Arlington, VA - Real Estate
YEAR 2026
I've been doing this work for 23 years. You have to keep reinventing yourself after that long. I have.
Last year I made an intentional decision to work primarily with sellers. It suits me. I am very good at the logistics — home preparation, staging, sequencing, the hundred decisions that most people find overwhelming. My listings are the best looking on the market. And they sell. Quickly.
But this work has become something else too.
It's become more human, more emotional, and far less transactional. I deeply care about people — their stories, their homes, what they're leaving behind and what they're walking toward. Selling a home is not just a transaction. It's a life that is changing. It's letting go of an old self. It's standing in the uncertainty of what comes next.
I love being in that in-between. Carrying whatever I can take off your shoulders. Seeing you and your life change.
I started writing about it — about thresholds, about practical wisdom, about what's true and what matters. It lives on Substack: Letters from a Threshold. I love poetic reality. That's what I write.
This summer my son and I are hiking Philmont — 66 miles through mountain terrain, a 10-day Scout adventure. It's hard and raw and I think it will change us both. I want to witness him cross into something. I like hard things that test us.
I also continue to believe in Hygge — the Danish art of the cozy home. Home is the most important place any of us has. I want to show you how to make it somewhere that wraps you up and holds you.
I don't have a team. I don't have a million listings. I work with a small number of people because deep relationships require everything — and I intend to give everything.
If you are at a threshold — if you are thinking about moving — let's talk. I would love to hear your story. I would love to help you cross it.
STORY
I left Lithuania in 1998 with everything I owned in one bag. What followed was the slow, unglamorous work of building a life from scratch — in a language that wasn't mine, in a country that didn't know my name.
That experience is the foundation of everything I do.
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WORK
My listings look exceptional and they sell — quickly and for the best possible price. That is the given. What is less common is everything else I bring — the depth, the presence, the practical wisdom of someone who has navigated hard things herself.
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WRITING
I started writing letters this year. Not about real estate. About life — thresholds, freedom, home, what it costs to be human. They live on Substack.

