Suzanne O’Brien – Intero Real Estate

This review is long, long overdue. I just wanted to say that Suzanne O’Brien is a truly excellent agent – and will be our agent for every real estate dealing we have in the future. We have worked with a number of not great realtors over the years, but all that changed when we met Suzanne about 4 years ago.
Our budget was limited and our «must have» list pretty long (namely, we wanted a single family home in a nice neighborhood with good schools – a challenging feat in the bay area!). We looked up and down the peninsula with Suzanne for about 2 ½ years (so I can confidently say she is very patient!). Suzanne could not have been a better agent – or friend – to us. She listened to and really internalized all our needs, found properties that met our criteria (which often meant that she worked with other realtors to find us properties that were not yet on the market), and gave us thoughtful, insightful feedback when looking at houses, identifying the strengths and draw-​backs of various properties to ensure that our property would be both a good investment and a good fit for our family as our kids got older.
Most impressive, Suzanne knows all of the ins and outs of the school districts on the peninsula and in the South Bay, and was a wonderful resource in narrowing our search to those areas that would best suit our family. She NEVER pushed or tried to talk us into anything; in fact, she gently talked us out of one house, telling us that she really thought we should find one that we loved – not just one that could work (and she was right!). Suzanne really went the extra mile for us: She did everything from entertaining our kids while we toured houses, so my husband and I could discuss them without interruption, to having her friend, a stager, come over to help us pick out paint colors after we bought our house, to putting us in touch with honest, capable, and appropriately-​priced contractors and professionals.
Most important, Suzanne is just a really nice, fair, calm, honest, easy-​to-​talk-​to person. To this day, we continue to be friends and frequently call her when we need help finding contractors or advice about updating our home. She is a pleasure to work with, and when we finally found «our» home, she worked quickly to secure it for us at a great price. Suzanne is both an amazing person and amazingly good at her job, and I cannot recommend her highly enough!

Suzanne is an amazing real estate agent! Suzanne helped us find our second house when we realized that our family has outgrown our old neighborhood. With her experiences as a parent and a professional, she understood our situation and advised us on what we should anticipate in our family’s future when choosing our new neighborhood. Suzanne is one of the most patient and helpful people we have ever met with an unwavering integrity. She will stand by your side and give you’re her honest opinion. She helped us find homes to consider, helped us consider the homes we did find, and even helped us decide when it was time to walk away from a few. She really wanted us to land in a house that would serve us well for the long term. That level of integrity is rare these days. We really wish we had known Suzanne ten years ago when we purchased our first house. We are confident that her guidance, assistance, advice, experience, and connections would have allowed us to get a nicer house that would have appreciated more. We still frequently talk with her about our remodeling project and are proud to call her a friend. We cannot recommend her more highly!