A trusted advisor across the San Gabriel and San Fernando Valleys
I have provided real estate services since 2014, and I am based in Burbank, California. I work with families across Burbank, Glendale, Pasadena, San Marino, La Cañada Flintridge and the Hollywood Hills, and that multi-area familiarity informs how I advise clients about pricing, disclosure obligations, and the features buyers actually value in each community.
Before real estate, I practiced law. That background still shapes my work: I read contracts closely, anticipate issues early, explain the available options, and approach each transaction as a fiduciary responsibility rather than a sales exercise.
Why Trust and Probate
Most people meet a real estate agent when they are excited. My clients often meet me when they are exhausted. A parent has passed, a trust has named them successor trustee, and somewhere in the paperwork is a house that now has to be dealt with while everyone is still grieving.
I gravitated toward this work because it rewards the parts of the job I actually enjoy: explaining things clearly, coordinating a lot of moving pieces, and being the calm voice when a family is not feeling calm. Becoming a Certified Trust & Probate Specialist formalized what I was already doing — understanding trustee authority, probate procedure under the Independent Administration of Estates Act (IAEA), court confirmation and overbid, disclosure exemptions, and the tax questions that need to reach a CPA before anyone signs anything.
Serving Mandarin-speaking families
I work in Mandarin Chinese as well as English. In practice this matters more than it sounds. California trust and probate procedure is difficult enough in your first language. When a parent or a beneficiary is more comfortable in Mandarin, being able to walk them through authority, timelines and proceeds directly — rather than through a relative translating on speakerphone — changes how a family experiences the entire process.
Multi-area expertise
I am based in Burbank and represent trustees, executors, heirs, buyers and sellers across Burbank, Glendale, Pasadena, San Marino, La Cañada Flintridge and the Hollywood Hills. Each of these communities has its own pricing dynamics, disclosure norms and buyer pool, and estate sales are a regular, ongoing part of the market in every one of them — which means trustees and executors deserve an agent who understands both the mechanics of a probate or trust sale and the specifics of the neighborhood the property sits in.
I am especially attentive to complex family situations — sibling disagreements over timing or price, out-of-state heirs, and properties that have not been updated in decades — and I coordinate closely with each family's estate attorney and CPA.
How I work
- The first conversation is free, unhurried, and carries no expectation
- Written value opinions with the reasoning shown, not a number in a text message
- Honest advice about not selling, when that is the right answer
- Coordination with your estate attorney and CPA rather than around them
- One point of contact from the first walkthrough to the final distribution
If any of that sounds like what your family needs, call me at 310-920-1108 or send a note. If you would rather read first, start with the trust and probate sales guide.