"Veena is one of the few Fremont realtors who does it all.  She went above and beyond our expectations.  We were in a unique situation where we had to move out of state while our house in Danville was listed.  This made Veena’s job that much harder because she had to make sure that the house was ready to show on her own.  She made great recommendations to us on how we could increase the value of our Danville home and she listened to and addressed all of our concerns. 

Once we decided to make renovations to our house, she made sure that all of the contractors finished on time and under budget.  Having Veena take care of these issues really put us at ease.  She hosted multiple open houses to make sure that we had maximum exposure in the market.  Also, she made sure that we were listed with pictures and a virtual tour on all of the sites on the Internet.

Additionally, once we received offers she gave us guidance on how we should go about the negotiation or whether or not we should take an offer seriously.  

I would recommend Veena to anyone searching for a realtor to buy or sell a house.  She has great market awareness and experience.  The fact that she is so organized really puts the homeowner or home searcher at ease.    

 Go with Veena and relax because you will be making a great choice!"

- Elliott and Kim Koppel, Danville

 ★★★★★

"We worked with Veena and her husband Vijay to buy our first house in Santa Clara. Veena is professional, experienced, and also very patient. We looked at many houses for at least 6 months, sometimes 3¬4 houses in one day, and Veena came with us to every single open house. We don’t love any house until finally we found a great place in Santa Clara. Since we were first¬time buyers we were really nervous about such a huge decision. She made arrangements with the seller’s agent to let us see the house as many times as we wanted until we were finally ready to make the offer.

When it came to the offer she did all the work to get the disclosures, find comparable houses to help us decide on a reasonable price, and even had a contractor meet us at the house to look at the things we weren’t sure about. She also met us at the house for the walk through and helped coordinate with the seller’s agent when we wanted to get in the house while the sellers were still living there. Veena’s husband Vijay was our mortgage broker and also attended almost every open house with us. He was completely in sync with Veena and made sure the pre¬approval was in place before we made any offers.

When the initial appraisal for our house came in really low, he helped us arrange a second appraisal through a different bank and different broker. He even offered to cover the second appraisal fee which was a pleasant surprise. Veena and Vijay are experienced professionals, and also really nice people, so it was a pleasure to work with them. We would absolutely use them again and refer them to any of our friends."

- Nadine and Kanishka

★★★★★

Here is the recommendation, we mean every single word and sincerely appreciate your great work!

Veena is a very good realtor. She is sincere, passionate and professional with many years' experience. With her help, we find our ideal home.

It's our first home purchase, and Bay area real estate is very competitive. We started in Christmas time, for the next one month there was not much inventory. But Veena kept us informed for all matching houses, showed us around to get us familiar with house evaluation. She educated us regarding things to notice when looking at houses, as well as school district comparison. She is able to tell schools by looking at zip code only. After one month's active searching, Veena showed us more than a dozen houses, and we decided on the house we end up buying. Veena then helped us through the purchase process. She gave accurate estimation of offer price, with compelling extra conditions. She actively communicated with seller agent to keep us in flexible position, from where we made a timely counter offer, thus finally got the house. Veena also handled much verification work for us, from inspection details, to house history and title clearance, etc. The title company agent told us Veena is the best realtor she ever worked with, and we totally agree.

- Ran Ding and Niranjan Narvekar

★★★★★

We recently bought our first home in Hayward and it wouldn’t be possible without Veena and Vijay. They make a perfect team who helped us with both our real estate and mortgage needs. They are highly dependable, very knowledgeable, very experienced, and highly competent in the bay area market. I strongly recommend them to anyone looking to buy a house here.

We spent about 3 months with Veena/Vijay looking for our perfect house. During this period, we always got very prompt, usually immediate, responses via email, phone, and text; we scheduled countless appointments to tour houses, sometimes same-day appointments the moment they hit the market, and they were always on time without a single exception. They are great listeners who are genuinely interested in learning about our preferences and finding us what we want.

Vijay is a mortgage broker who found a lender for us and took care of our loan application, which was critical for us because we had short credit history and every bank had previously turned us down. On top of that, he also worked for banks before and witnessed appraisal processes, so he knows what appraisers look for and can accurately predict the appraisal price of a house (which is critical in making a non-contingent offer since we didn’t have a lot of margin in our budget). Combined with Veena’s real-estate experience, they suggested us just the right price to win the bid for our dream house. Our bid was very close to two other buyers, but the sellers prefered to work with our agent, so that’s how we got the house!

Working with Veena/Vijay was a very comfortable experience. Prior to our final offer, we made about 5 offers on other houses. Their sale price estimate was so accurate that every time we were among the top offers, and most of the time we were given second chances to bump up our price. Even though we were so close, Veena/Vijay never pushed us beyond our comfort zone. They made clear to us the price we had to offer to get the house, but always respected our decision to back out. A number of listing agents have indicated they would prefer working with our agent, so I’m sure seller agents have enjoyed working with them in the past, too.

They always took our interest as the top priority. For example, they guided us through the process of buying new construction, even though their commission would’ve been less. We didn’t end up buying new construction, but we learned a lot from it, and it was a good backup in case the hunt continued for longer.

After we got our final offer accepted, Veena and Vijay continued to stay on top of everything. There was little we needed to do, and the whole process was very smooth and we were able to close in 29 days. Veena became our go-to person for many questions even after the escrow closes. She referred to us cleaning service, locksmith, etc. We’re now comfortably settled in our new home and all this would not have been possible without them.

- Robin

★★★★★

We recently bought our first home in Sunnyvale. It was wonderful working with Veena. She is very knowledgeable and helped us every step of the way. 

Veena was always available to accompany us and even checked out a few open houses that we were interested in before we had the time. She made a careful note of our preferences and was sent us listings and feedback accordingly. For the first house we liked, Veena went through the disclosures in detail, following up with the inspectors, identified a fairly large foundation issue and finally convinced us against it as there was significant work required for first-time home buyers. 

When we finally found our current home, Veena ensured that we made an offer that we were comfortable with (including contingencies), helped us find inspectors on short-notice and finally working through the paper work at all hours including weekends to close quickly. We couldn't have been happier with our choice of realtor.

- Shruthi Prabhakar & Mohammed Habibullah

★★★★★

Veena is an awesome realtor and a great person. She helped me finding an investment property. During the 2 months house hunting process, she has been communicating with me really professionally and timely, to get all the requests from my end, and to provide me with lists of candidate properties that she pre-filters for me. Due to my lower budget, it's tough to find the ideal property at a good district, but Veena helped me finding this awesome property. Together we looked at dozen of properties, Veena searched, contacted, scheduled every single one of them for me, leaving me 100% worry free. During property visiting, she always gave the sincere opinions, even suggestions for upgrading. She has real passion and kindness to help me find THE house, instead of finishing up sooner to get paid.

During the buying process, she prepared all documents and talked me through each of them. She even checked all supplement documents like HOA meeting records to make sure the community is fine. When giving offer, her acute judgement helped me save a big chunk of money, which again is not helping herself getting better paid.

Even though we only collaborated for 2 months, she is already a good friend that I treasure very much. I totally recommend Veena, I myself will ask her again for future house hunting.

- Ran

★★★★★

"Veena and Vijay helped us a lot with our home purchase. Veena kept us really up to date about the homes in the area. We found her to be really knowledgeable about bay area homes and she helped us take the right decision by pointing out the various factors that we would've otherwise overlooked, like schools etc. Vijay, Veena's husband, is a mortgage broker and he helped us find a very good rate too. Together they helped us through the entire loan approval, negotiation and purchase process and made things very very smooth. All in all, we are extremely satisfied with Veena and Vijay and would recommend them to anyone wishing to purchase their home."

- Anindo Mukherjee, Fremont. December 2009

★★★★★

"Veena worked with me and my wife to help us buy the right home for us. We ended up finding a place in Mountain View that we put an offer on. The sellers made a multiple counter offer to us and one other buyer. After all was said and done Veena navigated us through the multiple counter offer situation and we ended up able to buy the place we wanted for a very good price. One advantage of working with Veena is that her hustband, Vijay is a mortgage broker. With the two of them as a team, you don't have to worry about communcating between your lender, broker, and real estate agent, as they have all of that taken care of in one package."

- Rajan Patel, Mountain View. October 2009

★★★★★

"Upon deciding to place our home for sale, we chose to select an agent through an interview process with an emphasis of who we can feel comfortable with. After interviewing 4 agents, we selected Veena due to her simple and easy going presentation. The other agents arrived with their Benz's or BMW's, and over the top presentations complete with expensive folders and binders detailing accomplishments and scope of area coverage. The bells and whistles was just too overwhelming for us but Veena came in very warm and humble and stated the simple facts which we were somewhat aware of already. That the market was soft and home prices were deteriorating and pricing it properly would be the key. Her demeanor was very calm but confident. She assisted in staging our home, providing several decorating items and suggesting several ideas that would make it more appealing. She was very accomodating and worked with us throughout the whole process. She did not enforce anything that we were uncomfortable with. She handled a lot of the bumps and bruises that materialized during the selling process. She was very re-assuring during the escrow process especially when minor problems arised due to the financial turmoil in todays economy. If you want someone to handle a very emotional and very important decision, like selling your property, we would recommend Veena. She is great to work and communicate with. We did not hesitate to call her whenever we had concerns or questions. She always made the effort to call or email an answer. She made the whole process relatively pain free. Thank you so much Veena for making it possible!"

- Sammy & Linda Torres, Union City

★★★★★

"We have sought Veena's help to buy as well as sell our house and the experience was simply outstanding. We could not have asked any thing better in terms of service. Her professionalism in terms of working with us patiently through the deal has been exemplary at the same time extremely simple. The detailed advice in terms of presentation of house for sale or for the purchase of the home in Fremont has been the highlight of the experience. Veena understands the customer needs and helps negotiate the deal for her clients which I can emphatically say that I could not have gotten if I compare to other agents which I knew and some of my friends have gone through. Simply said, this is the best it could get if one wants to have an excellent experience without getting too overwhelmed in the process of buying or selling a house".

- Rajiv and Rashmi Ohja, San Ramon

★★★★★

"... We were scrambling with our kids in our new Santa Clara Rivermark home and were finding it very difficult to get our old house in Tracy ready for sale. Veena and [her husband and partner] VJ came as Angels who with their pleasant and welcoming personality took over the responsibility of getting our house ready for sale. We sold our house in Tracy immediately and also got the price we were targeting. Veena and VJ are the best pair to work with, and they make the whole process of buying and selling very pleasant. I will always work with them.".

- Rajeev Handa, Santa Clara (Rivermark)