Hat tip to Peter who alerted me to this show featuring Jonathan Butler! Spend an evening under the stars listening to smooth jazz and doing a little something for the music department in Oceanside: ? https://www.sandiegoreader.com/events/2018/jul/28/jonathan-butler/
Rob Dawg is skeptical (as I have become) that boomers will be fleeing their long-time residences any time soon: Reader Ty Webb isn't so sure though: For the most part, boomers own the houses, so besides the usual Big 3 reasons for selling (death, divorce, and job...
I did send yesterday's blog post to a few Compass executives about my suggestion that we could use an educational advertising campaign to counter the lies and deceit being put forth by the scumbags. Nobody said to shut down that stinking blog, so I think it's all good...
It's just a matter of whether it will be a trickle or a flood: The preference for baby boomers to age in place has been blamed in part for lower homeownership rates among millennials, who have been forced to compete for a smaller slice of available properties on the...
The discussion about affiliating with Compass included trying to predict the future of the market, and realtors in general. Historically, there has been a lack of widespread advertising because the realtor business was mostly mom-and-pop operations. But now that big...
When I first started selling homes, most brokerages were mom & pop offices on the local corner. Man, how times have changed. Now, venture capital is flooding the industry, and some outsiders flush with cash are trying to convince you that cheaper is better -...
The MLS was shut down for the weekend so they could move the servers to their new location. They should have just thrown them out the window! So these numbers are suspicious, though I took them a little later on Monday morning: The UNDER-$1,000,000 Market: Date NSDCC...
Kayla has dreamed of moving to New York City for years, and has friends who have moved there already. In our annual Christmas letter last year, she told everyone that she planned to move to Manhattan in 2018 - and she's doing it! She has amassed five solid years of...
Thankfully there are people in the world who value a good deal:
Here are examples of some of the wacky stuff that happens in this business, and why it's important to get good help: We represented the buyers of House B, whose sellers were buying their listing agent's personal residence (House A). They had included in their listing...
