Laura is a Castro Valley, California Real Estate Agent who is licensed in the State of California and works out of the Coldwell Banker in Castro Valley, CA. Currently Laura has not left a welcome message or submitted a photo, so please feel free to leave a review of Laura or email Laura Rivera to ask them to sign up and update their profile.
What year did you become a real estate agent?
1991
How many years have you been in Real Estate?
16 years in August 2007.
What is the average home price in your market?
$600-800's
Are there any new developments or trends in your area?
There are still new homes in the valley being built, lots of infill homes in urban communities.
Why do you enjoy being a real estate agent?
It is different strokes for different folks. You meet a lot of people with different personalities and end up making a lot of friends for life. By being able to help solve a problem for either buyer or seller. For a buyer who is able to achieve the American Dream of home ownership, for a seller who was able to move on and continue to where they want to go, on time!
What is the most challenging issue you face as a Real Estate Professional?
The changing market! You better be prepared to welcome the changed market, from being sellers market to buyer's market. For a seller, who wants to sell now and is now saying, "I missed the boat", and for a buyer who wants to buy now and is saying, " I want to see how low this market shall go".
Tell us one of your client success stories or an interesting moment in your profession.
That was year 2000. I was on a floor call from this woman who wants to buy a $600K-700K home (it is worth about 900-1 million at present). I made an appointment to meet her face to face in my office. She came in by herself in a taxicab. With the way she looked, I was thinking, could she really be a real buyer? To make a long story short, she bought a $700K home from me, financed by her boyfriend. The moral of the story: looks are deceiving, I always have to remember the Julia Roberts' Pretty Woman movie. You can't judge a book by it's cover.
What is your best characteristic?
The 3 P's:
Patience
Perseverance
Persistence
Who or what inspires you the most?
My husband and my two boys as they learned the 3 P's of life growing up into adulthood!
What is the best advice you ever received?
From a GRI instructor: She said,
Never go through a red light, if you get caught, there are severe consequences.
If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?
Here in the Bay Area, Northern CA, US. There is nothing like the Bay Area.