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

Downsizing on the Monterey Peninsula

There is a particular quality to the silence in a house that has been fully lived in. The rooms that held homework and arguments and Sunday mornings. The kitchen that has seen thirty years of ordinary meals. The garden that someone tended through every season. When the conversation about moving fina