The city of Simi Valley is located in the Southeast corner of Ventura County in Southern California with approximately 127,000 residents and a variety of businesses, restaurants, shopping centers, schools and recreation facilities. Simi Valley is also well-known for being the home of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. According to crime statistics by the FBI in 2013, Simi Valley is the seventh-safest city in the U.S. with a population of 100,000 or more.
There are a host of great schools in Simi Valley including public schools, private schools and magnet schools. The Simi Valley YMCA is centrally located as well as the Simi Valley Boys and Girls Club.
You can find beautiful parks and many hiking and biking trails in Simi Valley and there are also activities at the Simi Valley Parks and Recreation.
Alex Gandel has been a full time Realtor for 35 years, 20 years of which have been with Troop Real Estate in Simi Valley. In those 20 years, since 1995, Alex has continuously earned the most prestigious awards for his production with Troop Real Estate. He attributes his success to his “glass half full” approach to his business and his life. His goal is to help as many people as he can possibly help to achieve their dreams and goals.
Alex Gandel and Staff are a combination of the best of both worlds: Working with the largest independent Real Estate Company in Ventura County, Troop Real Estate, as well as offering a “Boutique-Style” personal concierge service to their clients. Their clients never feel like another statistic or number. Alex Gandel and Staff are highly skilled, friendly, experienced and successful in working with standard real estate transactions as well as a variety of challenging circumstances, such as divorce, short sale hardship, contingent sellers with a home of choice, relocation clients and investors. By virtue of Alex’s longstanding professional reputation, he also receives many referrals from Realtors out of the area. The experience and camaraderie of Alex Gandel and Staff goes beyond the ordinary! They know how to get the job done for their clients!
In addition to being a Top Producing Realtor, Alex is a devoted family man, married to his wife, Janet, for 26 years, and serves his community in a couple of different capacities such as volunteering on the Board of Directors of the Boys and Girls Club and the Board of Directors of the Simi Valley Hospital Foundation Board. Alex is also highly involved in the Troop Turkey-a-Thon every year serving as Founder and Chairman, feeding thousands of qualified people a Thanksgiving dinner throughout Ventura County each year.
In 2014 Alex Gandel closed 102 transactions. His knowledge and “glass-half-full” mindset, as well as his incredible ability to “think out of the box,” enables him to continue to help a multitude of people throughout all of Ventura County from First Time Home Buyers and Sellers, to Estate Level Buyers and Sellers. Furthermore, Alex’s knowledge, experience, expertise and network spans over three decades which elevates his clients to an outstanding advantage of truly reaching their real estate goals.