The Dana Schaefer Team - Compass

Dana is absolutely wonderful to work with! My partner and I had ever so slightly different ideas of what we wanted when purchasing a place, but Dana worked with us to find a place that we both love. She is extremely responsive, and goes above and beyond in ensuring that things move along in a timely fashion. In addition, she also took the time out of her busy schedule to ensure that we were properly settled in to our place after the closing had taken place. This website only allows me to give five stars, but I would definitely award extra marks if I could! :

We had a stellar experience with Dana as our realtor when we sold our place in Cambridge: she really does go above and beyond for her clients. She is extremely fast to respond and clear on email, quick to return calls, and is all round professional and patient. Her deep knowledge of the Cambridge area is a huge plus though no doubt she does awesome work elsewhere, too. We had to quickly do some repairs on our place to ready it for sale and she managed to contact and us up with several excellent tradespeople, who showed up and did the repairs right away for a very fair price. She personally oversaw their work every step of the way and made sure it was done well and on time. We've moved a couple of times in the last five years and in our experience it is very unusual for a real estate person to be this engaged, connected, knowledgeable and proactive. She really is a talented agent and we couldn't have made the sale without her!

Dana Schaefer found us a home! It was hard to find what we wanted, but she was incredibly patient, never got frustrated with us, or discouraged over a couple of years of searching. Dana was also helpful in that she is very knowledgeable about house construction and systems, as well as having good home inspectors on her list. We bid on more than one property over the two years, and she provided great support to us. And at the successful end, she provided useful context and a steady hand to help us put our bid together. Dana would be our first recommendation to anyone looking in the Cambridge area including Belmont, Somerville, Arlington, Watertown.

My wife Jenn and I worked with Dana Shaefer and Lisa Drapkin Compass and we highly recommend their work as seller agents. Both of them provided excellent service and made us feel comfortable at each step of the way. In our particular house sale, we needed to start and finish some renovations and fix-ups to our house. Lisa and Dana brought in a contractor and kept us appraised of all the details, through emails and phone calls. They advised, selected, and purchased new fixtures and other items. They also arranged for photography, a for-sale website, and staging services. The results were fantastic! They displayed extraordinary timing by moving our open house to the weekend before the Massachusetts stay-at-home order, and this helped tremendously. Finally, they guided us on pricing and offers, and their experience was so helpful. We were very happy that they were our agents and we highly recommend them!

Dana is by far the most agile, competent and organized realtor we have ever had the pleasure of working with. If you need someone who is the very best for your real estate purchase or sale I would highly recommend Dana. We were moving across the country, and so had to do almost everything remotely via FaceTime, email and text. Dana handled everything beautifully, even as the various stay-at-home orders were going into effect, and complications piled up. In a world with so many uncertainties, Dana is definitely the person you want to help you through these critical choices.

In these difficult times of Covid 19, we were very lucky to have Lisa and Dana team. They helped us on every step of our quite complicated transaction, starting with condo conversion, repairs including emergencies, staging, navigating and reviewing complex condo documents, negotiating with lawyers and potential buyers, and more. All the people they recommended were top notch like Lisa and Dana themselves. We were not inexperienced, it was our fifth real estate transaction. But for the first time, we realized how indispensable real estate brokers could be. Thank you, Lisa and Dana.