By Don Dunning | June 26, 2008
While touring houses for clients, I passed this one and took a quick shot with my cell phone. Located in Berkeley and called the “Tsui House,” it is known for its unusual architecture. For more photos and a full description of this fascinating property, go to http://www.tdrinc.com/tsuihs.html
Read MoreBy Don Dunning | June 18, 2008
A massive lobbying effort by the California Association of Realtors® (C.A.R.) recently helped to remove an onerous provision from Assembly Bill 2678, (Núñez-Laird), Time-of-Sale Energy Audits. This effort was capped by “Legislative Day,” June 4th in Sacramento, where well over 1000 California Realtors®, including myself, met at the state capitol. Protesting this bill was high […]
Read MoreBy Don Dunning | June 14, 2008
Just saw Crude Impact, an amazing documentary about the relationship between human beings, oil consumption and the effect on our planet. It was released in 2006, but, somehow, I never heard about it until my wife told me I must see it. She was right. The film has won numerous awards and is on the […]
Read MoreBy Don Dunning | June 13, 2008
As a state director of the California Association of Realtors, I spent most of last week attending meetings in Sacramento. As usual, the thousand-plus of us present heard about new laws, legal cases, changes in forms, Multiple Listing Service (MLS) updates and a forecast for California real estate. Different and shocking, however, was the reported […]
Read MoreBy Don Dunning | June 9, 2008
Clients called me today, very excited about a property they had found online and wanting to know why I had not told them about it. I explained that I had previewed the house for them, and found it had too many “issues.” From our initial interview, and subsequent conversations, I knew they would have found it unacceptable.
According to a California Association of Realtors survey, eight of ten home buyers use the Internet for searching. They can quickly find an address, see photos, price, bedrooms, baths, square feet and much more; however, a great deal of essential information never shows up on the screen.
Read MoreBy Don Dunning | June 2, 2008
If you owned a million-dollar-plus home that had been on the market since January, over four months, and you had not received an offer closer than $50,000 of your list price, what would you do? Assuming you really needed to sell it, how about lowering the price? Wouldn’t that seem logical? As I have seen […]
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