Larry Weichman's Real Estate Blog

           Although the title of her article was “What Will You Do with Your Investment Property?” marketing writer Lynn Pineda’s piece came down to a dissection of a simpler binary choice. It took on the Costa Mesa real estate investor’s elemental decision: flip or rent? And rather than concentr...

         Traditionally, April is a dependable month when Costa Mesa home sellers can expect a lively market—and if first reports from across the nation are any indication, the evidence points to a spring selling season that fits the pattern. Just before mid-month, a review by Realtor.com’s Econom...

When respected observers like the editors of Barron’s are able to report that more than 10% of the country’s residential sales are now due to house-flipping, it’s a clear indication of the continuing strengthening in flipper activity. It’s now nearly back to 2006 levels.By definition, house-flipp...

          If your retirement planning includes transitioning to a new home, one of the first orders of business will be to settle on a reasonable budget for housing in retirement. The most reliable yardstick is thought to be a percentage of your income—but that’s not necessarily easy to pin down ...

 Once you’ve decided it’s time to sell your Costa Mesa house, you will have looked over the listings of neighboring properties and taken all the necessary steps to see that your own home stacks up well beside them. Before you go on the market, there’s one extra step that can make a sizeable diffe...

When you boil down what most people are looking for when it comes to choosing their Costa Mesa agent, it’s usually an outcome that can be summed up by a simple 4-word phrase, “best price, least hassle.” It’s no different whether you’re buying or selling.For Costa Mesa home sellers, the best price...

        If Costa Mesa homeowners search the web for anything like “surprising things that decrease your home’s value,” they will be answered with literally millions of links. Some of the “surprises” are anything but. "An Outdated Bathroom,” for instance, is hardly surprising. Likewise, “Brightly-...

          This spring’s Costa Mesa homes for sale will, as always, highlight the special features that make them stand out. Just which features those are for today’s buyers is what realtor.com calls “the billion-dollar real estate question.” Zeroing in on them is the goal of a number of “must-hav...

      Some new electronic gadgets have been gaining steam—some of which might be of interest to Costa Mesa homeowners who find the strain of maintaining constant vigilance over all areas of the property can take a toll.     For any homeowner who has ever dealt with an all-but-unnoticed plumbing d...

It could hardly be a greater occasion—the move into a new Costa Mesa house! Marking the moment in some unique way must be some sort of universal compulsion. It certainly stretches far beyond our shores (and back in time thousands of years). Some Costa Mesa new house owners mark the occasion by th...