Home Economics for Renters to Homeowners: Course Introduction and Syllabus

The National Association of Realtors® published the findings on November 4, 2025, under a headline that tells the whole story, "First-Time Home Buyer Share Falls to Historic Low of 21%, Median Age Rises to 40".

First-time buyer statistics have been in retreat for [...]

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE PIEDMONT POST AUGUST 8TH 2026

As students head back to class, the City has quietly rewritten the Civic Center's traffic choreography.

Bonita Avenue between Vista and Oakland Avenues is now one-way northbound toward Oakland, drivers can no longer turn onto Bonita from Oakland, and the Havens Elementary [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The subject line said, "Dramatic Increase to Transfer Taxes." The math was scary: on a $930,000 [...]

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 [...]

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED FOR THE PIEDMONT POST JUNE 24, 2026 

Taxes, Anian Tunney and 43 years of Piedmont Real Estate… Oh and the fines too.

Remember Jan from The Brady Bunch? Taxes, Taxes, Taxes…

Let’s get the boring stuff out of the way first. Piedmont is putting a real estate transfer tax increase on the November ballot. The proposed [...]

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 [...]