How to Help Aging Parents Navigate a Home Sale on the Monterey Peninsula, Part 1

Your parent has agreed the time has come to sell. You have stepped in to help manage the process, which means coordinating professionals, making decisions about a property from a distance, and doing all of it while your parent watches from a position of diminishing control over a home they have live

When You Want to Move and Your Partner Doesn't

One of you is ready. The other is not. You’ve stated your case more than once. The house is too large. The maintenance has become a burden. The financial logic seems undeniable. And yet the conversation keeps arriving at the same unresolved place. This is one of the most common situations The Ruiz G

The Estate Planning Conversation Every Homeowner Should Have Before They List

She had been calculating the number for years. A Monterey Peninsula homeowner, widowed several years earlier, had been preparing to sell the home she and her husband had purchased together in the late 1980s. She knew roughly what it was worth. She knew roughly what they had paid for it. The differen