Gregg's Santa Cruz Real Estate Blog

Online Prescription Writing can save money and lives I was reading an article recently that spoke of the digital divide in a different way. It is sort of the older versus younger, but in a medical vein. While many see different sides to age and wisdom over youth and exuberance, there can be other...

Santa Cruz trademark “Surf City” lawsuit to end. A Santa Cruz businessman has been fighting to use the name “Surf City, USA” for the past several years. The moniker has been used for Santa Cruz for approximately a century. In keeping with laid back Santa Cruz’s demeanor, no one thought to tradema...

UCSC, Santa Cruz, California professor Jose Renau is to give a talk at the College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on February 11th.  The talk is on methods to reduce heat build up and efficiency of computer chips. By employing cameras and thermal imaging this work is ...

 Doctors and Penmanship.Seems that people are always in a rush these days, even here in laid back Santa Cruz, California. We have evolved to text messaging, short cryptic code words and symbols to shorten our communication. When we are in a hurry, aren't we always, we tend to write poorly. Penman...

Santa Cruz, California welcomes the minimum wage increase.  Living is Santa Cruz, California is easy and difficult. The lifestyle is easy, but the cost of living makes it difficult for the entry level worker. The California state law went into effect today, January 1,2008 to raise the minimum wa...

Santa Cruz County recycling of Christmas stuffChristmas can be a delightful time for all, even for the environment. Granted we drive around a lot which isn't, but at least we have fun wrapping and unwrapping gifts and being responsible.The deluge of boxes and paper can be recycled with some foret...

The Santa Cruz area has had an increase in it's population this past year of 1.16%. While this is not a huge amount, it is some what surprising as we have had increasing prices. Right now the values are a bit softer and we may see a net decrease as we had in California in the early 90's. To check...

This is the time of year we all seem stressed. It is the holidays and we are all supposed to feel ebullient and kind to all. One of the ways you can have more peace in your life it to take more control. To that end in a small way you can do a lot in that arena by controlling who calls you and sen...

Santa Cruz, California is once again in the news. Local charter school Pacific Collegiate School has been named the #2 high school in the nation. Second In The Nation. Pretty heady stuff for a small town school.  Pacific Collegiate School was named to the Top 100 High Schools in the nation list b...

Four of the larger lenders promise to help California borrowers avoid default. They will principally maintain the loan rates when the borrower got the loan and not at the reset rate for 5 years. Many of these borrowers had sub prime loans.  Our governor Schwarzenegger has been actively involved w...