About Barbara Kaplan

We have worked with Barbara Kaplan at Marvin Gardens on 3 transactions (buying and then selling our house in El Cerrito and buying our house in Berkeley) and I cannot say enough good things about Barbara. She took the time to understand our needs in searching for homes and worked extremely hard to close on our first choices both times. When we sold our home in El Cerrito, she really kept us on track and we were very pleased with the outcome. We highly recommend her for homes in the Berkeley, Albany, Kensington, Richmond, and El Cerrito areas!

Barbara Kaplan at Marvin Gardens just listed and sold the home where I grew up and where my mother has lived for almost 50 years (!). Barbara was fantastic in helping us understand the current real estate environment and market for sellers in El Cerrito, what improvements were needed for us to get the best value for our home, how best to stage and list the home, and more. She also helped us with activities such as arranging for an estate sale, moving, paperwork, and coordinating communication with my mother and the rest of the family. She even threw a nice welcome party to introduce the new owners to the neighborhood and complete the "handoff." We c...

I am so impressed with Barbara. The home she successfully heped us buy had some very unique challenges, and she rose to them gracefully. It is still sinking in, months later that I really own this place. I never imagined such a perfect house for us existed. Thanks, Barbara!

We used Barbara Kaplan of Marvin Gardens and loved her. From start to finish Barbara was there for us. We are convinced that she is the reason we got our house. And, when all was said and done, she still brought us dinner and flowers following the birth of our first baby.

After more than a year of house hunting on our own we found Barbara Kaplan- and in less than a month we were in the home of our dreams! We met with several realtors before deciding to work with Barbara, and she was clearly the most experienced, knowledgeable, personable, professional, and straightforward of all of them. She listened to all of our questions, desires, and concerns about buying our first house, and gave us valuable information and help to make the buying process painless and easy. She showed us several properties that fit the description of what we were looking for in a house, and she gave us important information about the neighborhoo...