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Ongoing discussion of the Marin rental market from Broker Christopher Barrow - one of the county's only focused (and local!)rental property brokers.
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Regardless of whether you believe in “hauntings” or not, a frightening past can affect how potential buyers react to a home for sale in Tiburon. Depending on timing, an agent may or may not be obligated to explain that a death or other dramatic event took place in the house—or that the current ow...
10/30/2014
You’re about to close a deal to become a tenant in Marin. The landlord seems like a straight shooter and the place is a joy: immaculate and welcoming. Now all that’s left is to wait for the landlord’s okay after an evaluation of you as the new Marin tenant, right? Well, not quite. Just as the la...
10/29/2014
Almost every Mill Valley neighborhood has one or two houses that go all out at Halloween. Their owners suspend sheet ghosts up in the trees, plant cardboard tombstones on the lawn, broadcast loud spooky sounds out into the street—then prepare a surprise or two to jump out at any mini-goblin who’s...
10/27/2014
Despite what just feels like the right answer, buying a home in Fairfax can be significantly cheaper than renting one. It’s one of those rare cases where, if you stop and make common sense judgments about the factors at play, the ‘just feels like’ conclusion is the opposite of the one common sens...
10/23/2014
When your house is about to go on the market, or you are preparing to find the perfect Tiburon home, choosing the right Marin real estate agent shouldn’t be a blind Trick-or-Treat grab bag. You deserve to come up with a full-size candy bar—not a walnut! The right choice can make all the differen...
10/21/2014
The financial press has been on it for a while: in September, Bloomberg News was pointing out that FHA mortgages to borrowers with weaker credit scores had plummeted 19% in the previous nine months. Something, you could sense, was about to give—but, per Bloomberg, “Washington regulators and major...
10/20/2014
Your Marin home listing is, hands-down, the most likely place prospective buyers will get their first glimpse of the home you are selling. Most serious prospects will go online as an early step in the process of winnowing candidate properties by area, asking price, number of bedrooms, etc.—so the...
10/08/2014
Homeowners Associations (HOAs) are not a new idea. They were first formed in nineteenth century America, as the Industrial Revolution spurred migration from rural to urban living. Owning real estate has always been considered a big deal, so it’s right to think of Homeowners Associations as exclus...
10/07/2014
Establishing the asking price for a Ross home may not quite qualify as science fiction, but it can be a bit of an adventure in time and space—at least when it comes to establishing the Marin County comparables. The logic behind valuing a property by looking at recent Ross comparable sales—the Mar...
10/06/2014
The volume of tLarkspur home sales this fall will depend on more than just the number and quality of listings—though they do seem to be stacking up fairly well. Predictions are always less than reliable, but when a major benchmark is met for real estate activity on the national scene, it can be a...
10/02/2014
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Ongoing discussion of the San Francisco and Marin rental market from Broker Christopher Barrow - one of the county's only focused (and local!)rental property brokers.