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Standard form "AS-IS" contract fraudulently claims to be approved by California Association of Realtors Brought to you by the California Association of Realtors (C.A.R.) legal update ... It has been reported that certain investor buyers use a standard form "As-Is Contract for Sale and Purchase" w...

  This is a great article from my colleague Bob Haywood in Tulsa.  In our market, the "OLD" listings start with an 09- and the new ones start with a 10-.   If your property has been on the market for a while and hasn't sold, the 5 Points outlined below are spot-on in our marketplace! -- Danny   I...

SOLD! 15658 Hillview Lane #20, Granada Hills, CA 91344 (Los Angeles Probate Sale) For our first closing of 2010, today we SOLD this fantastic townhouse in Granada Hills, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. This was a probate sale purchased by a wonderful first-time home buyer.  We were able to s...

Real Estate Resolutions 2010. Article written by Broderick Perkins and re - printed from the Boulevard Realty Real Estate Update - January 2010. Sure you can lose weight, get in shape, launch a business or find a new job. But haven't you also procrastinated long enough about buying a home? How lo...

Credit Score May Be Affected By Applying For A Loan Modification This article is courtesy of my good friend and mortgage broker extraordinaire Danny Gipsman at Mortgage Capital Partners here in Los Angeles.  Danny can be reached at 310-295-6227or by e-mail for all of your real estate financing ne...

Los Angeles offers some of the best and most varied cuisine in the U.S. My relocation clients and local clients alike have recently asked me for dining recommendations, so I thought I would put together ... My Top 5 Restaurants in Los Angeles Just remember, I'm not a food critic, these are my per...

NOT SO FAST! 7 Questions to Ask Your Real Estate Agent BEFORE Signing a Representation Contract! It's pretty amazing to me that when consumers need to buy a car, they visit multiple dealerships and spend hours online doing research to save a few hundred, or maybe a thousand dollars.  AND YET, whe...

I thought I would share a comical (well, not that funny) dialogue I just had ... I'm sitting here at my desk at 5:30 pm wrapping up a few things. An agent calls on this home for sale in Beverly Hills, California.  My assistant is gone for the day so I pick up the call. "What's the lowest price I ...

Move-Down Buyers Can Be Eligible For Tax Credit Too Article written by Bob Hunt and re-printed from the Boulevard Realty Real Estate Update - January 2010. Move up, move down, move sideways; it just doesn't matter. Whichever direction you move, financially, you may still qualify for the new tax c...