There is no shortage of explanations for why houses are sitting on the market and not selling in late 2002. High interest rates Uncertainty about the future The chance of layoffs The prospect of house prices going down Unrealistically high price expectations from sellers Multiple choice! Is bad Feng Shui driving home buyers away? Real…
Do you want to be a house hacker and buy a multi-family property in Oakland to live in one unit and rent the others to pay for your expenses? Or do you need a vacant Berkeley multi-family property for for you and your family or friends? These Oakland Multi-family properties are in neighborhoods that most…
DISCLAIMER: PLEASE DO YOU OWN RESEARCH ON CURRENT ADU LAWS AND THE LOCAL LAWS FOR YOUR CITY…THIS IS FOR INFORMATIONAL / ENTERTAINMENT USE AND NOT TO MAKE DECISIONS FOR YOUR OWN PROPERTY. THANKS! —– New year, new improvements to California’s ADU laws! I was so excited to slog thorugh the text of SB 897, a…
Started 2021 on a cross-country road trip to Maine on a quest to spend time in Maine getting to know more towns and areas, with a goal of buying a property that I could rent out and where I might also eventually live. Ended 2021 with a property that isn’t in the location I…
When it came time to plan a new garden fence and gate for the front of my Rockridge home, I did something better than look on Pinterest: Look around Berkeley and Oakland neighborhoods! Arbors are an especially charming and welcoming feature of brown shingle and Craftsman East Bay homes. If you’re planning on building one,…