by David Mortaz | Jul 15, 2013 | Home Buyer Tips, Home Seller Tips, Property Management
Housing rebound has been a leading indicator US economies anemic recovery in 2013 with homes prices rising in more than 48 States. Locally, in Silicon Valley home prices have appreciated more than 24% according to Santa Clara Association data on home sales....
by David Mortaz | Jul 7, 2013 | Home Seller Tips, Property Management
Before we are comfortable to hand the keys to someone as tenants to our client’s homes, we do extensive background checks. We investigate top 6 questions to find best tenants for our clients. 1) Credit Check : We require an extensive Credit History using all...
by David Mortaz | Jul 3, 2013 | Home Buyer Tips, Home Seller Tips, Property Management
If you wanted to find out what your $1M could have bought for you in Los Gatos, it’s not much since the Average Size of homes sold in June 2013 was 1,770!! Our quest was started during a conversation when a friend asked what $1,000,000 buys you in Los Goats!!...
by David Mortaz | Jun 21, 2013 | Home Buyer Tips, Home Seller Tips, Property Management, REOs, Short Sales
It used to be that we could find anything in a Phone Book Yellow pages, but if you are like me, I doubt you have seen or used a phone book for the past 5 years! So, internet and referrals are your best sources to find a Los Gatos Real Estate broker. But before you...
by David Mortaz | Jun 11, 2013 | Home Seller Tips, Los Gatos Fixer Upper, Property Management, REOs
It was early 2005 when we started performing Broker Price Opinions for Banks and Asset Management companies! The market was still booming but after several high flying Sub-prime lenders folded, we started focusing on becoming REO Listing Agents. We had no idea...
by David Mortaz | Jun 11, 2013 | Home Seller Tips, Property Management, REOs
When banks anticipated the foreclosure of millions of properties, after the Real Estate crash of 2006 they reached out to Asset Management companies to help them with the task of liquidating these assets using Realtors as un-paid Property Managers!! The role of...
