2023 Garage Sales Registration Form & Dates

2023 Garage Sale Registration Form – College Estates, University Park Estates & La Marina Estates 2023 Garage Sale Registration Form – Los Altos / X-100’s, Los Altos (Tincher Area) & El Dorado Park South  

2022 Garage Sales Registration Form & Dates

2022 Garage Sale Registration Form – College Estates, University Park Estates & La Marina Estates 2022 Garage Sale Registration Form – Los Altos / X-100’s, Los Altos (Tincher Area) & El Dorado Park South  

2% Fixed Interest Rates – It’s True!

Most times when you hear an advertisement that sounds “To good to be true”, it usually is, but not in this case. For the last 10 or so years, my current home loan was at 3.75%, arguably a very good rate. However when the pandemic hit around March of 2020, I could tell by the […]

Does Rent Control Apply to My Property?

Recently I had a client ask what the rent control limits might apply to their property in Huntington Park. I knew Huntington Park was close to the some of the towns covered under the City of Los Angeles rent control laws. Knowing that the City of Los Angeles Rent Stabilization Ordinance (RSO) is the most […]

Prop 19 Information

Summary of Major Con and Major Pro Major Con – If you inherit a property with a low basis you can only keep this basis if you use the property as a principle residence. Major Pro – Previously seniors older than 55 could transfer their tax base to a home of equal or lesser value. […]

Suzuki GSXR-1000 for Sport Touring

The Need to Personalize Motorcycles are much more personal than cars. Motorcycles need to fit like a glove. A good motorcycle becomes an extension of you. Ideally disappearing beneath you. But when something isn’t right is is like having a rock in your shoe. No matter how good the shoe, the rock always painfully lets […]

True Wealth – How to Avoid the Looming Retirement Crisis

Wealth vs. Saving – The Distinction There are many different definitions of wealth. For this purpose I will define wealth as “a durable and perpetual source of significant income”. If you are planning on retiring, income is what you need. Many would consider one million dollars in the bank as wealthy, but let’s think of […]

Covid – Part 3 – Market Surprisingly Resilient

Consider Your Source When you listen to any “Alleged” expert it is good to know that person’s bias. So here is a my quick bio and my economic leanings. I have a back ground in engineering and am very analytically based. I read a ton of financial information, around 2-3 hours per day. I know […]

My Favorite Alternative Investment Media

Somewhere around 1986 the Fox Network started. Many including myself thought, “Well how is this going to work, we already have 2(CBS), 4(NBC) and 7(ABC)”. Three decades later we have more media choices than we know what to do with. The sad thing is that when you listen to Fox or MSNBC you think you […]

Coronavirus Negatively Impacting New Sales

Last week I posted my assessment of how the Coronavirus MAY impact the Long Beach real estate market. This was a theoretical exercise. At the leading edge of the stock market correction and self quarantining, it was too soon to report any results. Anecdotally, I had not seen escrows fall out. My conclusion however was […]