Pre-ListingGuide

Beth was born and raised in Mill Valley and has been selling houses on these streets since 1978. We usually know which houses are coming up, what's been done to them, and who's listing them, often before anything goes public. Everyone on the team is family, so nothing about your sale gets handed to a stranger.

Career sold transactions and volume from Beth's BAREIS and MLS production record, verified through 09/18/2026. Beth has sold in Mill Valley since 1978; the searchable MLS archive begins in 1994.

Beth Brody

Principal Agent · DRE 00657511

Lead negotiator. Pricing strategy, off market knowledge, and the negotiation itself. In her spare time, dog rescue and a grandson.

Joseph W. Brody

Listing Management · DRE 02205525

Seventeen years an engineer and sixteen investing in rental property. The numbers and systems side of every listing.

Katie B. Brody

Marketing + Operations

A Mill Valley native. Staging direction, photography, and every piece of collateral your home gets.

Our recent sales are on our website. Some of our sales never reach a public website, so a full sales list and references are available at the appointment.

Most of a house's attention comes in its first few weeks. If the price is right on day one, you get that attention. If it isn't, buyers move on to whatever listed after you.

Four Inputs

A price by itself just gets discounted. Put all four inputs together and you have a strategy.

Where all three circles meet is where your result lives, and no single one of them gets you there alone. Tap a circle.

And the part sellers feel most. A timeline with real dates, one short to-do list at a time, and a call from us every week on traffic, feedback and price. You should never have to wonder what's happening with your own house.

In order, and adjusted to your timeline rather than ours. Every step lives in your Compass One dashboard, so you can see where things stand without having to ask. Tap a step to open it.

Where prep money actually comes back in Marin, and where it does not. A starting point for the walkthrough, not a quote. We will tell you straight which line items to skip at your house. Pick a category.

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Before and after

See the work, room by room

Seventy before and after pairs from homes we prepared for sale, sorted by room: exteriors, kitchens, baths, living and dining rooms, bedrooms. Real photos, never digitally staged.

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How Long Will Prep Take?

For a house that needs paint, lighting and landscaping, the answer is about six weeks. Here is why it is six and not nine and a half.

Every buyer inspects. Tap any part of the house to see what their inspector looks at, which report covers it, and what we handle before you list. Finding the problems now means they do not surface as a renegotiation later.

We sell in three phases, and each one tells us something before the next one puts you in public. You decide which phases we use. We'll walk you through the tradeoffs before anything goes out.

Getting organized before your home goes on the market prevents delays later. Bring the hard ones forward first: ownership, title, tenant and tax questions are the ones that move a closing date. None of it is required in order to meet. Anything you can find makes the first hour far more useful.

Your ticks are saved on this device, so you can close the page and pick up where you left off.

A missing permit, plan set or receipt is normal and almost never a problem. Some obligations can be paid through escrow, others need documentation before closing, so the earlier we see them the more room we have to solve them. We will order the rest, including the title profile and the city resale and sewer reports.

This is a planning resource, not legal or tax advice. We can coordinate with your attorney, tax adviser and escrow team as needed.