by Leila Mortaz | Nov 5, 2014 | Home Seller Tips, Los Gatos Fixer Upper, Real Estate (Residential)
Are you thinking about staging your Silicon Valley home? Are you hesitant about the cost of staging? Well, you are not alone. We are seeing tear-down fixer uppers being staged in Los Gatos, Saratoga these days. Part of the reason is that most home owners have a...
by Leila Mortaz | Nov 4, 2014 | Los Gatos Rentals, Property Management, Real Estate (Residential), Silicon Valley life style
Just in time for the release of Dumb and Dumber2, Los Gatos code enforcement officials also released us a notice for violating the gas-powered leaf-blower ban. Yes, we were severed with a citation for $100 fine for a program that dose not take effect till January 1,...
by Leila Mortaz | Nov 3, 2014 | Home Buyer Tips, Real Estate (Residential), Silicon Valley life style
We’ve all been groomed to think that the best retirement places for seniors are Florida or Arizona. But some of the choices that Boomers are making to retire are intriguing to say the least. For instance, places like Sioux Falls, SD; Provo, UT; Iowa City, IA;...
by Leila Mortaz | Nov 2, 2014 | Real Estate (Residential), Silicon Valley life style
In a survey of 4,000 Baby Boomer households conducted by the non-profit Demand Institute, 63% of Boomers plan to stay in their current home once they retire. The sad part of this news is that baby boomers’ children are also moving back home along with their...
by Leila Mortaz | Nov 1, 2014 | Home Buyer Tips, Real Estate (Residential), Residential Mortgage
If you had tried to qualify for a home mortgage during the past 2 years, you would have learned a hard lesson that the banks were not interested in loaning money. One friend who wanted to borrow $300,000 on a $3M home in Bel Air could not believe the amount of red...
