Adding a Fireplace? The California Building Code Wants to Talk to You After a summer that had its fair share of scorching moments, we’re deep into fireplace season here in California. True, we don’t have to ignite the ol’ fireplace too often here in the southern part of the state. But when we do, nothing can quite match that cozy feeling. Perhaps you’re shopping f...

• calendar_month December 4, 2022
• category home decor, real estate
• post Beverly hills, california, Glendale, lake arrowhead, los angeles, los angeles county

We love helping unite people with their first home. But in LA’s competitive housing market, not everyone is financially prepared for homeownership. Does that mean the door to real estate investment is closed to them? Not exactly. The city’s inventory of condominiums provides a means of securing your own place while avoiding the hefty investment of a freestanding home. But before you...

• calendar_month December 19, 2022
• category real estate
• post los angeles, real estate

Featured image credit: Edward Stojakovic Is now the right time for prospective buyers to purchase that luxury mansion they’ve been eyeing? Well, that depends. But if you’re in the market for Los Angeles luxury homes, you may be seeing a decent amount of them hitting the market in the coming weeks. That’s because Measure ULA, nicknamed the “mansion tax” ...

• calendar_month January 15, 2023
• category real estate
• post los angeles

It’s been over three years since the city of Los Angeles passed laws designed to regulate out-of-control listings by short term rental companies. Yet, a recent report highlights that, in light of a disturbing lack of enforcement, hosts are still bending the rules. Or, in many cases, outright breaking them. David Wachsmuth, an urban planning professor at McGill University, re...

• calendar_month January 22, 2023
• category real estate
• post los angeles

Maybe you just found your dream home. Or maybe you just realized that the living situation that’s worked for you in the past isn’t cutting it today. It’s all good until that dreaded moment when you seek home loan pre approval… only to get denied. Where can you go from here? Ten times out of ten, we’d tell you to talk with a compassionate real estate agent. You kno...

• calendar_month February 1, 2023
• category real estate

Some are calling it the kind of relief one expects from a functioning first world government. Others are calling it an overreach that ignores the real solution. But no matter how you slice it, the Biden administration announced on Wednesday, January 25 its intention to establish a fledgling “renters bill of rights.” What does this mean? A diverse battery of renters rights applied at...

• calendar_month February 2, 2023
• category real estate

Why Choose Haik Bokhchalian & Associates Is your listing stagnating on the market? Here are just a few ways I can freshen it up: We Understand Every Aspect of Real Estate Haik Bokhchalian and Associates have cultivated decades of combined experience bringing sterling service to clients just like you. Real estate is so much more than buying and selling homes and we treat the full ...

• calendar_month February 22, 2023
• category real estate
• post los angeles