In 1980, Linda Zimmerman left the entertainment business and began her real estate career in Beverly Hills. Her first deal was an all-cash sale to the rock group the Bee Gees. The home was a gift to their mother! She has continued working in real estate as well as writing.

Always on the forefront of food trends, Linda co-created and published "The Food Yellow Pages," the first comprehensive directory of the professional food world for Los Angeles in 1988. In 1991 a revised 2nd edition was published. Today, the book has a cult following, although no longer published.

Her articles have appeared in the "Los Angeles Times Magazine," "Woman's Day Magazine,", "Food Arts Magazine," "Food & Wine Magazine," Good Food Magazine," the "Gault-Millau Food Paper," "Cooking Light Magazine," the "Los Angeles Times," the "Daily News," the "Los Angeles Herald Examiner," the "San Francisco Chronicle," the "LA Weekly," and the "San Diego Union."

In 2011, Linda returned to Beverly Hills to join the prestigious John Aaroe Group. Previously, as an agent at Prudential California Realty in the Pacific Design Center, she was Training Director and in the upper 5% of all agents nationwide, and a member of the President's Circle. She was also Director of Westside Housing for Bradbury Realtors in Studio City, California from 1996 to 2000. . She served on the Grievance Committee of the Southland Regional Association of Realtors for many years and is a member in good standing with the California Association of Realtors, the National Association of Realtors, and the Combined LA/Westside Multiple Listing Service (MLS).  She holds the prestigious GRI (Graduate Realtor Institute) designation, along with ePRO, SFR and SRES designations and is a Certified Relocation Specialist.

Linda is probably the only Realtor in Southern California who not only is an expert on food, kitchen design, equipment and appliances, but who writes cookbooks and can whip up a meal in your new kitchen from one of her books!

Linda often guests on local radio talk shows and is a frequent speaker at various local colleges and universities. She has hosted several local radio and TV food shows, has appeared nationally on ABC-TV's "The Home Show," and was profiled at work in her own home on a featured segment of the Better Homes and Gardens TV Network show, "Working At Home."  She was the guest realtor on daytime TV's first Reality Series, "Starting Over." Her most recent article was featured in the April, 2008 edition of "Growing Wealth Magazine."

Linda lives in the Los Angeles area. Her biographical data has been published in "Who's Who of American Women" and "Who's Who in the West."