Hat tip to SM for sending this along, from the AP: WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration has approved five state-designed plans to help homeowners as part of a $1.5 billion effort to assist areas slammed by the housing bust. Treasury Department officials, who...
How do you solve the agent's pay structure? Every agent should offer every program, and let the client decide. If every agent had a fee schedule that detailed what they charged (and what you got) for their commission-only, flat fee, rebate, and hourly programs, it...
An excerpt on the Seahaus condo development in La Jolla, a Barratt American project: Instead of sawn wood or steel beams, Seahaus's skeleton is made of "parallel strand lumber" beams -- long strands of wood from small trees glued together to make beams. The...
A brief youtube tour of new and old Spanish-style homes - the last two are from the 1920s!
The future of real estate should include videos. If you just look at the comps on paper, there was the similar REO sale a few doors down (which we saw) that closed last month for full price, $792,000, but it was on the golf course, down off La Costa Ave. The inferior...
Yesterday in Part 1, we saw that that more and more real estate websites keep rolling out. Is that the future, more gadgets? Undoubtedly there will always be more new websites to empower participants with more information. Is information all you need to successfully...
A few on the foreclosure list in 92008, all are around Tamarack, just east of the I-5 freeway:
Hat tip to Susie for sending this along, from latimes.com: Anyone who has ever had a beef with a real estate agent should take a look at the website ReallyRottenRealty.com. It's all in fun, but the name suggests what some buyers and sellers believe to be true — that...
I am proud to have Bryce Lucore, a fourth-generation local realtor, be part of Klinge Realty. Here's a story about his great-great-grandfather, who was born in 1868 and moved to Oceanside in 1928. He was one of a couple of Realtors in Oceanside at that time. He sold...
