MONIQUE ANTON

EVER SINCE MONIQUE ANTON launched her real estate brokerage Modern Homes Realty in 2012, she has worn her emotions for Eichlers and all things mid-century modern on her sleeve.

She produced two documentary films about Bay Area architecture, including ‘People in Glass Houses: the Legacy of Joseph Eichler,’ and acquired rights to numerous Anshen and Allen and Claude Oakland Eichler architectural plans and updated them for interested parties to build their own Eichler replicas.

Anton has been featured in prominent publications Dwell, Realtor.com, California Home + Design, Curbed, Architect Magazine , and others for her work rejuvenating Eichler homes and specializing in modern home sales. Considered an evangelist for mid-century modern, she has done much to revitalize interest in rescuing and preserving the legacy of these homes. Modern enthusiasts know to contact her for this style of architecture.

At Modern Homes Realty, where she is the firm’s broker and CEO, Anton has assembled a team of agents, consultants, and specialists, which include an architect, a landscape architect, and a videographer.

Through Modern Homes Realty, Anton has sold more than $250 million in real estate. She focuses on strategically marketing mid-century modern properties by emphasizing their unique details, and by providing buyers with a refined vision for their potential new home. She achieves much of this success through eyecatching staging “we know exactly how to make a mid-century modern property stand out” and through marketing with effective video production.

“To entice the best buyers, and to encourage multiple offers, we produce compelling videos that go way beyond standard virtual tour imagery, even setting a new standard for real estate,” says Anton. “Our videos put potential buyers inside the home, highlighting the classic and historical architecture from a unique perspective.”

Anton says she gets the most joy out of bringing life back to mid-century modern homes that have been distressed. “I love seeing home buyers fall in love with the homes once we have fixed them up,” she says of her company’s restoration service.

For Anton, working in the mid-century modern niche is a way of life that is truly enjoyable and rewarding on a daily basis. She purchased a mid-century modern home in Ladera/Portola Valley with her husband and has restored that home as well.

“The clients, design, ambiance, and spirit of the houses give me a sense of peace that I have worked so hard to find in a profession,” she says. “I feel like myself with this work and cherish every day working alongside my team.”

Eichler Real Estate Marketing

Serving the East Bay

415-889-7608

Brokerage: Compass thomas.westfall@compass.com www.ThomasWestfall.com

DRE License #01833889

Thomas Westfall

THOMAS WESTFALL comes from a real estate background his mother put three children through college as an agent which naturally led him to invest in his first of many properties by age 25, and to choose real estate as his second career.

Prior to becoming a top producer for Compass and Alain Pinel Realtors, Westfall spent 20 years in the music business as a marketing executive for major record labels and management groups, and earned over 40 RIAA certified gold and platinum awards.

The two trades are more similar than most people might imagine, Westfall points out, and many of the skills required to successfully develop new music artists have translated well for Westfall to selling properties, especially ones as unique and specialized as Eich lers.

Though he’s a native of the East Bay, Westfall has lived and owned property in the New York area, Chicago, and Los Angeles before returning to the Bay Area in 2004 and becoming a Castro Valley Eichler owner in 2007.

“Although I work with all styles of homes, Eichlers are dear to me,” Westfall says. “Even when they’ ve been altered, there is something in the bones which is easy for me to envision, d raw out in collaboration with the owner, and sell with a proven mix of physical and digital marketing not so different from artist development.”

Westfall says one of his greatest skills is his intuitive sense of pricing. His keen understanding of market forces and timing has proven out time and time again for clients who follow his guidance.

As an Eichler owner, Westfall stays knowledgeable about multiple Eichler communities and has a great sense of not only what’s im-portant to preserve versus change, but also what the cost and effort would be to maximize return on investment.

He’s brought in more than 20 great new neighbors to Castro Valley’s Greenridge, and has worked with Eichler sales in Oakland, Walnut Creek, Concord and even Sacramento.

“One of my fa vorite experiences was selling an Eichler in Sacramento to an English couple relocating from Boston sight unseen,” Westfall says. “They trusted me enough to buy the house without their having ever stepped foot in it, based on my input plus a video walk-through I created. And I’m thrilled to say they love their home.

“The more I learn about Eichler homes and their communities, the more I love the brand and what I do for a living and for my clients.”

NICOLE COLLINS is the daughter of two university professors who moved to the Bay Area from the East Coast in 1971. Her parents settled nicely into the Greenridge Eichler neighborhood of Castro Valley, where Collins was born and where her love for mid-century modern architecture began.

At 17, Collins left home to attend the university. After college, she spent time living in various places, including Belo Horizonte, Brazil to work with underprivileged children in favelas. Her nature of giving back continues, as you’ll often find Collins doing what she can to help those in need.

Returning to California to marry and start a family, she bought her first Bay Area home at age 24. She found that helping others do the same felt incredibly rewarding. With an entrepreneurial spirit and a strong desire to help others, Collins feels fortunate to be an expert in a field that allows her to blend the two.

“I care deeply about people. I go the extra mile to ensure my clients are taken care of,” she says. Her focus on families, community, and the importance of homeownership is clear.

Having lived in Eichler homes for over 34 years, Collins’ unique perspective and connection to the Eichler lifestyle runs deep. In fact, between herself and her family, they have lived in five different Eichler floor plans. Collins purchased her own Eichler, in Castro Valley, in 2006. In 2007 she bought the Eichler next door so her elderly parents could be close.

Collins’ vast experiences living in several Eichler models and being a real estate broker with 22 years of experience makes her uniquely suited to help fellow mid-century modern homeowners bring their own homes to market. Furthermore, like Joe Eichler himself, Collins appreciates and welcomes diversity in her clientele.

Having worked with clients from the Bay Area to Sacramento and from Fort Bragg to Santa Cruz, she notes, “I’ve found that it doesn’t take an ‘area specialist’ to get the job done, but rather a real estate specialist.”

The many connections she’s cultivated over the years with contractors, tradespeople, and vendors, in addition to her eye for interior and exterior design, are valuable assets for her clients when selling or buying real estate.

Collins uses her ability to provide top-of-the-line marketing social media, print, photography, videography, and her ability to evaluate and research specific geographic areas and properties to assist her clients in buying and selling their homes.

“Every client’s story is unique,” Collins says. “I pride myself in truly listening to their needs and making their success my number one priority.”

More Recommended Service Companies

Supplementing our roster of ‘Preferred Service Companies’ profiled throughout this directory, the home-improvement companies listed below also receive a collective thumbs-up from the Eichler Network and Northern California Eichler owners. If you have additional quality service company recommendations for the Network to consider, please e-mail info@eichlernetwork.com. Location codes below: Peninsula (P), South Bay (SB), Marin (M), East Bay (EB), San Francisco (SF)

AIR CONDITIONING & HEATING

Ventwerx (P-SB-EB)

(408) 422-2987 • ventwerx.com

DG Heating and Air Conditioning (SB) (408) 669-3496 • dgheatingandair.com

Alternative HVAC Solutions (P) (650) 322-4328 • alternativehvacs.com

Residential Heating and Air Conditioning (P) (408) 377-4073 • residentialheating-ac.com

Downing Heating, Inc. (M-SF) (415) 485-1011 • downinghvac.com

Air Synergy, Inc. (EB) (925) 510-2037 • airsynergy.com

HVAC MANUFACTURERS

Unico System (800) 527-0896 unicosystem.com/eichler-homes

Painting Contractors

Palladino Painting (P-SB)

(650) 728-4000 • palladinopainting.com

N Style Painting (P-SB) (408) 518-2144 • nstylepainting.com

Greenline Painting (M) (415) 823-4837 • greenlinepaintingca.com

Andres Martinez Painting (M) (415) 847-8024 • paintingam.com

All Surface Painting (EB) (925) 625-9155 • allsurfacepaintingca.com

PLUMBING

Gladiator Repipe (P-SB)

(408) 649-7290 • onedaycopperrepipe.com

Big Blue Plumbing (EB) (510) 939-7870 • bigblueplumbingservice.com

Judieh Plumbing Company (EB) (925) 261-9313 • .judiehplumbing.com

WINDOWS & SLIDING DOORS

Supreme Glass Company (EB) (510) 625-8995 • supremeglass.net

WINDOW & SLIDING DOOR MANUFACTURERS

Fleetwood Windows

(800) 736-7363 • fleetwoodusa.net

Arcadia Architectural Products (323) 908-5467 • arcadiaproducts.com

Blomberg Window Systems

(800) 884-2566 blombergwindowsystems.com

SLIDING DOOR REPAIR

Bay Area Sliding Door Repair (M-SF) (650) 333-5893 • bayareaslidingdoorrepair.com

WINDOW SOLAR FILM

Crystal Shade Window Tinting (SB) (408) 334-7391 • crystalshadetint.com

Tint Guys (P)

(650) 588-1838 • thetintguys.com

WINDOW COVERINGS

Rebarts Interiors (P)

(650) 348-1268 • rebarts.com

Floortex Design of San Rafael (M) (415) 785-4614 • floortexdesign.com

WINDOW WASHING

R:12 Window Cleaning (SB) (408) 372-7712 • r12windowcleaning.com

ELECTRICAL

Divine Electric (M)

(415) 299-0381 • divineelectricnorcal.com

C & J Electric Company (EB) (510) 992-4676 walnutcreekelectricians.com

East Bay Electric (EB) (925) 395-4069 • eastbayelectricinc.com

HANDYMAN SERVICES

Wilson Construction (P-SB) (408) 655-4882

SINGLE-PLY ROOFING

Shadowfax Roofing (SB) (408) 620-6331 • shadowfaxroofing.com

Eastman Roofing & Waterproofing (SB) (408) 971-9000 • eastmanroofing.com

Fidelity Roofing Company (EB) (510) 547-6330 • fidelityroof.com

CONCRETE FLOORING

Robles Concrete Design (P) (415) 690-8174 • roblesconcretedesign.com

OTHER FLOORING

Precision Flooring (SB) (408) 294-1970 • prefloors.com

Slaughterbeck Floors (SB) (408) 379-5813 • slaughterbeckfloors.com

Bay Area Floors and Design (P)

(650) 358-2580 • bayareafloors.com

Flooring Alternatives (EB) (510) 550-4449 flooringalternatives.com

INTERIOR DESIGN

Marshall Interiors (P-SB)

(408) 890-8800 • marshallinteriors.com

Go2 Design Studio (SB)

408-859-9015 • go2designstudio.com

Lucile Glessner Design (P)

(408) 203-6729 • lucileglessnerdesign.com

Design Loft Company (P)

(650) 938-8885 • designloftcompany.com

Mscape Modern Interiors (M-SF)

(415) 543-1771 • mscapesf.com

Project Guru Designs (EB)

(925) 286-0086 • yourprojectguru.com

LIGHTING

Practical Props (online)

(818) 980-3198 • shop.practical props.com

Hip Haven (online)

(512) 462-4755 • hiphaven.com

Illuminee (SB)

(831) 423-1121 • illuminee.com

Coast Lighting (P)

(877) 264-7089 • coastlighting.com/

CABINETRY MANUFACTURERS

Kerf Design

(206) 954-8677 • kerfdesign.com

Doolittle Design Company

(408) 412-1609 • doolittledesign.com

BRAND CABINETRY

Lusso (SB)

(408) 966-1118 • lusso-us.com

Lamperti (M)

(415) 454-1623 • lampertikitchens.com