How Investors Buy Real Estate

Have you ever wondered how real estate investors continue to generate great income in just about any market conditions. What are they doing that you’re not? We look at the same properties right? Wrong! With a few exceptions here and there, real estate investors who purchsase properties with the intent of improving them for resale […]

The Renter: A Short Sale’s Biggest Gamble

A short sale, the sale of a property in which the amount owed exceeds it’s current value is common place in the real estate market ever since home values began declining in the late 2000s. Short sales are performed by thousands of sellers everyday as they attempt to avoid foreclosure and get out from under an unbearable mortgage which […]

Buying a Home: How Much Money Do I Need?

When buying a home, we can all get cought up in the excitement of searching for that elusive property we will soon be calling home. Open houses, scheduled showings and even new home tours which present us with so many options, opportunities and dreams of what homeownership will be like without having a full understanding […]

Never Had We Had Such A Pleasurable Experience

Dear Daniel, We would like to formally thank you for all the time and effort (not to mention patience) that you had with us during our first home experience. Buying a house is a big deal, and it can easily convert from being an exciting life changing fun experience to a nightmare & overwhelming burden. […]

Never Thought I’d Be Able To Buy A Home

I never thought I’d be able to buy a home, but once I found the right realtor, it became a reality. Daniel Di Matteo was friendly, knowledgeable and patient. I had no idea what I was doing and didn’t know who I could trust to find me a house. Daniel was very helpful in guiding me through this […]

Had A Realtor Who Fell Short

Being a first time buyer I thought finding the right home for me would be stressful and time consuming but Realtor Daniel Di Matteo made the process virtually painless. For almost a year I had used another Realtor and was completely unsatisfied with the service. Daniel on the other hand provided excellent and professional service. […]

Cynics Don’t Ask Why

Is it just me, or is every report on the economy and housing extra negative lately? The truth is, the real estate market has been catching much flack lately for it’s “poor” signs of recovery since last year, and rightly so. Looking at California Stats for May of 2011 vs last year we see a 14.4% […]

Smooth Stress-Free Home-Buying Experience

I am writing to express my pleasure with real estate agent Daniel Di Matteo, who represented me in our recent purchase of a single-family home. Daniel Di Matteo guided me through the entire process, from loan pre-qualification to searching for houses to making the offer and closing the deal. I credit Daniel with a smooth, […]

3 Real Estate Topics You Might Have Missed

This week turned out to be all about Short Sales in one way or another. With most of the inventory on the market being short sales it’s easy to see why much news is made about them. A short sale is the process in which a homeowner sells his/her property for less than what is […]

Your Dream Home Is In your Dreams

Most buyers have a tendency to expect to find the house of their dreams, regrdless of the budget they are working with. Sure, the larger the means, the most likely you are to land the ideal home but for most, this approach tends to lead to much dissappointment for the buyers as well as the […]