
First-Time Buyer in the Bay Area: The 7 Things I Tell Every Client Before We Start
Every few weeks I sit across from someone buying their first home. They are smart, they have done their research, and they come into that first conversation carrying a specific kind of anxiety — not the fear of doing something wrong, exactly, but the fear of not knowing what they don't know. That fe
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