Financing: The first step in a home purchase. If you don’t have cash, one needs to obtain a loan. This has been the same process for decades: ranking your income, career and current funds to determine how much of a financial load you are able to bear. The more you can pay, the more you […]
How to Sell a Home: The Short List
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Selling an Investment Property: Taxes
So you’ve made the decision, it’s time to sell an investment property. You want to pull your trapped equity to reinvest in other opportunities. What is your net profit going to look like these days? Today we will look at various rates and tools for the 2014 tax year. (As a discussion, this is not […]
Online Home Search: Who is Trustworthy?
The online world is awash with information. Most of it free. Or is it? What consumers should know about how home searches are presented. Zillow, Trulia, and Realtor.com are the largest “portals” for real estate nationally. They negotiate to publish information from your local MLS (multiple listing service) to their vast databases, and advertise that […]
Transparency in Real Estate
While individual transactions can be straightforward, the landscape of real estate in California can become a vast minefield. There are many iterations of consumer protection at the state and federal level, all geared to provide the most protections to you, the consumer. What happens when those protections are breached? A class action lawsuit is being […]
Update from National Association of Realtors
Video from National Association of Realtors describes how the government shutdown could have an impact on some real estate transactions.