Tri Valley Brokers

We recently had the pleasure of working with Dave who listed and sold our mother’s Castro Valley townhouse. We interviewed 3 potential agents, and we are so glad that we selected Dave to represent us. He was professional and competent. He staged the empty property and listed it at a competitive price that resulted in multiple offers. It sold within a week of listing for thousands of dollars over the asking price. He did all of this at a 4% commission. Needless to say, we highly recommend his services.

I have completed 2 transactions with Dave over last 4 months. He was knowledgeable and professional. My husband and my schedules are hectic and Dave was also flexible and able to accommodate. He was timely in his response to our calls, texts and emails. He did a wonderful job selling our home and helping us purchase another. I would recommend him and use him in the future.

I used Dave Farnsworth as my agent to sell my home last year. I was very happy with the results. His broker’s fee of only 4%, less than the typical fees. My home sold for more than the asking price within a week! Dave is a very honest, hard working, and experienced Real Estate agent. He took care of everything and communicated with me, as needed, during the process until the home closed. Next time, I sell a house, Dave will be the first agent I call. Very highly recommended!

We came across Dave after meeting 2 other agents who did not quite seem to meet our standards. One almost never returned our messages or emails and the other was trying to sell us homes we weren’t interested in, very similar to a car sales person. We don’t ask for much but maybe some solid communication, interest in our needs and what we are looking for, accessibility and a strong knowledge base of the field and market we’re in. We wanted a professional with experience and that’s what we got. From the first time we contacted Dave until the end of our work together he was always ready, willing and available to assist in whatever way he could. At our first sit down meeting together he even asked us what we expected of him as an agent/​broker. Imagine that… someone asking you how they can best serve you as your broker. We let Dave know that communication was a big issue for us and we needed to have a broker who would respond to emails, texts or phone calls in a decent amount of time. Not to our surprise Dave prevailed. He kept us up on the market and granted us access to this handy dandy site «Listing book» where we could search for homes that matched our exact criteria and would email us daily when new homes popped up on the MLS. He always asked if we wanted him to show us any homes and was accommodating to our schedules. We like to work with people who we find to be knowledgeable, experienced, ethical, and competent. Dave is such a person. Thanks so much for helping us find our home and we look forward to working with you again!

I have known Dave for over 30 years and once considered him a friend. I have transacted over $ 3,400,000 through him. He is not the same person/​realtor I’ve known in the past. I will never do another transaction through him again.
If you choose to work with him get absolutely everything in writing and don’t let him gloss over details. He is very good at being vague and letting you believe one thing and then at the last minute when it’s too late to get out of the deal then telling you something else, often not to your benefit.
Slippery is the best word I can think of to describe him. At one time I really trusted him as you can tell from the $ amount of transactions I did through him and the time period I’ve known him. You would think he would take care of a good client as they often become repeat clients and when it’s real estate here in the Bay Area that’s a lot of money that can be coming over the next 10 to 20 years. Building a client list is very important. How important? By not taking care of me as a client in the last transaction I have since sold my house and office building using another realtor so he lost out on those commisions. When I buy my next house he will not represent me. The realtor I did use instead of him picked up two new buyers while selling my house so he lost out there too.
Of course you can choose to work with him. But you would be wise to get everything in writing from him and vet him. Check out if he has done a lot of transaction or just a few. In a hot market lie it’s been over the last few years any decent realtor should have many transactions under their belt. If they don’t, there might be a reason for it.
My last words are «Buyer Beware»
Oh and by the way, the picture he uses for his business picture is one that I did for him that he never paid me for.

I have known Dave Farnsworth for a little more than 9 months now. I was referred to Dave by the UpNest team as we started looking for our new home in the Bay Area. I was new to the East Bay area and was actively looking for someone experienced and reliable. Dave came with high recommendations from UpNest. I had the pleasure of meeting Dave in-​person right after and he immediately came across as a very humble, honest, patient, helpful and grounded individual. When we started our house hunt, we didn’t really have a timeline for purchase in mind, and we were kind of surveying the market. Dave was extremely patient during this time as he realized our constraints and he guided us through the process really well. My family visited the Bay Area in October 2014 and Dave spent two long days with us, being very patient and we walked through at least a couple of dozen homes and new developments. He know the area very well. He understands the subtleties of the housing market really well, especially in a crazy market like the Bay Area, and he guided us really really well. At one point, we almost gave up our search as we couldn’t find our dream home, but Dave kept on reminding us whenever a new opportunity came. We are really thankful to Dave for timing the signing of contract for our new home that will be built soon. Without his timely intervention, we would have missed the boat. Knowing that we were out of town buyers, he was extremely considerate, to the extent of picking us up from the airport and dropping us off at the airport on two occasions.
Its been a pleasure knowing Dave and working with him, he has our highest recommendations!

the best!