Watsonville Foreclosure Tour

I just spent the last hour or so going through every house and condo listing from Larkin Valley down through Watsonville, and I found that…

Short Sales – Salvation or Scam?

There are short sale gurus out there all over the place selling seminars and CDs and books to Realtors on how to do short sales…

Watsonville Foreclosures Meet the Press

On the eve of our tour down to Watsonville to look at some REO foreclosure opportunities, I got a call from one of the staff…

Santa Cruz Gets Highest FHA Loan Limit – $729,750

Counties that get the $729,750 maximum for FHA loans are likely to get that same level for Fannie and Freddie mortgages, experts said. ... In…

Santa Cruz and Mega Region Real Estate

Though theoretically we should be able to work just as efficiently from, as he puts it, "a ski chalet in Aspen or a house in…

A Realtor, Verizon, and his Smart Phone

"Shouldn't you have a feature where you can get your system to send out a friggin' text message to let me know that I have…

Down Home Inspections

There is licensing for termite inspectors, and every termite report, after it's completed, gets shipped off to the Structural Pest Control Board in Sacramento were…

Santa Cruz Real Estate Industry Consolidation

And it's no surprise, either, that Flat Rate Realty closed an office - these discount brokerages do good when times are fat, but when times…

Stagflate your way to Greater Home Equity

So here I am, working on some reports about the properties I've got listed, and to cut down the monotony, I browse news web sites…

February 2008 Santa Cruz Real Estate Sales

That's good news, but if you think about it, you'd realize it couldn't actually get much worse, and even with this improvement, we're really just…