A native of Santa Barbara, I grew up with a wonderful family and very involved with sports that I continue to enjoy today... surfing, climbing, skiing and snowboarding. While attending UCSB, I left to Europe for the summer after my freshman year to play on the professional tennis satellite circuit. While the tennis went well, I felt completely energized by the culture over in Europe and the opening of my eyes to so many different ways of life and thinking. I returned to UCSB and focused on my junior year in which I then studied abroad in Salzburg, Austria. Both of these events changed me and lead me to have one immediate major goal in my life... to travel around the world. Four days after I graduated from UCSB in 1992, I left on a one-way ticket back to Europe. I spent roughly the next 4 years working abroad in Austria, Germany, Japan and New Zealand while traveling often to over 50 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, South and Central America and the South Pacific.

After much adventure I returned to the U.S. and lived in Telluride, Colorado and Lake Tahoe, California before attending Thunderbird-- The American Graduate School of International Management where I received my MBA in 1999. Upon graduating, I very much wanted to return home and moved back here to Santa Barbara in late 1999. I am very happy to be back home and am now married to a wonderful Dutch woman, whom I met while doing an internship in the Netherlands during my second year at Thunderbird.

Why Choose Kevin Schmidtchen?

I consider myself your Santa Barbara Realtor. You will receive expertise, professionalism, integrity, honesty, loyalty, service and knowledge of Santa Barbara and its real estate market in any transaction with me. Because I very much enjoy my job selling real estate and love Santa Barbara, I am committed to the highest standard in my profession. The majority of my very successful business is through referrals from people whom I have helped to buy or sell a home in Santa Barbara. As the result of satisfied clients, I have succeeded in building a wonderful referral base of single individuals, couples and families who are happy to recommend my services to their friends, families and colleagues.

Please let me know where your needs are at with regards to real estate in Santa Barbara, Montecito, Goleta and the surrounding areas. I can assist you with luxury real estate, beachfront homes, oceanfront homes, view homes, vacation homes, gated communities, new homes, real estate development, single family homes, condominiums, town homes, income property, and land.

Experience

2001 - PRESENT - Real Estate Professional
2000 - 2001 -- Marketing Manager at Islands Media
1999 - 2000 -- Director, Sales & Marketing at GrokBot Inc.

Education

Thunderbird - The American Graduate School of Int'l Management - MBA 1999
UCSB - Law & Society - B.A. 1992
Languages - English (native), Dutch (very good), German (good)