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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Consumers have relied on Zillow and Redfin for years, not knowing they were trading convenience for curation. The search experience feels clean, fast, and complete, but the truth is more complicated. These platforms are not neutral collections of properties. They’re businesses built on MLS data, and their business models guide what [...]