My listing at 515 Ocean Avenue, Residence 307S, and the case for trading square footage for a doorman, a park and the Pacific out the front door.
Read MoreThe places on San Vicente and Montana we go back to, split into the two categories that matter in our house: everyone comes, or the babysitter is booked.
Read MoreSunset, Bundy, San Vicente and the 405 each have a personality, and each one decides what your mornings look like. What I have learned driving all four with kids in the car.
Read MoreForty-six closed sales, twenty-six of them as the listing agent, taught me one method. Three comps from the right pocket, four adjustments, and a first-ten-days rule I do not break.
Read MoreBefore the inspection, before the offer, before anyone falls in love. The six questions I ask about every Westside property, and why each one has cost somebody money.
Read MoreListings use micro-neighborhood names like everyone already knows them. Here is a plain-language map of the Westside pockets I work in, and what each one tends to look like on the ground.
Read MoreChicken in a basket, a bookstore, a post office and ice cream, all around one courtyard at 26th and San Vicente. This is how we run errands here with kids.
Read MoreOne coffee company, three locations, and a whole system for which one gets used when. Plus the new spots on San Vicente I am still working through.
Read MoreEvery Sunday since we moved back. Here is how we get through the market on Gretna Green in under an hour, with everyone still speaking to each other.
Read MoreI grew up here, left for the other side of town, and came back with three kids. What Hancock Park taught me, and what I tell clients deciding between the two.
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