A Hidden Gem: Redwood City, the next hot real estate market Silicon Valley residents are all about the up and coming: the newest innovative technology, happening restaurants and boutique retailers – all part of the appeal of living in the...
We have closed the chapter to an intensely competitive year for buying a home. Now that 2013 is behind us, if you ask most home buyers in this area how they are feeling, they will say: 1) We are exhausted. Trying to buy a house with 5-10 offers per...
On paper, the home has everything you’ve been looking for: the right number of bedrooms and bathrooms, decent square footage and lot size. The neighborhood is charming and the location is perfect. There’s just one problem…the home appears...
Newsflash. Mortgage rates are on the rise, hitting above 4% last week for the first time in more than a year. Gone for now are the all-time-low 30-year fixed-3% rates that had us all running to our brokers to refinance in 2012. How are these rising...
Where the Heck is Old Redwood City? Peninsula residents are always looking for the next big thing, from electronic gadgets, websites, start-ups (Striiv, ifeelgoods, & Wanderable), to neighborhoods. Yes, neighborhoods. More established...
We got the house. For more than I wanted to pay, I reconciled with myself that we were getting a unique location, almost ½ acre of mostly usable space and a very private setting where we can only see two other houses from the backyard. The house is...
This installment only makes sense if you go back and read Part 8, so please do so now. It’s OK, I’ll wait….. I got home the night we saw the house and said, ‘I’m assuming you didn’t like the house’. Wife – “Oh, no, I really...