Sackin-Stone Team
DIFFERENT AND BETTER SINCE 1988

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Coastal OC Home Sellers

Sell your Huntington Beach home with the team that sold your neighbor's.

And the one across the street. And the one her parents owned before.

1,500+ closed coastal OC homes since 1988. One primary agent runs your listing from first call to final signature. Recent HB sale: $70,000 over asking. Want to know what yours could do?

  • Free comparative market analysis within 48 hours
  • Professional listing photo, video, and 20+ syndicated marketing platforms
  • One primary agent. Same person, first call to keys.

574 five-star reviews
across every major platform

Google ★★★★★ 238 reviews Zillow ★★★★★ 186 reviews Yelp ★★★★★ 78 reviews Facebook ★★★★★ 42 reviews Realtor.com ★★★★★ 30 reviews

HOW MOST AGENTS LIST YOUR HOME

They list it. They hope. They cut the price.

Most listings follow the same script. The agent drops your home onto MLS, runs a Sunday open house, and waits. If it doesn’t sell in 30 days, they ask you to lower the price. Sixty days in, they suggest a bigger drop. Ninety days in, your home is the listing on the block that “won’t move,” and a different agent is calling to take over.

That’s not selling. That’s listing and waiting.

How we work

We list it like we mean it.

When you list with the Sackin-Stone Team, your home goes live on day one with professional photo and video, hits 20+ syndicated platforms simultaneously, runs paid digital ads inside the radius of likely buyers, and gets open-housed every Sunday until offers come in.

A Certified Negotiation Expert leads the offer negotiations. A certified Transaction Coordinator owns every disclosure and deadline. Your primary agent is on the phone with you, not delegating to an assistant.

The team’s most recent HB sale closed $70,000 over the list price. That’s what marketing the listing actually looks like.

THE PLAN

Twelve steps. Refinded over 38 years.

Every listing this team has handled since 1988 has moved through this same framework. The steps haven’t changed because they work. What changes is how we execute each one as the market and technology change.

This is what you sign up for when you list with us.

01

Marketing Analysis

We pull every comparable sale in your neighborhood from the last 6 months, plus what's currently on the market and what's failed to sell. You see the data we use to recommend a price.

02

Pricing

We recommend a list price based on the analysis, your timeline, and your goals. We tell you what we think your home will sell for and why. You make the final call.

03

Home Preparation

We walk through your home and identify the highest-return repairs and improvements. Sometimes it's $0. Sometimes it's $5,000 that earns you $50,000 more at closing. We help you decide what's worth it.

04

Staging

Empty rooms look smaller. Cluttered rooms look chaotic. We help you stage what you have, or coordinate with a professional stager when the property warrants it. Coastal homes especially need this.

05

Marketing

Professional photography. 3D walkthrough video. Listing copy written by our marketing team. Listing goes live on MLS, Zillow, Realtor.com, Redfin, and 20+ syndicated platforms the same day.

06

Showings

Open houses every Sunday until offers come in. Private showings by appointment. Your primary agent attends the first weekend of showings personally and provides feedback after every showing.

07

Offers

Every offer gets fully evaluated, not just for price. We assess buyer qualification, contingencies, timing, and deposit strength. You see a full breakdown of each offer side by side.

08

Negotiation

Lane Stone is a Certified Negotiation Expert (CNE). The team has negotiated more than 1,500 transactions across every market condition since 1988. We don't accept the first offer and we don't push you to either.

09

Contract

Once you accept an offer, the contract goes through escrow. We coordinate with the buyer's agent, the buyer's lender, the title company, and every other party involved. You don't manage anyone.

10

Paperwork

Joanne Chaikovsky, our certified Transaction Coordinator, owns every disclosure, every deadline, every signature, and every escrow milestone. Nothing slips.

11

Closing

You sign final documents. Funds release. Keys transfer. The whole closing usually takes 30–45 days from accepted offer to recorded sale, depending on financing.

12

Beyond

Most teams disappear at closing. We're the team your neighbor called five years later when they were ready to buy. The relationship doesn't end at the closing table.

WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE IN NUMBERS

Recent seller results

Three specific outcomes from recent Sackin-Stone listings. Not industry averages. Not “we estimate.” Actual closings.

OVER ASKING PRICE
$ 0

Huntington Beach single-family home, listed and closed by Scott, Lane, and Philip in 2024.

HOMEOWNERSHIP, ONE LISTING
0 Years

Philip and team sold an HB home of 50 years, navigating a complex multi-generational process from list to close.

PATIENT REPRESENTATION
0 Months

Lane represented Orange County buyers across 11 months and 6 offers until the right home was secured at the right price.

No asterisks. No upsells.

What you get when you list with us.

Every item to the right is included in our standard listing service. There are no add-on fees, no “premium” packages, no upsells.

The commission you pay covers all of it.

Before launch

  • Comparative Market Analysis with comps and recent failed listings
  • Pricing strategy session
  • Pre-listing walkthrough and improvement recommendations
  • Staging consultation with a professional stager when warranted
  • Professional listing photography
  • Professional 3D virtual tour and video walkthrough
  • Listing copy written by our in-house marketing team

At launch

  • Listing distributed across MLS, Zillow, Realtor.com, Redfin, and 20+ platforms
  • Targeted Google Ads campaign inside the buyer geo-radius
  • Meta and Instagram ad campaign
  • Email outreach to our active buyer and partner agent network
  • Listing featured on SackinStoneTeam.com with visibility tracking
  • "Just Listed" community announcement (postcard, social, network)

During the transaction

  • Open house every Sunday until offers come in
  • Private showings by appointment, with feedback after each
  • Full offer evaluation with side-by-side comparison
  • Certified Negotiation Expert leads all negotiations
  • Certified Transaction Coordinator owns every disclosure and deadline
  • Escrow coordination with all parties — you don't manage anyone

Why “Best in Marketing”

Where most agents stop, our marketing team starts.

Stipe Lasić runs our marketing operation. Long Beach State biochem grad, Google Ads certified, six years on the team. Seven Gables Real Estate has named us “Best in Marketing” year over year. Here’s what that actually means for your listing.

Google & Search Engine Presence

Your listing runs as a paid Google Ads campaign targeting buyers actively searching in your zip code and adjacent zip codes. Your listing appears in Google search results, Google Maps, and Google's discovery feeds inside the buyer's likely radius.

Multi-Platform Syndication

MLS plus 20+ syndicated platforms simultaneously: Zillow, Realtor.com, Redfin, Trulia, Homes.com, plus regional brokerage sites, plus syndicated international platforms for international buyers. Your home is searchable wherever a buyer might look.

Social & Visual Storytelling

Listing photo galleries on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, and TikTok. Targeted Meta ads inside the buyer geo-radius. Reels and short-form video for the platforms where younger buyers and out-of-state relocating buyers actually look first.

The Sackin-Stone Buyer Network

38 years of buyers, sellers, and partner agents in our database. Your listing emails out to the team's active buyer pipeline within 24 hours of going live. Some homes sell to that network before they hit MLS publicly.

SELLERS WHO HIRED THIS TEAM

What it sounds like when it works.

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"$70,000 over asking."

"Absolutely love everyone at Sackin-Stone. Scott, Lane, and Philip are the best. We have listed multiple homes with them over the years and they never disappoint. Most recently our home in Huntington Beach sold for $70,000 over asking. The guys are supported by an excellent team at the office to make sure nothing slips through the cracks. Special shout out to Joanne and Catalina for making sure all the details are covered."

mikeann1011 Repeat seller, Huntington Beach
★★★★★ Zillow
M

"Selling our home of 50 years."

"Philip and the Sackin Stone Team went so far above and beyond our expectations. We felt at all times that Philip had our backs through EVERY detail. He made the process seem easy even though there was so much that had to be done to sell our home of 50 years. We can't imagine any other Realtor having so much patience and understanding through a very complicated process. We can't recommend this team enough."

mm1323371 50-year HB seller
★★★★★ Zillow
SS

"Selling my 91-year-old mother's house."

"Scott and Philip have been part of our family real estate selling and buying over the past 30+ years, and we wouldn't trust anyone else with these major life decisions. Now they are selling my 91 year old mother's house that she has lived in for over 40 years. Their sincerity, kindness and understanding of this difficult time for my mother has made the situation such a pleasant one."

Sandra S. Selling parent's longtime HB home
★★★★★ Google
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Not ready to talk yet? Start here.

The Coastal OC Seller's Guide.

A 24-page guide covering everything we walk through with a seller during the first conversation: how to price, what to fix and what to leave alone, when to list, what to expect during escrow, and the Prop 19 transition rules if you’re right-sizing.

Written by Lane, Scott, and Philip. Updated annually.

Get the guide.

No drip sequence. We send the guide and one follow-up email asking if you have questions. That’s it.

Our Promise

You can cancel your listing anytime. No penalty.

Most listing agreements lock you in for 6 months. If you're not happy with how the agent is performing, you're stuck.

We don't operate that way.

If at any point during your listing you're not satisfied with how we're representing your home, you can cancel without penalty. No early-termination fee. No commission owed for showings or marketing.

We've earned 574 five-star reviews because we don't operate any other way. We earn the listing every week.

Frequently asked

The questions every seller asks before signing the listing agreement.

We hear the same questions in every first conversation. Here are the answers in writing, so you can read them on your own time before we ever talk.

How do you price my home?

We pull every comparable sale in your neighborhood from the last 6 months, every active listing currently competing with you, and every recent listing that failed to sell and why. We share the full analysis. We recommend a list price based on the data, your timeline, and your goals. You make the final call.

We don’t recommend the highest possible price to win the listing and then push you down later. Overpriced homes sit. Sitting kills the listing.

Median time on market in coastal OC currently runs 25–45 days from list to accepted offer, with another 30–45 days through escrow to close. Some sell in days. Some take longer if priced ambitiously.

The team’s strongest recent listings have closed at or above asking within the first 14 days of marketing. The longer ones are typically priced-up properties where the seller is willing to wait for the right buyer.

The seller pays commission at closing as a percentage of the final sale price. We discuss the specific commission structure during our first conversation because it depends on the listing price, the marketing investment required, and whether the buyer is also represented by our team.

What we can say up front: every deliverable on this page is included in our standard listing service. No add-ons, no upsells, no surprise fees.

Two paths.

First, we re-evaluate. Is the price wrong? Is the marketing reaching the wrong audience? Is the property showing badly? We adjust and relaunch.

Second, you can cancel the listing without penalty. We don’t lock you in. If we haven’t earned the listing, you don’t owe us for the work we did.

This is common. We coordinate showings around the tenant’s schedule, communicate with them respectfully, and handle the legal notice requirements. Most tenants are reasonable when treated with respect. We’ve sold dozens of tenanted properties without disrupting the tenant.

If you’re selling to deliver vacant possession, we help you time the listing around the lease and coordinate the move-out.

Yes. Prop 19 is one of the most common reasons coastal OC homeowners call us. Lane Stone is SRES-certified and has handled dozens of Prop 19 transitions. We coordinate the timing of the sale and the replacement property purchase so the basis transfer happens in the right order.

We’re not your tax advisor. We work alongside yours.

Curious what your home is worth right now?

Tell us the address. We’ll send a real comparative market analysis within 48 hours, prepared by a member of our team, not an automated tool.

Real CMA from a real agent. No spam. No drip campaign.