Best Tip For Moving - Start Early! Schedule cancellation of utilities and services. Set up utilities at the new home too, especially the new internet provider! Tenants on month-to-month need to give 30-day notice. You can give notice any day of the month - you don't...
Jim the Realtor
County Tax Sale
The San Diego County annual tax sale is coming up on March 17th - St. Patrick's Day! The house above is the most expensive on the list, and would be a deal if you can snag it. Hard to believe how they could rack up a million dollars in back taxes on a house with no...
Move to Baja
? Gary came to the open house last weekend and suggested Rosarito Beach as a possible destination for San Diegans. He has checked it out carefully and likes the prospects. I wasn't aware until Gary mentioned it that the border has a fast-track lane so you don't have...
CCP & Rapid Deceleration
Rob did a blog post (behind the paywall but consider subscribing if you're interested in residential real estate selling trends) where he thinks the Clear Cooperation Policy is cooked. Even though most of the big players are supportive of the policy in public, it's...
Slime All Around
The real estate industry gets accused of its slimy tactics quite frequently, and it is well deserved - you really should Get Good Help! In a last-ditch effort to survive, the red team went into the rental business recently. Here they have been publishing a 'corporate...
NSDCC Sales, First Two Months
I think we can say that 2025 is looking a lot like 2024 so far! We have 15% to 25% more active listings now, but buyers are picking out the creampuffs and ignoring the rest. The pile of unsolds should be growing every month, but maybe buyers just forget about them...
ADUs and HOAs
Government entities have to permit you to build an ADU, but what about an HOA? Hat tip to 'just some guy' for sending in this article about the ADU dispute at the Carlsbad condo complex called Mystic Point (where we just sold a view condo for $960,000). An excerpt:...
San Diego Case-Shiller Index, December
The Case-Shiller Index is such old news that I forgot all about it yesterday. It looks like "pricing" started to flatten out earlier last year, which sets up the 1Q25 for small-ish gains: In more-relevant news.....this date, February 26th, fell on a Monday in 2024. It...
Professional Sales
Have you ever attended an open house and the realtor asked if you wanted to buy it? Probably not. Yet, isn’t that our job? I am a salesman and this is what I do. I make a simple statement when you arrive that sets the tone - AND can’t help but put a smile on your...
Around the Country
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