“Patti Smylie helped my husband and I buy a new home in downtown Livermore in the summer of 2016 and, later that same year, sell the house we were living in on the outskirts of Livermore. If I had to sum up our experience with Patti in one sentence – it would be “She was fantastic and went well above and beyond the call of duty, particularly in helping us buy a highly desirable property in a hot market”. My husband and I had long desired to move to downtown Livermore and we started working with Patti in October 2015 to make our dream come true. In March 2016 Patti found a home that had not yet gone on the market and got us in for a ‘pre-view’ after meeting the family that would be selling. We fell in love with the lot and the potential of the home. The property finally went on the market in late June of 2016 after a lengthy probate process. There were at least seven offers immediately placed on the property and the sellers countered five. It was a tense week, but thanks to Patti’s skills we prevailed with the highest offer. She was also extremely helpful to us in getting the house (which sold for over the appraised value) insured and a mortgage in place in a very short 21 day closing time frame. Patti’s rolodex of contacts is both impressive and highly valuable. When it was time to sell our current house a few months later, she again exceeded our expectations. She helped us stage the house (even letting us borrow items from her own home that she thought would improve the look), came up with a very nice marketing brochure and a pricing strategy to elicit multiple offers on our sale. This was a more challenging task in our old neighborhood which was on the outskirts of Livermore in a 1990’s tract housing development. Her strategy was successful. We had three offers and sold our house well above asking price. Patti is extremely knowledgeable of the housing market in Livermore, and quickly figured out the type of home that my husband and I were looking for along with our constraints. On top of that, she’s friendly, diligent, and willing to do what it takes to get the job done – a real pleasure to work with. We highly recommend her.”