Putting aside the great debate about whether dogs or cats make better pets, our furry friends can do a number on our homes; you can see and smell an animal’s presence in a home and it can be difficult to remedy that. This article will provide...
People who have purchased multi-family rental properties received a bit of good news recently – the proposed vacancy tax will not be placed on the November 2020 ballot, and will be up for a vote in November 2022 at the earliest. Last summer, ...
An unfortunate reality is that once California started easing restrictions, a lot of Californians forgot that we were in the midst of a pandemic; they went to social gatherings and generally discounted the reality that we currently live in. As ...
Over the last few months, you have received conflicting information from us. This is because we base our articles on information as it becomes available. Today’s article addresses the fact that home sales are down, but home prices are increas...
For most buyers, the length of time a house has been on the market (“Days on Market” or “DOM”) provides a lot of insight into the pricing of a piece of property. If a house has been on the market for a long time, there must be something...
If you look at the numbers, COVID-19 remains a serious issue. Given that most experts believe we may see a second wave of the virus in the fall, it makes sense that homeowners are a little hesitant to have multiple people traipsing through thei...
We are officially in a recession, but you wouldn’t know it looking at the housing market and housing prices. Neither a pandemic, nor the current social climate of protests, have slowed the unstoppable force that appears to be the housing mark...
We have written quite a bit about mortgage rates over the last few months, noting how low they were. Recently, the mortgage rates have been fluctuating in a rather unpredictable manner; yesterday they (on average) set a new record low at 2.94%....
An overlooked truth about the nature of being in human is that smells are often tied to pleasant, or unpleasant, memories. More to the point, smells elicit pleasant or unpleasant emotions. Moreover, smells can clue us in that problems are afoot...
Last week, we noted that economic indicators suggest that Summer will be a strong season for the housing market, despite being weaker than other years. This article will further bolster that point by looking at the decreasing unemployment rate....
