Simone Hoover

After having had a few weeks to settle in the house Simone helped us find, I finally found a moment to review our experience.
In summary, I cannot imagine having worked with a better realtor on our house purchase. From our initial meeting through to closing on the house, Simone displayed all the qualities you would want from your dream realtor: Integrity, patience and pragmatism being foremost for me.
More than this though, Simone made us feel like we were working with a friend on the inside. She’s well connected, really knows the area, gave us excellent advice and was always ready to check things out for us. She never put pressure on us and we felt supremely confident that she would represent our interests with honesty and professionalism.
I have already recommended Simone to friends and wouldn’t hesitate to work with her again.

This review is long overdue! After our first realtor didn’t have time for us and was pressuring us to up our budget and to ask family for money. We were feeling hopeless in our home search. I was referred to Simone by a friend who works with her and I owe that man a gift basket. Upon first talking with Simone she really listened to our needs and wants, and assured us we could find something that we loved. She was very busy but never too busy to show us properties promptly. She answered all our real estate and home buying questions fully explaining all the details and being first time home buyers we had a lot. When we went to showings it was like meeting with a friend, she was never pushy or cheesy, definitely very different from our realtor before. Simone also tends to the emotional roller coaster of buying a house with offers getting rejected or feeling hopeless during multiple offers, many times she being our therapist and cheerleader. When we did decide to put in an offer we always felt her top priority, she had our best interest at heart. We have her to thank for getting us into a house that we LOVE. We thought it was out of budget, and she convinced us to just put in our best offer and eventually we ended up getting our offer accepted. She used her savvy and learned tricks of her trade to make our offer strong even though we weren’t the highest offer. We are so happy in our first home. Thank you Simone, we will be using you for our next home and referring you everyone we can!

Can I give this realtor an infinite number of stars?
Simone was the rockstar on my house hunting team. My wife and I were dealing with a previous realtor who was not able to close on two offers we made. We decided to let him go, since it was not a good match.
In comes Simone!
If you are looking to buy a home in the East Bay, you want Simone Hoover on your side. She is attentive, methodical, convincing, positive and very personable. She is also not your typical «salesy» ragent that is out just to make some commission. We felt that she was always looking out for our personal interest and not hers. This housing market is super competitive and Simone came up with several creative ways to make our offer appealing even if it wasn’t the best offer. These strategies basically got us our house. :)
Simone is alway available for any questions via text, email, etc. She probably works with several clients at a time but I always felt important and #1 when we spoke. She continues to assist me by sending me referrals and answering questions about real estate.
I highly recommend Simone, if you are looking for an agent to help you buy a home!

Simone is awesome. She helped me buy my first home, and was wonderful and patient with all of my questions, anxieties, and geeky quirks. She is personable and easy to work with, and has continued to help me with my property questions even years after escrow closed.
She also has a strong sense of integrity in regards to acting as my representative and always keeps my interests at the top of her priority list. She never pushed me to buy anything unless I was absolutely certain. I never felt rushed close the deal and we even let a negotiation fail and waited several months before coming back to the seller to get a better price (which resulted in a successful deal at a much lower price). I really felt like she was on my side.

We were lucky enough to have Simone representing us as sellers for a very tricky listing. She really went above and beyond at every step in the process, exuded calm, patience and competence at all times, and kept us sane through all of the crazy decision-​making surrounding the whole thing.
Above all, she is amazingly honest — she truly kept *our* interests as the absolute top priority, several times advising against things that would have actually benefited her because she didn’t think they were the right move for us. In the end, we decided it was not the right time to sell just yet. Despite the many many hours invested with us, Simone didn’t skip a beat because she knew it was the right thing for us.
When we do decide to re-​list we will of course use her — can’t imagine how an agent could do a better job serving a client.

I highly recommend Simone Hoover for all of your real estate needs. Her professionalism far exceeded my expectations and her patience was even more impressive. Buying or selling, Simone is the perfect agent!