I write this letter of recommendation for Yennis Wong, who recently helped sell my mother’s home in San Marino for a favorable price under interesting conditions. Title to the property was held in a family trust. The bones of the home were solid, but much of the interior of the structure needed some cosmetic attention, and the exterior of the home required painting. Family members were not available to assist in helping upgrade the property to a level that would maximize its sales potential. Ms. Wong was there for us. She initiated a repair and renovation program that made the property shine. The required work was handled quickly, competently and at a reasonable cost to the family. She then structured an approach to listing the property that ultimately produced a very favorable sale price in very short order. The price that we obtained was, in my opinion, directly attributable both to the “hands on” approach that she adopted on our behalf with respect to the physical renovation that was necessary, and the level of sophistication that she employed in her listing strategy for the property. I really cannot recommend Yennis Wong too highly. She is the best!

It seems appropriate, on the one year anniversary of moving into our current home, to say “thank you” in writing to the best realtor in the greater San GabrielValley area, Yennis Wong, and to share with other folks who may be looking for one as they either buy or sell property in this market. To fully understand why we feel so strongly in recommending Yennis, some background about our move to Pasadena is instructive. After nearly 40 years living in the Washington, DC, area we found ourselves needing to re-locate to the Los Angeles area for professional reasons. Such a move entailed selling our new home that we had just designed and built as well as moving our two sons (then ages 4 and 7). Sparing you further details of moving four decades of accumulated “stuff” across the country, suffice to say that it seemed to rival taking the Rolling Stones out on tour. Neither my wife nor I had any familiarity with the Greater Los Angeles area. After narrowing our choice of areas to the northeastern quadrant of the County, we were luckily introduced by mutual friends to Yennis, who quickly took us under her wing. In so doing, Yennis re-oriented us to think about sequencing of priorities starting with school choices. And while any realtor can sell you a house, it takes a special one to invest the time and care in moving a whole family to a brand new area while simultaneously working several fronts to integrate that same family into a larger set of communities and variables – school, work, shopping, and traffic – just to name a few. In all of these and in other ways (such as various contractors for house services), Yennis went above and beyond the call in guiding us. Fast forward by almost a year and we are happily residents of eastern Pasadena in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, our children are thriving in their respective schools and we are collectively learning our way around Southern California. This kind of a seamless transition would not have been possible without the full range of services that Yennis brought to bear on our behalf. We cannot recommend her highly enough to anyone interested.