About Yana

Yana helped us purchase our vacation home in Strawberry, CA, and was an absolute delight to work with. I highly recommend her. She is very knowledgeable about the area and provided us with great guidance. She guided us to look at other great properties in the area in addition to the initial list we had created and gave us great advice about what to watch for when reviewing homes in the area. She has a good understanding of construction and was able to help us understand what challenges we’d face in a home in the High Sierras (woodpeckers, moisture, winter access, etc.) as we are from the Bay Area. In addition to helping us select the perfect home, Y...

My wife and I personally interviewed several agents before we began our search for the “perfect” cabin. I met Yana through online searches because we live in San Diego. When we finally visited Twain Harte, Yana stood out head and shoulders above the rest. She was exceptionally calm, composed, professional, and an excellent listener. She spent a day taking us to many properties and focused on learning what we were truly looking for. We had very specific requirements for a rustic cabin, location, and lake access. She zeroed in and found it. Yana is from Twain Harte. She knows the community and is very well-connected. She found our cabin before it went...

Yana was the best. I would highly recommend her to anyone seeking an experienced realtor with great knowledge of the area, being a local herself. She was great, extremely timely in responding getting back to us, often almost immediately, and accommodating to us in squeezing us into her busy schedule for showings, she went far and beyond what I've seen other realtors do. Yana had to deal with an extremely difficult seller's agent and through her constant calls and perseverance, got the job done and us into the home just in time for the holidays. I only wish she could have collected the full commission as she did the other realtors' job as well as her...

We had a unique situation where my grandparents had a sudden and significant health event resulting in us having to move them closer to family. I reached out to Yana and explained our situation and that I would be up there a week here and there to slowly move my grandparent’s things and clean out the house before listing it. Yana came over during one of my trips up there to take a look at the home, answer my questions, and give suggestions and recommendations. Yana is so knowledgeable about the area and the housing market. As the market shifted, she pulled updated comps and kept us informed of the changes. She was also great at responding to my rand...

Doesn’t get better than Yana Vass. She came through at every level helping me purchase my dream cabin in Twain Harte. Highly recommended. Yana’s skills as an agent are exemplary. She did a great job representing my interests from viewing to closing and she’s professional, punctual, and personable. She has a solid grip on construction and was quick to analyze the roof deck and home quality and the inspection report. And she’s a local, so she’s dialed into the market and has extensive knowledge of Twain Harte and Tuolumne County. Yana was great post-closing too, providing a list of local resources (utilities, handyman, flooring, electrician, plow, etc...

I called Yana in the morning to get some general questions answered about some properties in the area. She was extremely responsive and knowledgeable about the area. Due to Covid, the market has been slammed with buyers and sellers. To make it extremely harder for her, I wanted to come up to San Jose the same day to view some properties in the area. Being last minute, she was able to show 6 properties that fit my style during our phone conversation that morning. A week later from seeing the houses with her, we are currently closing on a house. Thank you, Yana, for helping us and dealing with our tight schedule. I will use Yana again for our next pur...