Meet Your Realtor®

I sell real estate on the Bay Area Peninsula — San Mateo and Santa Clara County, from Burlingame down through Palo Alto and Mountain View. I'm also licensed in North Dakota, which turns out to matter more than you'd think.

Before real estate, I worked in diagnostic imaging and healthcare administration. I'm a registered radiologic technologist in radiography and computed tomography, certified in cardiac CT, and a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt. For 10 years my job was performing scans and improving the processes around them — work where the detail you miss is the one that matters, and where "it's probably fine" is not an acceptable answer.

Then I got an MBA and started buying and selling property myself.

I mention all of that not to list credentials but because it explains how I work. I am not a natural salesperson. What I am is unusually good at reading a disclosure package, noticing the thing that doesn't line up, and telling you about it before you're in escrow rather than after.

Why that matters more here than most places

The Peninsula is a market where the details are expensive. Two houses three blocks apart in Menlo Park can sit in different elementary school districts — there are three inside that one small city. A Redwood City address in Redwood Shores attends a completely different district than the rest of the city. A Carlsbad home might carry a Mello-Roos assessment that adds hundreds a month to a payment that looked affordable. A Burlingame lot might have a protected tree standing exactly where you planned the addition.

None of that is in the listing. All of it is knowable before you write an offer, and almost none of it gets checked. That's the part of this job I'm actually good at, and it's why I've written detailed buyer's guides for every community I work in rather than a page of stock photos and adjectives. If you want to see how I think before you talk to me, take a look at my data-driven strategies on Instagram or read through one of my community guides — that's the same work I'd do on your specific address.

Two states, two very different markets

I'm licensed in California and North Dakota, and a meaningful share of what I do is helping people move between them.

These markets require opposite instincts. On the Peninsula, sellers price below expected value to create competition, buyers routinely waive contingencies, and a home can be in contract in nine days. In Bismarck or Grand Forks, inspection contingencies are normal, homes take weeks to sell, and asking for repairs is expected — not aggressive.

People get hurt when they carry the habits of one market into the other. A California buyer arriving in North Dakota waives protections they didn't need to give up. A Midwest buyer arriving on the Peninsula offers list price and loses eight houses before they understand why. A lot of my job is translation.

How I actually work

Most of the value I add happens before you ever write an offer.

I'll get your financing genuinely competitive, not just pre-qualified. In a market where two-thirds of homes sell over asking, a fully underwritten approval from a lender who closes on the Peninsula regularly is worth more than another twenty thousand on your offer.

I'll read the disclosure package with you. Sellers here publish inspections, pest, and title up front specifically so buyers can waive contingencies. That only works in your favor if someone has actually read it.

I'll verify the things that are expensive to get wrong. School district assignment for the exact address, in writing from the district. Flood zone and actual insurance quote. Mello-Roos and HOA carrying costs. What's permittable on the lot if your plan depends on building.

And I'll tell you when a house isn't worth what it's about to sell for. That is not always what people want to hear on a Saturday afternoon, and I'd rather say it than watch you overpay by two hundred thousand dollars for a kitchen you were going to replace anyway.

What I'm not

I'm not going to pressure you. I don't have a script and I'm not going to follow up eleven times because a CRM told me to.

I'm also not going to pretend to know a market I don't. If you're looking somewhere outside my area, I'll say so and connect you with someone good. I'd rather send you to the right person than take a listing I can't serve properly.

Let's talk

If you're thinking about buying or selling on the Peninsula, San Diego, or North Dakota, I'd like to hear what you're working with. No pressure, no pitch. Tell me your timeline, your budget, and what's driving the move, and I'll tell you honestly whether I can help.