Dominic Tartaglia

  In September there were 23 homes put onto the market in San Luis Obispo. By home I am referring to a single family residence on a foundation with 2x4 framing, not a condo, PUD or mobile home. Some interesting numbers come in from these 23 homes including quite a skewed price difference, common ...

Lately, a lot of young professionals and first time home buyers have been asking me about what's going on with the real estate market and whether I think it's a good time to buy a home. My immediate response is that it depends on the situation that they're in. If they have the money for a down pa...

Lately there has been a lot happening in my life, most of which is good stuff. Friends getting married family recovering from illness buyers calling me and the infamous Indian Summer of San Luis Obispo finally arriving. That being said there are some other very big things happening in our beautif...

As a part of my ongoing efforts to bring you all current information from the San Luis Obispo, Calif. market I have the 7 most recent listings added to our MLS this week. With one of the 7 homes being a condo and two of the 6 remaining homes being listed at over $1.9 we have some interesting figu...

The other day I was doing some research on the City of San Luis Obispo's Parks and Recreation page and came across something that I hadn't heard of before. I was researching the upcoming "Box Art" project in Downtown SLO and saw a link for a Google map of public art in the City of San Luis Obispo...

As a local young professional myself I often find myself out at various Chamber of Commerce mixers, business meetings and board of directors meetings but recently I have been noticing that there is a huge population of young professionals in San Luis Obispo that are working hard to make a positi...

As a bit of useful information for the general public there were 12 new listings added to the current inventory of San Luis Obispo Single Family Residences (SFR) this week. These include 2 condos and 10 standard homes. The median home price of these twelve homes is $564,000. This doesn't mean tha...

A Little Bit of Background Many home owners live in homes that were built prior to 1978, fewer home owners know that there may be lead in their homes, fewer still are less than concerned with that fact and far fewer home owners know that the EPA has issued a rule that dictates who can do Renovati...

  City of San Luis Obispo leads the fight against tobacco Once again, the city of San Luis Obispo California is leading the way to combat the issue of smoking in public places. Back in 1990 the city voted to make it illegal to smoke at any indoor public venue within the city. That groundbreaking ...

FIRST, let me start out by saying that I have  quotes around the Realtor in the title because in my opinion the person I am talking about has no business calling themself a Realtor. To follow that statement I have seen many of us make mistakes in our business and I by no means am perfect. That be...