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,…
Category: Buyers
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…
Getting a Fix on Fixer Uppers
It's a sad, but classic tale: someone buys a pig of a house, usually pays too much for it, then sinks too much money into…
Affordable Housing Resources in Santa Cruz County
It seems that every year, starting in December and ending sometime in January, I get to cleaning up the ol' computer system, spiffin' up the…
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…
How Low can it Go?
To me, that's a bit silly - Boulder Creek is all very well and good, but home prices are lower in Watsonville than they are…
Mid-Year State of the Market
I'd like to start out by saying - another edition of my Santa Cruz Real Estate Report is out! For those of you who haven't…