It’s easy! Just buy your tickets, and you’ll receive an email with links to your Tour map. Then, on Tour day, start at any house and proceed in any order at your own pace to the homes that interest you the most – or to all of them! For more information and photos,...
Wondering what the Boeing 737 airplane needs for a runway? The minimum runway distance for a 737 is 6,800ft. This proposal only extends the current runway to 5,697ft. The article: The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Wednesdsay to approve a...
Tom's modern farmhouse is on the market! Open 12-3pm Saturday and Sunday: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1830-Stewart-St-Oceanside-CA-92054/16585098_zpid/ Authentic and like-new modern farmhouse west of I-5 - wow! New roof, new HVAC, new baths, new and...
It's John's birthday today! (He's 72) John Prine is having a heck of a summer. He released this video at the bottom of this post about opiate addition to rave reviews. He received the Artist of the Year (mentioned below), and yesterday he was also nominated for the...
This is the Zillow graph of my luxury one-story listing. It shows how quickly the attention span drops off, and the importance of taking advantage of the early urgency. Make the first impression a good one, because viewers have their searches pre-programmed, and...
I started this blog on a Saturday morning in September, 2005 with a free account on Squarespace. Donna said, "Just don't spend too much time on it". I don't know how many blog posts were on the Squarespace account - a few hundred - but this is the 7,500 blog post...
Tom Tarrant has done some incredible remodels over the years - here is a visual collection of a few of his projects: https://www.houzz.com/pro/tom-tarrant/green-button-homes Here's the video tour of his Bay Park remodel:
Bob has had a steady grip on the real estate market - his opinions tend to be among the most level-headed of all the prognosticators. He says we are coasting upward, and that the bump in mortgage rates isn't a turning point: Market confidence can be disrupted...
An older post that still gets hits: Punky asked what's in that “awesome I got everything going for me” house. These thoughts are culled mostly from conversations with our buyers, personal observations, multiple bidding wars, with an emphasis on investment value and...
I'm very appreciative of getting back together with Tom Tarrant, the all-time greatest home-renovator-flipper ever. Let's look back at where it all got started in 2011. This is the most incredible remodel we've seen in the blog's 12 years together:
