The buyer's playbook
Your Path Home
A confident, plain-English guide to buying a home in the Bay Area, from first conversation to keys in hand. Fifteen steps, five phases, one page each.
The buyer’s playbook I hand to every first-time client. It is the whole transaction in one document: every form you’ll sign, every report you’ll read, every deadline you need to hit, and the questions to ask yourself at each step.
What’s inside
- The 15-step roadmap, from your first sit-down to the morning you get your keys.
- A plain-English BRBC walkthrough so the buyer-rep agreement is no surprise.
- What to look at on a tour versus what’s safe to ignore.
- The core California disclosure forms (TDS, SPQ, NHD, AVID) translated.
- Contingencies, EMD, and wire-fraud safety — the parts that protect you.
- The three rules I hold every transaction to.
Who it’s for
If you have never bought a home in California, start here. If you have bought a home before but it has been more than five years, the rules have changed and this will catch you up.
How to use it
Read it once cover-to-cover. Don’t fill in the questions yet — just get the shape of the process in your head. Then we sit down for forty-five minutes and walk through what matters for you.