Selling? Get a Copy of My Book: 22 Secrets to Selling Your Home

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   In over three decades in the real estate business, I’ve discovered a few secrets to success. In fact, I’ve discovered 22 of them, and I’ve laid them all out in my
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5 Things to Know Just Before Closing on Your New Home

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Story Time With Gary: How Some Bad Math Almost Cost This Couple $200,000

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   I’ve got a great story to share with you today. You might not believe it, but just like all my other stories, this one is completely true. Here’s what happened. A
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This Week’s Crazy Building: The Antwerp Port House

Antwerpen Havenhuis 5 by Torsade de Pointes is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
The city of Antwerp, Belgium wanted to repurpose this protected historical firehouse to create a place for some of the port’s many employees to work. Prior to the renovation, the Port House’s employees worked in buildings scattered across the city. Design Challenges The Antwerp Port House’s main design challenges were sustainably repurposing a protected historic
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Futuro House

NYC & Delaware | July 2013 by Nan Palmero is licensed under CC BY 2.0
The Futuro House, designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen looks like something from an old sci-fi movie. You enter through a drop down hatch into the 13-foot high by 26-foot diameter structure. You can relax on one of the 6 “bed chairs” and warm up in front of the fireplace. There is also a small
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2016: An Interesting Year for Real Estate

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   2017 is just around the corner, which makes now a great time to reflect on the past year. 2016 has been a very interesting year in real estate. We had a
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Story Time with Gary: The Time We Were Infiltrated by a Sleeper Agent

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   For this edition of Story Time With Gary, I want to talk about the time we were infiltrated by a sleeper agent. A few years back, an agent named Bill started
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This Week’s Crazy Building: The Buried Robot

Photo by Volkov Vitaly is used under CC BY 1.0 / Cropped and enhanced from original
The House of Soviets or “Buried Robot” as it is referred to by locals was built on the former site of Königsberg Castle and some believe it contains buried treasure! Located in Kaliningrad, an exclave of Russia, Königsberg Castle originated around 1257. Between 1700 – 1900 the castle was vastly enlarged and reconstructed. Encyclopedia Britannica
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Bierpinsel

B-Steglitz Okt12 Bierpinsel by A.Savin is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
Located in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin, Germany, the Bierpinsel or “beer brush” got its name due to the fact that it resembles a shaving brush and that beer was sold in its restaurants. Original Concept Its original name was Turmrestaurant Steglitz or Tower Restaurant Steglitz. Architects Ursula and Ralph Schuler conceptualized it as a
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Have You Received An “I Want to Buy Your Home Letter”?

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   If you are a homeowner in San Diego, you probably get a letter in the mail every few weeks from someone who wants to buy your home. Sometimes it’s an individual,
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