Why You Should List With Jim
Hot Buy in Terramar
This is a terrific value for a Terramar beach bungalow! The original bungalow is habitable now - it has a new roof, new furnace, real hardwood floors, and pool plus a studio with kitchen and bath was built in the back of the garage! There hasn't been this good of a...
Read the Contract!
This business used to be civil. It was probably obvious that the contracts were drawn up by the realtor attorneys to protect realtors, but there were adequate protections for buyers and sellers too. This commission lawsuit has changed everything, and now they only...
Our New Listing @ $729,000
In this environment, I want to sell attractive entry-level homes! https://www.compass.com/listing/180-bautista-court-unit-77-oceanside-ca-92057/1618313200321279873/ Sold for $705,000 and the buyer paid the $17,000 HOA assessment for roof/termite.
Does It Take Longer To Sell?
I was on a national sales call yesterday where agents from coast-to-coast were complaining about how bad their market is currently. I kept thinking, "It's nothing price won't fix!" Instead, the common fallacy that 'it just takes longer to sell a home' will prevail....
Los Altos Follow-Up
Remember my uncle's house in Los Altos? The buyers paid $4,137,000, and financed $2,689,000, which at 7% will be around $17,890 per month. Add around $4,000 per month for property taxes and $1,000 for insurance and it totals $22,890 per month. And now they are renting...
Zestimates and The Truth
Are you going to hire a less-experienced agent who isn’t as good on pricing, just to save a point because you trust your zestimate? Yikes!
Peak 2024
The local market got off to a hot start in 2024 (January was hot - something to remember in 2025), so it follows that the selling season could conclude sooner than hoped. Let's use the data to help decide it. The NSDCC inventory peak of the year has been in mid-July...
Jim the Woodworker
Here's an example of the transformations we do in our quest to achieve top dollar for our sellers. The existing hardwoods were acceptable, but the darker cabinets and slate backsplash weren't going to impress today's buyers enough to pay top dollar. We decided to...
Seller Disclosures
There used to be a belief that any defects that had been fixed, or things that happened to previous owners weren't required disclosure items for today's home sellers. But it's gotten very specific now - and beginning July 1st, AB-968 takes effect. If the home is...
