Mortgage Rules You Should Break
In early 2022, mortgage rates were down around 2.5 percent. Today, they’re closer to 7.5 percent. On a…
Keep Your House Cool
As summers get hotter and hotter, it takes more energy to keep them cool. Here are some ways…
An Ounce of Prevention – Home Safety Edition …
This is part of my series on home safety, and it continues on last week’s theme of protecting…
An Ounce of Prevention – Home Safety Edition …
This is part of my series on home safety, this time focusing on kids.Little kids explore and get…
An Ounce of Prevention – Home Safety Edition …
There’s no way to be perfectly safe unless we live in a bubble. However, there are plenty of…
An Ounce of Prevention – Home Safety Edition
Every day, hospital emergency departments are full of patients who didn’t expect to be there. Life has a…
Homeowners’ Insurance Falls Victim to Regulation
Like most people, I don’t like paying high insurance premiums, but I do like being protected against catastrophic…
New Safety Law for Balconies
In June of 2015, a dozen or so UC Berkeley students were celebrating a friend’s twenty-first birthday out…
How to Hire for Home Repairs
Are you considering a home remodel or building a new house? Here are some questions you should ask…
Housing Affordability – Is Now the Time to …
Every quarter, the California Association of Realtors publishes an update to the Housing Affordability Index, a measure of…
A Scam You Don’t Really Need to Worry …
Recently, a Ukiah homeowner reached out to me, concerned about a letter he received offering insurance to protect…
Updating Your Homeowners’ Insurance Policy
When you purchase a home, lenders almost always require you to acquire homeowners’ insurance. What they don’t tell…