ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED FOR INMAN SELECT JUNE 2026
I Google myself occasionally.
Recently, I found myself reading a column I had written for the San Francisco Bay Times in 2014. The Bay Times is a legendary LGBTQ+ publication with roots going back to 1982, one of the longest-running independent LGBTQ+ newspapers in the United States, and [...]
I love me some Quora; I like when people ask my advice about real estate and… cheating spouses. I got a question about adverse possession today, of real estate not spouses, and I have heard about adverse possession but haven’t experienced it in the wild; I know about it in theory but not [...]
There is something to be said about practicing, whatever it is one does for work, and specialization; the constant exposure to terminology makes it less necessary to write explainers and pass them off as content… but here we [...]
When I first got licensed in 2003 (January 03 instead of September 02 because I failed my real estate license exam the first time) I went to work for a company that specialized in “1031 Exchange Properties, Credit Tenant, Bond and Net Leased Investments in the Western Five.” Over the years I have analyzed, written, and negotiated a lot of [...]
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED FEB 2026 @REALTIMES.COM
The days of agents teasing writing offers "all cash, no contingencies, five days close" are, almost, officially over.
Starting March 1, 2026, every all-cash residential real estate purchase flowing through a legal entity (any type of corp) or trust will require reporting to the Financial Crimes [...]
Debt in Real Estate Investing: How Borrowed Money Builds Wealth (or Destroys It)
My mother used to say, "revolving debt makes the world go round", and it's true. Banks make money by lending money. They borrow from depositors at low rates, lend that money out at higher rates, and pocket the spread. The system depends on people borrowing, [...]
Stop calling it a "loophole." A 1031 Exchange is the single most powerful capital strategy in real estate investment, but missing one technicality—one deadline—can instantly void the entire benefit.
Your $50M net worth won't get you a $5M house.
Most AI founders don't understand the gap between documented liquid assets and illiquid equity. Lenders don't care about your cap table. They care about what you can prove today.
Assemblymember Tina McKinnor (D-Inglewood), the bill's author, framed it plainly: "A working stove and a working refrigerator are not luxuries—they are a necessary part of modern life." In an ever-evolving landscape of affordability issues, habitability, and human rights, California is finding it necessary to level the playing field. AB 628 doesn't represent a philosophical shift—it codifies what many jurisdictions already recognize: functional cooking and food storage are non-negotiable components of habitable housing, not amenities to be negotiated away or deferred.
Real estate has a lot of moving parts and one of the reasons I began to write about the process was to cement some of the basics that I learned over the years. One of the basics recently got a big update. [...]
