Seattle Real Estate Professional
Edy's perfectionism and dedication result in attention to detail during every stage of your search and purchase experience.
Edy and her family came to the area five years ago and fell in love with it. The size, natural beauty, people, culture and educational resources all make it an exceptional place to live, work, and play. Edy brings her experience in business, management and negotiation to her work in real estate. But it is her love of people and her joy in being involved with your important moments of change and decision in the process of life that make her dedicated and unfailing in the pursuit of your goals.
As a realtor and most recently the team leader at SeattlePowerSearch.com, the Seattle branch of eXp Realty, Edy has been involved in over 150 real estate transactions in the past five years, involving homes from Vashon Island to Duvall, Snoqualmie Ridge to Bellingham! What a great and inspiring way to learn about this amazing place. Of course, her GPS has been invaluable to the process...now Edy feels like she's "from" Seattle, but with the added ability to understand what it means to relocate here and which knowledge is first tier, which is better to follow after. She works extensively with relocation clients in Seattle and on the Eastside, including from Microsoft, Amazon, Boeing, University of Washington, and their subsidiaries. She lives in Richmond Beach, part of Shoreline five minutes north of the Seattle 'border', and loves Queen Anne, Magnolia, Fremont, Ballard, Wallingford, Green Lake, Ravenna, and the areas along the west side of Lake Washington, as well as Shoreline, Lake Forest Park, and Edmonds. On the Eastside she has spent most time in Kirkland, Bellevue, Redmond, Woodinville, Sammamish and Issaquah. She has also worked extensively on luxury condos in Belltown and Downtown, and enjoys comparing views with the best of them!
Edy's involvement in real estate began in the 1980's when she was part of a Project Development Team for a real estate company in San Francisco for two years. After having worked on several major San Francisco and Lake Tahoe projects, she became most interested in buying and leasing of properties, including sales of business opportunities. She was also the official company photographer. There followed a period of work in finance, but an interest in travel led her to Japan, where she lived and worked teaching in university for 12 years. In addition she founded and ran her own large private school and formed Currents, a group that produced art exhibitions in Japan, America, and Australia, and arranged tours of New York and on the West Coast.
Eventually Edy returned to Monterey, California, where she taught Japanese, designed instruction, was a project manager for multimedia products, a product developer for early childhood educational products, and helped manage a five-star resort hotel, all while completing a masters in Multimedia and Instructional Design. Upon relocating to the Pacific Northwest with her family, she pursued her real estate license and is now deeply involved in helping her clients search for the perfect property in the local real estate market. When not at work, Edy practices Aikido and takes advantage of the local boating, picnicking and hiking riches with her family and friends. Oh, yes, and the great restaurants!
Contact Information
- Y!IM:
- edykizaki
- Email:
- Edy@SeattlePowerSearch.com
- Telephone:
- (206) 249-2914
My Posts/Listings
How to Respond once You’ve Had Your Prospective Home Inspected
Step 6 in the Escrow Process for Buyers is Buyers’ Response to Inspection. As the buyer, you and your agent review the inspection results and prepare the 35R (the response form) to be delivered to the Seller by their agent. Careful, if the deadline passes without delivering your response, it is the same as waiving your right to respond. Seller has a limited time (delineated in the Inspection... [Read more]
Having the Home Inspected Before Proceeding to Pending
Step 5 in the Escrow Process for Buyers is Pending Inspection. Once you have offered on a property, and the seller has accepted the offer (perhaps modified through negotiation) Pending Inspection is the final step before proceeding to “Pending” status. As part of the contract we use an “Inspection Contingency” to give the buyer 10 days (or as agreed) after mutual acceptance... [Read more]
What is a Form 17?
Step 4 in the Escrow Process, Receiving and Reviewing the Form 17. As a buyer, you will receive a Form 17 in most instances when you make an offer on a home. It is also referred to as the Seller’s Disclosure Statement. It can be a small detail but it is often a helpful source of information on what the Seller knows about the condition of their home. The document is a 5-page questionaire... [Read more]
A Buyer’s Understanding of the Seller’s Disclosure Statement
Form 17, Seller’s Disclosure Statement. We talk about the “Form 17″ all the time after we reach mutual acceptance, and I have some clients that want to see it even before they make an offer. What is the Form 17, otherwise known as the Seller’s Disclosure Statement? Basically it’s a 5-page questionaire the Seller fills out at the time they list the house with their... [Read more]
Protect Your Rights Under the Financing Contingency
When we submit an offer on a property, the Buyer will tell the Seller how he plans to pay for the purchase. Usually that would be through a lender. If it’s not a cash purchase, we like to put a Financing Contingency onto the offer contract. It specifies that if you are unable to get the loan after a good faith effort, and you can show that you met all the conditions you promised in the... [Read more]
What is Earnest Money?
What It’s For. Submitting an offer for a property will include a sum of earnest money which the Buyer agrees to put down, and which can be held by the Escrow Company. I often explain it to people as a sum the Buyer puts down to assure the Seller that it’s a serious offer. This sum of money could be anything, but usually 1% of the purchase price would be considered a little light,... [Read more]
Cafe Bambino in Ballard
A little coffee house in Ballard full of typical Seattle neighborhood atmosphere Another in my series of great small neighborhood coffee houses, probably one of the defining characteristics of Seattle. I remember over 20 years ago when I visited this city with my husband, from Japan, we were astounded that every supermarket parking lot seemed to contain an espresso stand. From the San Francisco... [Read more]
Mariners at Safeco Field
It’s baseball season, and for Seattle, that means the Seattle Mariners. For me, it means wherever we go on game days someone is telling someone the score or what the score was or who’s ahead. When we stop for a quick bite between showings Dave just happens to find us most convenient to a sports bar, which is filled with people pretending to talk to each other sometimes while their eyes... [Read more]
Bella Umbrella in Ballard
As everyone who has spent a Sunday afternoon (or a Tuesday after work for that matter) knows, Ballard is walkable. Our clients who want an urban village atmosphere, with wonderful ethnic and long established restaurants, herbal shops and consignment shops happily interspersed with great pubs and classy restaurants, and a sense of the beat going on, Ballard is first choice. A friend of mine says... [Read more]
Grilla Bites in Historic Snohomish
Snohomish organic juice bar and bakery An organic bakery and juice company with pizzaz! Located very centrally amidst the antique shops and restaurants of the downtown historic district of Snohomish, Grilla Bites is the lovingly tended garden of Annie Dottai, owner and foremost inventor of organic delicacies. Happily blending her background in holistic nutrition with a love of people and the culinary... [Read more]
