ARCHIVED BLOG POSTS
2015
With every buyer and seller in a real estate transaction, inevitably the question comes up: what exactly is a contingency? Contingency can be defined as “a future event or circumstance that is possible but cannot be predicted with certainty.” That definition doesn’t do us much good but it does s...
01/09/2015
I have been in this perplexing situation: Wanting to buy a home in a good area but only able to afford a small home on a small lot. For LA this is a lot under 5,000 square feet and a home under 1,000 square feet. My second home was in Picfair Village. Priced at $245,000 in 2002, we purchased b...
01/07/2015
"You ungrateful little brat! Just look at everything you have. When I was your age, we...lived in a duplex! We didn't even have our own house!" A great line from Annette Bening's character, a Realtor, in American Beauty. In Los Angeles, home prices are always going to rise and so are rents. A d...
01/06/2015
