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Representation from the first search through keys.
Write the search around how you actually live — commute, schools you care about, noise, HOA, and what you can pay — then tour with that list, not a feed.
In multiple-offer Long Beach and Orange County, the work is the offer: price, timing, contingencies, and what you will not give away. Jeff writes and negotiates; you decide.
Disclosures, inspections, appraisal, and the last mile of escrow are where deals drift. You get a salesperson who stays in it until recording.