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I grew up in New York City, went to the High School of Music and Art, and then to the University of Wisconsin. After graduating, I continued west to San Francisco where I was actually never a hippie. Here I met and married my ex-husband, Dennis, and then taught primary school for several years before we started a Berkeley Real Estate company called The Hendrickson Company in 1980.
I am also an artist, and the mother of two grown sons: Jonah, who lives in Berkeley and is a sculptor and Ben, who lives in New York City and is a personal trainer and a passionate ice and rock climber.
I live in a loft like house filled with my paintings where sunlight bounces off the colors and makes me laugh. My home - [Photo 1], [Photo 2] is in the Kensington redwoods just a minute north of Berkeley looking out at the Golden Gate.
When I am not helping my clients sell or buy residential and commercial properties, I relax by painting or going for rides in the country, to movies, or the symphony, or having dinner with friends. And I love to take walks in the hills.
"Whether you are selling or buying a home or a commercial property, you must have a Realtor who is smart and experienced. Someone who thinks on her feet. Someone who will represent your interests above all else. Barbara Hendrickson is that someone.
Her clients say that she is the brightest, funniest, most productive person they have ever met.
After 20 years as a partner at The Hendrickson Company and several years of gentle prodding from her friends at Red Oak Realty, Barbara joined us in the fall of 2000. In the spring of 2002 she was Red Oak's Top Producer. In 2003 she was Red Oak's over all Top Producer, and in 2005 and 2006 was the Top Producer at our Solano Avenue Office. This year she is once again the Top Producer for the first half of the year for all of Red Oak Realty.
Whether she's selling properties or painting her vibrant paintings, Barbara Hendrickson loves what she does.
Barbara served on the board of the Berkeley Public Education Foundation for many years and currently serves on board of The Berkeley Symphony Orchestra.
Barbara is committed to "giving back" to the community in order to help it become an even better place for her clients to live and work in.
All of the above make Barbara an especially effective real estate agent. Whether you are looking to buy or sell any kind of property in Berkeley, Kensington, Albany, El Cerrito, Oakland, or Piedmont, working with Barbara will assure you of success."
Laurie Capitelli, Sales Manager - Red Oak Realty
It was a real pleasure to have you represent with the selling of my parents home. It was nice of you to take on the challenge and issues with a probate sale and being so forth right in our endeavor.
Your expertise in staging was done in very good taste. Your paintings were bright, cheerful and colorful. This was our learning experience in dealing with real estate sales in this era ( of bidding and "as is" ) and it went so smoothly. It was an absolute pleasurable transition for all of us. Thanks for your patience and frequent updating calls. We felt you handled everything in a very professional way. We were very pleased.
We would not hesitate to recommend or ask for your services again. Thank you for keeping me calm where there was a time of my anxiety and frustration. You handled it with such patience, calmness and I commend you for your professionalism.
And in closing, I'm sure it was because of your in teaching and directing us and your personal contacts that the home was sold.
Terry and Susan
We should probably just go ahead and adopt Barbara. She has been the real estate agent for our family on so many transactions that we've lost count. She sold our first house and then twenty years later she sold our second house. She sold my mother-law's house, after her death, on behalf of our family. She sold our godparent's house for their estate. Recently she sold two very complicated mixed use commercial properties for us. She sold Virginia's sister's house in Berkeley which she found her ten years earlier. She has always been honest, energetic, and meticulous in her work with us, and she has always gotten us solid sales with qualified buyers for lots of money.
Come to think of it, we may just have Barbara adopt us. If you're looking for a sale, no foolin', call Barbara. If you want help in finding a home, call Barbara. She gets the job done, she's smart and a delight to work with, and she paints beautiful paintings. How can you beat that?
Al & Virginia Silbowitz - 2007
I cannot begin to thank you enough for your professionalism, expertise and healthy dose of patience during my home selling process. Your access to people who could help get the necessary work completed, as well as sage advice in preparing the house was surely a significant factor in why our house sold when others nearby languished. As a first time seller, I could only imagine the challenges that I would face, and it was great to have an ally in the process.
What impressed me the most was your willingness to keep our lines of communication always humming along. Your responsiveness to calls, emails and requests, large and small-even in the midst of your son’s wedding(!)- demonstrates to me the sign of a true professional.
I look forward to recommending you to anyone I know buying or selling a home.
Jennifer, 2007
Barbara Hendrickson is a very smart, professional realtor.
She sold our home on Oak Vale Avenue in the Claremont in a very short time frame at a price well beyond our expectations,
$2,550,000. Achieving that price was the result of her carefully crafted marketing strategy and her close attention to detail during every step of the sale.
When we told Barbara we wanted to sell the house, she selected the date for the Open House based on factors we had not considered. We met with her and discussed all the information that she had gathered which helped us choose the right listing price.
Barbara worked on the sale of our house every day. We really felt supported by her. She was always "on it" and provided thorough answers right away to any question. She negotiated with the stager about scale, style and color throughout the house while we were busy packing up 32 years of stuff in 2 weeks.
Her marketing was consistently superb. Our home was shown by many agents and our Open Houses were very well attended.
Barbara represented us in a few other transactions including a large commercial building that we owned in Oakland where she brought us seven offers from both commercial and residential agents and made us $200,000 over asking, but that is another story.
Her skill at reading people and situations came into play throughout the process. We are so grateful for her years of experience and her creativity. She really worked for us and had our interests at heart. She has great negotiating skills, is funny and is really enjoyable to work with. This is the reason she is the top realtor at Red Oak. We have referred Barbara to many friends and family and all of them have had a great experience.
Sheila 2007
Dear Barbara,
I want to thank you and your team at Red Oak Realty for your terrific work on our behalf in selling our home in the Thousand Oaks neighborhood. Your services exceeded our expectations in every respect, and we ae pleased with the final outcome.
From the day we retained you as our agent, I could rely on you to be on top of every aspect of our sale effort, from preparing the house for the market to completing all the paperwork, and on through to negotiation the terms of the sale. You willingly dealt with all aspects of this effort - landscaping, window washing, staging, dealing with the city - and made the whole process as easy as it could be.
You were very thorough and professional in your approach, but also fun to work with. You kept in touch at every point and kept me informed at every turn. Throughout, you told me what I needed to know, about the strengths and weaknesses of our house and about market conditions, and provided sound advice.
I especially appreciated the high quality and attention to detail in your marketing efforts. The open houses were well-managed and well-staged, and the marketing and sales materials were all well done. I could see that the house was getting the kind of full exposure to the market that I wanted when we started this process.
Ultimately, it was your many years of experience in the local market and your extensive connections in the local network of agents that helped us find our buyer and close our sale. You followed up with an agent who had not seem our house, encouraged her to take a close look at the house, and convinced her to show it to her client. You then worked with that agent to find terms and a structure that worked for both the buyer and for us.
In the end, we got just what you promised us at the start: good advice, great service and a fair price.
Mark, 2007
We had such a good experience working with Barbara that when it was time to move again, we didn't have to think about it, we just called Barbara. Again, she came through for us. Since we were moving out of the state, she handled much of the preparations for getting our house ready to put on the market. She went above and beyond, handling the painting, remodeling, staging and landscaping. We knew we could trust Barbara's judgment, which helped ease the stress of selling a house from a long distance. Once on the market, we could not have been happier with the results: 5 offers after one week of marketing. After some skillful negotiations on Barbara’s part we received well over our asking price with an offer that closed two weeks later.
Raul and Mia Posada
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