Tips for a Great Kitchen The kitchen is one of the most important rooms of the house, if not THE most important. This is the area where you put together your children's lunches, cook the Thanksgiving turkey, or prep for your Saturday night dinner party with all your...
Here's a good example of how sketchy the discounters are being with their advertising. It's bad enough when they claim that they provide the same service as traditional agents, without providing any proof. But this video - produced by Purplebricks themselves -...
A tour of one of the typical 1980's built tract homes in a gated community near Fairbanks Ranch. A nice way to get into the Rancho area for someone who doesn't mind doing their own improvements. This sold for $1,161,000 in April:
Nick at the WSJ has a good piece on the Tan Man - with one of Angelo's emails from three years prior to the Countrywide failure and fire-sale to BofA: An excerpt from an old article: Mister Mozilo, a mortgage industry maverick who co-founded Countrywide in 1969, and...
Are you thinking of selling your home? If you're in a hurry, just contact me and we can get started right away. If you prefer to conduct a full investigation and make an educated decision, great - know the difference between honest salespeople and the order-takers or...
The total number of pendings dropped 6% this week - escrows are closing! It also means that the market took the normal break for graduations, though we haven't had fewer than 54 new pendings since Super Bowl week. The number of pendings over the last four weeks is...
Twenty-one years ago - time flies!
A somewhat-remodeled single-level home in La Jolla's gated Windemere community with virtually no yard, an interesting pool, and virtually right on the tennis courts. This closed for $1,110,000 in April:
Here we saw how the NSDCC sales have been down 9% this year - how have sales been county-wide? The closed sales between January and May this year are also down 8% compared to last year, in spite of there being 20% MORE houses listed for sale than in 2017! The...
I was listening the night that John Lennon was assassinated, and Jim Ladd got me through the next few hours by playing an incredible blend of JL tunes to ease the pain. He is one of a kind:
