Travis has been actively involved in real estate for 19 years and has both brokered and invested in nearly every property type, including condominiums, single family homes, retail and industrial real estate as well as apartments. He has been a landlord; he has co-owned and co-managed approximately 130 apartment units in Marin County as well as individual condominiums in Berkeley and San Francisco. He has also managed construction projects, including oversight of the completion of an 88 unit apartment complex on Novato, CA that he acquired with a partner during its construction.
Travis’ completed transactions total over $375 million, including over $70 million in financing as well as properties valued at $65 million that he acquired as an investor through various partnerships he has formed. For 15 years Travis’ primary focus has been newly constructed or renovated properties as well as off-market properties, completing transactions of such assets throughout San Francisco, the Bay Area and nationwide.
Travis brings his extensive experience as a principal investor to bear in negotiating and completing every property purchase or sale on behalf of his clients. He has been highly successful in property searches for assets available for sale but not formally on the market; marketing of properties to achieve the highest price; extensive transaction management, including negotiation of relevant documentation and effective navigation through all due diligence matters; accurate valuation of many property types in numerous regions or neighborhoods; and origination and structuring of a wide variety of financing instruments.
Travis believes that the use of technology and the internet is critical for the effective presentation and marketing of real estate. He leverages his substantial history in technology to thoroughly market and effectively present the properties that his clients wish to sell. Travis has created one of the most comprehensive marketing platforms available in residential real estate, maximizing technology and print mediums to consistently access the broadest pool of buyers possible and achieve record prices. His background includes the founding and growth of Sight Design, a website design company still in business today that he started in 1997 and sold to his partners in 2000, as well as sales management positions with two real estate technology start-ups in 2000-2002.
Travis has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with a dual emphasis in Real Estate & Urban Land Economics and Finance from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley, CA, class of 1991.
Email: travis@bridge-sf.com
Ron is in the top 30 agents in San Francisco in terms of sales volume and has consistently been in the top 1% of agents in San Francisco for several years. Since January 1, 2007 he has closed in excess of $90MM in transactions, representing 80 completed deals for both buyers and sellers. In 2009, Ron completed over $40MM in sales. He brings exceptional sales, marketing, and negotiation skills to each transaction and always puts his clients first.
Ron comes from a real estate family, his mother working as a developer and his father working as a mortgage broker. Whether it be banging nails on construction sites during the summers in high school or helping his mother manage her investment properties, Ron has been involved in real estate almost his entire life.
Throughout much of the 1990’s, Ron held hi-tech positions in Silicon Valley and understands the value technology brings in facilitating the marketing and sales process in real estate. He served as a Product Manager at an internet mortgage broker website (later acquire by CitiGroup) and knows how to implement the tools of technology to achieve sales and marketing objectives. In his product marketing roles, Ron learned the value of marketing in successfully selling any product or service. It was at his Director of Sales position that he learned how to sell, a skill that has served him well in San Francisco real estate since 2003.
Ron is a true Bay Area native, born in Mountain View, CA and raised in Menlo Park, CA. In 1994, he moved to San Francisco where he currently resides with his wife and two children. Having been raised in a household of a mortgage broker and a real estate developer, he has gained an intimate understanding of property values and changing market conditions.
Ron holds a Bachelor’s of Arts in Economics with a minor in Business Administration at University of California Berkeley in Berkeley, CA, as well as a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Stanford, CA.
Email: ron@bridge-sf.com
Janice Lee
Janice is in the top 10% of all San Francisco residential real estate agents in terms of sales and completed 20 transactions in 2010. She has also acted as a principal and has bought and sold numerous homes, including the expansion of an investment property as well as a multi-unit building currently in the process of condo conversion.
Prior to entering the real estate business, Janice successfully created and managed After School Programs and International Internship Programs, managing a budget of $500,000 and a staff of 30 +. She taught English in China to Foshan TV executives, consulted senior management at the Majestic Hotel - a five star hotel in Vietnam - and participated in the Management Development Program at PepsiCo-Vietnam. Janice speaks fluent Cantonese and conversational Mandarin.
Janice has a Bachelor of Arts, Cum Laude in International Relations and Asian Studies from Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. As a student, she studied Intensive Chinese through Princeton in Beijing at Beijing Normal University and Hamilton College's Associated Colleges in China. Janice also attended Hong Kong University where she studied Finance, Economics and Politics. Janice has taken Investment Analysis and Tax Consequences of Real Estate and has a Management Certificate from City College of San Francisco. Janice is certified in Short Sales and Foreclosures, and has a firm grasp of San Francisco Rent Control laws as well as the plans and permits process at the Building Department.
Janice gives back to her community. She's a founding member of the Summer Search Bay Area Alumni Board, created to keep alumni connected through volunteerism and a growing support network. As a past recipient and current Board member of the renowned City Club of San Francisco Margaret O'Donnell Student Leadership Scholarship, Janice heads up Alumni Relations and is charged with the advancement of the Alumni Program.
Email: janice@bridge-sf.com
Amita Patel
Amita is our transaction coordinator and functions as a liaison between real estate agents, our clients and escrow companies. She oversees all transaction management responsibilities involved in completing our sales, including management of all documentation flow, transaction timeline adherence and general quality assurance. Amita has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Marketing from San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, and speaks Gujarati/ Hindi.
Michelle Howe
Michelle is responsible for oversight of Bridge's various internet and other marketing programs. She also oversees creation of new marketing vehicles and provides ongoing marketing management for Bridge Properties' general promotional efforts as well as executes all of our property-specific marketing. She has both a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish from Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. Michelle speaks Spanish fluently as well as conversational Japanese and Portuguese.
1250media, Web Developer
1250media is a full service website design and marketing company, with 15 years of experience in the creation of corporate marketing materials and branding as well as web development and systems integration. 1250media develops all web-based content for Bridge Properties' marketing platforms. 1250media also is responsible for the design and creation of Bridge Properties' marketing materials, including statements for distribution at the property, detailed property brochures, and related marketing products. More can be found at www.1250media.com.
Steve Salviejo, Fidelity National Title
Fidelity provides title insurance and related services throughout the United States and several international markets. Fidelity is the largest title insurance organization in the world. Fidelity has an office in the West Portal district, within which Steve Salviejo is a senior title officer. Steve has been actively working as a title officer in San Francisco since 1992, with an emphasis on residential (including tenant-in-common transactions), commercial, financing and 1031 exchanges. Steve has consistently shown commitment to emerging best practices related to technology, new escrow guidelines and changes in the laws and legislature within the title and escrow industry. We have used Steve for many years on a high volume of transactions annually.