What Is Your Agent Doing?
It’s Monday morning…so what is your agent doing to get your home sold? If your agent is typical, I’m guessing they’re either still asleep, or it…
Category: Buyers
The Incredible Shrinking Housing Market
Some new housing data was released, revealing the incredible shrinking housing market. For starters, 31% of all homes sold in Q2 of this year were…
Caveat Emptor for Watsonville Investors
They are not looking to speculate on real estate - that's how so many people ended up getting foreclosed on in Watsonville, and in California,…
Santa Cruz Real Estate Deathmatch
Whether you think the current housing crisis is a cause of a symptom of the economic meltdown in the United States and abroad, there's no…
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…
Caveat Venditor with the buyer’s Due Diligence
I have never worked as an agent in any other state aside from California, so I confess I am not an expert in the practice…
Wise Words to Aid Home Buyers
Sometimes the reporting on the world of real estate gets so caught up in the rapidly changing landscape that the elements of buying and selling…
Speculating on Santa Cruz Real Estate
This came up because the "switch" I had found for her had higher HOA dues than the property she was originally calling on, but I…
Home Buying Philosophy in Santa Cruz
I personally don't have a problem with creating urgency to buy - I think that by now, most people can see the writing on the…
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…