Peter Tamura's Blog

 We are almost finished with the final walk-through and we notice a slight gas smell in the garage. We call an HVAC technician and they investigate and tighten up a few loose connections, retest and the problem is resolved.Now, who pays? Surely, it's not the buyer, this was a safety issue and the...

Yes, Propy is a Crypto Project that is putting real estate transactions on the blockchain. It's up 18.5% today, 659% for the year, or more than the best performing stock in the SP 500 this year.This is not financial advice, I just want to lay out the prospects for why this may be a good idea, som...

On CoinMarketCap, it shows the global Crypto Market is up to 2.7 Trillion Dollars with the SEC approving 11 Bitcoin ETFs in early January. For context, the value of the amount of gold ever mined is a about 12 Trillion with about half in the form of jewellery and the other half in bars, coins and ...

Our local lender Amber said she was dealing with three transactions with this same issue last week. If you get solar panels today, they are quite expensive and often purchased and financed over twenty five or thirty years. The idea of using solar panels, harnessing the sun's energy to power your ...

Good morning! I got my e-Pro designation over twenty years ago, the certificate is dated Jan. 18th, 2004. If you ever got this designation, you can still log in, it's eProNAR.com. Being familiar with tech, AI and Social Media are probably more important than ever, the e-Pro course was updated two...

When you consider the path of real estate investing and why more people don't invest in real estate, one could probably divide the reasons into different categories. Number one, not knowing what to do, number two, knowing what to do and not doing it and three, starting and being derailed along th...

If you watch certain financial influencers, they will specifically say, "Don't buy a house" or "a house is not a good investment. These include Ramit Sethi, Morgan Housel, and Robert Kiyosaki who famously says, "A house is not an asset," despite owning according to him around 16,000 units. He als...

I was in Japan in March of 2023, in considering the plight of Millenials(27-42) and Gen Z(11-26)in the US, I noticed these differences between Japan and the US.1. If you live in the US, in most places you need a car. The average new car payment in the USis $733 (Kelley Blue Book 2022) Add to that...

Of course people ask this all the time, the answer depends on whether you own a home that is a scarce commodity, or whether it is a luxury item. I define a scarce commodity in this case as a house that I can sell within two months in a slow market. In Tulsa, I think anything under $500,000 in the...

Ethan and Brittany recently bought a home in Tulsa, Oklahoma for $160,000. They are the youngest home buyers I've ever worked with, the previous was a tennis pro Olivia who was 23 and Alex, a nurse, she was also 23. Ethan is 22 and Brittany is 19!The average age of a first time home buyer in the ...