Best Side Of The West Side

If you have been trying to buy or sell a home and the end of the spring-summer real estate season is giving you headaches and anxiety, take it easy!Although real estate sales tend to plummet downwards at the end of warm weather, there is still lots of potential in buying and selling during fall and [...]

Most home sellers and real estate agents concentrate on getting a property staged, cleaned, and painted so it will look great for potential buyers. They also spend a lot of time looking at comparable sales and pricing the property correctly. All of these are important when selling a home, but most of the time they [...]

Once you have an accepted offer on a property, the escrow office becomes your very best friend. The escrow officer’s main objective is to make the closing as efficient, easy, and error free as he/she can, and be an effective contributor to a successful closing and real estate settlement. During the whole escrow process, being [...]

I wanted to discuss a situation that comes up often: when a homeowner needs to relocate because of work but their home is worth less than what they currently owe. It’s great if you’re coming from unemployment to getting your dream job, but it’s a shame that you have to move to another location. As [...]

Foreclosure! Seen this sign somewhere?  Maybe a billboard or maybe one of those yellow boards with the same black text about a property, usually a house, being short-sold or auctioned in Santa Monica.  Those billboards and signs are usually desperate announcements by Santa Monica Pre Foreclosure property owners.  I take that what you understand in [...]

When I work with sellers, especially first-time sellers, it’s important to review closing or settlement costs early. Particularly nowadays, when equity is skinny, non-existent, or even worse, the property is underwater. At least for short sale sellers, the transaction closing costs become expenses to the lender that get calculated as part of their net settlement. [...]

This press release just landed in my inbox, and it made me laugh out loud. I’m almost tempted to go down to Coto de Caza for the auction just to see what he ends up with at the auction. I love hot air balloon rides! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: OC, CA estate property owner pulls out [...]

As the seller, if you can get into the mindset of today’s buyer, the sale of your home can come faster and with a greater net to you. Think about this: if you have control over the prospective buyer’s first impression, wouldn’t you want to you use this to your greatest advantage? I say, go [...]