If you can dream it, we can make it so.
Happiness begins with knowing what you want and taking action to connect the dots. That simple concept has really worked for me. I thrive helping home buyers and sellers also find happiness, by finding your place in the world. And getting it.
Read more about this happy Cal Bear, Senior Real Estate Specialist® REALTOR® below. Or see what my happy clients say.
Susie brings you a lifetime of diverse experiences.
My eclectic life threads the simple joys of good friends, good food, great places, and creating good.
Helping people achieve their goals has always been my love — from ad agency client services to tech and real estate marketing, supporting artisan food products, how-to books, a “Netflix for life goals” website, and an educational kids’ program: The Chocolate Chip Cookie School. At Netscape, we changed the world by marketing web-based tech to CIOs. The common thread: Solving problems and creating opportunities, with abbondanza!
After growing up in Beverly Hills (where my local food obsession began, at my candy factory job), I graduated from UC Berkeley. Years later, I got my real estate license in my native California. Then in Maine, where I have family and a vacation home. The bi-coastal life is bliss for water lovers.
Some Favorite Projects
“Buy a house” was everyone’s top 5 goal on a “life list” making website I ran in the mid-2000s. My life list finally got this longtime renter to make the leap and buy a house.
Buying was the best thing I ever did. Though it wasn’t the best house. So I sold it! For several years, I sublet around the Bay Area to test the best place to live (in between, traveling the world!) Buying a duplex in Rockridge to have a second space for family and rental income was the next best thing I ever did. (Ask me how we closed while I was touring chocolate factories in Germany!)
Solo Home Buyer & House Hacker
Susie loves helping single / solo and senior buyers find their ideal property and devise ways to offset expenses with passive rental income. I’ve done so for myself in Oakland, CA and in Maine!
Life List Website Creator
Susie created, funded and ran an online life list-making service. “Buy a house” was everyone’s top 5 goal. Most things on my life list came true!
Food Business Author
See my Amazon author page which reflects my life goal to write books. I’ve written a LOT about the best places to live for food businesses. And why to buy near Trader Joe’s locations.
Some fun facts
Good Food Awards Founding Co-chair Confections and Bean-to-Bar Chocolate Categories
Cafe a Day Coffee Travels: Interviewing strangers at cafes. (Some videos on Youtube)
Created Epicuring.com
to discover & promote good food, with Laiko Bahrs.
As a Slow Foodie, I love and worked at food shops like Rockridge Market Hall and farmers markets
Unbridled Food Passionista
By day I’m a Realtor®.
By night I work at the See’s Candies factory in South San Francisco. Just kidding! But I did have a rare opportunity to tour the factory. There’s just one other factory in Los Angeles.
They both use California-made Guittard Chocolate, a chocolate company founded in the 1800s and based in the Bay Area.
You see, my friends, I’m not your garden-variety real estate agent.
A Good Life Realtor® incorporates good people, good places, good food, and whatever you think of as good. For that reason, I will donate $2,500 to the Cal Alumni Association — or any University department of your choice — for every Cal Bear transaction.
Did you happen to read earlier that I closed on my house in Rockridge while I was in Germany touring candy factories? My badass real estate agent who made that happen, when online document signing was still pretty new, has been my role model of making things happen above all odds. Like taking a tour of the See’s factory!
client happiness is my goal.
Ready to explore a delicious future?
Many aspiring home buyers and sellers don’t want to “waste” their agent’s time, especially if you don’t want to take action for a few months or even years. You’re paying your agent only after you transact. And the best outcomes happen with early planning. So why wait? Let’s have a coffee.
“Susie made the entire process stress-free and enjoyable. She was always available to answer our endless questions (seriously, we had a lot of questions), and she was proactive in keeping us informed every step of the way. For first time homebuyers, this was exactly what we were looking for.”