East Bay Realty Pro Blog

After a long career in real estate, I can personally attest to how ineffective and feckless lenders can be in handling their business. But this one takes the cake!
An article in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal described how a contractor hired by Bank of America mistakenly entered the home of a woman who lived near Pittsburgh, [...]

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Here’s another example of a bank’s ineptitude. I just read an article about a case of mistaken property identity that got all the way to the Nevada Supreme Court, Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., v. Thitchener, 192 P.3d 243 (Nev. 2008).
According to the article, the lender’s foreclosure division confused the condominium unit of a National [...]

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Owning a home has numerous responsibilities. One is to ensure that trees on your property are not dangerous to your neighbors. A large, dead or dying tree can cause massive damage if the entire tree or any of its limbs fall. This is why many municipalities, including the City of Oakland, have hazardous tree ordinances. [...]

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If you owned a million-dollar-plus home that had been on the market since January, over four months, and you had not received an offer closer than $50,000 of your list price, what would you do? Assuming you really needed to sell it, how about lowering the price? Wouldn’t that seem logical?
As I have seen so [...]

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Got a call the other day from a fellow Realtor®. He presented to me a scenario with all the aspects of a future lawsuit.
His broker, knowing I have been a real estate expert witness in numerous lawsuits, suggested he get my advice about a property this agent wanted to list. The home has an “in-law,” [...]

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My job, as I see it, is to protect and educate my clients. This includes showing them both homes they should consider buying, as well as properties to avoid. It is often not obvious why a particular home should be avoided.
Last Sunday, I sent a couple to see a lovely home. What I explained to [...]

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