Vera Kopilenko

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Beatrice helped keep my wife and I continuing our property search steadfast, making offers and eventually purchasing the absolute best property we found. We are so happy with our purchase and Beatrice had a great impact on our success. Her involvement entailed many facets of our property purchase including providing customized property listings/recommendations, giving honest feedback on both property elements and likely price range on offers, and taking time to put together our offers while immediately speaking with the selling agent to advocate our behalf as excellent buyers. This was by no means an easy or fast journey, but I honestly believe that Beatrice always provided support and was an integral part of our success. I could not be happier with the home purchase and strongly recommend Beatrice to anyone in search an excellent agent.

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We bought the home with Vera and we would not recommend for the following reasons:* she does not know the Pacifica well and won't be able to help you with the right neighbourhood * did not help with reading and understanding pest inspections. You may end up spending money on something you don't need* did not help much with price negotiation* she was also a buyers agent, that was a big mistake as she the disclosures missed few important points about the property* the move out date has been dragged on and when we had to remove old stuff from the house* few issues were disclosed properly

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We met Vera in 1989, when our accountant told us "You need to buy a house," He sent us to Vera, with the caveat, "Don't call her, unless you are ready to buy a home." He was right. 3 weeks later we owned a home. Vera is intelligent, professional, honest and very knowledgeable.Vera walked us through the whole process from being pre-qualified, financing, lender, title and closing. We told her what we were looking for and things we wanted to avoid. She recommended we drive around, to get a feel of various areas in San Francisco. Good tip to look at the neighborhood. Since I go to work early (5:30) wanted to see what it's like at such an early hour. We did that, when we thought we found what we wanted. One drive through and we changed our minds. She is not hesitant to give you an opinion, followed by a YES or a NO.. After countless open houses and neighborhood searches we found our house. Vera gave us many hours of her time and expertise. It turns out, we gained a relative too. She never loses contact with a client. Phone calls, cards, emails, texts. Always there. we were fortunate enough to also meet her family. When the "we" became an "I" because of a death, she was there, along with daughter Beatrice and husband Bo. 28 years later, she's still helping. Select Vera and you will receive knowledge, expertise, honesty and trust worthiness. And, she's a terrific cook.

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Vera is an exceptional real estate professional agent. She works for her clients with all her heart, understanding what they need, diligently solving problems along the way, and getting favorable results usually beyond clients' expectation. I have been helped by Vera since 1994. I am impressed by her attention to details and her judgment at decision times. I trust her expertise advice for the sales and purchases of my homes all these years.

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I called Vera after 5 years in my condo in Bay Point (my first home and which Vera assisted me in purchasing). I asked for her assistance once again in selling my previous home and then buying a new place in Stockton. I told her that I cannot purchase the Stockton house unless I sold my Bay Point home. To make the story short, Vera and her team was able to close both deals simultaneously.Vera is great and wonderful to work with. She is diligent and will take good care of her clients. If youre looking to sell your house or buy a home, I would HIGHLY recommend Vera Kopilenko and team!

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Vera is my agent for life. That's a fact. She has guided us through home sales & purchases in the Bay Area and beyond. Her knowledge of the market and her expert handling of each transaction gave me & my husband great peace of mind. I would not make a move without her. She has successfully assisted several friends & family members as well. You won't be disappointed.

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Vera is my agent for life. That's a fact. She has guided us through home sales & purchases in the Bay Area and beyond. Her knowledge of the market and her expert handling of each transaction gave me & my husband great peace of mind. I would not make a move without her. She has successfully assisted several friends & family members as well. You won't be disappointed.

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Choosing Kopilenko was disappointing and very costly mistake for us. When you are selling your house, you are selling to someone their dream. Kopilenko is unable or unwilling to present your house in the best possible light, even if your house is like ours, a $1M+ property facing the ocean in HMB. From shabby presentations at the open houses, to grammatical and factual mistakes in the listing, to MLS pictures of the house taken with an iPhone, Kopilenko is a terrible agent that required our constant need to fix her mistakes. Ultimately, while other houses in the area were sold for multiple offers, our house languished on the market for half a year (she wouldn't release us from the contract no matter what) and eventually sold for lower than the asking price. Thanks to her Soviet-style customer service, we even sustained personal attacks and verbal abuse. In the Bay Area there are tons of great real estate agents. Kopilenko sadly is not one of them. Shame on you, Vera!

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Beatrice Kopilenko helped me purchase my new home just in time for the holidays this past year.Before I met Beatrice, I'd been looking for a new home for well over a year and was starting to get antsy due to the rising costs of everything in the Bay Area. I had a bit of a down payment lined up, but was sort of flying blind when I went out to open houses. I'd been to many open houses and every real estate agent would always pry into my personal business, with little concern of knowing me personally. They'd then ask the question "Do you have an agent?" I would always say no, but I emphasized that I was in fact seriously looking for a house. Despite my sincere house-hunting claims, I was disregarded almost 100% of the time. Then I went to look at a beautiful two bedroom close to the Excelsior neighborhood and Beatrice was the realtor hosting the open house. She asked me the same prying questions but seemed genuinely interested in what I was looking for (not just an easy to read customer with x number of assets). She was extremely personable. When I told her I wasn't represented yet, she casually looked me in the eye and asked me, "Can I represent you?" I took her card and went home and thought about it for a few days. After considering my options and knowing that I needed to be taken seriously, I called her back; mainly because she simply asked for my business: dozens of open houses and she was the only agent that legitimately wanted to sell me a house. Up until then, I felt every other bay area agent I came across was universally snooty or glib. Other agents seemed so pampered by the booming market that they never really have to ask for someone's business. I forgot that agents are supposed to work for the customer not just print money for the agent. Beatrice simply asking "Can I represent you?" spoke volumes of what I would expect. Beatrice went off to the races quickly. She made spreadsheets of everything that I had been looking at with their expected closing price or their actual closing price. She put everything in perspective and showed me what to look out for, how to navigate the choppy market etc. She was very knowledgeable.She helped me draft a few offers for places that I wanted in SF but she warned me I wasn't likely to get. She may have helped me draft "less competitive" offers for a couple of reasons: to put on my training wheels for doing the paperwork, and possibly to knock some sense of reality into me of the tenaciously booming Bay Area market. Throughout the two failed offers, she always kept a wonderful demeanor and appropriate professionalism, and certainly kept me from getting frustrated when things were looking a little gloomy. Those "training wheel" offers eventually lead to me expanding my search beyond SF-proper: when it did, she helped me search in places like Daly City, San Mateo, and South SF. I found a pretty great townhouse in the nearby burbs' and Beatrice helped me make an offer for what I believed was unreasonably low compared to other places in the area. To my surprise, THEY ACCEPTED MY OFFER FOR PURCHASE, and for less than what I assumed I would pay. I was really grateful that Beatrice was able to calculate the right amount she believe the house was worth and position it in such a way that they accepted right away.Then the real speed bumps happened. The house was a short-sale, so there was lots of bumps in the closing. The sellers bank didn't approve some contingencies, and hurdles with inspections, financing, etc. My mortgage company dropped the ball hard when it came to on time appraisals. Despite that, she had a rapid backup plan every time we hit a block. She found me a new lender who approved me extremely quickly and helped me close fast. She helped speed along the appraisals, talk to the title company, etc. Every delay was overcome quickly due to her diligence and follow-through. All-in-all it took from September 4 when we made the offer to November 15 to close. I PROMISE YOU, those were the two MOST STRESSFUL months of life! I felt like giving up many times; both before purchase and during closing. With someone even slightly less put-together than Beatrice, I might have given up and rented forever. I'm happy and proud to say that I'm a homeowner in the Bay Area. I feel like I'm laying the ground work for many successful years here to invite friends over, build an investment, and maybe raise a family in one day. I have enough space to stretch my legs and I'm still only a ten minute drive to San Francisco, the city that stole my heart a few short years ago. Beatrice kept me grounded and sane. I'm happy that she was the agent that facilitated this transition and milestone in my life. I would (and have) recommended her to my friends and anyone else who's looking for an agent in SF/Daly City/Oakland.She also just sent me a nice gift basket to celebrate the New Year, which was a nice little cherry on top of a stressful, but rewarding 2016!