Talkin Real Estate

With fewer buyers able to afford a house in San Diego County, a shift in the housing market is starting to occur. While home prices are st...

Your children are grown and gone.   They call you an empty nester.  You are ready to downsize, move to smaller home.   Or perhaps, you'r...

Listing a property requires experience, skill and finesse. From the initial marketing to the final price negotiations, everything needs to...

Along with miles of natural coastline and sunshine for days, there are a number of street fairs, including the Santee Street Fair   on May...

Flooring..Decisions...Decisions... One of the hardest things to decide on was the flooring.  Wood flooring is definitely in and I love t...

Counter Top Choices After choosing the  color scheme , next comes the counter tops.  You will want to keep your color scheme in mind wh...

Color Scheme--Shades of Gray Now that we had decided on a contractor , the next decision was the color scheme. When a seller tells me ...

The Contractor After setting our budget,  I contacted Dave Magown (619)820-7732 whom I had met at our local Santee Chamber of Commerce sev...

Now that I knew it was time for a Kitchen Remodel, as established in Part 1 , the next step is to establish  a budget. Budget As a rea...

While I have always been a "fix-it" person and over the years had replaced several of the original kitchen parts in my Santee home...

Considering listing your home for sale, but wondering why use a Realtor when homes are selling so quickly? Why pay someone a lot of commissi...

September 2017 Santee California Home Prices are out from Corelogic.   53 detached resale houses sold with prices up +9.9% (median price $50...