Selling a Home? Do This One Thing or It Could Cost You

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   You’ve listed your home for sale and received an offer. Congrats! However, there’s still one key thing you need to do, and if you don’t, you’ll regret it. That one thing is
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Story Time With Gary: The Neighborhood Buzz

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   Today’s interesting story from my many years in real estate is all about a listing of mine that had the kind of buzz that you don’t want. I was selling a
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Guangzhou Circle

Guangzhou Circle viewed from the opposite side of the river by Midip is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
The Guangzhou Circle located in Guangzhou, China may appear to be a strange doughnut-shaped skyscraper to westerners, but to those from the east, it has symbology and meaning. Architect, Joseph di Pasquale drew inspiration from bi-disks or bi, ancient Chinese artifacts. Bi-disks are carved from jade and bear the same shape as the Guangzhou Circle.
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Avoid the Golden Ticket Syndrome

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   What is the Golden Ticket Syndrome? If you remember watching “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” or if you read the book, then you know that people who got the golden
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Casa do Penedo

Casa do Penedo, front view by Pablo García Chao is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
Casa do Penedo or House of Stone is located in the Fafe mountains of northern Portugal. Built by an engineer from 1972-1974, it utilizes 4 existing boulders to form the structure. Originally built as a vacation home, current owner Vitor Rodrigues is not quite sure what to do about the increasing number of tourists drawn
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Story Time With Gary: Beam Me up Scotty

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   Welcome to another edition of Story Time With Gary! This story is a little funny but it’s also a little sad, so I just want you to know that up front.
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Katskhi Pillar

Katskhi stone column by G.N. by is used under CC BY-SA 3.0 / Cropped from original
Located in the country of Georgia, the Katskhi Pillar is about 130 feet high. A small structure is clearly visible at the top. The pillar was left untouched and unscaled for centuries until 1944 when a group lead by mountaineer Alexander Japaridze and writer Levan Gotua climbed to the top. There they discovered the ruins
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Lonely Castle

Qasr al Farid by Richard.hargas is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
The Lonely Castle or Qasr al-Farid stands alone in the north Saudi Arabian desert. Carved from the top down directly into a massive 4-story boulder its origins are mysterious. Believed to date back to the first century AD, this “castle” was actually created to be a tomb. It is believed that the dry climate has
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6 Things You Should Know After You Close

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   There are six key things that you need to do after you close on your home: 1. Change the locks on your home. You have no idea who else has a
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Story Time With Gary: Don’t Say It Unless You Mean It

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   Welcome back to Story Time with Gary! Today I’ve got another tale from my time in real estate that you won’t believe. About 25 years ago, I knocked on a gentleman’s
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