Liz Behrens – The Grubb Co.

Liz Behrens is, quite simply, a MacArthur genius of realtors. In addition to her nuanced understanding of the market, Liz has an unusual ability to finely attune to her clients’ emotional needs. She performs the delicate dance between listening deeply to the wants and needs of her clients, and gently guiding with assured leadership.
With grace, calm, and a great sense of humor, Liz was with us every step of the way from selling our house, to the search afterwords for a new home — in a market with considerable pressure. We didn’t realize that selling a house could be so easy — Liz made all of the staging decisions while she coordinated all of the work, and counseled us as to how to price the house effectively and much more. In the end, the house garnered multiple offers with a sale price almost $ 100,000 over asking, which is incredible considering the house came with the $ 25,000 pest report!
Finally, Liz helped us find our dream home. She expertly navigated the offer process, and we were lucky enough to buy a house that had 13 other offers. Our bid, incidentally, was not the highest. The offer was strong, because Liz had a innate understanding of what was important to the seller and the seller’s realtor and she crafted a rock solid offer. Our escrow process had many twists and turns, none of which were related to Liz, and she was particularly impressive under the pressure and ushered the escrow through on our originally estimated closing date.
Throughout the process, everyone we worked with, from the mortgage broker, other realtors and even the notary who brought our loan documents to sign, raved about Liz. The notary literally said, «Oh, everyone loves Liz!» The fact that Liz has an excellent reputation with key players in the Bay Area real estate business is, no doubt, a significant factor in her success.
We cannot recommend Liz highly enough. Our greatest regret, is that we do not get to work with her daily anymore!
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5+ stars for Liz and the integrity she has for her clients. We just closed escrow on a home in Montclair and as a mortgage broker, I cannot say enough about how calm, cool and collected she was throughout the entire process. She provided advocacy and expertise for our mutual clients and made everyone feel at ease. We need more Realtors like Liz out there

Liz was a phenomenal real estate agent and advisor for our first house purchase. She was calm when we were stressed, knowledgeable when we had questions and always available.
We weren’t the easiest clients– we both had long lists of preferences, and I wanted to learn everything I could about home construction, financing, the bidding process, financing, etc. For every one answer I got, I came up with three more questions or far-​fetched hypotheticals. Liz shared her wealth of knowledge and helped us parse and evaluate the claims we got from the sellers’ agent, mortgage brokers and inspectors.
I felt that Liz was up front and honest with us about costs and risks throughout the process. When she didn’t know something, she’d research it or find an expert who could advise us. She connected us with a number of experts for inspections and mortgage brokering. We shopped around and got some independent bids; Liz’s suggestions were consistently the best of the people we talked with.
Ultimately, we found a wonderful house in Rockridge just a few months into our search and moved in about 3 weeks later. At a time (summer 2013) when many neighboring properties were going for 100−150k over asking price, we got ours for exactly asking price. I’d strongly recommend Liz to anyone buying in the Oakland area.

My boyfriend and I were lucky to have Liz help us buy our first home last year in Rockridge. We were nervous about how long it would take us to find a house and how much money it would take, after seeing friends spend many months looking, only to lose out on many bids when offering far above asking. With Liz’s help and expertise, we successfully purchased the first home that we placed an offer on, in a neighborhood that I never thought I’d be able to buy a house.
Liz was wonderful to work with – she’s very friendly, knowledgeable, and very diligent. Liz guided us through the home buying process, educating and counseling us, respecting our budget and limits, and never being pushy; she made us feel like we were in control of the process, which, coupled with the guidance that she provided, made us very comfortable and confident in our decision. She made sure that we knew everything about the house before finally committing, and (six months after moving in) we’ve been happy that we haven’t had any big unexpected surprises since we’ve been in here.
My boyfriend and I both have demanding jobs, and Liz made everything easy for us. She was very available for us at the times that we were free (often late in the evening after work), and she quickly responded to emails, texts, and phone messages. She set up inspections, and got bids on various projects for us while we were at work. She made us feel like we were always her top priority. And she was able to handle everything that came up without stressing us out.
We really appreciated all of Liz’s help throughout the house-​buying process, and afterwards, with referrals for contractors, etc. We highly recommend Liz to anyone who is looking for an agent.