I have been getting a ton of lowball offers on a fixer I have listed and I am duty bound to present all offers. Every single one. We present them all because the law and the Code of Ethics do not give us a [...]
This piece is about the "why" of double popping deals. Not whether it is legal in your state or what form to use.
Yes, "whether it is legal in your state" is correct. If it is not legal in your state you do not have an ethical quandary on your hands — dual agency is banned in many states. But for everyone else, read on.
Representing [...]
Recently I made a giant mistake. I forgot to add a date range and submitted an offer without a fully completed BRBC.
I tried everything to finesse not having to cancel the original agreement and resubmit. Thankfully the clients were “investors” (don’t get me started) and backed out before I had to humiliate myself to a colleague, but I [...]
Jeff Foxworthy used to do a skit, “You might be a redneck if…” so I thought I’d liberate (steal) the bit to talk about first time homebuyers. Because a lot of what you think about first time homebuyers, and how they’re not you, might be more appropriate to your situation than you [...]
Over the past 24 years, I have completed six DRE renewals totaling 270 hours across two real estate broker licenses: personal and corporate. That is a fancy, self-congratulatory way of saying I can take a [...]
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 [...]
Most people think buying a house means you own it outright. You don't. You own a bundle of rights—a collection of legal privileges that define what you can and can't do with the property. Understanding this distinction changes how you negotiate, finance, and manage real [...]
I am currently listing a fixer property in Oakland California. The property won't qualify for traditional financing so, having sold distressed properties in mercurial (isn’t that a nice way to describe the San Francisco Bay Area’s real estate market in Spring of 2026?) markets before, I am leaning heavily on an old standby, the FHA 203(k) [...]
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 [...]
