Bob Davis's (vcbobdavis) Blog

Everyone wants a great deal....and a great deal on a home is even better...here's a little story about how to be exceptionally happy about the money you save when buying a home. Just a few months after I graduated High School I had a job, rented a nice apartment...and felt pretty good about mysel...

How do you measure the growth of a local housing market? When things are going crazy how much should you offer? One great indicator is the ratio of the sale price to the list price...higher numbers mean more competition from buyers and a rising market...and that is certainly true here in Valley C...

This afternoon I took a look at the foreclosure and pre-foreclosure information in the San Diego County Assessor's database....the numbers are almost unbelievable! We hear stories about the "Shadow Inventory" of foreclosures out there...the "Foreclosure Tsunami" waiting to break...unfortunately t...

5% per year...50% in ten years...sounds like some pretty good numbers right? That's the truth in San Diego...but no one is talking about it! The latest Case-Schiller report is out...read all the details in a WSJ article from yesterday...everything is referenced to 2000 prices...and good ol' San D...

Sick of having a government run by special interests? John's post really got me thinking about what is broken in our political system here in the US...and it seems like money is at the bottom of most issues. Whatever your political persuation...Liberal, Conservtive, Moderate, Republican, Democrat...

It's that time of the year again...Santa Ana Season! This morning when I woke up at my home in Valley Center, I heard the Santa Ana winds whipping the trees around in my back yard...this is the way it always starts...wind in the morning.  Valley Center is a little higher in elevation...and a litt...

It looks like Our Favorite Uncle has done it again! There is a great article in the Wall Street Journal today that quotes a Goldman Sachs source who states that the Federal first time buyer tax credit boosted sales by over 200,000 units...that's a whole 'lotta homes! Unfortunately, in the process...

Just a quick tip this morning about a way to get your VA buyers into a great deal In the San Diego area...and just about everywhere in California...there is a "feeding-frenzy" going on with first time buyers...and the folks that are using VA loans seem to be at the bottom of the ladder when it co...

What does it really take to become an "Expert" on any given local Real Estate Market? We see statistics from the National Association of Realtors...and other groups...that say over 80% of all buyers start looking on the internet...way over half of all buyers find their homes through an internet s...

Do you ever stop to think about why you live where you live? This morning I'm working from my home office in Valley Center, Ca., and as I was looking out my window it hit me... this is a pretty nice place to live. How do we choose the places we call home? Is it a default thing?...we grew up here,...