San Mateo downtown is pretty cute. It’s a real downtown even with some high rises. Prices on the bad side of El Camino have taken off. Schools kinda meh though and that drags down the price somewhat.
Alex charges 3.5% instead of the usual 2.5%. If two agents can list at the same price and can market the same way how does it justify paying him 1% more? These realtors are way overpaid.
Hmm, he is not willing to negotiate? I mean, isn’t 3% (assuming 6% both sides) considered pretty much full service, old school pricing already? If he is not willing to negotiate, I would go with someone else. I would interview Eileen or Tanya whom I have met at open houses in the Sunset (her listings or she was with buyers). If you do not recall, Tanya was fairly high up on your list for SF (has a long last name).
You didn’t tell him I had a program to defer the payment of capital gains for 30 years?
What a friend! JKY!
At our office, there’s a guy who knows lots of people in the valley. He helps old people to get rid of their properties, and since most don’t have relatives to leave any legacy, they give rat’s ass about them, they want to maximize their equity by deferring the payment of capital gains for 30 years, and with that saved money they buy a property cheap somewhere, they enjoy life to the maximum knowing that at the end they will be…deader than a sack of rocks and nobody to enjoy their leftovers but uncle Sam or if any relative, the ugly ones.
Must be an American thing. The city is so damn small, what is the purpose of a downtown? Nearby there are a few downtown e.g. PA, LA, SJ, SV and Campus, being to them, puny, might as well not be there. What I see in downtown is eateries and bars… hate bars, tends to attract drunken men… do you know what drunken men wants? Some downtown has faeces and needles
Downtown areas are trendy. They are pedestrian friendly. What’s the point of nice weather if you’re always inside or in your car? Driving everywhere and parking is a pain. Traffic in Cupertino is a nightmare, and the people there can’t drive.
I heard that guy Musk is going to explore Mars. Make sure you buy one of the lots he will be selling because downtowns are what they are, to attract people, some are drunks, some are looking for bam, bam.