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- 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
- 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.
Laura Rivera is one of a number of Castro Valley Realtors who works in the Castro Valley, CA office of the Coldwell Banker real estate brokerage.
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