I am honored to have been selected once again as a Five Star Home Professional, representing an elite group of less than 2% of real estate agents in San Francisco! The award appears in the November issue of San Francisco Magazine. According to the group that sponsors the award, the research process incorporates a statistically valid sample in order to identify the professionals in the local market who score highest in overall satisfaction. This is a review by an independent …
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2022 Real Trends America’s Best Real Estate Professional
Top 1.5% of 1.6 Million Agents Nationwide
2022 Real Trends America’s Best Real Estate Professional
Top 1.5% of 1.6 Million Agents Nationwide
Category: Thoughts & Tidbits
I was about to write a post today regarding the SF market but decided to write something different. I don’t know about you but all of this news about the Syrian refugees is very sad and hard to get out of my mind. It’s especially hard to see photos of frightened children walking along or being carried by their parents. I am in the home business and these people are being brutally chased from their homes. If they don’t leave, …
One of the benefits of buying a home in San Francisco is that it opens you up to lodging around the world for free! How does this happen you may wonder. One site that offers you the chance to exchange homes is called HomeExchange.com. My husband, Michael, and I have enjoyed exchanging homes with people locally and around the world for a fee of about $100 a year through this website. We have stayed in beautiful homes and apartments in …
Several months ago I received a call from a client whose home I had sold. She said to me, “I think you are going to be in the November issue of San Francisco magazine.” Really? She had received a call from someone who questioned her about the quality of my service as a real estate professional during the sale of her home, and she gave me glowing reviews! In June, I was contacted and asked to respond to a questionnaire …
October is breast cancer awareness month! Recently, I walked in a Komen event to raise money for breast cancer programs. Komen SF Bay Area helps to meet the health needs of low income, under-insured and uninsured women and men in the SF Bay Area by applying 75% of the net funds to the breast health needs in the community, and the remaining 25% goes towards research <http://ww5.komen.org/researchgrants/researchgrants.html> to find the causes and cures for breast cancer. I walked with my …
One of my favorite cafes in North Beach is Mario’s. In 1987, before my husband, Michael, and I moved to San Francisco, we visited his sister, Ravenna, and her husband, Chuck. Ravenna took me to North Beach to a place called Mario’s Bohemian Cigar Store for lunch. The cigars are no longer there but the café, a long time favorite of mine, still is. At that time, I would have ordered a meatball sandwich (before I swore off beef) and …
Where can you go in San Francisco to watch a sailboat race, walk a sandy trail along the water and grab a delicious caprese sandwich at the Beach Hut? If you guessed Crissy Field, you just guessed one of my favorite spots in the city and I did all of those things when I went for a walk there this past weekend. Ever since this area, which was a former Army airfield, was developed and opened to the public in …
My new listing at Portside II in South Beach would make a sweet pied-à-terre or perfect urban retreat. It will be open this Saturday and Sunday from 2 to 4! www.Portside614N.com …
It’s complicated. I just came back from an amazing adventure in Cuba so I thought I’d pass on some of what I learned. I went there with my husband on an educational cultural tour with City College of San Francisco. Until the last few years, you could not buy a home in Cuba; however, you could swap homes with someone else. A three bedroom apartment in Havana today costs between $30,000 and $50,000. While by SF standards, this sounds like …