Ken Kho

Awarded Five Star Real Estate Agent 2012 to 2022
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Legacy Real Estate & Associates in Fremont
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Every July 1, I mark another year as a Realtor, with the latest in 2022 being my 16th. I like to look back at my journey, chuckle on the troughs I hit, and celebrate the crests I rode. Allow me to bring you along for a quick surf through memory lane.

I was born and raised in the Philippines, a Filipino-Chinese with the enviable opportunity to grow up in a multi-lingual and multi-cultural environment. My parents were teachers for a long time, and they eventually ventured into business, and later, real estate.

I can remember us children sitting around the dinner table listening to my Mom and Dad discuss property deals and investment opportunities, and I always thought it was so fascinating. When I got older, I even helped by typing out the purchase contracts on typewriters with carbon paper. That was before PCs, so things were obviously much different then!

I got accepted into the University of the Philippines and quickly finished BS Electrical Engineering. After graduation, I took the board exams for both Electrical Engineers and Real Estate Brokers. I passed both but registered to get the license only for RE Brokers. I decided I didnt really want to work as an Electrical Engineer; instead, I went to work for a company selling microcomputers, then a new concept. After three years, I left to establish with the help of my younger sister - a computer company for my family. We obtained the distribution rights for a line of microprocessor-based multi-user computer systems built by a San Francisco manufacturer. Our company provided small businesses with an affordable way to harness the emerging computer technology to optimize their operations.

Subsequently, my younger sister moved to San Fran to run the buying office we had set up. A few years later, with our two older sisters having joined the family business, I made the move as well. Our company today more than three decades later has been ably managed by my two older sisters to a secure position among the recognized and reputable I.T. firms in the Philippines.

In the mid-1990s, I was in Fremont, witnessing the Internet become commercially popular. I decided to set up an Internet firm to provide hosting and server colocation. Later, we shifted to the development and deployment of database-driven web-based applications. Around 2005, after more than two decades in high-tech, a field which I believed favored the young, I decided it was time for a change. I knew it was time to enter the career that had always called on me since I was a young child: Real Estate.

Even though I had finally found the career for me, most people thought I was entering the real estate field at the wrong time. My broker at that time, however, opined that the recession was the perfect time to get into the industry, because before that, deals were easy to come by and I wouldnt have learned much, but during the economic downturn, I had to learn how to do things the right way, without resorting to shortcuts.

I not only persevered but even thrived during the challenging recession and became a competent Realtor. Now that I have been in this field for over a decade, I can look back and identify the factors that have contributed to my success as a REALTOR.

The first is that my background in hi-tech has given me an unmatched grasp of and comfort with technological advances. It is with ease that I wade through the plethora of technological tools to identify and adopt the ones that will help me improve my level of service to my clients.

There are two more factors, and more important ones. One is the fact that my family was in real estate. Being in a household where real estate was discussed daily, I learned by osmosis, and real estate concepts come across as intuitive. Time and again, I have been able to help my clients with my problem-solving ability. And of course, I have my Mom to lean on.

The other factor is that I enjoy very much what I do. I relish the excitement in my buyers voice when he steps into a perfect home; I cherish the joy in a little girls giggles as she lays claim to her very own bedroom; I bask in my investors triumphant feeling as he closes an escrow; I rejoice in a familys relief as they make a transition; I savor the appreciation of my client as we complete a beautiful makeover. I am thrilled and honored to be a part of my clients real estate endeavors, but even more than that, I am grateful to be a part of their lives. A part of your life!

Ken specializes in luxury homes, upgrade, downsize, sellers, buyers, listing agent, buyer agent, investments, 1031, prop 60, prop 90, residential, commercial and home values transactions.

Areas served include Fremont,Newark,Union City,Hayward,San Jose,Milpitas,Palo Alto,Menlo Park.

Ken is most familiar with the local real estate markets within and around the following zip code areas. See other realtors that service the same areas by clicking: 94536, 94538, 94539, 94544, 94587, 95035, 95125, 95128, 95131 & 95135

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