Welcome to John’s Real Estate Blog – Tips and Information for Buyers, Sellers & Investors
Beware Of Lowball Cash Offers
Lowball cash offers to buy homes or land at drastically below-market prices are weeds that can spread like crabgrass in otherwise healthy real estate markets. If you're planning to sell your home this spring - or sell a property as a trustee or executor of an estate -...
Aggressive Real Estate Broker Seeks Wine Country Sellers
Cordon Real Estate is seeking sellers of homes and land in the Napa, Sonoma and Solano County area of Wine Country who want their property sold at the best price and terms possible. We'll list and market your property creatively and negotiate the terms of sale...
Solano County Real Estate Services
Cordon Real Estate is an independent, full service brokerage providing real estate services in Solano County and the North Bay/Wine Country region. We specialize in unique homes and land, from luxury estates with personal vineyards to downtown condos within walking...
Real Estate Services For Telecommuting Employees
We provide real estate services that benefit a growing number of employees working from home. If telecommuting is giving you the freedom to buy a home in a neighborhood that better fits your financial and lifestyle needs and you are ready to make a move - we can help....
Five Strategies To Generate Vacant Land Income
Here are five simple strategies owners can implement to generate vacant land income. While vacant land isn't usually used to generate revenue, it certainly generates costs - such as property taxes, weed abatement, fire protection, security fencing and other expenses....
Timeless Romance – Doctor Zhivago
Today's addition to Silver Screen Selections, movie and TV recommendations to help you make it through stay-at-home, is a timeless romance story of love, war and personal struggle. Doctor Zhivago is a medical doctor in training in 1913 Moscow when he meets a young...
Find Your New Home Office In Affordable East Bay or North Bay/Wine Country
Working from a home office for the long term now? If you're finally free to enjoy suburban or country living without the burden of an expensive, time consuming commute - we can help! Whether you need an affordable cottage a short walk to downtown or a country estate...
New Silver Screen Selection – Focus On History
Today's additions to Silver Screen Selections, movie and TV recommendations to help you make it through stay-at-home, focus on history. The Last Kingdom (Netflix) is a series that loosely follows the life of a Saxon-born warrior captured as a child and raised by...
Tips For Selling A Single Family Rental Property
Thinking about selling your single family rental property? Maybe it's time to get out of the business or you're moving equity to a better investment. Here are five helpful tips for selling a single family rental. You may not be able to use every tip, depending on your...
Real Estate Contract Dates Explained
One of the most confusing features of a real estate purchase agreement are real estate contract dates. Specific dates are seldom identified, other than the date the offer is made and the date it is accepted. From there, dates are commonly specified as “days after” and...
Downtown Napa Homes For Sale
Walk along Main Street on a warm summer evening after dinner, stop for a drink on your way home and be there within ten minutes. Downtown Napa living offers all that and more in the heart of beautiful Napa Valley Wine Country. Here are current listings of downtown...
Man’s Favorite Sport? New Silver Screen Selection
Today's addition to Silver Screen Selections, movie and TV recommendations to help you make it through stay-at-home, is one of my all time favorite comedies "Man's Favorite Sport?" Rock Hudson plays a department store employee who literally wrote the book on fishing....