Archive for August, 2009
Map Based Search Engine
What’s on this street? What businesses do business nearby?
Put in your own address, you might be surprised.
Metrobot is helpful tool in understanding the local business community.
Three Peaks
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Researching Historic Buildings
Research Resources Useful for Researching Historic Buildings
One can research the ownership history of the building lot without regard to the building upon it. This generally involves a title search of the property going back in time to shortly before the building was built.
Assessor’s Parcel Maps | Title Search Materials | Historic [...]
Dual Agency fleshed out..
When I was a kid, our family never talked about sex or money at the supper table…. How impolite!..
Today, agents are still that way, about money…
A typical listing, in SF, on a $100,000 property, carries a 5% commission… the typical agent would rather pocket $5,000, as a dual agent, than take $2,500, and see another [...]
San Francisco in Ruins
Re-photographing George Lawrence’s “San Francisco in Ruins” (Be Prepared for the upcoming Big One, even though SF ignores the “NonDuctile” concrete blds…like the Fontana East-West)
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/nca/1906/kap/
Cutting the Commission
Pass the word: Your broker’s fee really is negotiable
By JAMES R. HAGERTY
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
After selling a home, real-estate agents often give clients a gift, such as a scented candle or decorative plate. Jeffrey D. Thomas received something more memorable: a check for more than $10,000.
Cutting the Commission
Real Estate Cafe
This guy is honest, creative, and way ahead of the curve…. He predicted the current economic and real estate collapse three years ago. To read him, is to “get inspired”.
Real Estate Cafe
The pitfall that is “Dual Agency”
The pitfall that is “Dual Agency”….. The moral: understand the commission cash flow, in any given scenario.
Why would you spend $100,000 to recover a $34,000 deposit? Principle, of course.
The real estate industry is rife with conflicts, incompetence and fraud. And, if Stern can donate a little (OK, a lot) of his boundless energy to reform [...]
Contains No Arsenic
We recently published a free home buyers guide that was featured on Market Watch last week (below), and in the LA Times the week before. Note the dual agency horror story.
Agent Provocateur
You need to know who represents whom in realty deals
By Lew Sichelman
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch)
Bruce Hahn
President
American Homeowners Grassroots Alliance and
the American Homeowners Foundation
Serving the interests of [...]
261 Glenwood Ave Daly City 94015-3037
Gorgeous Westlake, Olympic Two, mid-century classic.
New bath and kitchen. new floor and paint
ready to move in and enjoy.
Westlake’s best locale – Two blocks to Trader Joe’s and the Westlake Shopping Center.
OPEN 2-4, starting 8/8/09 and 8/9/09,
and the following two weekends, same time.
John E Barry
Office: 415-564-0225
Cell: 415-235-7897
jackbarry99@gmail.com
261 Glenwood Ave [...]