Real Estate Realties with The RebelBroker

The Morgan Hill Chamber of Commerce held the 17th annual 'Taste of Morgan Hill' celebration on Sept 23rd and 24th. It was a great time for residents and visitors alike to say good-bye to the summer season. The celebration was focused on family and fun, a perfect example of what so much of us love...

In the most recent fiscal year, according to the Morgan Hill Times , the city of Morgan Hill collected $6.1 Million in sales taxes. Restraunt and gas stations accounted for 23% of that amount. This lead the Times article to suggest that maybe the city motto should be changed to 'Eat here, get ga...

Everyone wants it. The single thing that will make their business take off. I see it on the few online real estate forums I participate in. New and aspiring agents want to know how to make it big in this business.Well, if we zoom out far enough, there is a kind of magic bullet out there. I suppos...

Excuses are easy. There will always be something out there that we can use as an excuse to avoid something we are afraid to do or something we would rather not do. Like me and working out for instance.Investing can be like that. The numbers are hard to argue with, real estate is still historicall...

In a previous blog entry discussing a potential problem we might face in the future, a reply was posted about foreclosure. I thought that looking into the numbers on this might be a good thing. Something that dovetails into foreclosure is bankruptcy. So I thought it might be worth our time to exp...

I am, by nature, not an alarmist. In my view, just about everything has a solution if you approach it creatively.However, over the last decade or so we have seen some things happen that could conspire to make life difficult for some folks in the not so far off future.First, lets talk about intere...

Some of my favorite authors don't think much of house flipping. For instance, Ken McElroy explains in "The ABCs of Real Estate Investing" that "...in my opinion, this is like day trading in the stock market. It isn't easy, and it is very risky."I can understand that opinion, but after watching my...

Not too long ago, when you listed a house you could count on the rush of buyers and the competition that comes with them to start a potential bidding war. It was a classic case of supply and demand where the demand was high and the supply just could barely keep up.Times have changed, in my area a...

So much of this business gets focused on marketing ourselves that we sometimes forget how important it is to maintain and expand our knowledge.Probably the most cost effective way to do that is by building your library. In my case, it has been about exploring other areas of real estate like devel...

A team is great. I like teams. You can always get more done with a team. The trick is putting together a team where everyone actually does what they are supposed to be doing. I have been on teams that were fantastic - but far more often I have been on teams where some members just don't make thin...