Wanna Buy a House? Show Me the Money

May 09, 2025

New San Rafael Listings and AI

May 03, 2025

Marin Housing Market – Opportunity Knocks

April 30, 2025

953 Patricia Way: Location, Location, Location

April 25, 2025

Growing Concern About Economic Peril

April 16, 2025

I Am the Dark Cloud

April 11, 2025

New Listing! 120 Holmes Avenue

April 04, 2025

Everything, Everywhere, all at Once

March 28, 2025

Realtor Concerns

March 21, 2025

Springing Into Action!

March 14, 2025

Burning Down the House

March 07, 2025

Broker Tour and Offer Dates

February 28, 2025

Ski Week and 555 Tamarack Drive

February 21, 2025

Coming Soon: 555 Tamarack Dr. w/AI Enhancement

February 14, 2025

It’s A Rip-Off!

February 07, 2025

Active Market

January 31, 2025

Ask Me About Real Estate

January 24, 2025

When Opportunity Knocks

January 17, 2025

In 2025 the Early Buyer Gets the House

January 10, 2025

2025 Back in the Saddle

January 03, 2025

Predictions for 2025

January 01, 2025

‘Twas the week before Christmas

December 23, 2024

Big Scam Alert – Criminals Selling Vacant Land

December 11, 2024

The Greatest Gift - New Terra Linda Listing

December 06, 2024

Giving Thanks

November 29, 2024

Heavy Rain – Are You Experienced?

November 22, 2024

Housing Market Concerns

November 14, 2024

Landlording – Are You To Old For This?

November 08, 2024

Meet the Old Boss, Same as the New Boss

November 06, 2024

Commission Update

November 01, 2024

Two-Unit Bougainvillea Beauty

October 25, 2024

Birthday Blog

October 18, 2024

Hoarding and Rental Horrors - Oh My!

October 11, 2024

What is Happening in Marin County Real Estate?

October 04, 2024

Kamala’s Housing Plan

September 27, 2024

Current San Rafael Market Conditions

September 20, 2024

Freeze Your Credit – Today!

September 16, 2024

The Least Expensive Homes on the Market

September 13, 2024

Permit Reality

September 06, 2024

Closing Escrow on a Co-op

August 30, 2024

Buyers Sweeten Their Deals

August 22, 2024

Buyer Commission Shakeout!

August 17, 2024

New Commission Structure Just Dropped!

August 13, 2024

How to Sell in San Rafael’s LGVSD

August 10, 2024

How to Sell in San Rafael - City Resale Inspection

August 05, 2024

Overpricing – The Dreamer Strategy

August 03, 2024

Closing Escrows, and Passing the Baton

July 27, 2024

Gearing Up for the Fall

July 20, 2024

Lower Interest Rates Fuel the Market

July 13, 2024

Housing Market Beats the Heat

July 06, 2024

The Train Keeps Rolling!

June 28, 2024

What does it take to make it in real estate sales?

June 21, 2024

How Not to Price a Home

June 14, 2024

Open Sunday - 853 Las Pavadas Ave

June 08, 2024

The Economics of Preparing for a Sale

May 31, 2024

Marin Memorial Day Weekend Market Perspective

May 24, 2024

Joining the Eichler Network

May 17, 2024

Bitten By the Covid Bug – Again

May 10, 2024

My Spring Listings are Springing Indeed!

May 03, 2024

Eichlers Don't Get Any Better Than 861 Greenberry

April 26, 2024

One Buyer Using Two or More Realtors

April 21, 2024

All Cash Buyers Supporting Marin Market

April 12, 2024

The Best Time is Always Now

April 05, 2024

Big Real Estate Changes on the Horizon

March 29, 2024

What is Selling?

March 22, 2024

Millennial Home Buyers

March 15, 2024

What if Interest Rates Don't Come Down?

March 09, 2024

Anemic Inventory – I’m the Problem

March 08, 2024

Smoking - The Deal Killer

March 01, 2024

Condo-nomics

February 23, 2024

Higher for Longer

February 17, 2024

Recent Cabo Surf Trip - I'm Back!

February 15, 2024

Taking the Pineapple Express Seriously

January 31, 2024

Random Thoughts on the Market

January 26, 2024

Make Your House a Winning Investment

January 19, 2024

Invest in Zillow at Your Own Risk

January 12, 2024

Ramping up into 2024

January 04, 2024

Andy’s Patch - Final Blog (of 2023)

December 29, 2023

Santa Claus Coming for Sellers in 2024

December 22, 2023

Sellers paying buyers agents' commission in 2024?

December 15, 2023

This Week in Real Estate - Early December

December 08, 2023

Recent Closings and Keep on Trucking

December 01, 2023

Home Buying for the Holidays?

November 24, 2023

Vivalon Volunteer Tech Tutors Wanted

November 17, 2023

Real Estate Commissions - Lawsuit

November 10, 2023

Seniors with Mental Health Conditions

November 03, 2023

My Week in Real Estate

October 27, 2023

All Cash Buyers: The Good, Bad and Ugly

October 23, 2023

Birthday XL Surf Session at Steamer Lane

October 20, 2023

Tales from the Great Pacific?

October 17, 2023

Why Now is the Best Time to Buy

October 13, 2023

8% Interest Rates –Fall 2023 House Hunting

October 10, 2023

Rapidly Rising Interest Rates Killing Deals

October 04, 2023

New Listing - 259 C Street, San Rafael

September 30, 2023

Is the Fed a Goose Killer?

September 25, 2023

Tenants from Hell

September 22, 2023

Anti-Trust Settlement – What It Means

September 14, 2023

Commercial Bear, Residential Bull

September 11, 2023

Surf Break

September 08, 2023

New Listing! 279 Devon Drive, Terra Linda

September 01, 2023

Guide to Downsizing for Retirement

August 25, 2023

MLS is BACK!

August 23, 2023

BAREIS MLS Still Down, But Not Out

August 18, 2023

MLS HACKED and Held for Ransom!

August 15, 2023

Who is Buying and Crying Now?

August 11, 2023

How is Fall 2023 Shaping Up?

August 04, 2023

18 Trellis Dr – A Perfect Sale

July 28, 2023

When Sharks Attack!

July 26, 2023

Buying a Home to Age in Place

July 20, 2023

Summer Slowdown?

July 14, 2023

An Off Market Chain

July 07, 2023

Inventory Challenges Keep Market Humming

July 01, 2023

New Terra Linda Listing - 18 Trellis Drive!

June 23, 2023

Investment Advice – Stocks and Real Estate

June 16, 2023

Garage Sale to Free Ads to Good Homes

June 09, 2023

My Most Dangerous Workplace Situation

June 02, 2023

Real Estate Horror Story

May 26, 2023

SOLD! 19 Tanfield Rd

May 19, 2023

Real Estate Seller Solicitations

May 14, 2023

Next Level YouTube Marketing

May 05, 2023

Buyers Facing Affordability Challenges

April 28, 2023

Next Step - Assisted Living

April 21, 2023

Condo, Condo, Condo!

April 14, 2023

What Happens After Easter?

April 08, 2023

Spring 2023 – What’s to come?

March 31, 2023

111 Trellis Drive – Coming Soon!

March 24, 2023

19 Tanfield Rd – Coming This Weekend!

March 17, 2023

Beloved Trellis Drive Opportunity!

March 10, 2023

Another Scam?

March 03, 2023

Realtor Attrition Could Be High in 2023

February 24, 2023

Virtual Staging vs. Real Staging vs. No Staging

February 17, 2023

The Market is Picking Up!

February 10, 2023

The Pine Trees on Tanfield Rd, Tiburon

February 03, 2023

Growing Up Skateboarding in Tiburon: 1973 - 1985

January 27, 2023

Tanfield Tales - Peterson's Lot

January 20, 2023

19 Tanfield Rd - The Deck

January 12, 2023

Selling My Family Home in Tiburon

January 06, 2023

SMART Goals for 2023

December 30, 2022

Vivalon Volunteer

December 16, 2022

2023 Prognostications

December 09, 2022

Current Market Trends Survey

December 02, 2022

Thankful for my Clients & New Listing 99 Duran Dr

November 27, 2022

Taking a Pass

November 19, 2022

Buyers Hoping to Capitalize on a Slower Market

November 11, 2022

Road to Nowhere - Sellers Overpricing

November 04, 2022

Listing Presentation, Presentation

October 28, 2022

Following my Father

October 22, 2022

Only Game in Town – Keeping Prices Up

October 14, 2022

Why I Love Surfing Bolinas

October 07, 2022

Signs of a Changing Market

September 30, 2022

Outlook for Fall 2022

September 21, 2022

A Brief Blogging Break

September 17, 2022

My Series of Unfortunate Events

September 09, 2022

Wonderful Wallace Way

September 03, 2022

Why I Send Out Calendar Magnets

August 27, 2022

Real Estate Market Normalizing

August 22, 2022

Another Covid Tale

August 13, 2022

One Offer Market

August 06, 2022

Surfing with the Sharks at Salmon Creek

July 30, 2022

Marin County Broker’s Open Houses

July 22, 2022

The Art of Writing Property Descriptions

July 15, 2022

Top of the Condo Market?

July 08, 2022

Buyers Missing Opportunities in the Market

July 01, 2022

Pricing Strategies for a Changing Market

June 24, 2022

Is It Time to Freak Out Yet?

June 17, 2022

'Using' a Realtor (or Three)

June 10, 2022

Squirely Neighbors

June 03, 2022

Low Inventories Keep Market Strong

May 26, 2022

Making it with Andy's Patch

May 20, 2022

Ask Andy – What’s up with foreclosures?

May 13, 2022

Buyer Fatigue

May 06, 2022

Guess the Q2 Median Sales Price Contest!

April 29, 2022

Gratitude in Terra Linda

April 24, 2022

Mastermind Course: Newsletters and Blogging

April 16, 2022

Interest Rates Over 5%! & Q1 Contest Winner….

April 08, 2022

Selling This Spring in San Rafael?

April 01, 2022

Higher Interest Rates Squeezing Buyers Out

March 25, 2022

Reading Between the Lines: Realtor Speak

March 18, 2022

Back to Work - New TL Listing Needs TLC

March 11, 2022

Vacation of a Lifetime: Cancun

March 05, 2022

30 Offers!

February 25, 2022

Used Bike Needed

February 18, 2022

Asbestos – To Test or Not to Test

February 12, 2022

March Rate Hike Imminent - Guest Blog: Eric Bleth

February 07, 2022

Real Estate Success Stories - Land Ho!

February 04, 2022

My Zillow Relationship – It’s Complicated

January 28, 2022

Interest Rates and Selling in 2022

January 20, 2022

Guess the Q1 Median Sales Price Contest!

January 13, 2022

Why Live in Marin?

January 07, 2022

Real Estate Resolutions for 2022

December 31, 2021

Over Pricing in 2022?

December 23, 2021

Cute but Awful

December 17, 2021

Real Estate Fails – Buyer Edition

December 10, 2021

Real Estate Fails

December 03, 2021

Real Estate Sales and COVID 2021

November 19, 2021

'Tis the Seaon - To Buy a House?

November 11, 2021

Interest Rates, Inflation and Home Appreciation

October 29, 2021

Selling in the Most Extreme Elements

October 22, 2021

Andy on Inflation

October 15, 2021

The Key to Success: Putting in the Hard Work

October 08, 2021

The Perils of Real Estate Sales

October 01, 2021

Compliance is Mandatory

September 24, 2021

Buying Season

September 18, 2021

The Question of Tenants

September 10, 2021

Message to Today's Home Buyers

September 03, 2021

Investors Writing Blind Offers

August 27, 2021

Fall Real Estate Season is Fast Approaching

August 20, 2021

A Dangerous Surfer – Bolinas Edition

August 19, 2021

Surfing Salmon Creek Again w/Brother Fred

August 13, 2021

Here We Go Again - Time to Mask Up

August 06, 2021

To Surf or Not to Surf: Salmon Creek, Sonoma CA

August 05, 2021

Good Things are Happening!

July 30, 2021

COVID Ride-along

July 23, 2021

Realtor Boundaries – Work/Life Balance

July 15, 2021

Out of Town Realtor's Incompetence

July 02, 2021

The Psychology of Real Estate

June 25, 2021

Locals Only – Stocktons, Santa Cruz CA

June 19, 2021

Covid Rear View

June 18, 2021

Saying Goodbye to the PEAD

June 11, 2021

Return to a More Normal Seller’s Market

June 04, 2021

Real Estate Rumbles – Opening Market

May 28, 2021

Open Houses are Back!

May 21, 2021

Value Creation

May 14, 2021

Child Labor in Real Estate

May 08, 2021

Why I Like Selling Condos

April 30, 2021

Why Choose Coldwell Banker?

April 23, 2021

Embracing the Stench of Failure

April 16, 2021

Why Buy with Prices so High?

April 09, 2021

How to Price Your Home

April 02, 2021

My Name is Yuzu

March 29, 2021

How I Preview a Property

March 26, 2021

Best Practices - Showing a House

March 19, 2021

Buyers Getting Priced Out – Again

March 11, 2021

The Case for Off-Market Sales

March 05, 2021

Buying a home in 2021? Brace yourself!

February 26, 2021

Say Goodbye to Buyer Offer Letters

February 18, 2021

My Mission Statement

February 18, 2021

The Real Estate Market - What could go wrong?

February 09, 2021

Showing Homes in 2021

January 29, 2021

A Very Stinson Sunday

January 20, 2021

Corona Closing In (5 min read)

January 15, 2021

Big Surf - 1/8/21 (5 minute read)

January 08, 2021

Inspection Update: City Resale, Sewer, Pest & Home

January 01, 2021

Raging Real Estate Market (3 Minute Read)

December 19, 2020

San Rafael Resale Update - City and Sewer

December 11, 2020

404 Nova Albion – SOLD with Multiple Offers!

December 04, 2020

Home Valuations - An Inexact Science (5 min read)

November 20, 2020

Wednesday’s Gift – Helping the Homeless

November 13, 2020

The Art of Giving (5 min read)

November 06, 2020

It’s Go Time For 404 Nova Albion (5 min read)

October 30, 2020

Talking Politics, Real Estate and Vitriol

October 23, 2020

Tenant Purchases from Landlord (5 min read)

October 16, 2020

Andy's Blog - Surfboard Tales and Sales

October 09, 2020

October 2020 Real Estate Life (7 min read/video)

October 01, 2020

Special Olympics Memory (5 min read)

September 25, 2020

Exodus - Where You Going to Go? (5 Min Read)

September 18, 2020

Real Estate Sales on Mars

September 11, 2020

Smokey Times - PurpleAir.com (5 min read)

September 04, 2020

Offer Day and Seller Inspections (5 min read)

August 28, 2020

We Need to Take a Step Back (5 Min Read)

August 21, 2020

Recommendations for Sellers (5 min read)

August 18, 2020

San Rafael City Inspection & Sewers (5 min read)

August 13, 2020

Questions and Answers When Selling (5 min read)

August 07, 2020

Don't Buy a House (5 min read)

August 03, 2020

Gratitude, Forgiveness & a Future Shout Out

July 30, 2020

The Perfect Opportunity – Passed up (5 min read)

July 27, 2020

Goodbye Cheesecake Factory (5 min read)

July 22, 2020

A Poor Business Decision (5 min read)

July 19, 2020

The Rent vs. Sell Decision (5 min read)

July 17, 2020

So You Want to Sell Real Estate … (5 min read)

July 13, 2020

Sellers are Making Hay (5 min read)

July 11, 2020

BEWARE the PG&E / Bitcoin Scam (3 min read)

July 07, 2020

Now More Than Ever: Pre-Approve Your Buyers

July 01, 2020

Calling Adult Protective Services (7 min read)

June 29, 2020

The Drunk Realtor (6 min read)

June 25, 2020

Viral Ignorant Realtors? (3 min read)

June 22, 2020

Why is the Market 'Hot'? (3 min read)

June 20, 2020

Please Be Considerate – Wear a Mask (5 min read)

June 14, 2020

How to Clear Out a House (5 min read)

June 11, 2020

COVID Clean-up (5 minute read)

June 08, 2020

Your Camera = Disruptive Super Power (3 min read)

June 04, 2020

Pandemic Rental - Mill Valley (3 min read)

June 01, 2020

My First Pandemic Sale (video/ 10 min. read)

May 29, 2020

A Realtor with TOEVID-19? (5 min read)

May 22, 2020

Corona Paradigm Shift in Real Estate (5 min read)

May 15, 2020