I did not plan to run a brokerage. I got my California salesperson license in 2017 at Century 21 Masters, moved to Century 21 Home, learned how a Riverside transaction actually flows inside a franchise, and only then decided the layers were in my way rather than helping. In December 2021 I sat for and passed the broker exam. In January 2022 I incorporated Knoblach Realty, Inc. and I have been the broker of record for my own firm since.
What that structure gets a client is simple. I am the corporation. I read your disclosures, I write your contract, I draft your counter, and I pick up the phone when it rings. If something goes wrong, there is no team lead to escalate to and no transaction coordinator to blame. The trade off is that I do not sell every corner of Riverside County; I stick to the neighborhoods I actually know at a street level so that when you ask me what the difference is between two houses a block apart I can answer that from memory rather than from Redfin.
The California side of the transaction is where most of my work sits. Alabama and Texas buyers regularly assume the seller will hand them nothing; California actually requires a Transfer Disclosure Statement under Civil Code 1102, and the C.A.R. contract's investigation and inspection default runs 17 days from acceptance. Those two clocks and the way they interact are the difference between a smooth close and a scramble on day fifteen. I front load them into the first conversation rather than the first crisis.
The concrete version, if you are new to buying here: California is a disclosure state, not a caveat emptor state. Sellers of one to four residential units have to fill out and deliver the TDS. Your inspection period runs by default under paragraph 14 of the C.A.R. RPA. Your broker representation agreement, since California AB 2992 took effect January 1, 2025, has to be signed before I write an offer for you. Those are the four dates and four documents that carry a Riverside deal.
“The person who reads your contract is the person who wrote it.”
