Since the living room is often the first room a buyer sees, it makes sense to put time, money and effort into staging the living room. Although, in actuality, if a ... Read More

Agents give themselves so many different titles that it's often hard to figure out the various types of real estate agents and into which classification they fall. At my company, for ... Read More

Common sense and picking home price ranges don't always go hand in hand. Rarely do buyers pick the right price ranges, much less the right price, from inception. And listing ... Read More

Most short sale transactions these days involve two short sale loans. Back in the early 1990s, home buyers financed the purchase of a new home by coughing up a down ... Read More

Sometimes buyers are finding short sales, even when they don't want to find them. That's because not all short sales are clearly advertised as such. There is hidden jargon in the ... Read More

Major cities are where most real estate trends begin, and urban real estate trends are changing the face of the market. You can drive out to any suburb and look at ... Read More

Picking sales prices is tricky, but figuring out the answer to how much home can I afford is even more difficult. Most buyers tend to lean toward elaborate homes while shunning ... Read More

California Civil Code mandates that all residential sellers give home buyers a transfer disclosure statement. I'm willing to bet that more lawsuits in California are filed over a seller's transfer disclosure ... Read More

When you read the term: "motivated sellers," if you're like most buyers, you probably think those sellers are desperate, right? The sellers might be desperate to sell. Much depends on the ... Read More

One of the first questions buyers ask me when I hold open a home is its days on market. Buyers figure the longer a home has been on the market, the ... Read More

When sellers can't move out at closing, it's common to execute a seller rent back agreement between the buyer and seller. Sometimes no agreement is executed at all, and buyers just ... Read More

Most states require that sellers give buyers home disclosures before the buyer fully commits to buying the home. California laws, in particular, protect buyers. For example, sellers are required to inform ... Read More

When sellers default on a mortgage, that information becomes public record, which means home owners can become sitting ducks for foreclosure rescue fraud. Since information about home owners who are in ... Read More