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Buying a house – Santa Cruz Edition
How to buy a house! ~ I wrote this in 2015 and in some ways it is very quaint. It makes me long for simpler times. Buying a home is a scary prospect and I typically find that buyers who are not scared are either not really going to buy a hou...
Just Listed 502 Errett Circle, Santa Cruz
Catch the aloha vibe here! This lovely home in the heart of the lower westside, has an island feel. 2BR/1BA home well apportioned with, large bath, warm cork floors and amazing outdoor space with privacy fence of lush passion fruit vines, graci...
Real Estate Predictions 2022 | Santa Cruz Edition
Catch the aloha vibe here! This lovely home in the heart of the lower westside, has an island feel. 2BR/1BA home well apportioned with, large bath, warm cork floors and amazing outdoor space with privacy fence of lush passion fruit vines, graci...
UCSC Off Campus Housing-Renting or Buying Tips
Congratulations! Did you get accepted into UC Santa Cruz? Yay! Wait, where am I going to live? After the first year of on-campus housing, where do you go? Full disclosure: I'm a realtor. I don't do property management; I'm not a property man...
Who Pays For Staging
Who pays for home staging? A good question, realtor, seller maybe both, but it is worth it. Sometimes realtors pay for it, but may increase their commission, sometimes sellers are just fine paying for it and splitting the cost is always a good...
Moving Sucks!
Moving, it really is not a pleasant experience it is one of the main reasons people don't move. The nightmare of missing items, boxes full of mystery items, the constant nagging of something not done, box not unpacked, forgotten bill not paid, ...
Shift Happens!
What is the "market" what is this indeterminate thing. I have likened it to a blob that oozes over everything, a cloud, maybe a Tsunami that slowly receded belying the danger it is really going to do. For Realtors we often say "it's the market"...
The power of a local realtor & local lender.
In the ever changing world the internet has allowed us to hire people to work with us and work for us in fashions we would have never dreamed of in the past. With the quick swipe of a device or a few key strokes we can contact someone who can h...