Real Estate Realties with The RebelBroker

In part three of the podcast series on house flipping, we explore some issues about fixing the property after you have purchased it. In addition, we will take a few moments to discuss ways for you to approach the rehab. We will also talk a bit about some of the things I have seen investors do whe...

I suppose stories like this are inevitable. Living in a place like Silicon Valley, where growth seems constant and inevitable, you just have to expect more and more building.This time, it is a milestone. The city of Santa Clara has just signed off on a new development on the last 17 acres of farm...

Well, Santa Clara County managed to get their budget balanced and without some of the cuts they projected. As reported by the Morgan Hill Times, one item of importance to Morgan Hill was that the San Martin Health Clinic went off the chopping block.Also saved were some south county mental health ...

A hospitalized teen was having trouble sleeping. Apparently, the life support system attached to his room mate was just too noisy - so he unplugged it. Or so it was reported.While this particular situation is clearly a whole lot more impactful on a life than what we do, it illustrates a pretty go...

Realty Times had an article that discussed the possibility that we have seen the bottom of this market.I suppose that there are some points to be made for the case that we are at or near the bottom. However, given the market numbers I am seeing for my area (Santa Clara County (AKA: Silicon Valley...

Okay, so maybe it wasn't an 'era'. But it was the most hard to miss sign in all of downtown.When Zubow Realty opened its doors in downtown Morgan Hill, they wanted to make a big impression. So they installed 1,000 pound, orange and black neon sign.I remember the first time I drove through downtow...

This podcast is a continuation of the discussion on flipping properties that we started last week. We went through some basic ideas of how to find a prime candidate for flipping and now we are going to talk about some of the strategies for the actual purchase. All of this series is aimed at the n...

If you know Morgan Hill, you know that the downtown area needs help. The city council done diddly and squat to effectively remedy the situation.One thing they did decide to do was to loan the owners of the El Toro Brew Pub $400,000 to cover construction costs. Remember, this is a LOAN.Well, some ...

The Morgan Hill Times recently reported a change in the way that Morgan Hill will be working with developers.Since 1977, the rules have been set in such a way that developers had to create resident supported common areas that would be maintained through a homeowners association. With the new modi...

My Grandfather was a great man. He may have also been great at a whole lot of other things, but at his core, he was just a good Man.He got into real estate right after World War II. He had been in the Navy and was an officer aboard a destroyer in the Pacific Theater. He was even at a few of the i...