I recently read a disturbing article in the San Francisco Chronicle, which reported that over half the homes that sold in the Bay Area over the past year were not offered for sale on the Multiple Listing Service—they were private sales. A homeowner mentions that he plans to move, word carries, and before he knows […]
You earn a great salary, have a professional career, and can’t buy a home. You aren’t saving much (if at all) for retirement, which feels like it’s decades away but will inevitably come. Odds are that you live in a metropolitan area of California or New York. Residents on both coasts face this same angst, […]
If you qualify to buy a three-bedroom, two-bath condo you can probably buy a detached single family home for the same monthly expense. Many home-seekers don’t stop to think how much those homeowner’s association dues equate to in borrowing ability. The payments on a condo or PUD (a unit in a planned unit development) include […]
Selling a home is not something you do regularly, and the times, they are a changin’. Here are guidelines that will help assure that you choose the best real estate agent[1] to sell what may be the biggest financial investment of your life. But first, we’ll chat about “her/she” and “him/he” because using “they/them” is […]
Two-thirds of the homeowners who call me to discuss moving end up staying put. Am I a bad “sales” person? “Sell” has several definitions. Per the American Heritage Dictionary, it can suggest to give up or surrender in exchange for a price…or the more negative connotation: to take unfair advantage of, to betray the true […]
