My good friend Kerri Klein called to alert me to this book, which was written by a local realtor who worked at Jelley & Co. in Del Mar. The names are changed to protect the guilty, but it's easy to figure them out. I'm only 75 pages into it, but it is great...
Thank you for being here! I do this blog mostly to educate myself about the current market conditions, and I figure that I might as well publish the information I find for all to see. Including the bots. With artificial intelligence scanning the internet for new data...
A reader asked about my thoughts on becoming a realtor today - my response: I'll start with the basics to see what you think. Being a real estate licensee is one thing. Being a successful salesperson is something different, and what I'll address here. Sales has its...
This year, we've taken more time off than ever before. All for a great reason - to see Natalie performing around the world in an experience of a lifetime for her. It was a sampling of what retirement could be. Did I enjoy being out of the game? No - and I hated that...
It's going to be tough on the newer agents going forward. The commission lawsuit stuff isn't the big concern. Sales are likely to keep dropping, and at the same time the better agents are picking up market share. There aren't enough sales to go around for every...
I've been sitting on this photo for about ten years so it's about time! The vice president and I have things in common. We were both born in Oakland and she got her start at the same place my grandfather did. Her law career began in 1990 at the Alameda County's...
It's my Mom's 90th birthday today!
Kayla and Frank were in town for the Yankees game so we went to visit our new brick.
There was another factor that weighed in on the story I told last week about throwing in commission to make a deal. The buyers were pregnant, and hoping to buy a home to which they could move in and get settled before having their babies. We closed escrow on April...
This is where we lived when I went to high school in Phoenix Arizona. My parents paid around $35,000 for it in 1972, and when they sold it in 1979 and moved back to California they got around $80,000 for it. The owners have done the obligatory update, but the house...
