Eto to chto my sdelali
1) pay a visit to costco.com, if you are a member, use it, if not - become a member, it will save you dough. go under services, look for real estate referral link or something like that, check out how much money you can get back, fill out forms and ask them for the type of agent you want. we wanted an american professional lady. had enough of bad russian business scams
2) they gave us Jannet Witkings, sunnyvale agent from Coldwell banker, AWESOME woman - i can give you her info too
3) for using costco referral, costco paid US BACK $3500 - no paperwork, no hassle to fill out anything: in 6 weeks after closing we got the fat check in the mail
4) we used mlslistings, ziprealty and realtor for searching hourses ourselves. we did a lot of work, everyday searching for the house of the dream
5) we decided on the Cambrian area (95124 zip code) between Saratoga/west San Jose and Los Gatos. Almaden is behind. Its a hidden diamon, outstanding schools and fair housing price, Schools are here (union school district) 9 out of 10, 10 out of 10, worst are 8 out of 10
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*compare to overpriced sunnyvale where you will pay for hoome twice less size, twice more money and will end up with the school 6 out of 10. ochen belyi rayon
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