal. We signed a contract to buy a new construction home in the valley and then reached out to the Ricafort team to discuss selling our home in Fremont, CA. Our goal was to sell the home before the new construction home was completed. Unfortunately, the market started to shift during this time and it was obvious that we were no longer in a hot seller’s market. This worried us, but Francis and Willa provided an estimated timeline and got to work quickly. They were able to get our home show ready and held open houses on two different weekends in order to have as many potential buyers come and see the home. We were lucky enough to have the home listed for sale for only 14 days before getting a couple of offers. We accepted an offer and closed about 40 days before our new construction home completed date! We could not be happier with Francis and Willa. They listened to our needs and goals and made our dreams a reality, just in time for Christmas. Thank you Ricafort team!

Francis and Willa are great person. The process of buying the home was very simple. They went with us through the process step by step. They are very highly recommended.

We met Francis at an open house and found him very informative and pleasant. He was very thorough throughout the whole process of finding and closing our first home in California. He is extremely resourceful and was always available to answer our questions and respond quickly to our phone calls and emails, regardless of the time of day. Unlike other real estate agents whom we have used in the past, he never rushed or pushed us into making any decisions. We are thankful to have met Francis in our home-buying journey and highly recommend him to anyone looking for a home.