Resources
Take a guide home. Read at your pace.
Every guide on this page is something I'd hand to a friend. No email gate, no upsell. And the tools below the guides are the same: real math you can run yourself.
Downsizing and Proposition 19
A plain-language guide for long-time Bay Area homeowners weighing the move to a smaller home: taking your property tax base with you, the capital gains exclusion, and how to sequence selling and buying.
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Your Path to Sold
A confident, plain-language guide to selling a home in the Bay Area, from first conversation to keys handed over. Fifteen steps, seven phases, one page each.
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Your Path Home
A confident, plain-language guide to buying a home in the Bay Area, from first conversation to keys in hand. Fifteen steps, five phases, one page each.
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Tools
Work it out interactively.
Guides teach the process. These let you run your own numbers and rank your own homes. The calculator and the Showdown demo are open to everyone; real home lists travel by personal link, so the data on your screen is yours alone.
Rent vs. Own Calculator
The question every Bay Area renter asks, answered with honest math: how many years until an owner's net worth passes a renter who invests the difference? Drag the sliders and watch the crossover move.
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Net Proceeds Calculator
What will you actually walk away with? Sale price to net check, with your city's real transfer taxes (Measure E included), every selling cost, and the capital gains picture after the home-sale exclusion.
See your number
Investment Property Calculator
Will this rental pay? Cash flow, cap rate, cash-on-cash, and total profit if sold, modeled over 40 years with vacancy, management, HOA, and maintenance included. Around here the honest answer starts negative, and this shows you exactly where it turns.
Run a property
Home Showdown
Turn a pile of listings into a ranked shortlist you believe. Keep or cut each home, settle the survivors head to head, and end with an order that reflects what you actually want, not what you said you wanted.
Try it with sample homes
Property Compare
The homes I send you, side by side: one row per attribute, your ratings saved as you go, readable on a phone. The conversation about which home wins gets a lot shorter.
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When you're ready