When Are Costa Mesa Real Estate Taxes Due??? One of the most common questions I get about this time of year is “When are my taxes due?”??? I created this handy schedule Costa Mesa residents (and others) can refer to: Costa Mesa Real Estate Property Tax Schedule The following schedule is intended to serve as aread more
Quick Remodeling After Purchase
Buyers Quickly Remodel It’s funny, I always tell folks when they are looking at homes in Costa Mesa real estate there is no perfect house. Ever. There is always a bathroom, or a kitchen, or a master bedroom that is too small. So this interesting infographic to the left just came out citing how manyread more
Mid Year Check Costa Mesa Market Report 2014
Market Strong, Carrying On So did I get my 2014 predictions right in Costa Mesa Real Estate? Let’s take a quick look back to my post earlier in the year and see how we are doing mid-year, and also what I think what we might see as the year progresses. Mid Year Check Costa Mesaread more
Costa Mesa Homeowners Biggest Regrets
Buy Bigger, Buy Smarter A recent survey by online real estate outlet Trulia outlines some of the same wishes and wants that Costa Mesa real estate homeowners often talk about. Below is an interesting video from the Wall Street Journal that hits a lot of what Costa Mesa real estate owners think about their homesread more
2013 Predictions for Costa Mesa Real Estate
2013 Costa Mesa Real Estate Will Move Swiftly As our local Costa Mesa real estate market continues to stabilize from the past few years of foreclosures and distressed housing, 2013 looks like it will shape up to be a great year for buyers and sellers. If you read my post yesterday about what I gotread more
Looking Back on 2012 Predictions
Costa Mesa Real Estate Predictions Hit Home We finished off 2012 on a high note, with appreciation across the board, fewer foreclosures and distressed homes weighting the market, and unfortunately a highly reduced inventory of homes for buyers. Where will 2013 take us in Costa Mesa? I will give you my opinion tomorrow, but saferead more
It is Property Tax Appeal Time
Costa Mesa Real Estate Tax Appeals Due My piece of Costa Mesa real estate just got this – did you too just get that ugly yellow envelope like I just did with your new taxes for your Costa Mesa real estate??? UGH! It’s almost that time of year again. Don’t you love how arbitrary someread more
Costa Mesa Real Estate Update July 2012
Costa Mesa MicroMarket Update Why do we call it our MicroMarket Update? Because you might have read other posts in the national news or OC Register saying that the local Costa Mesa real estate market isn’t that good. We do our MicroMarket update once a quarter to give you the non-fat, skinny girl, no-nonsense scoop onread more
Smart Tip Add a Nest to your Nest
Here’s a smart tip: add a nest to your nest. What? As I mentioned in my post yesterday about the things we can do to improve our commitment to the world around us for Earth Day, I added a Nest thermostat to my home recently. What’s That? What is a Nest you may ask? Quiteread more
How You Can Celebrate Earth Day
How You Can Celebrate Earth Day How You Can Celebrate Earth Day? I found a few good ideas that we can all do to help our climate be a little cleaner here in good ol’ Costa Mesa real estate. In honor of earth day, which is officially April 22nd this year. Here’s a brief topread more
10 Mistakes in Real Estate
Monday Top 10 Things NOT to Do When Selling Normally, I like to throw out a fun top ten list once in a while in Costa Mesa real estate Mondays. And believe me, I am the most positive person in the world. However, today I thought it might be a bit more fun to focusread more
Costa Mesa Short Sale Myths
Costa Mesa Short Sales Mythbusters Edition! I figured since St. Patricks Day is upon us, and since everyone will be looking for a leprechaun at the end of a rainbow with a pot of gold coins, it might be good to look at a some Costa Mesa short sale myths. Don’t get me wrong –read more