Why Grace Keng?

Top 10 Reasons to Hire Grace Keng as your Listing Agent

Selling  and Buying a home is one of the most complicated decisions we make in life.  You need a profession with experience and training that will guide and represent you.  Here are top 10 reasons why you need Grace to represent you before, during and after your Real Estate transaction.

1. Local Real Estate Experience & Education:

You don’t need to know everything about buying and selling real estate if you hire a real estate professional who does. Henry Ford once said that when you hire people who are smarter than you are, it proves you are smarter than they are. The trick is to choose the right agent when selling and choose the right agent when buying. If you hire someone with little experience, less education and/or minimal motivation…you may be able to save a little on commission, but it can cost you a lot in both time and money i the long run.  Grace is a licensed agent in good standing with the California Department of Real Estate, and a REALTOR® with GRI, SRES and CDPE designations.   She is part of RE/MAX Real Estate Services the most prestigious and distinguished group of real estate professionals in the bay area. Grace has proven over and over that her experience and dedication saves her clients precious time, helps them avoid pitfalls, makes the process as smooth as possible, and saves them more money in the overall transaction.

2. Grace knows how to Market to the buyers

Grace will disclose current market conditions publically not available, which will govern your selling or buying process. Many factors determine how you will proceed and up to date, in depth and real time data such as the average per square foot cost of similar homes, median and average sales prices, average days on market and ratios of list-to-sold prices, among other criteria, will have a huge bearing on what you ultimately decide to do. Grace Keng knows how to market the home to reach the growing  web earching buyers.

3.  Negotiation Skills & Confidentiality

Top producing agents like Grace negotiate well because, unlike most buyers and sellers, they can not remove themselves from the emotional aspects of the transaction. Grace’s goal is to represent her clients for life, and she is skilled and trained to know how to prevent short term needs from sacrificing long term goals.  Grace is not a messenger, she does not simply deliver buyer’s offers to sellers and vice versa.  She is a professional who has the training and experience to present their client’s case in the best light and agree to hold client information confidential from competing interests.

4. Price Guidance

Contrary to what some people believe, agents do not select prices for sellers or buyers. However, Grace will help guide clients to make the right choices for themselves. Grace will ask clients to weigh all the data supplied to them and to choose a price. Then based on market supply, demand and the conditions, she will devise a negotiation strategy.

5. Neighborhood Knowledge

Grace possesses intimate knowledge of the West San Jose, Los Gatos and Saratoga neighborhoods and all Santa Clara County. She can identify comparable sales of each particular neighborhood and hand these facts to you, in addition to pointing you in the direction where you can find more data on schools, crime or demographics. For example, you may know that a home down the street was on the market for $750,000, but Grace will know the history behind this home such as: it had upgrades and sold at $685,000 3 years ago and it has on the market for 60 days twice falling out of escrow.

6. Professional Networking & Services

Grace has a high reputation working and networking with other experienced and knowledgeable Realtors within her own company and among all the major brokers.  These relationships gives her the inside information and insights that help her clients stay ahead. She also has acquired over the many years a vast knowledge of professional services and resources that help her clients buy or sell.  The list of needs are almost endless, whether they be financial, home repair or inspection, staging, or even something simple as window cleaning to the very complex issues such as legal advice. Grace knows the vendors and professionals have a reputation for efficiency, competency and competitive pricing and can provide background information and references of past clients who have successfully work with them. You can be sure Grace will not work with conflict of interest, she never takes referral fees from any of the services or vendors she recommends, her interest is 100% dedicated towards satisfying her clients and making sure it is a lifetime relationship that is forever rewarding.

7. Evaluate Buyer’s offer:

Grace can help you objectively evaluate every buyer’s proposal without compromising your marketing position. This initial agreement is only the beginning of a process of appraisals, inspections and financing – and a lot of possible pitfalls. Grace can help you write a legally binding, win-win agreement that will be more likely to make it through the process.

8. Handling Volumes of Paperwork
Today’s purchase agreements can total many pages of forms. Beyond just the agreements, there are federal- and state-mandated disclosures, disclosures dictated by local cities and neighborhoods, and much more. The typical  real estate file average thicknesses from one to three inches of paper. Without proper guidance, one tiny mistake or omission could result in many headaches and thousands of dollars.

9. Guiding you through the closing process

Even the smoothest transactions that close without complications can come back to haunt. For example, a special property tax assessments, mix up invoices, but one call to Grace can straighten out the confusion. Many questions can pop up that were overlooked in the of closing. Grace stands by ready to assist. Grace is your Realtor for life, before, during, and after your transactions.

10. Develop long term Relationships

The basis for Grace’s success in real estate is referrals from past clients. Grace is not only make her clients satisfied, but she also maintain to be a long term relationship.