Advante Real Estate

Lily is great! Because of my complicated taxes and self-​employment, I had despaired of ever accomplishing a re-​fi. But where other mortgage brokers gave up (don’t even get me started on the idiots at Wells Fargo), Lily managed to pull off a no-​point, no-​fee, no-​hassle re-​fi seemingly by magic. Highly recommended! Since then, Lily has also helped me with some other real estate issues, including repairs and remodels. I can’t even estimate how much money she has saved me. I plan to use Lily for all my real estate needs for a long time to come.

Lily Shen is the best agent, I can 100% trust here. She will analyze the best bargain for you. Working with her, it saves me time. The only thing I need to do is taking her advice, sign the forms. She is so honest, efficient, and always accountable. We have bought two rental properties, and will continue to work with her for my future real estate investments. Lily has become our family friend and property investment consultant. She is our one-​stop source for any property questions such as house repair, renting issues. She is also proactive to look best rate for refinance, and notify us once we are qualify it. The best part of her is she cares about clients and always response emails or phone calls almost immediately (I should say she works too hard).
We are highly recommend her if you are having any property questions or seeking any investment advices.

Lily Shen is an honest, efficient, reliable, and hardworking real estate consultant. I have bought three rental properties, closed a number of refinances with Lily, and will continue to work with her for my future real estate investments. Lily is my one-​stop consultant from purchasing to remodeling to renting and managing my properties. She always looks out for my best interest, with patience and good advice. This is why she has many referrals who are also satisfied with her services.

Lily helped us buy and get financing for our first house in 2011. She then helped us refinance the house after the interest rates dropped even further in 2012. It has been an absolute pleasure working with her. She patiently dealt with our first timer questions. She is extremely reliable and responsive. You can measure her email response times in minutes. For every house we were interested in she prepared a plan of attack on how to get our offer to bubble to the top without overpaying. For the house we eventually bought she pushed the seller to the absolute limit to get us the best possible deal. Withouth reservation I recommend Lily to anyone who is in the market to buy a house or needs financing for one — in fact a few of my friends have since had the pleasure to work with her and are very happy with the result.

I first went to Advante in 2010 as a first-​time home buyer, knowing very little about real estate, and not trusting most agents. Now, four years and a lot of learning later, I’ve bought four houses and refinanced five times through them, saving lots of money and having a great experience every time.
Lily is a great broker. She is smart, genuine, honest, direct, patient (with me), persistent (with others), and great at bargaining. I bought all of my houses at great values, three as short sales or REO’s which are a lot more work for agents (and some agents wouldn’t even take them). She got me refinances that both saved me money and covered all the costs, and walked me through all the paperwork (taking care of a lot of it herself).
Lily is patient and honest, and not just trying to get a quick sale. She has never rushed me or pushed me to make an offer, and she’s the first to point out problems with a house and discourages me from making bad offers. I was new to real estate, and she educated me every step of the way. She’s also patient with short sales, which are a lot more work for the agent, and which many other agents won’t even try. She owns several houses herself, so she knows what she’s talking about.
She’s also a very good agent — she’s smart, she takes initiative, she’s persistant, and she gets the best deals. She generally responds to email within an hour (even late at night), and she’s even gotten up at 6am to call my lender first thing in the morning on the east coast! She will follow through with slow sellers that most other agents would give up on (which is how I got the best bargains). I got one of my houses despite a higher offer, because her persistence convinced the selling agent that I’m a better buyer, and she saved me $ 14,000 on two houses after I had already offered a higher price and we were in escrow!
I have complete trust in Lily and Advante, and I really enjoy working with them. I recommend them to anyone looking to buy a house in the south bay area — you couldn’t ask for a better realtor or mortgage broker.