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Cooling Trends Continue
Cooling Trends Continue
Supply and demand has a way of finding level water. Home buyers are retreating, but not vanquishing. Interest rates are rising, and buyers are feeling...
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Where Are The Buyers Now?
Where Are The Buyers Now?
When Buyers Flee, Do Prices Drop?Supply and demand has a way of finding level water. Home buyers are retreating, but not vanquishing. Interest rates a...
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You Should Sell your Home Now If....
You Should Sell your Home Now If....
Rarely is selling a home a purely logical decision. We sell to get something else, and wanting is an emotion that has driven human behavior since the ...
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Selling Your Biggest Asset
Selling Your Biggest Asset
At first blush, selling a million dollar home is costly. But then again, the risk factor for the seller is low, if the Realtor doesn’t sell the ...
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ADU's: Should You Convert Your Garage?
ADU's: Should You Convert Your Garage?
Everybody's Talking about ADUsAuxiliary Dwelling Units, or ADUs, are popping up everywhere? It's easy to want extra space, potential income or caretak...
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Will Home Prices Flatten in Santa Barbara?
Will Home Prices Flatten in Santa Barbara?
Having the longest days of summer behind us after a very long year, it's easy to believe that the buyer demand and price increases we've seen in Santa...
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Selling a Second Home
Selling a Second Home
It’s tax time and you may have questions if you own a second home and sold it or plan to sell it. Do you have to pay capital gains when you sell...
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Inheritance Taxes Change
Inheritance Taxes Change
Prop 19's Radical New Tax Consequences Thanks to Proposition 13, real property passed intergenerationally upon the dea...
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Seniors: Now You Can Move Up
Seniors: Now You Can Move Up
Seniors and others who may have previously felt "stuck" in their homes, can now move without seeing a completely new tax bill. New taxes will only be ...
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Property Tax Changes Coming
Property Tax Changes Coming
Change and Taxes: Inevitable Like most things in life, there are pros and cons to changes. The more complex the content of that change, the more cont...
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Why we need the 1031 Exchange
Why we need the 1031 Exchange
The main benefit of carrying out a 1031 exchange rather than simply selling one property and buying another is the tax deferral. A 1031 exchange allow...
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Value Investing or Growth
Value Investing or Growth
We are all trained to want growth, especially when it comes to our investments. Corporations are so focused on growth that some Blue Chip companies lo...
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Kitchen Kudos
Kitchen Kudos
The kitchen, food, is always the heart of home. The kitchen is where some of our happiest memories originate, where our bellies, filled, and social li...
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Moving From Cities to Santa Barbara
Moving From Cities to Santa Barbara
LA and SF are moving in!
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Downsizing Is The New Modern
Downsizing Is The New Modern
Isn’t the starting of a thing always the hardest part? Facing the proverbial ‘blank page’ with enthusiasm is often so daunting! Down...
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Online Brokerages vs Agents?
Online Brokerages vs Agents?
While automation will lead to change in the way that Brokerages do business, certain tasks such as staying up to date on local zoning and building, ga...
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Citizens Seek Value – Consumers Seek Deals
Citizens Seek Value – Consumers Seek Deals
‘Cheaper, easier, faster’, those words have bombarded and wooed us into ‘deals’ for as long as anyone has had anything to sell...
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No New Taxes (unless they’re lower)!
No New Taxes (unless they’re lower)!
Taxes are never appreciated when they’re raised, but how does a community fair when they’re lowered? Property Tax is up for review again w...
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Staging Your Home Pays Big
Staging Your Home Pays Big
If you want top dollar for your home when you sell it, stage your home. According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), the average staging i...
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Home for Sale? Buyers Seek Value
Home for Sale? Buyers Seek Value
I was recently discussing home pricing, and how to value a home. Pricing a home is an art, especially where homes are not built in one fell sweep by a...
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Don’t Bet on Stocks with Inflation Looming
Don’t Bet on Stocks with Inflation Looming
So the market is down and you’re worried about inflation. Maybe you got out of the market already, but now with inflationary pressure, are wonde...
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Five Reasons to Consider Selling Now
Five Reasons to Consider Selling Now
Ever wish that you were the one who sold your real estate in 2006, rented a home for three or four years and purchased property for thirty percent les...
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California Considers Tax
California Considers Tax
With looming debt from our recent California disasters, we are once again going to have to think outside of the box. Back in 1978, California took mat...
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Proposed Tax Changes May Save or Cost Santa Barbarans
Proposed Tax Changes May Save or Cost Santa Barbarans
While thankfully, the Thomas fireburns out slowly, our counties of Ventura and Santa Barbara will be paying the price for a long time to come. The cos...
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Unlock Your Home’s Value without Selling
Unlock Your Home’s Value without Selling
Purchasing a home may be the biggest investment you make, and selling a home to gain liquidity when needed is wrought with issues. Can you unlock your...
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