East Bay Tops Redfin’s Top 10 Competitive California Cities For Home Buying – September 2022
How hot is Walnut Creek in September 2022?Ask the seller of a fixer upper priced at more than $1 million. (And ask me if you're…
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Berkeley & Oakland House Prices – Are They For Real? (Video)
Is that low house price for real? ("It's in my budget!")Berkeley and Oakland house hunters are all too familiar with house listings at prices that…
How does Proposition 19 work to keep a house’s low tax basis?
California's Proposition 19 went into effect on April 1, 2021. It's known as the "The Home Protection for Seniors, Severely Disabled, Families, and Victims of…
California Home-Based Food Businesses Can Make Serious Income in 2022 and Beyond
States all across America have legalized home-based "cottage food" businesses that allow making and selling food from home the perfect way to offset a mortgage…
How Buying or Selling a Home Off-Market Works – That’s how I got my vacation rental!
Some home owners wanted to sell their property quickly and easily. They mentioned this to my family, who told me. One month later, I had…
How I Bought an Airbnb Vacation Rental In 1 Day
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…
How To Grow Luffa Sponges in Oakland
What's the strangest thing you can grow in Berkeley or Oakland? SPONGES!Ask anyone where they think loofah / luffa sponges come from.I guarantee 80% of…
The Most Affordable Places to Live in 2022 – Compare 3 Lists of Cheap Places to Buy
Ohio is the hands-down winner in affordable places to live...with Buffalo, New York making a showing on two lists.[table id=1 /]The Forbes list also features…
Will Whole Foods in Temescal Make North Oakland Home Prices Go Up?
Home Price Data in Neighborhoods Near the New Whole Foods Opening in December 2021 in the Temescal NeighborhoodThe 94609 zip code includes the Temescal area…
Why Own a Home in Berkeley Instead of Renting?
I wrote this post in 2013, a full eight years before I became a real estate agent. Wow. If only...If only I had become a…