Monthly Archives: September 2018

If you bought a Bay Area home in 2012, pat yourself on the back. You almost certainly doubled your investment, just by sleeping in your own bed. Home values across the country have stepped up since the aftermath of the … Continue reading →

Buying a home is getting more and more expensive, thanks to sharp increases in both prices and mortgage rates. That is juicing demand for apartment rentals and, in turn, pushing rents higher. Rents in the third quarter of this year … Continue reading →

On November 6, California will have a new governor. It will either be the Democratic candidate Gavin Newsom or his Republican contender, John Cox. Cox hasn’t spent too much time In the Bay Area, but today he was in San … Continue reading →

CLICK HERE if you are having trouble viewing these photos on a mobile device Autumn brings harvest festivities of all sorts, including pumpkin patches and corn mazes popping up in cities and towns across the Bay Area. ABC Tree Farms alone … Continue reading →

That’s when the idea was planted in Kaplan’s brain that living a peripatetic life on the road might be more fun than trying to squeak by, aging in some horrendously expensive conventional housing situation. That’s not an irrational fear, given … Continue reading →