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Your advice about selling in the spring, about using Gary’s services for renovations and staging, hiring an excellent and reasonably priced moving company and advertising our house worldwide as well as nationwide (great photos) made the sale as beneficial and quick as it was.

We are and will be happy to recommend you and your services to all who ask. Warmest good wishes to you both for “good fortune” in your work to come.

Bill and Jean Lesher

My husband and I bought our first house in Berkeley with Ira and Carol when we thought it was impossible to find one, they found us a place, they seem to be friends with the whole town, kind, helpful, respectful of our needs, thorough, generous with their time – I cannot recommend them highly enough. When we decided to sell that same house after 22 years, they were there again with their vast experience and came through with great organization and an outcome highly exceeding our expectations!

Judy & David Janse


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Buyers offer the highest price when a home looks its best — that’s why we invest immense effort preparing your home for sale.

Thousand Oaks Berkeley Home - After preparing for sale and staging

Thousand Oaks Berkeley Home - Before preparing for sale and staging

 

Results after transformation … and the before photo

Berkeley Hills Home - Living Room After & Before Staging

Northbrae Neighborhood Home - Living Room After & Before Staging

Northbrae Neighborhood Home - Kitchen After & Before Staging

 

There’s much for us to do before we schedule our professional photographer’s photoshoot and creating our online and print marketing photo portfolio.

Inspections & Analysis

Assemble our team of experts and coordinate their schedules. Review the inspection reports and identify optimal repairs to carry out.

Our Team Of Experts - Inspectors, Electricians, Plumbers, Photographers, Chimney Sweep & Foundation Expert

Updating and Staging

Bring in specialists who know how to make your home look its best

Compilation

Prepare a comprehensive package of your seller disclosures and professional reports.

Comprehensive Property Disclosure Package - thumbnail of reports

 

Marketing

Create compelling marketing copy and photo portfolio for online syndication.

Berkeley Hills Home - our listing showing on local and national real estate web sites

We take care of these details because selling can be stressful, even if you’ll be closer to family or starting a new job. With the experience which comes from having represented over 500 families, we know how to make sure:

You receive the highest possible price for your home

and

The experience as smooth as possible for you!

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As I write this, on this last night before relinquishing ownership, you are in the house putting up a fire alarm to fulfill a last-minute request from the buyer. I cannot thank you enough for making my life as easy as it could have been made during a period of high stress and doubt. I made the right decision to sell and hired the right people to help me.

Grazie Mille!

Janice Spampinato

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View our YouTube video series for an overview of the process.  We feature a concierge/organizer showing the best way to prepare for your move, home stager on how he creates value for our sellers, and an Attorney/CPA on how to transfer your low Proposition 13 Property Taxes to your next home.

Youtube Videos - Preparing Your Home For Sale from our Downsizing Seminar at Julia Morgan's Berkeley City Club

#Serkes #Sellers #Showtime #PreparingForSale

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      Berkeley Real Estate
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