Services
Your next move may start with a home search, a property that needs preparation, or a sale you need to complete before buying again. I help work through the decisions and coordinate the practical steps. My focus is Valley Village, Sherman Oaks, and Studio City, with service shaped around what you need to accomplish.
We'll start with your priorities, your lender-confirmed options, and the locations that fit your daily life. I help you look beyond a listing's presentation and think about the property, condition, and setting. If your purchase depends on selling another home, we plan for that from the beginning.
You don't need to decide on renovations alone. I help weigh what is worth doing, arrange the work, and prepare the home for photos, showings, and sale. That can include cleanout, donations, painting, flooring, lighting, and staging, depending on the property.
An inherited property can involve practical work before it is ready to list. I've helped coordinate estate sales, cleanouts, painting, lighting, staging, and a roof replacement on a trust sale. We'll decide what the home needs and who should handle each part. Your attorney, trustee, and other qualified advisers handle legal and tax questions within their roles.
First, we look at estimated sale proceeds, lender-confirmed buying options, and whether your purchase needs to depend on a sale. I've worked with sale contingencies, sales followed by negotiated rent-backs, and purchases supported by family borrowing. The right sequence depends on the circumstances and what the other parties agree to.
If you cannot be here to manage preparation, I can help coordinate the local work and keep you involved in the decisions. Working with out-of-town sellers is a regular part of my business — in Sherman Oaks, Woodland Hills, Valley Village, and beyond — including owners who were overseas throughout the preparation and sale.
A plan for your situation
Seller preparation
Before spending on updates, let’s weigh the work, cost and timing for your particular home.
Request my preparation planIn one real sale, I coordinated a cleanout, shelter donations with receipts, contractors, a designer and staging while the owner was in England. Read the preparation story.
Selling & buying
We’ll work through estimated proceeds, lender-confirmed options, preparation and the timing between two moves.
Plan my sale and purchaseI’ve helped clients use sale contingencies, negotiated rent-backs and family funding. See how these options work.
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