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Leasing in fashion among wealthy
He and partner Mary Swanson received 10 to 15 calls a day for two months on a five-bedroom house in the Sunset Strip area priced at $3.5 million for sale or $10,000 a month to rent. After initially holding out for a sale, the owner recently accepted a shortterm lease.

Real Estate Matters
Each of these deeds may carry with it certain representations and warranties a seller makes to the buyer. In any given state, one type of deed may be more common than another, but the essence of the document is to transfer the interest of the current owner to the new owner.

A Bird’s Eye View
By that I mean that when purchasing a resale home you need to expect that the home may need repairs and not be so shocked at a list of things that were in need of minor fix-its after an inspection. Most resale homes need some minor repairs. That’s a given.

LEASING
He recently signed up a twoyear tenant for his 4,400-squarefoot home in Encino with the help of Rodeo Realty agent Carol Wolfe, who also represented the renter. His family grown, Borsakian no longer needs a house of that size..

Ask The Builder
Many masonry fireplaces are constructed much like the way cars were built before the advent of unibody construction. Cars used to be built like trucks are today. There was a chassis or frame and the body skin of door panels, fenders, quarter panels, etc.

Selling, like buying a home, needs a plan
And just so you understand that I’m not the only one who believes that the economy is improving measurably, which means good news for both commercial and residential real estate, here is the opening paragraph of the most recent “Financial Page,” a regular column by James Surowiecki in The New Yorker magazine:.