People I’m glad to point you to

Professionals who serve California seniors.

People ask me all the time whether I know someone good — an agent who understands what it means to sell a house someone raised a family in, a contractor who can make a bathroom safe, a lawyer who handles trusts. These are professionals who do good work for older homeowners and their families. I’ve listed them for that reason and no other.

No money changes hands, in either direction, for anyone’s inclusion on this page. Nobody paid to be here, nobody owes me anything for being here, and nobody is here because of business they’ve sent me. If that ever changes, this page comes down.

How I decide who’s listed

  • A current professional license in good standing
  • Real experience with clients in their sixties, seventies, and beyond
  • Responsive — and willing to include adult children and other advisors in the conversation
  • Explains costs in writing before anyone commits to anything

If you’re a professional who fits that description and would like to be considered, call me at (818) 674-7284. The list is open, and it costs nothing to be on it.

Real Estate
Refiloe Matemotja, Realtor and Seniors Real Estate Specialist serving greater Los Angeles

Refiloe Matemotja

Realtor
Marina del Rey · Serving greater Los Angeles

Refiloe (it’s pronounced re-feel-way) has spent more than a decade in Los Angeles real estate and property management, working with first-time buyers, luxury listings, and investment owners alike. She stays with a transaction from the first conversation through closing and past it — and she brings a genuinely international perspective to a city that needs one, with family roots in South Africa and Russia.

She also holds the Seniors Real Estate Specialist (SRES®) designation from the National Association of Realtors — training built specifically around clients over fifty. In practice that means an agent who understands how a sale interacts with Proposition 19 and a decades-old property tax base, who can pace a move around a family’s timeline instead of a market deadline, who knows what downsizing actually involves when a house holds fifty years of belongings, and who keeps adult children in the loop without ever losing track of whose decision it is.

SRES® · Seniors Real Estate Specialist
shesellsla.com (310) 469-4437 CA DRE #01983307
Angie Yamini, Realtor with Beverly & Company in Beverly Hills

Angie Yamini

Realtor
Beverly Hills · Serving the Westside

Angie has held a California real estate license since 1987, which means she has guided clients through nearly four decades of Los Angeles markets, the boom years and the hard ones alike. She works from Beverly & Company’s Beverly Hills office, and her home ground is the Westside: Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Santa Monica, Westwood, West Hollywood, and Pacific Palisades — neighborhoods where many owners have lived in the same house for thirty or forty years.

What sets her apart for older clients is patience. Selling a house a family has lived in for decades is rarely just a transaction, and Angie never rushes it. She explains each step as many times as it takes, moves at the family’s pace instead of the market’s, and is as comfortable at the kitchen table with a homeowner in their eighties as she is on the phone with adult children helping from out of town. Whether the question is selling, staying put, or buying something smaller, she starts by listening.

Licensed in California since 1987

Updated October 2026

Please read this. This page is offered as a courtesy and is not an endorsement, recommendation, or guarantee of anyone’s services. I am not responsible for the work of any professional listed here, and no professional listed here is responsible for mine. Verify any license yourself — real estate at dre.ca.gov, attorneys at calbar.ca.gov, contractors at cslb.ca.gov — and interview anyone you’re considering before you hire them. Ideal Financial, Inc. receives no compensation of any kind in connection with this page, and pays none.