I recently closed a transaction at The Metro in Playa Vista, representing the buyer. During our inspection period, we did a thorough investigation and notice...

Los Angeles, get ready to say goodbye to natural gas in your home. That $10,000, professional-grade, gas-shooting Viking stove you’ve been working so hard to...

In real estate, we hear about water rights, mineral rights, and the bundle of rights. But what about artistic rights? It’s not common for art to come up in r...

If retirement is on the horizon and you own your home in Los Angeles, this could very well be the best time to sell, downsize, and make the best out of retir...

Reality check: you don’t need to own your home to get many of the benefits real-estate ownership offers. You can buy a rental property—as opposed to a prima...

In Los Angeles, we think “suburbs,” and our minds go miles away to some planned development in Riverside or the Valley. But in 1886, the suburbs were just mi...

If you're a tenant or landlord in the city of Los Angeles, you definitely need to know what the RSO is. It is the law in the city of Los Angeles that control...

If your parent's are considering selling their house so they can retire, you should definitely consider buying it! There is a huge tax advantage in doing so ...

Too many people focus on property values going up and forget about these other benefits of investing in real estate. SUBSCRIBE BELOW FOR MORE REAL ESTATE CON...

Learn how to pay less taxes by investing in real estate and 1031 exchanging. 1031 references the IRS tax code that allows you to sell one investment property...

Every year, without knowing, buyers and sellers of real estate lose money due to not properly verifying permitted square footage. It’s not that they don’t lo...

It’s hazardous, toxic, and may affect property and the health of the people who occupy it—this is some of the verbiage regarding mold that real estate buyers...

Homeowner’s insurance—for many buyers, it’s just something they must get in order to fund their purchases. Many don’t even think about it until they’re about...

Death is bad enough, but not planning for it can make it worse for those you leave behind. The money in real estate you’ve left your loved ones can be lost i...

We hear tax savings and we think income taxes. But if this is your thinking and you’re a property owner, you’re missing out. And you’re not alone. Each year ...

The real estate market is hot. Some are talking about bubbles and crashes. Is it too late to invest in real estate? I sat with Craig O’Rourke in his office i...

Imagine a world where you can declare an expense, without coughing up any cash, where you can legally tell the tax man that your property is going down in va...