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Buying Your First Home? Plan for These Hidden Costs
Great news! You just found the perfect home in the ideal neighborhood. However, if you’re a first-time home buyer, you need to prepare for additional—and often unexpected—home-buying costs. Here, Zill...
The Ins and Outs of Home Buyer & Seller Contingencies
If you’re thinking about buying a home, then you’ve likely heard of contingencies—the clauses in a real estate contract that stipulate conditions for the buyer and seller to agree upon for a sale to b...
Ready to Stop Renting and Start Owning a Home?
If you’ve been renting for a while and now think you’re ready to take the big step and move into a home you can call your own, you’ll want to make sure you’re prepared. Bottom line: Owning a home is a...
What’s the Best Day to Put Your Home on the Market?
When it comes to listing a home, sellers don’t want to leave anything to chance, including what day they put their home on the market. Toward that end, Redfin analyzed a sample of 100,000 homes that s...
Hollywood Riviera Sportsman’s Club a Local Tradition
Calling all male residents of the Riviera looking for a chance to give back to the community and have a great time doing it: join the Hollywood Riviera Sportsman’s Club. Established in 1949 by a...
Old House Versus New House: Which Is Better to Buy?
If you’re shopping for a place to live, this may be one of your primary decisions. Is it better to buy brand-new? Or do homes, like wine, get better with time? It turns out there is no one-size-fits-a...
14 Factors That Can Stall the Mortgage Closing Process
You’ve found your dream home and your purchase offer has been accepted. Now you have to get through one more step before you move in: mortgage closing. The time it takes to close on a home will vary f...
13 Smart Ways to Sell Your Home as Fast as Possible
Thinking about selling your home? Here, Reader’s Digest offers 13 smart ways to sell your home faster! 1. Sell at the right time If you have been debating whether or not to sell your home, spring it t...
How to Make Your Home Appear Warmer—and Less Sterile—to Potential Homebuyers
Arranging furnishings and decor in a house so buyers can envision living there can be an important tool for home sellers. In fact, studies show that staged homes sell 88 percent faster and for 20 perc...
Focus on Fascinating Riviera Retailer: Soil
The space may be small, but the unique gift ideas are overflowing at Soil, a centrally located kiosk in the heart of the Riviera Village. Once an information booth, the kiosk sat empty for many years ...
How to Get a Higher Price During a Sellers’ Market
Do certain amenities attract buyers to pay a premium for a home? According to Zillow—which analyzed 3.6 million home sales between 2016 and 2017 to see how listing keywords associated with different f...
Which Offer Should You Choose When Selling Your House?
If you’re selling your home, you might receive multiple offers from prospective buyers. So, the smart move is to pick the highest one, right? Not always. Price is one of many considerations when decid...
How to Navigate the House-Hunting Process from Long Distance
Searching for a house locally is not without its difficulties. Add hundreds or even thousands of miles to the equation, and it becomes infinitely more complicated. Although long-distance house hunting...
How to Determine How Big of a Home You Truly Need
When it comes to homes, bigger isn’t always better. For one, bigger homes obviously cost more, and oversized houses also can be more difficult to sell. As such, you’ll want a home that’s neither too b...
How to Know When It’s Time to Sell
Did you know that there is a best time to sell a house? The month—and even the day—you list your home can make a big difference. In real estate, timing is everything, and if you’re able to take your t...
Community Event Saves Lives
16th Annual Torrance Relay for Life April 21-22 at South High The statistics remain grim – cancer is the second most common cause of death in the U.S., exceeded only by heart disease. According to the...
Six Surprising Ways Home Staging Could Sabotage Your Sale
Home staging can be great when it comes to helping prospective buyers imagine themselves in your space. On the other spectrum, staging also can go wrong. Here, Realtor.com points out some mistakes tha...
Is Now the Time to Seek Out an Adjustable-Rate Mortgage Loan?
Since 2009, annual mortgage rates have been below 5 percent, and demand for adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) has been in the single digits. Ellie Mae reports that ARMs comprised just 5.6 percent of th...
Five Reasons Why Buying a House Is a Much Bigger Commitment Than Marriage
Some couples might not be ready for marriage, but they are happy to join together in buying a house. Here, Realtor.com discusses why purchasing a home is much more of a commitment than walking down th...
Five Sure-Fire Ways to Get Acquainted with Your New Neighborhood
1. Make the first move It can be intimidating to approach a new next-door neighbor and introduce yourself. However, your new neighbors might be equally hesitant to disturb your family, especially if y...