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Unintended consequences of renting your home with Airbnb
Do you have California rentals? Are you marketing your home as a rental on Airbnb? As you know Airbnb has created a well branded service to help home owners market their homes for rent. But these rental income opportunities could have unintended consequences....
Top 5 risks of owning California rental properties
Are you interested in generating rental income? Are you convinced you can be a successful landlord? Well, most Americans are ill-prepared to manage rental properties. Below are the top 5 risks of owning rental properties: Mortgage Debt: Unless you are buying...
Your Los Gatos Swimming pool just became a liability
Santa Clara Water district announced the water conversation guidelines on June 13, 2015 and the measure are drastic. While the State government is recommending a 25% reduction of every households water usage in 2013; the Santa Clara Water district is mandating...
Unemployment impact on Silicon Valley housing prices
The unemployment rate in California dropped 1% to 6.2% in May 2015. In fact, some pockets including San Francisco, the unemployment dropped to 3.5%. Santa Clara and San Mateo County dropped to 4.0% and 3.3% respectively. The impact of such drop in unemployment...
What you should know about selling your Los Gatos home
Home Sales are at their highest peak since the market crash in 2006 and Silicon Valley is no exception. We had just another home listed in the Kenney North neighborhood for $2.99 million dollars on a street which has rarley had a close above $2.5M. So, it this is...
Pipe insurance sold by San Jose water
Last week we recieved a packet from San Jose Water company where the utility is clearly attemping to muddy the waters where the plan to fish. Allow us to explain: We live in a older Los Gatos Home and San Jose Water company is our utlity service provider. In this...