Prop 19 Inherited Home Rules: A Guide for Heirs of Mid-Century Houses
When a long-held mid-century house passes to a child, Prop 19 decides whether the low tax base survives. The conditions, the value cap, filing deadlines and common heir situations.
Sell a House As Is in California: Original Mid-Century Homes
Selling as is changes what you repair, not what you disclose. The California rules that apply to 1950s and 1960s houses, and a simple way to sort fix, credit and leave.
Pricing an Architectural Home When the Comparables Don't Match
A method for pricing a mid-century or architect-designed home when comparable sales don't line up, built on Fannie Mae's appraisal rules, quality ratings and the reconsideration of value process.
Selling a House With Unpermitted Work in California
What California sellers must disclose about unpermitted work, how to choose between disclosing, legalizing or removing it, the state's path for unpermitted ADUs, and how lenders view it.
Staging a Mid-Century Modern Home: Scale, Sightlines and Restraint
How to stage a mid-century modern home around its floor plan: furniture scale, clear sightlines through glass, atrium and yard staging, and California's disclosure rule for altered photos.
Selling a Mid-Century Modern Home: What to Fix and What to Leave
Which repairs to handle before selling a mid-century modern home, which original features to keep, the gray zone in between, and the California disclosure items that shape the list.
Lead Paint Disclosure for Pre-1978 Homes, Plus Asbestos Testing
The federal lead paint disclosure steps for pre-1978 homes, how California's disclosure form treats hazards, where asbestos may be in a mid-century house, and renovation rules.
Section 1 and Section 2 Termite Reports on Post-and-Beam Homes
What Section 1, Section 2 and further inspection mean on a California pest report, where post-and-beam homes tend to show wood damage, and how buyers and sellers use the report.
Flat Roof Solar on Mid-Century Homes: Placement, Batteries, Billing
Getting a low-slope roof ready for solar, placing panels to suit the architecture, where batteries can go, how PG&E and Palo Alto solar billing work now, and what to ask in a sale.
Wildfire Home Hardening for Hillside Mid-Century Homes in California
Where California wildfire rules stand as of November 4, 2026, which mid-century features need a closer look, a hardening checklist that respects the design, and seller disclosures.