• How will new real estate rules work? Your questions answered,Jeff Collins

    How will new real estate rules work? Your questions answered

    Starting on Aug. 13, most Southern California home shoppers will need to sign contracts with agents to view properties for sale, binding them to paying their own commissions if they can’t get a seller to cover it.And home sellers will be banned from advertising how much they’re willing to pay buyers

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  • What is the right board size for your HOA?,Kelly G. Richardson

    What is the right board size for your HOA?

    Q: We are a small HOA with about 60 units. Our bylaws call for a five-person board. We are having trouble getting residents to run for the board. Since we have about 30 active residents, what are the pros and cons of reducing the size of our board to three? This still represents 5 percent of our res

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  • Perry’s closes doors for good Monday, more than a week before annnounced stop date,Roxana Popescu

    Perry’s closes doors for good Monday, more than a week before annnounced stop date

    Perry’s Cafe, the venerated roadside diner on Pacific Highway, closed its doors for the last time on Monday, earlier than expected and ending its 39-year run.The closure comes more than a week before its previously announced end date of Aug. 15. In a text message, Perry’s owner, Perry Eulmi, said th

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