Realtor® DRE#02015149 5 Star Zillow Premier Agent Bay Area Native Mollie is passionate about helping her clients and guiding them through the one of the biggest investments of their life. Her goal is to ensure their home purchase/investment is the right choice for each client's specific needs and be an ongoing resource for the ever changing Real Estate market. With excellent communication skills, Mollie is able to tune into the needs of her clients and maintain excellent relationships with her real estate colleagues, ensuring that transactions progress smoothly, and that her clients receive specialized, attentive service from every party involved in the transaction. Mollie works with an amazing staff at Twin Oaks Real Estate and currently runs a mentorship program, mentoring a team of 4 agents. She is a second-generation Realtor and enjoys helping others learn about Real Estate. Prior to Real Estate, she worked in Commercial Insurance for 8 years and started a successful business with her sister offering hair and makeup services for weddings and events. While her sister runs the business, she gets to pursue her true passion, Real Estate! In her free time she loves to fish, travel and be anywhere that involves nature and being outdoors! Associations & Memberships: California Association of Realtors National Association of Realtors Solano Association of Realtors Contra Costa Association of Realtors

Realtor® DRE#02140929 5 Star Zillow Premier Agent Bay Area Native Mother of 3 Associations & Memberships: California Association of Realtors National Association of Realtors Contra Costa Association of Realtors

START YOUR HOME SEARCH NOW This is a free tool I offer to ensure you are up to date on all listings within your search criteria. Looking for a new home is only a step away, most clients prefer to have a property alert set up so they can be alerted when any new property comes on the market that fits their criteria. You most likely have began to search on Zillow, Redfin, etc. However, our alerts through Real Scout are synced directly with the MLS to ensure you never miss a property. If you are not directly connected with a Realtor receiving property alerts, you could easily miss listings such as a Coming Soon Listing, as the major Real Estate sites do not always show all Coming Soon Listings.

Here is a step by step guide of the home buying process. Education on the process can make or break a client/realtor relationship which is why we take pride on educating the client throughout the entire home buying process.

Attached are our preferred lenders. It is important that the Pre-Approval process be your first step in the home buying process. We must know your budget in order to confidently search for your next home. A pre-approval letter is required to make an offer on ALL/ANY homes in this market. Allow us to guide you through this process. We are here to assist and educate you on what can make or break an offer getting accepted. Working with lenders that are well known in the industry could set your offer apart from your competition. In addition, the new California Residential Purchase Contracts calls for us to specify where you are at in the loan process. Failure to have adequate loan approval could make or break your offer being accepted in the competitive market we are in today.

Avoid a money pit. Here's a red flag cheat sheet to take with you on your home hunt.

Here is the sample contract paperwork we will need to fill out when making offers in California. Please review and let me know if you have any questions or if anything is unclear. When we find the home of your dreams, we will need to move quick!

If you are looking to buy a home in a new neighborhood make sure you research the nearby schools.

This is a report that I do for every client before making an offer. We look at homes that match the square footage, bedrooms and bathrooms etc. that have sold in the area. We compare list price vs. sold price. This will help us determine an accurate price range of a winning offer. We then discuss offer contingencies, as it is not always the price that determines the winning offer.

What do buyers pay in escrow fees through closing costs? This is a must know when purchasing a home. Every county is different.

The cost of waiting vs buying in this extremely HOT market is very crucial and will only get harder as time passes buy. We are not in a housing bubble.

Building Wealth through Equity Is one of the primary reason to buy vs renting in this HOT market. Perfect example, one of my clients purchased a townhome in May of 2020 at a rate of $465,000. That exact property is now worth $615,000 and moving up quickly. Don’t hold off, the market is projected keep going up over the next 5 years.

A quick breakdown on the cost vs. value on home improvements within the Bay Area. Review the last page of the PDF for a quick breakdown of the average cost to improve your home.

Are We In a Housing Bubble? We are NOT! A lot of my clients keep asking me if we are in a housing bubble like 2008, the video will explain in detail that we are NOT, now the time to buy in more ways then none.