Category Archives: Buyers

Experts Advise Buying Now

Warren Buffett recommends buying a couple of hundred homes now!  He also recommends if you are handy, you should buy fixers and rent them out!   You have to watch a short commercial first, but here is the video interview.

Reduced Prices On 37% of Lake Forest Homes

Out of the 109 listings on the market in Lake Forest today, 41 have had at least one price reduction since coming on the market.  It’s human nature to want to test the upper limits of home prices before adjusting to reality, so many sellers feel that they “have to try it” for at least…

Buying a Home is Like Getting Married

The value of home ownership has been seriously questioned recently due to so many people losing their homes. From about 2003 to 2007, we experienced a real estate orgy!  Everyone qualified for loans of any size, every home appreciated, and everybody took their tax free gain and gleefully moved on to the next house. If…

Before You Buy in an HOA!

If you are planning to buy a condo, or a house in Lake Forest, Mission Viejo, Rancho Santa Margarita, or other South Orange County area, there is a good chance that you will be buying in to a home owners’ association (HOA).  If that is the case, make sure you read over all the HOA…

Sellers – When you get an offer respond quickly!

In the current market, when a buyer makes an offer on a property, it is in the seller’s best interest to respond quickly.  The buyers today are not impulsive, frenzied, or in a panic to “buy now or be priced out forever.”  If any urgency is felt by a buyer, it is more likely based…