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Professional Experience Sales Associate Cornish & Carey Residential Real Estate Top Achiever 1995 - present Sales Associate Clay Herman Real Estate Top Producer 1994 - 1995 United Airlines Customer Service Representative 1991 - 1994 CPH Investments Property Management 1984- 1991 Education Anthony Real Estate School College of San Mateo - Business Management Canada College - Travel Licensed California Real Estate Associate Certified UAL Ticketing Associate Personal Background Special Interests Burlingame/Hillsborough Newcomers Club Board Member 1995, 1996, 1997 Hillsborough Concourse d'Elegance Program Book Chairman 1994 & 1995 Real Estate Finance and Legal Seminars Continuing Education Professional Philosophy Experience, Integrity and Knowledge... These are a few of my qualities as a proven leader. As a pro-active Real Estate Agent I provide my clients with accurate information, expert advice, clearly explained options and first class service. After all this is an important decision and you want the absolute best for yourself and your family. My mission is to facilitate you in achieving your goals! |
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Testimonials
Dear Gina, This letter is to let you know how much Maha and I appreciated your hard work as our real estate broker in connection with our recent purchase of a house in Burlingame. Certainly without your high level of service, experience and personability, our home buying experience would not have been nearly as successful. As you know, the current ,seller-oriented housing market in the Bay Area demands that potential home buyers be committed and aggressive. Your style as a real estate broker allowed us to meet this challenge. Virtually days after we contacted you, you had arranged for pre-approval of a mortgage, shown us attractive real estate in the areas in which we were interested, and already begun to tackle the myriad “little things” that accompany securing housing in this market. More important than such specifics, it was your “take charge” disposition to service that impressed us the most; with you, we immediately know that our needs had been heard and were diligently being addressed. Aside from quality service, we were also benefactors of your experience and knowledge. You were aware, for example, of nuanced and accurate details regarding every neighborhood in which we looked, a fact which helped us to isolate exactly where we wanted to live within Burlingame. Moreover, your contacts with only the most qualified third parties involved with our real estate purchase – persons such as mortgage brokers, home inspectors, and home repairman – were crucial in helping alleviate all complications that arose throughout the purchase process. And when it came time to bid on the house we wanted (our first and only bid), your sage advice regarding how to structure our offer, not to mention your skills of negotiation with the agents for the seller, were the principal factors responsible for the seller’s acceptance of our bid. Of course, service, experience and knowledge are not the only qualities a good real estate agent must have. She must also be personable: someone with whom one can quickly relate to and feel comfortable. Personability, perhaps, is the most obvious quality about you. It is also the single most important reason we chose you as or real estate broker. Quite simply, we really liked you from the start. Best wishes for your continued professional success, ~ Caine Moss and Maha Ibrahim
Caine and Maha have since purchase two additional homes as well as sold homes with me, and I enjoy our professional and personal relationship.
~ Gina Dear Gina, Thank you for all your help in getting us a new home. As first time buyers we had many questions about the process. From the start, you treated us differently than other realtors we had met at open homes. You took the time to ask us questions about what we were looking for and seemed committed to helping us find the right home. We felt very comfortable working with you right from the start. You were always available to us for questions and help, in spite of a large number of clients. One of the things that impressed us the most was how you helped us clarify our own thinking. You asked questions and presented options in ways that made it easy for us to decide on our best choice. While you were willing to give us your opinion, we never felt pressured or that you were trying to push your ideas on us. You very quickly understood the type of house and neighborhood we were looking for, even though we had trouble articulating this ourselves. Another great thing about working with you was how quickly we were able to move through the process. You put us in touch with Charley, who got our financing arranged within two weeks. We saw houses as soon as they came on the market, and were able to eventually purchase one which was on the market less than a week. Your familiarity with the market helped us to put together a great offer in a tough multiple offer situation. We came in with a fair bid which was just high enough to get the property. After our offer was accepted you took care of inspections and appraisals and all of the other paperwork and details involved in purchasing a home, making the whole process a s fun and exciting as possible. Thanks for a great home buying experience. We’ll definitely us you for our next home purchase, and have already recommended you to many or our friends and coworkers. ~ Jane Hartwell and Craig Ring – PDI DreamWorks
Dear Gina, Here we are again! Thank you so much for selling our home in record time with multiple offers. I cannot express to you our gratitude. You have made the process of putting our home on the market an easy one. You took care of every detail including scheduling the painters, gardeners and staging, inspections and setting up and meeting with a contractor on repairs to our home. It has been our pleasure working with you again, we have and will always consider you a friend, and a true Real Estate Professional. ~ Jane Hartwell and Craig Ring – PDI DreamWorks
Dear Gina, It is my pleasure and gratitude that this letter is written to commend the professional excellence of Gina Haggarty. The personal touches that Gina gave to us in her experience and guidance in selling our home made us feel we really had a friend on our side. Her familiarity with the Hillsborough area enabled us to sell our home within two weeks of our listing with her, event though we previously had the house on the market for over one year with another real estate agent! With her expert advice, we were able to present our home in a manner that was acceptable for the market. Selling to a neighbor around the corner! Gina’s attention to detail is the reason our home sold. She was able to convince us that we needed to make minor changes to the interior and exterior. She handled all of the painters, gardeners and stagers. I highly recommend Gina because she went out of her way in handling our affairs, making sure everything was to the best interest for us, not to mention financially also. With Gina, we received first class service. ~ Tiger and Jean Wong – Sam Wong Hotel
Dear Gina, My wife Jennifer and I want to thank you again for making our first home purchase such a smooth, hassle free experience. With both of us working, it was such a help having you listen to what we wanted in a home, the areas in which we wanted to live and the price range we wanted to pay. You arranged for us to see listings that fit these requirements, thus saving us time and energy. Your efficiency, knowledge and negotiating skills were responsible for us getting the home we wanted in the price range we could afford. In this real estate market place, we realized how fortunate we were to have you representing us. You can be sure that we will recommend you to anyone that is looking for a home. Our best to you. ~ Jennifer and Jack Fabirque – Excel Building Services
Dear Gina, It is with great pleasure that we welcome this opportunity to recommend you. We want to thank you for all the excellent work you did to help us to by a good house in Burlingame. Tired of paying too much rent for too little space in our San Francisco apartment, and for a private school we began to ponder buying. We found our real estate agent, Gina, through the grapevine of friends. We are happy with our choice. She is knowledgeable, efficient and cooperative. We felt comfortable knowing you were looking out for our interest. Gina is punctual, follows through until things are very satisfactorily completed, and most importantly is most pleasant and comfortable to work with at all times, under all conditions. Gina has the following traits: * Integrity * Selling Real Estate Full Time * Business Sophistication * Experience in the type of service needed * Knowledge of the area you want to live in * Sensitivity to your taste and needs. These are her qualities which helped us to buy in relatively short period of time and affordable house in a top scale neighborhood with a good public school. Gina, anytime please feel free to use us a reference. Once again, Thank you for all your work. ~ Vadim and Zoya Gertsvolf
Dear Gina, Our relationship started over 7 years ago when you took the time to help us find an apartment while moving to San Mateo. When we walked into the office we never expected to find such an excellent agent and friend. You took the time to help us with a rental, frankly there weren’t many other agents who would. It meant so much to us that a year later when we were ready to buy our first house we went to you! And now, once again you have helped us so much by selling our first home and helping us purchase our second home! Your incredible knowledge of the real estate industry, both technical and interpersonal, made us comfortable to know that we were in good hands! Your guidance and expertise helped us determine what we needed to get the house we wanted. Once we got it, not only did you handle all the details of setting up inspection appointments but you were with us at every appointment every step of the way. No detail was left undone. On top of this, your professionalism in interacting with everyone from ourselves to the other realtors to the clients on the other end was wonderful. And even after the purchase of our new home was final you were right here to help us when we had plumbing issues. Your help did not stop just because the transactions were final. We thank you for all your help and your friendship! ~ Sincerely, Manuel and Correy Bernal
Dear Gina and Charley, Just a note to thank the both of you for always going out of your way to be helpful. I told Charley the other day I was in tears out of gratefulness for all your help, good advise and best of all friendship over the years. Thank you for making me feel that I have people in my life that are trustworthy and so very helpful with the big choices and decisions in life. ~ Deborah and Tom Clendening
Dear Gina, You worked with us over a prolonged period of time in finding an appropriate property in Hillsborough that met our specific needs and constraints, including tax considerations. Gina expended extraordinary efforts on our behalf, in ensuring that she explicitly understood both our formal requirements as well as our underlying desires in a new home. To her great credit, she took whatever time it took in working with us directly, in tracking down open ended issues with regard to specific listings, and in arraigning for appropriate professional services for inspections and consultations. In addition to keeping us aware of properties on the market, current market activity and trends in the industry, Ms. Haggarty was tenacious in tracking down the status of troubled properties we were potentially interested in. She was even able to identify several properties that might become listed or re-listed; and we ended up buying a home that was not on the market. Without Gina’s efforts, we would never have even considered buying what we did, when we did. And we are very glad we did for we acquired a property that originally listed several years ago at almost $1.6 million and had some very intriguing features but suffered from at least a decade of deferred maintenance, and other problems. Based on her insight and suggestions, we made an initial offer of $800,000 and, after somewhat extended negotiations, ended up purchasing the property for $900,000. If we were to consider purchasing another property, we would us Gina Haggarty again, and we wholeheartedly would have recommended her to others interested in doing the same. ~ Victor Glushko and Carol Karp Director, Technology Licensing & Corporate Development
The value of this home today is approximately $4,000,000. It is located on a private tree lined street. Dear Gina, Thank you for selling our home. I was very impressed with your professionalism and hard work. You were pleasant to have as our sales representative and you were thorough in advertising our home in all of the local papers. You have such a nice way of describing our little haven so that others might be interested enough to view it. I am sure there was not one publication overlooked. You continually gave us a market update for houses in our neighborhood so that we could view and compare our situation and we appreciated having this information. Your flexibility and willingness to help, allowed us extra comfort when we needed to leave for our summer vacation. There aren’t too many people who would be as considerate. You consistently focused on the sale of our home. I am so happy we had the opportunity to work together and get to know each other. You are a talented lady with a lot of enthusiasm and good ideas. Thank you for your help. ~ Jeff and Stephanie O’Rourke
Dear Gina, I wanted to personally thank you for helping us find a home. You are super! You provided us with excellent service and you zeroed in our needs and spent a lot of time finding out what it was that we were trying to accomplish. You are well versed in all areas of real estate and very professional. Gina, you are a great friend and I recommended her to my parents when they moved back into the area and they love her. If and when anyone we know needs a real estate agent in the future we will, with out a doubt recommend you. ~ Sue Weber
Gina’s top-producing success is founded on a deep personal commitment to her clients. Her combination of sophisticated marketing, superior negotiating, and in-depth market knowledge gives her clients the competitive advantage. Year after year, Gina redefines excellence in real estate performance. Gina has represented buyers and sellers in the San Mateo, Burlingame and Hillsborough area in over $250 million dollars worth of transactions. “What is important to me is that my client’s needs are met, they understand the market and they are able to obtain their goals. When this is accomplished I am satisfied that I have done a good job.” ~ Gina Haggarty
“I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that is as unique as a fingerprint – and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.” ~ Oprah Winfrey "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." |
