Uniquely Rooted in Mountain Real Estate
I earned my California real estate license in 1990, while I was still building, and I built and remodeled homes for twenty years.
I price the homes I represent with Sell Odds. It estimates a property's value from closed CRMLS sales and the probability of selling at different asking prices using actual sold and unsold listing outcomes.
Mountain Cribs is my own build: a data platform that publishes live market statistics for ten mountain communities (sale probability by price band, days on market, and months of supply), drawn from CRMLS data, with update dates shown on the market pages.
Lake Arrowhead has one variable the community pages can’t capture on their own. Lake rights aren’t a neighborhood feature. They’re a deeded asset, and they move pricing in ways that get lost in averages. The Lake Rights data page is the layer beneath: trailing twelve months of Arrowhead Woods sales, split by lake rights status, with the median premium, the days-on-market gap, and the sample size that produced both numbers.
I built it because buyers and sellers up here deserve real numbers, not adjectives.
Years of Experience.
What buyers and sellers ask about Greg Anderson
Who is Greg Anderson?
I'm a real estate agent who represents buyers and sellers in ten communities of the San Bernardino Mountains, from Crestline, where I live, to Big Bear Lake. My practice is Mountain Cribs. I publish a guide for each town I work, so the questions people ask there are answered in public, under my name, before anyone has to call.
Is Greg Anderson a licensed real estate agent?
Yes. My California real estate license is number 01071792, issued by the Department of Real Estate, and the state's public license lookup shows it, and the date it was issued, to anyone who checks.
What did Greg Anderson do before real estate became his full time work?
I started with a small homebuilder where one crew ran every trade from the dirt up, and I held a general contractor's license during my years of building and remodeling homes. Finish carpentry was the trade I went deepest on, running crews of eight and nine craftsmen on hand-cut joinery and period millwork. I also spent twenty five years in brand marketing and content production for film studios and television networks. In 2024 I reactivated my practice full time.
Which mountain communities does Greg Anderson serve?
All ten: Crestline, Twin Peaks, Blue Jay, Lake Arrowhead, Cedar Glen, Skyforest, Running Springs, Arrowbear Lake, Green Valley Lake and Big Bear Lake.
What kinds of mountain homes does Greg Anderson work with?
The full range the mountain built: Crestline cabins near Lake Gregory, lake rights homes inside Arrowhead Woods, Cedar Glen homes rebuilt after the Old Fire, Running Springs homes near Snow Valley, cabins at Green Valley Lake, and Big Bear Lake homes that buyers weigh partly on their rental income.
Why does a mountain home need a mountain specialist?
Because a mountain sale turns on records a sale down the hill never touches. A Lake Arrowhead address may or may not sit inside Arrowhead Woods, and boating access depends on membership in the Arrowhead Lake Association. A road may be maintained by the county, by a special district, by neighbors under an agreement, or under no agreement at all. Insurance can decide whether a buyer closes, and a county short term rental permit does not pass to the next owner. I confirm each one against its source before an offer, because a buyer who discovers them in escrow is how a mountain sale falls apart. The Lake Arrowhead guide and the winter roads guide take them in detail.
What does Greg Anderson see when he walks a mountain house?
What its first hard winter will find. Building and remodeling taught me to see how a house was put together and what was finished with care. That eye works for both sides of a deal. A buyer learns which inspections matter before writing an offer, and a seller hears what a buyer will notice while there is still time to prepare. When a question needs a specialist, I say so before anyone relies on my read. The seller's guide shows how I prepare a house for market.
What if a mountain home has a room addition that was never permitted?
It happens on a lot of houses up here, and it matters on both sides of the table. When I list a home, I check the house against the permit and assessor records before it goes on the market. The permits are the county's, or the city's inside the City of Big Bear Lake. That way the square footage we advertise is square footage we can defend, and anything added without a permit is disclosed and priced honestly from the start. Otherwise a buyer's agent finds it at the last minute and asks why it's being advertised. When I represent a buyer, I run the same search the other way. If living space the seller is advertising isn't permitted square footage, that is a fact we bring to the negotiation. Many agents walk through an addition without ever noticing it was added. I notice, because I used to build them.
How does Greg Anderson establish an asking price?
From evidence, never from a neighbor's opinion or the asking prices of homes still waiting for a buyer. I bring an appraiser's discipline to it: the most comparable recent sales, each measured against your house, then the listings that did not sell. Every agent can see those in the MLS. Most don't have the tools to do anything with them, which is why so many mountain homes go on the market too high and sit. I got tired of watching it happen, so I built Sell Odds to read them. What I hand a seller is a Probabilistic Marketing Analysis, a PMA, built from that evidence, with my judgment of the house on top of it. Under the Hood explains how the engine works.
How does Greg Anderson market a mountain home?
With the production discipline I practiced for Lucasfilm, Disney, ABC, AMC, Warner Bros. Discovery and other studios and networks: composition, lighting, the cut, the score and the voice, and I produce it myself. A mountain house sells on the feeling of arriving: the drive up through the pines, the light on the deck late in the afternoon, the quiet once the door closes. The story of the house is what brings the right buyer up the hill.
Does Greg Anderson work with buyers of mountain homes?
Yes. A buyer needs the lake, road and insurance questions answered before the offer, not after it, and an honest read of what the house will ask of its owner every winter. The buyer's guide covers what to ask before you buy.
How do I choose the right agent for a mountain home?
That question has its own guide: Choosing a Real Estate Agent in the San Bernardino Mountains. It covers when a local agent matters, what to ask before you list or buy, how to compare agents, and the red flags, and it is honest about when an agent from down the hill can do the job. Judge me by the same standard.
Which brokerage holds Greg Anderson's license?
KW Executive, Keller Williams Realty, DRE# 02003950. The office line is (626) 872-2207.
How do I reach Greg Anderson?
Call or text me at (310) 402-8430, email greg@mountaincribs.com, or use the contact page. The fastest useful first step for a seller is the Sell Odds read on the house; ask and I will run it.
