Northern California Real Estate

Home buyers are often asked by their agent to look past the current condition of a property and consider its potential.  New carpet, some paint, a little landscaping.  The highest potential value of many properties is often hidden beneath poor decorating choices, worn out furnishings, a poorly ma...

Buyers, sellers, investors, welcome back to another installment of Real Estate Jargon, aka, simple explanations of real estate terms not normally found in nature.  Today we're going to look at two types of leases that are of interest to anyone who is either a tenant or a landlord, or may be eithe...

Buyers, sellers, investors, welcome back to another installment of Real Estate Jargon, aka, simple explanations of real estate terms not normally found in nature. Most of us know what a condo looks like, but for a specific definition we can use the American Heritage® Dictionary: "A building or co...

Buyers, sellers, and investors - welcome to another installment of Real Estate Jargon, aka, simple explanations of real estate terms not normally found in nature. In the Lethal Weapon movie series, Danny Glover and Mel Gibson did a recurring bit based upon the confusion created by a common predic...

Today, another crew member refused to work at the haunted house I manage in San Jose.  Hasn't this happened to any other agents, managers or homeowners?  The house is a rental and the previous tenants heard footsteps and voices in the night upstairs, but didn't make a big deal about it.  When tha...

I live in a 25 year old neighborhood with no homeowner's association.  Many of the original buyers have raised their families and are either retiring to Florida or down-sizing nearby.  A neighbor approached me recently and said he was going to sell in a couple years and was concerned about proper...

Like it or not, we're all going to retire some day.  When you retire, do you plan to sell your book of business, leave it to a co-worker, leave it to a family member, or just turn off your cell phone and say goodbye?

Proposition:  Real estate professionals are becoming more like small businesses than at any other time in recorded industrial history.  Argument:  The days of a lone agent being a top producer are fading away.  Broker/owners are encouraging, supporting, and developing teams that bring together ag...

Buyers, sellers, investors, welcome back to another installment of Real Estate Jargon, aka, simple explanations of real estate terms not normally found in nature. Today we're going to talk about supplemental taxes in California, that little surprise bill that homeowners receive a few months after...

Ever hear someone say something like this?  "I'd like to sell my home, but Junior has two more years of high school and we don't want to move until he graduates."  If we would like to buy that home and don't want to wait on Junior, is there a way?  You betcha! One of the most effective ways to pu...