The ultimate resource for Los Angeles home sellers

Buyers price small defects like large ones — but that doesn't mean you should remodel. The goal is a house that reads as maintained, not a house that reads as recently renovated for resale.

If your property is inside City of Los Angeles limits, a Residential Property Report — everyone calls it the 9A — has to be ordered and delivered before your sale can record. It surprises first-time sellers constantly.

Buyers open every closet. Roughly a third of what you own should be gone before the photographer arrives — and most of it doesn't need to go in a dumpster.

Over ninety-five percent of buyers meet your house online first. The photos are the product, and the twenty-four hours before the shoot matter more than anything else you'll do that week.

Showings happen on short notice, often six or seven days a week for the first two weeks. With kids in the house, the goal isn't perfection — it's a repeatable twenty-minute reset.

A tenant-occupied sale in Los Angeles is a different transaction. Notice rules, relocation obligations, and whether a buyer can ever occupy the property all get decided before you list, not after.