Examples of capital-gains tax - let's use this as a marker in case the Trump plan goes through: Dear Liz: We are in the lowest tax bracket. If we sell a capital gains asset worth several hundred thousand dollars, does that put us in a higher bracket and we pay 20% or...
From Dwell: Wood in general is a beautiful, evocative natural material, and when it's saved from a landfill and reused, it has even more character, history, and sustainability. Reclaimed wood can be recovered from a wide variety of sources, but it most frequently...
It's the time of year when we see some price adjustments by agents who have tried everything else, to no avail. But how much do you need to reduce the price to cause a sale? Ideally, it needs to be enough to cause buyers who have already seen the house to come back -...
Here are the haunted places around Carlsbad, though they didn't mention this house on the corner of Highland and Oak - go by for a look! http://paranormalistics.blogspot.com/2012/07/haunted-locations-in-carlsbad-village.html
From the C.A.R. press release: “While it’s encouraging that statewide home sales improved both monthly and annually, the year-over-year sales rate is losing steam, reflecting the persistent shortage of homes for sale and an easing of concern over a surge in mortgage...
We're in the running - and only $400 million in incentives! LINK San Diego’s region-wide bid for Amazon‘s second headquarters was sent off Wednesday, one day before the online retailing giant’s deadline, according to the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp....
We lost another all-timer today, Gord Downie, 53, lead singer of The Tragically Hip. He started the band with high-school friends from Kingston, Canada, made great music for 34 years, and died yesterday of brain cancer in his hometown, which is the way it should...
This start-up has the right ingredients, but their auctions do have a reserve amount and no buyer-agent commissions, which cuts out other agents. They say "No Double Ending', but when the buyers are unrepresented it puts the listing agent in an agency position - if...
Hat tip to daytrip for sending this in - the price is now down to $699,000: Homes near this Chapel Drive neighborhood fetch about $1.5 million, and Crowell priced this property as such. She figures it will cost $300,000 to stabilize the hill that got washed away...
Reader hema-mendo wondered about the mega-gap between the NSDCC median list price, and median sales price for the last 30 days: I don’t get it. Why is the spread so wide? It is a bit alarming to see more than a million-dollar gap between the two: NSDCC median list...
