Our real estate professionals provided valuable guidance to a client with respect to refreshing a 50-year old, dated looking home. We provided feedback in selecting gorgeous updates, including stainless steel appliances, modern cabinetry, appealing kitchen and bathroom polished flooring, and bright refreshing exterior/interior colors throughout. We also recommended staging the home with light colored, clean looking furniture that created an open feel. Utilizing proprietary strategic methodologies, analytics and our years of experience, we enabled our client’s home to garner numerous competitive offers and went into contract within 10 days of listing for $1,300,000, which was $300,000 above the original list price of $988,000 and one of the highest sales prices per square foot in the area.

One of our Buyer clients had previously sold an investment property several months before engaging us, and was interested in performing a 1031 deferred exchange to roll over funds from that sale to a new exchange property. Under the strict timing rules of the 1031 exchange, there was very little time to identify an appropriate exchange property and close on a sale particularly since the timing happened to coincide with the Christmas holidays. The Realtybates team jumped into action and worked tirelessly and quickly to identify and assist the client in closing on a new construction home offered by one of the large home builders all within the time limits and successfully deferred hundreds of thousands of dollars in capital gains. In addition, under our generous cash rebate incentive program, Realtybates provided to and the client received tens of thousands of dollars cash back from a portion of the fees that homebuilders pay us as a referring broker when one of our clients closes a purchase of a home from them. Across California and the State of Washington (through our partner broker), we have and continue to assist clients in buying new construction homes offered by Home Builders in growing communities, and offer to share a portion of the home builder broker referral fee as a cash rebate.

A very nice couple sought our guidance in selling a home in San Francisco that was held in one of their parent’s revocable trusts to enable them to provide down-payment assistance to their son who was interested in beginning his real estate journey by buying his first home in Orange County. Our Realtybates professionals actively listened to our Seller client and came up with an effective plan that would enable them to accomplish both their objectives, including selling the home held in trust located in San Francisco, and thereafter purchasing a home in Orange County for their son. We successfully and seamlessly navigated the Seller client to sell the San Francisco home, which went into contract within 2 weeks at a premium of hundreds of thousands of dollars above the original list price. Thereafter, we quickly pivoted and began strategizing with the couple’s son who lived in Orange County and helped him identify and then close on a beautiful (and what he calls his dream home) in Orange County with top rated schools and a family oriented community. We are particularly proud of the fact that the couple reached out later that year and once again utilized us to assist them in buying a second home very close to the one their son purchased in Orange County. Truly a multi-generational success story!