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Permit Reality
September 06, 2024
Category:
Real Estate
Closing Escrow on a Co-op
August 30, 2024
Category:
Real Estate
Buyers Sweeten Their Deals
August 22, 2024
Category:
Real Estate
Buyer Commission Shakeout!
August 17, 2024
Category:
Real Estate
New Commission Structure Just Dropped!
August 13, 2024
Category:
Buying
How to Sell in San Rafael’s LGVSD
August 10, 2024
Category:
Selling
How to Sell in San Rafael - City Resale Inspection
August 05, 2024
Category:
Selling
Overpricing – The Dreamer Strategy
August 03, 2024
Category:
Real Estate
Closing Escrows, and Passing the Baton
July 27, 2024
Category:
Real Estate
Gearing Up for the Fall
July 20, 2024
Category:
Real Estate
Lower Interest Rates Fuel the Market
July 13, 2024
Category:
Real Estate
Housing Market Beats the Heat
July 06, 2024
Category:
Real Estate
The Train Keeps Rolling!
June 28, 2024
Category:
Real Estate
What does it take to make it in real estate sales?
June 21, 2024
Category:
Real Estate
How Not to Price a Home
June 14, 2024
Category:
Real Estate
Open Sunday - 853 Las Pavadas Ave
June 08, 2024
Category:
Real Estate
The Economics of Preparing for a Sale
May 31, 2024
Category:
Real Estate
Marin Memorial Day Weekend Market Perspective
May 24, 2024
Category:
Real Estate
Joining the Eichler Network
May 17, 2024
Category:
Real Estate
Bitten By the Covid Bug – Again
May 10, 2024
Category:
Real Estate
My Spring Listings are Springing Indeed!
May 03, 2024
Category:
Real Estate
Eichlers Don't Get Any Better Than 861 Greenberry
April 26, 2024
Category:
Real Estate
One Buyer Using Two or More Realtors
April 21, 2024
Category:
Real Estate
All Cash Buyers Supporting Marin Market
April 12, 2024
Category:
Real Estate
The Best Time is Always Now
April 05, 2024
Category:
Real Estate
Big Real Estate Changes on the Horizon
March 29, 2024
Category:
Real Estate
What is Selling?
March 22, 2024
Category:
Real Estate
Millennial Home Buyers
March 15, 2024
Category:
Real Estate
What if Interest Rates Don't Come Down?
March 09, 2024
Category:
Real Estate
Anemic Inventory – I’m the Problem
March 08, 2024
Category:
Real Estate
Smoking - The Deal Killer
March 01, 2024
Category:
Real Estate
Condo-nomics
February 23, 2024
Category:
Real Estate
Higher for Longer
February 17, 2024
Category:
Real Estate
Recent Cabo Surf Trip - I'm Back!
February 15, 2024
Category:
Real Estate
Taking the Pineapple Express Seriously
January 31, 2024
Category:
Real Estate
Random Thoughts on the Market
January 26, 2024
Category:
Real Estate
Make Your House a Winning Investment
January 19, 2024
Category:
Real Estate
Invest in Zillow at Your Own Risk
January 12, 2024
Category:
Real Estate
Ramping up into 2024
January 04, 2024
Category:
Real Estate
Andy’s Patch - Final Blog (of 2023)
December 29, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
Santa Claus Coming for Sellers in 2024
December 22, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
Sellers paying buyers agents' commission in 2024?
December 15, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
This Week in Real Estate - Early December
December 08, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
Recent Closings and Keep on Trucking
December 01, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
Home Buying for the Holidays?
November 24, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
Vivalon Volunteer Tech Tutors Wanted
November 17, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
Real Estate Commissions - Lawsuit
November 10, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
Seniors with Mental Health Conditions
November 03, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
My Week in Real Estate
October 27, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
All Cash Buyers: The Good, Bad and Ugly
October 23, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
Birthday XL Surf Session at Steamer Lane
October 20, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
Tales from the Great Pacific?
October 17, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
Why Now is the Best Time to Buy
October 13, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
8% Interest Rates –Fall 2023 House Hunting
October 10, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
Rapidly Rising Interest Rates Killing Deals
October 04, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
New Listing - 259 C Street, San Rafael
September 30, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
Is the Fed a Goose Killer?
September 25, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
Tenants from Hell
September 22, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
Anti-Trust Settlement – What It Means
September 14, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
Commercial Bear, Residential Bull
September 11, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
Surf Break
September 08, 2023
Category:
Other
New Listing! 279 Devon Drive, Terra Linda
September 01, 2023
Category:
Selling
Guide to Downsizing for Retirement
August 25, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
MLS is BACK!
August 23, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
BAREIS MLS Still Down, But Not Out
August 18, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
MLS HACKED and Held for Ransom!
August 15, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
Who is Buying and Crying Now?
August 11, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
How is Fall 2023 Shaping Up?
August 04, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
18 Trellis Dr – A Perfect Sale
July 28, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
When Sharks Attack!
July 26, 2023
Category:
Other
Buying a Home to Age in Place
July 20, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
Summer Slowdown?
July 14, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
An Off Market Chain
July 07, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
Inventory Challenges Keep Market Humming
July 01, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
New Terra Linda Listing - 18 Trellis Drive!
June 23, 2023
Category:
Selling
Investment Advice – Stocks and Real Estate
June 16, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
Garage Sale to Free Ads to Good Homes
June 09, 2023
Category:
Selling
My Most Dangerous Workplace Situation
June 02, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
Real Estate Horror Story
May 26, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
SOLD! 19 Tanfield Rd
May 19, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
Real Estate Seller Solicitations
May 14, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
Next Level YouTube Marketing
May 05, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
Buyers Facing Affordability Challenges
April 28, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
Next Step - Assisted Living
April 21, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
Condo, Condo, Condo!
April 14, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
What Happens After Easter?
April 08, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
Spring 2023 – What’s to come?
March 31, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
111 Trellis Drive – Coming Soon!
March 24, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
19 Tanfield Rd – Coming This Weekend!
March 17, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
Beloved Trellis Drive Opportunity!
March 10, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
Another Scam?
March 03, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
Realtor Attrition Could Be High in 2023
February 24, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
Virtual Staging vs. Real Staging vs. No Staging
February 17, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
The Market is Picking Up!
February 10, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
The Pine Trees on Tanfield Rd, Tiburon
February 03, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
Growing Up Skateboarding in Tiburon: 1973 - 1985
January 27, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
Tanfield Tales - Peterson's Lot
January 20, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
19 Tanfield Rd - The Deck
January 12, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
Selling My Family Home in Tiburon
January 06, 2023
Category:
Real Estate
SMART Goals for 2023
December 30, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
Vivalon Volunteer
December 16, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
2023 Prognostications
December 09, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
Current Market Trends Survey
December 02, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
Thankful for my Clients & New Listing 99 Duran Dr
November 27, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
Taking a Pass
November 19, 2022
Category:
Selling
Buyers Hoping to Capitalize on a Slower Market
November 11, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
Road to Nowhere - Sellers Overpricing
November 04, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
Listing Presentation, Presentation
October 28, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
Following my Father
October 22, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
Only Game in Town – Keeping Prices Up
October 14, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
Why I Love Surfing Bolinas
October 07, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
Signs of a Changing Market
September 30, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
Outlook for Fall 2022
September 21, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
A Brief Blogging Break
September 17, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
My Series of Unfortunate Events
September 09, 2022
Category:
Other
Wonderful Wallace Way
September 03, 2022
Category:
Selling
Why I Send Out Calendar Magnets
August 27, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
Real Estate Market Normalizing
August 22, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
Another Covid Tale
August 13, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
One Offer Market
August 06, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
Surfing with the Sharks at Salmon Creek
July 30, 2022
Category:
Other
Marin County Broker’s Open Houses
July 22, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
The Art of Writing Property Descriptions
July 15, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
Top of the Condo Market?
July 08, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
Buyers Missing Opportunities in the Market
July 01, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
Pricing Strategies for a Changing Market
June 24, 2022
Category:
Selling
Is It Time to Freak Out Yet?
June 17, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
'Using' a Realtor (or Three)
June 10, 2022
Category:
Buying
Squirely Neighbors
June 03, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
Low Inventories Keep Market Strong
May 26, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
Making it with Andy's Patch
May 20, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
Ask Andy – What’s up with foreclosures?
May 13, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
Buyer Fatigue
May 06, 2022
Category:
Buying
Guess the Q2 Median Sales Price Contest!
April 29, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
Gratitude in Terra Linda
April 24, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
Mastermind Course: Newsletters and Blogging
April 16, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
Interest Rates Over 5%! & Q1 Contest Winner….
April 08, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
Selling This Spring in San Rafael?
April 01, 2022
Category:
Selling
Higher Interest Rates Squeezing Buyers Out
March 25, 2022
Category:
Buying
Reading Between the Lines: Realtor Speak
March 18, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
Back to Work - New TL Listing Needs TLC
March 11, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
Vacation of a Lifetime: Cancun
March 05, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
30 Offers!
February 25, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
Used Bike Needed
February 18, 2022
Category:
Other
Asbestos – To Test or Not to Test
February 12, 2022
Category:
Selling
March Rate Hike Imminent - Guest Blog: Eric Bleth
February 07, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
Real Estate Success Stories - Land Ho!
February 04, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
My Zillow Relationship – It’s Complicated
January 28, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
Interest Rates and Selling in 2022
January 20, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
Guess the Q1 Median Sales Price Contest!
January 13, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
Why Live in Marin?
January 07, 2022
Category:
Real Estate
Real Estate Resolutions for 2022
December 31, 2021
Category:
Real Estate
Over Pricing in 2022?
December 23, 2021
Category:
Selling
Cute but Awful
December 17, 2021
Category:
Buying
Real Estate Fails – Buyer Edition
December 10, 2021
Category:
Buying
Real Estate Fails
December 03, 2021
Category:
Real Estate
Real Estate Sales and COVID 2021
November 19, 2021
Category:
Real Estate
'Tis the Seaon - To Buy a House?
November 11, 2021
Category:
Real Estate
Interest Rates, Inflation and Home Appreciation
October 29, 2021
Category:
Real Estate
Selling in the Most Extreme Elements
October 22, 2021
Category:
Real Estate
Andy on Inflation
October 15, 2021
Category:
Real Estate
The Key to Success: Putting in the Hard Work
October 08, 2021
Category:
Other
The Perils of Real Estate Sales
October 01, 2021
Category:
Real Estate
Compliance is Mandatory
September 24, 2021
Category:
Selling
Buying Season
September 18, 2021
Category:
Buying
The Question of Tenants
September 10, 2021
Category:
Selling
Message to Today's Home Buyers
September 03, 2021
Category:
Buying
Investors Writing Blind Offers
August 27, 2021
Category:
Real Estate
Fall Real Estate Season is Fast Approaching
August 20, 2021
Category:
Real Estate
A Dangerous Surfer – Bolinas Edition
August 19, 2021
Category:
Other
Surfing Salmon Creek Again w/Brother Fred
August 13, 2021
Category:
Other
Here We Go Again - Time to Mask Up
August 06, 2021
Category:
Real Estate
To Surf or Not to Surf: Salmon Creek, Sonoma CA
August 05, 2021
Category:
Other
Good Things are Happening!
July 30, 2021
Category:
Real Estate
COVID Ride-along
July 23, 2021
Category:
Real Estate
Realtor Boundaries – Work/Life Balance
July 15, 2021
Category:
Real Estate
Out of Town Realtor's Incompetence
July 02, 2021
Category:
Real Estate
The Psychology of Real Estate
June 25, 2021
Category:
Real Estate
Locals Only – Stocktons, Santa Cruz CA
June 19, 2021
Category:
Other
Covid Rear View
June 18, 2021
Category:
Real Estate
Saying Goodbye to the PEAD
June 11, 2021
Category:
Real Estate
Return to a More Normal Seller’s Market
June 04, 2021
Category:
Selling
Real Estate Rumbles – Opening Market
May 28, 2021
Category:
Real Estate
Open Houses are Back!
May 21, 2021
Category:
Selling
Value Creation
May 14, 2021
Category:
Real Estate
Child Labor in Real Estate
May 08, 2021
Category:
Real Estate
Why I Like Selling Condos
April 30, 2021
Category:
Real Estate
Why Choose Coldwell Banker?
April 23, 2021
Category:
Real Estate
Embracing the Stench of Failure
April 16, 2021
Category:
Real Estate
Why Buy with Prices so High?
April 09, 2021
Category:
Buying
How to Price Your Home
April 02, 2021
Category:
Real Estate
My Name is Yuzu
March 29, 2021
Category:
Other
How I Preview a Property
March 26, 2021
Category:
Real Estate
Best Practices - Showing a House
March 19, 2021
Category:
Selling
Buyers Getting Priced Out – Again
March 11, 2021
Category:
Buying
The Case for Off-Market Sales
March 05, 2021
Category:
Selling
Buying a home in 2021? Brace yourself!
February 26, 2021
Category:
Buying
Say Goodbye to Buyer Offer Letters
February 18, 2021
Category:
Real Estate
My Mission Statement
February 18, 2021
Category:
Real Estate
The Real Estate Market - What could go wrong?
February 09, 2021
Category:
Market Trends
Showing Homes in 2021
January 29, 2021
Category:
Real Estate
A Very Stinson Sunday
January 20, 2021
Category:
Other
Corona Closing In (5 min read)
January 15, 2021
Category:
Real Estate
Big Surf - 1/8/21 (5 minute read)
January 08, 2021
Category:
Other
Inspection Update: City Resale, Sewer, Pest & Home
January 01, 2021
Category:
Selling
Raging Real Estate Market (3 Minute Read)
December 19, 2020
Category:
Selling
San Rafael Resale Update - City and Sewer
December 11, 2020
Category:
Selling
404 Nova Albion – SOLD with Multiple Offers!
December 04, 2020
Category:
Real Estate
Home Valuations - An Inexact Science (5 min read)
November 20, 2020
Category:
Selling
Wednesday’s Gift – Helping the Homeless
November 13, 2020
Category:
Other
The Art of Giving (5 min read)
November 06, 2020
Category:
Other
It’s Go Time For 404 Nova Albion (5 min read)
October 30, 2020
Category:
Selling
Talking Politics, Real Estate and Vitriol
October 23, 2020
Category:
Real Estate
Tenant Purchases from Landlord (5 min read)
October 16, 2020
Category:
Selling
Andy's Blog - Surfboard Tales and Sales
October 09, 2020
Category:
Other
October 2020 Real Estate Life (7 min read/video)
October 01, 2020
Category:
Real Estate
Special Olympics Memory (5 min read)
September 25, 2020
Category:
Other
Exodus - Where You Going to Go? (5 Min Read)
September 18, 2020
Category:
Real Estate
Real Estate Sales on Mars
September 11, 2020
Category:
Real Estate
Smokey Times - PurpleAir.com (5 min read)
September 04, 2020
Category:
Other
Offer Day and Seller Inspections (5 min read)
August 28, 2020
Category:
Selling
We Need to Take a Step Back (5 Min Read)
August 21, 2020
Category:
Real Estate
Recommendations for Sellers (5 min read)
August 18, 2020
Category:
Selling
San Rafael City Inspection & Sewers (5 min read)
August 13, 2020
Category:
Real Estate
Questions and Answers When Selling (5 min read)
August 07, 2020
Category:
Selling
Don't Buy a House (5 min read)
August 03, 2020
Category:
Buying
Gratitude, Forgiveness & a Future Shout Out
July 30, 2020
Category:
Local
The Perfect Opportunity – Passed up (5 min read)
July 27, 2020
Category:
Real Estate
Goodbye Cheesecake Factory (5 min read)
July 22, 2020
Category:
Other
A Poor Business Decision (5 min read)
July 19, 2020
Category:
Financing
The Rent vs. Sell Decision (5 min read)
July 17, 2020
Category:
Real Estate
So You Want to Sell Real Estate … (5 min read)
July 13, 2020
Category:
Real Estate
Sellers are Making Hay (5 min read)
July 11, 2020
Category:
Selling
BEWARE the PG&E / Bitcoin Scam (3 min read)
July 07, 2020
Category:
Real Estate
Now More Than Ever: Pre-Approve Your Buyers
July 01, 2020
Category:
Real Estate
Calling Adult Protective Services (7 min read)
June 29, 2020
Category:
Real Estate
The Drunk Realtor (6 min read)
June 25, 2020
Category:
Real Estate
Viral Ignorant Realtors? (3 min read)
June 22, 2020
Category:
Real Estate
Why is the Market 'Hot'? (3 min read)
June 20, 2020
Category:
Market Trends
Please Be Considerate – Wear a Mask (5 min read)
June 14, 2020
Category:
Real Estate
How to Clear Out a House (5 min read)
June 11, 2020
Category:
Selling
COVID Clean-up (5 minute read)
June 08, 2020
Category:
Real Estate
Your Camera = Disruptive Super Power (3 min read)
June 04, 2020
Category:
Other
Pandemic Rental - Mill Valley (3 min read)
June 01, 2020
Category:
Real Estate
My First Pandemic Sale (video/ 10 min. read)
May 29, 2020
Category:
Selling
A Realtor with TOEVID-19? (5 min read)
May 22, 2020
Category:
Real Estate
Corona Paradigm Shift in Real Estate (5 min read)
May 15, 2020
Category:
Real Estate
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