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Thinking about short selling your home or has making the payments become a burden to you and your family? In the past year or so, short selling has become a more manageable process.  Government, banks, consumer advocacy groups and other forces have made it easier for people to sell a home when it is worth Read More

This is interesting.  I met the seller of this lovely little cottage in Sherman Oaks a while back (sweet lady) and we mulled over whether we would be selling to builders or owner users in this market.  Her home was built in 1929 and while cute as can be, we were not sure if someone Read More

If you have 2M to spend chances are you think everything has room to come down in price and are sitting on the sidelines waiting for the market to continue its correction. What I’d like to point out are a couple of examples of fantastic deals that ready to go buyers were able to cash Read More

As busy as you are and especially how costly it has become to stay on top of household maintenance what do you do when it is time to sell the house?   Especially in this market, buyers have become increasingly sensitive to items that are in disrepair when they shop for a home.   Picture it this Read More

William Mellenthin was a very popular home builder in the South East San Fernando Valley in the 1950′s with his largest concentration of homes built in the areas of Sherman Oaks known as “Hidden Woods.”    Many of the signature Mellenthin appointments including the cupola or “bird houses” over the garage, wood shingle siding, large Read More