Upsizing or Downsizing your Home – Now or Later?
about upsizing or downsizing our home? With the considerable increases in home values we've seen over the past couple of years, a lot of homeowners…
Category: Buyers
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…
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…
San Jose, CA FHA Mortgage Limits 2016
The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) reviews their mortgage limits on an annual basis. If you're buying a home in 2016 and intend to use a…
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…