Prior to his retirement in 2021, Wunderlich served on a number of local non-profits and boards. He spent the past decade as a legislative advocate for the housing and real estate industries as well as a coalition of local Chambers of Commerce advocating on behalf of small and local businesses.
For the past few months Lisa and I have been sitting down after dinner to study Italian. We’ve got one of those online courses and so for about 45 minutes to an hour, we parli Italiano. Why, you might ask? Well, because this fall we’re going to Italy for awhile and we thought it would […]
First off, let me just say it’s good to be back on these pages after a couple years away. I’ve written for this paper for a lot of years and one subject that has been a frequent topic over the years is the issue of FRAUD. Fraud, from long years of fighting a variety of […]
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal stated – “The House Party May Be Winding Down”. Their concern? That rising interest rates coupled with continuing double digit price appreciation could stall a housing market that has been charging at a bullish rate for the past decade, long exceeding previous run-ups. In fact-mortgage interest rates, […]
There’s an old saying “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you”. As I peruse articles in the Wall Street Journal, I am frequently reminded why we are fortunate to live in our little corner of the world. Recent headlines include ‘Murder in Several Cities Set Records’, ‘A Sanctuary City for […]
Barring any further legal, illegal, or extra-legal extensions, the moratoriums on eviction of non-paying renters have expired – California’s on September 30, the CDC on October 3rd. The CDC extension was actually struck down by the Supreme Court back in August when it agreed with plaintiffs that the federal agency did not have the power […]
As Judge Gideon J. Tucker famously opined, “No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the Legislature is in session.” For Californians, a brief respite in the assault on our lives and businesses was called on September 10th. Ahhh, the end of another California Legislative session. All told there were 2,776 measures brought before […]
Chances are you know somebody who has moved out of California recently. Maybe more than one. Probably several. Without giving it much thought, I can name more than a dozen friends in the past year alone who have headed to Tennessee, Florida, Texas, Arizona, Idaho, Colorado and other destinations. And the beat goes on with […]
Well, here we go again. Long-time readers will recall my rants over the past decade as Realtors fought against the so-called WOTUS rule, the Waters of the United States. This was an Obama era expansion of the 1972 Clean Water Act that sought to redefine what constituted a ‘navigable waterway’ to include not only bodies […]
In 1986 California voters overwhelmingly voted to pass Proposition 58. This amendment to the California constitution excluded from reassessment property transfers between parents and children. What that meant was that a parent could provide their home to pass to their children without taxing the children out of the home by continuing the Prop 13 tax […]
So last month we talked about the critical shortage of housing in California, particularly affordable/workforce housing, which is contributing to the significant ramp up in year-over-year prices for existing home. We also explored the escalating cost of new home construction predicated on lumber prices and shortage, at least partially a self-inflicted wound in California’s case. […]
