There had to be skeptics to my Los Altos Adventure last weekend. Did you mis-price the house by more than a million dollars on purpose - or just by accident? Come on - you were 440 miles out of your normal market area....dude....you got lucky!! I like to pay close...
Why You Should List With Jim
Rest of 2024
We can expect that the election season will be like no other in the history of the USA! Prepare accordingly! Can you imagine how this will play out? If Biden wins, there will be a civil war. If Trump wins, he's promised that there will be full chaos on Day One. We can...
List-Price Accuracy Gauge
Once a home is for sale but not selling, how do you know what to do? Both buyers and sellers can apply my List-Price Accuracy Gauge: Once the home is on the open market, if it is…… Getting visitors and offers, you are within 5% of being right on price. Getting...
Los Altos Full Tour
This video includes a tour of the house so you can see what $4,200,000 gets you in Silicon Valley. The eight pine trees are protected, and thankfully, they are isolated into two extreme areas: What does that money buy around here? Examples:...
Uncle’s House Part 2
Once we raised the list price yesterday, the message spread quickly. I still had a good turnout at my open house - about half of the amount of attendees that I had on Friday - but many came just to ask why the price changed. Agents appreciated the transparency though,...
Uncle’s House
I don't make it a habit to drive around the state looking for sales - my uncle lived here for 47 years and survived the last couple of years by himself. Every 90-year old needs to have people around! He moved to a senior facility in Marin County to be closer to my mom...
Dominance vs. Fiduciary
These Palo Alto guys have been making national headlines since they rolled out their reduced-commission program last week. They are offering a $10,000 fee to buyer-agents, instead of a percentage, AND encouraging buyers to come directly to the listing agent to avoid...
Corporate Sales
The comment section here isn't working - it's been weeks now!! I have decent people helping me so we'll keep trying. In the meantime, check the competition from the big-time corporate owners of real estate and how they go about selling homes:
Choosing A Realtor
Agents will give you all sorts of mumbo-jumbo on why you should hire them, with the most favorite being that they are the "Local Expert". Agents were local tour-guides before the internet - back when buyers would roll into town and plunk down their $72,500 for a house...
NSDCC Active Listings By Week
The blip in active listings over the last week isn't too concerning and could just be from the weather. The count of active listings is a good indicator of the demand though. During the mega-frenzy conditions from late-2020 through early-2022, you can see that the new...