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What is the cost of waiting if you don’t buy a home now?
Are you still in the market to buy a home in California? How many offers did you write last year without success? Have you given up on buying your dream home? With the rising interest rates and shortage of inventory some frustrated buyers have opted to stop their...
How we develop a unique marketing plan to sell your home
In our previous post we wrote about the initial consulting and planning stage to start the process of selling your Silicon Valley home with us. The post was called Top 5 steps to prepare your home for sale. 1) Devise and Execute Marketing Plan: As part of this step...
Caution if you use Zillow or Trulia to price your own home
Are you selling your home? Will you rely on Zillow data to price your home? Are you using Trulia to find recent sales as a guide to price your home? Typical pricing methods from homes include Replacement, Utility and Cost approaches that professional appraiser use...
Can you invest your capital gains instead of paying IRS?
Are you selling your Silicon Valley home? Are you expecting a huge Capital Gains tax? Well, it might be a good time to talk to your CPA and ask him/her about Deferred Sales Trust. But how Deferred sales Trusts work? A Deferred Sales Trust is formed for the purpose...
Top 8 clauses in a valid rental lease agreement
Are you a do-it-yourself landlord? Did you use a generic off the shelf lease agreement? Well, we have news for you since your lease agreement might not be valid and will not survive a court challenge if it does not contain these clauses: 1) Fully Executed: Without...
Is it too late to buy a home in California?
It's been a terrible few years for California home buyers and the trends seems to be continuing. With the exception of few markets, it near impossible to find a home where you won't be competing with 10 or more offers. So, we started wondering if it's too late to...