The East Bay
Here, I'm a candidate — not the referee.
Danville, Alamo, San Ramon, Walnut Creek, and the surrounding East Bay are where I practice. That changes what this service can honestly offer you, so here it is plainly.
What I do in my own market
Represent you directly. Listing your home or representing you as a buyer, through Compass, the ordinary way — my license, my name, my accountability. No referral structure, no middle layer, no Agent Match fee of any kind.
Hand you the scorecard first. Before you sign anything with me — or anyone — you get the same six-dimension scorecard this service uses nationally, so you can hold me and every other agent you interview to identical criteria. My recent comparable sales, what my fee includes item by item, who works your file, and references you can actually call. If another agent scores better for your home, hire them; a process only counts if it can rule me out.
Talk fees in real dollars. Commissions are negotiable and set by agreement, never by law or any rule. In our first conversation you'll see the whole picture in dollars for your price point — for example, on a $1.8M East Bay home, every half percent of listing-side fee is $9,000, so the difference between proposals is never an abstraction. You'll know what my number includes, what it doesn't, and how it compares before you commit to anything.
What I won't do here
Referee my own candidacy. The paid Agent Evaluation Report exists to be neutral — so it is not offered in the East Bay, where I'd be evaluating my own competition. Anywhere I could plausibly be one of the candidates, you deserve a referee with nothing at stake, or no referee at all — not one wearing a jersey.
Pretend the conflict away. Some matching sites quietly funnel local leads to themselves. The policy here is the opposite and it's in writing: East Bay consumers get direct representation with the methodology on the table, and Agent Match referrals are for sales and purchases outside my home market.
Pressure the undecided. Interview two or three agents — the guides tell you how to run that process well, and they apply to me too. If you take the scorecard and hire someone else with it, it did its job.
Estate and probate sales in the East Bay: the same rule holds — I represent estates directly here, with the documented, court-conscious process described on the Probate & Estates page, and the written scorecard gives fiduciaries the defensible file they need whether they hire me or not.
Let's talk.
Straight answers, no pressure, no obligation. You'll hear back within one business day.