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How to Avoid Capital Gains Taxes When Selling Your Home
2 Strategies on how to Reduce or Avoid Capital Gains Taxes Bay Area single-family homes have about quadrupled in value over the past 25 years. In 1999, the average San Mateo County single-family home sold for around $600,000. Today the average...
838 Seminole Way : The house that “checked all the boxes”
838 Seminole Way attracted an impressive total of 17 offers—a testament to its appeal. Initially listed at $2,098,000, the demand for 838 Seminole Way exceeded all expectations, ultimately fetching a remarkable $2,610,000 upon sale. Highli...
IRS Rules on Minimum Interest Rate to Charge on Personal Loans
You probably know that when you make a personal loan to someone there is a maximum interest rate that you can charge. If you charge too much, that's usury and that makes you a loan shark. Loan Sharks go to jail, and you don't want to go there! ...
Living in an HOA: The Good & Bad of it All
Thinking about Living in an HOA? What to look out for when Purchasing- Financials: when buying a home in an HOA carefully review the financials. Is the HOA well-funded? Those HOA fees you pay might be for things like all exterior maintenan...
Electrifying Homes – Do you Like Hot Showers? Caution 2030 is Coming!
In 2018 California passed Senate Bill 100. The law requires that energy sources be both renewable and zero-carbon for generating 100 percent of electricity to California customers by 2045. So, power plants can't use fossil or nuclear fuels by...
Safer Structures by 2025 but Higher HOA Fees or Extra Assessments
Sadly a few years back a balcony collapsed in Berkely during a party and several young people died. This awful event resulted in California passing two laws. SB326 and SB721. Both of these laws apply to apartments and condos but exclude singl...
Keeping Low Property Taxes & Save Big Bucks!
Keeping Low Property Taxes when Selling your Home Under Prop 19 So you bought your San Carlos CA home a long time ago and have super low property taxes. You’d like to move within California, but you want to keep your low property taxes? W...
Inheriting Property Under Prop 19 – Not as Good as it once was, but can still Save you some Cash!
In the old days you could simply inherit a home from your parents and keep their low property tax rates. Gone are those days - things are more complicated now! Today, when inheriting Property Under Prop 19, if the property was not your parents�...