— Portrait · Riverside, 2026
Licensed
California · Licensed
Office
Riverside, CA
Broker, licensed in California since 2017.
Owner of Knoblach Realty, Inc. (CA DRE 02180999).
Jonathan Knoblach has been licensed in California since August 2017 and has worked in Riverside County the whole time. He upgraded from salesperson to broker in December 2021 and stood up his own corporation, Knoblach Realty, Inc., the following January.
The path was ordinary and then it was not. He started at Century 21 Masters and later Century 21 Home, learning the mechanics of a Riverside transaction inside a franchise before deciding to run one himself. The bar to sit for the California broker exam is two years of full time salesperson experience plus college coursework, so getting that license was an active choice rather than a rename. Incorporating a solo brokerage after that was a further choice: fewer layers between him and a client, and full responsibility for every file.
What clients get from that structure is direct. He is CEO, CFO, secretary, director and agent for service of process on the corporation, which is a formal way of saying there is nobody upstairs to escalate to and nobody downstairs to hand you off to. The person who returns your call at nine at night is the person who reads your contract at nine the next morning.
The practice covers Riverside County and Orange County, and then gets specific. In Riverside, the neighborhoods he names are Orangecrest and Canyon Crest inside the city, Hawarden Hills near the older Gage Canal estates, and Woodcrest just outside the city limits in unincorporated county. In Orange County, they are Irvine and Rancho Mission Viejo. Two of the Riverside four take a Riverside city label but sit in different jurisdictions or on split school district boundaries, which is a genuine local complication and is the reason he checks assignment by address rather than by neighborhood name.
California adds its own weight to a real estate transaction. Sellers here must deliver a Transfer Disclosure Statement under Civil Code section 1102, which is the opposite starting position from a caveat emptor state, and a buyer has 17 default days under the C.A.R. contract to inspect and either approve or cancel. Those two facts, more than any market number, are what he wants a first time California buyer to hear on the first call.
JK · Knoblach Realty, Inc.
Unlike many states, California puts a duty on the seller. Under Civil Code section 1102, sellers of one to four residential units have to fill out and deliver a Transfer Disclosure Statement telling you what they actually know about the property. An 'as is' clause does not erase that duty. What you owe yourself is the inspection and the questions to go with it.
The C.A.R. Residential Purchase Agreement gives you 17 default days for investigation and inspection. That deadline does not run out on its own; you either sign a Contingency Removal or the seller can start pushing you toward a decision. Knowing which deadline moves and which one does not is most of the value of a broker in the first two weeks of a deal.
I am the broker, the corporation and the officer of record. There is no team lead to escalate to and no assistant to hand you off to. That means the person who reads your contract is the person who wrote it, and the person who returns your call at nine at night is the person who signs the disclosure package the next morning.
Two of the four Riverside neighborhoods I work sit in situations that surprise buyers. Woodcrest is unincorporated Riverside County, not the city of Riverside, and its school district boundary runs through the middle of the CDP. Confirm what jurisdiction and district actually apply to the address before you assume the mailing city tells you.