Real Estate Experts For
Life's Transitions
We handle everything now so you can focus on what's next
What it means
We support the person, not just the property
Most moves arrive attached to something else. A house that served you well for years and no longer fits what is ahead, a parent's estate to settle, savings that finally reached the house you have been picturing, a growing family, or a job that came with a relocation.Whether you are selling, buying, or doing both at once, that asks for far more than coordinating a transaction. It means knowing what needs attention before you do, knowing who to bring in and when, and knowing when you need encouragement rather than another task list.
Part of this is real estate. The majority is everything else.
How it Works
Step 1: We Listen
Before anything is listed, shown, or scheduled, we learn what you are trying to accomplish, what the timeline really has to be, and what you are worried about.
Step 2: We Sequence
What happens first, what can wait, and how the two halves of a move fit together if you are buying and selling at once.
Step 3: We Orchestrate
Organizers, contractors, stagers, cleaners, lenders, inspectors. We bring in the right people at the right moment and sequence the work so one piece is ready when the next one needs it.
Step 4: We Stay
We know which coffee shop you are bound to love and who to call when the house is ready for fresh paint. And when the next season comes, whether that is the dream house or the home that will see you through your later years, the relationship we have built by then is why you call us first.
The Moves We Handle
the Most
Rightsizing
A house that fits the life you are living now. Sometimes that is smaller and on one level. Sometimes it is trading the condo for the house on the water. The direction matters less than the fit.
Selling and buying at the same time
Two transactions that have to fit together. Which one to start first, how to carry both if the dates do not line up, what a bridge loan really costs, and whether a rent-back, a contingent offer, or a longer escrow serves you better. One plan, run by one team.
Buying a second or third home
A weekend place, an investment property, or the house you have been saving toward, bought without a sale to coordinate against. Different math, different financing, and a different question about what the property is for.
Settling an estate
Rarely simple. There is usually a probate timeline, a trust or several beneficiaries who need to agree, a valuation set to a particular date, and a house holding both the things worth keeping and the many that need rehoming. We work alongside the estate attorney, the CPA, and the appraiser, and we bring in the organizers and cleaners who handle this work with care, so the parts that can run smoothly do.
Relocating in or out of the area
Moving here for a job, leaving to be closer to family, or finally making your next home the sailboat in the tropics you have always pictured. Whatever the direction, much of it gets managed from hundreds of miles away, which is when it matters that your team is physically here and has direct relationships with the inspectors, contractors, and vendors: someone to meet them at the house, walk a property on your behalf, and tell you what a listing photo leaves out.
Some of the best houses
never reach the open market
Roughly 20% of homes here sell without ever being listed publicly.
Sellers who value privacy, estates handled quietly, homes shown to a handful of agents first. Four decades of relationships with the other agents in this market, built across two generations of top producing Marin REALTORS®, is how our buyers hear about them, and it is why they sometimes win a house without being the highest offer.
What This Has Looked Like
Downsizing in Greenbrae
Forty years in one house, sold in six weeks
Three generations of belongings, a garden that needed a season of attention, and a buyer pool that needed to see past both. We handled the clear-out, the prep, and the timing.
Concurrent buy-sell, Novato to Kentfield
Two closings, eleven days apart
The new house came up before the old one was listed. We bridged the gap so the family never had to move twice.
Free Guide
Everything we work through with clients, in order, from the first conversation to the first month in the new house. Yours to keep, whether or not you work with us.
Why a Team
Specialists, not generalists
A move asks for more than one kind of expertise. Reading an inspection report and knowing who to trust to do the work. Running a preparation schedule with thirty moving parts. Handling contracts and disclosures with a lawyer's care. Understanding how a family actually arrives at a decision.
Most agents carry all of that themselves, or work with a team that has no real depth in it, and the result shows. We built ours the other way: a contractor, a detective, an attorney, a technologist, and a Marin native trained in organizational psychology. Every contractor, inspector and supplier we bring in is someone we know personally, not a name off a list. You get us all, on every move.
Jennifer Bowman
Founder · Lead listing agent
Born and raised in Marin, with a master’s in organizational psychology. She reads the human side of a move as closely as the market: who has to agree, what the real timeline is, and what is actually driving the decision.
Erin Guagenti
Lead buyer’s agent
Twenty years in tech marketing and customer success, more than ten in AI and data science. She finds the match between a client and a house, and automates the operational work so our attention stays on clients.
Kris Rockwell
Listing operations
A former police detective. Preparing a home for market is a plan with dozens of moving parts, and she runs it to the detail and on schedule.
Elliott Fink
Inspections and disclosures
A retired contractor. He reads inspections and disclosures the way the inspector wrote them, and tells sellers plainly which work will pay off before a sale and which will not.
Corinne Burt
Transaction coordinator
A licensed California attorney. She tracks every deadline and signature from contract to close, and reviews the paperwork with a lawyer’s eye before it goes out.