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,…

There’s No Such Thing as Market Price

When people are looking to buy property and searching on the internet, I encourage them to search a bit, maybe a good bit, over the…

Notes from the Field

Yesterday, I managed to get a big price reduction ($100,000!) on a listing I have out on Tabor Drive in Scotts Valley. I dutifully cranked…

Advice for Santa Cruz Home Sellers in 2008

That's kind of the problem. There's a large school of thought that says one reason why home prices have not slid more than they have…

The Trouble with Zillow

Sure, that's "just" 10% but is just 10% of the sale price - that $50,000, though, is likely to represent, perhaps, 100% of the actual…