If you find a hot buy that is likely to have multiple offers, you will be confronting the uneasy choice of waiving the appraisal contingency in your offer. It's likely that the other buyers will do it too, so it's become a part of the minimum package needed just to...
This home in La Costa Oaks listed for $1,800,000, and then the price was raised to $1,900,000. It closed yesterday for $2,150,000 - here is the video tour: We sold the same model for $1,910,000, and the sale closed today:...
Home buyers deserve to have their own representation. The broker cooperation system which allows every agent to share their inventory with all other buyers via the MLS has worked well for 100+ years. But it has been under attack for years, and it may not survive the...
In the last couple of weeks, you may have seen prices on new listings reflecting today's exuberance. Homes that are priced attractively will generate the crowds, and likely get bid up over list. Others are listed for a price that raises an eyebrow. In areas where...
The NYT has another article lamenting the drop in the number of homes for sale, and offered some reasons, like covid reluctance, sellers skittish about finding their next home, forbearance relief, the lack of building new homes, and people keeping their old home as an...
My wife's brief explanation on how she handles the request for repairs that the buyers submit after their home inspection. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I hope there comes a time and place when all of us can get back together and tell stories about what it was like along the trail. Here's the nine-years-and-counting saga of us sticking together:
Selling a house is different every time - it's truly the wild, wild west. Because there are no standard rules of engagement on how to sell a home, everyone does it differently. I had an agent accost me on why my offer was so low (it was full price), to which I said...
Ten Tips for Homebuyers
The term 'chasing the market' usually applies to sellers in a down market when they don't lower their price fast enough to get ahead of the new listings coming on that are under-cutting them. The reverse is also true about home buyers in a hot market. Those in the...
