In California, if there has been a death on a property that fact needs to be disclosed to prospective buyers in writing for three years after the death. After three years if a prospective buyer asks the agent and seller need to answer honestly. In the past homes Probate homes in San Jose where there has been a death on the property sell on average 10% below what they would have sold for if there had not been a death. At this moment in time, and it may be for only this moment in time, that common knowledge is no longer applicable. San … (0 comments)
san jose probate realtor: A San Jose Probate Sale Does Not Have To Look Like Someone Died There
- 06/12/13 04:33 AM
It is a fact of life that no one gets out of this life alive. It is also a fact of real estate that people who own homes die and very often those homes have to be sold. As a San Jose Probate real estate agent I deal with this situation all the time. Most of the time when a home is sold through probate the owner who died either lived in the home at the time of death, or until shortly before death and now it is time to sell that San Jose probate home. The heirs are often … (0 comments)
san jose probate realtor: Thought I Was Out of a San Jose Probate but I Was Pulled Back In
- 01/21/13 11:11 PM
As a San Jose Probate real estate agent I am always amazed at how new issues always come up. I thought I was finished, but someone else did not. (Remember the line from The Godfather which was repeated in Sopranos) My San Jose Probate sale did not want to end.
Here is the back story. The owner of this San Jose probate sale died last June, leaving no cash in her estate, but a home with some equity. She did have a loan with Wells Fargo. I was hired by the Personal Administrator of this San Jose Probate to sell the home. The week the home … (0 comments)
san jose probate realtor: How To Clean Out a San Jose Home Before a Probate Sale
- 11/29/12 10:53 AM
There is nothing I enjoy more than helping a family sell a San Jose home left to heirs through probate. I know, it doesn’t take much to make me happy, but I am who I am. Over the years I have developed a system to sell San Jose homes in probate and it works really well!
1. Look at a home and see if there are valuables that are worth selling in the San Jose home in probate. Many homes are left with enormous amounts of personal property, sometimes with value and sometimes not. For example crappy cars have value, but beautiful over stuffed … (1 comments)
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