Mostly Real Estate

Linda K. Mayer, a Realtor from Southern California, wrote this blog two months ago but I just discovered it. It is very good advice! If you are in the midst of buying a house, be careful not to do anything to screw-up your credit score, mess up your debt to income ratio or cause any questions abo...

The market report for Fremont, Ca. as of 11-30-12 is going to sound a lot like the market report for the previous period. Inventory continues to be scarce. Hard to believe but inventory right now is even lower than it was a month ago.                     When you hear news reports that the number...

You have better move fast if you want to have an opportunity to buy the house at 450 Mitchell Ave., San Leandro. It has not been on the market for a full week but it is drawing lots of attention.                                 The house is available to be seen now. Call your Realtor or get in to...

The newest Medford Team listing is 738 Hazel St., Livermore, Ca.                                          It is a short sale with 3 bedrooms and 3 baths in 1,530 sq. ft. on a 7,072 sq. ft. lot. The home includes a pool but that is not the most unique feature of this home. It has a full basement. ...

Each year for the last five years we have celebrated the Holiday Season by taking a trip on the Train of Lights. It is not a long trip – only 13 miles round trip from Niles to Sunol – or the other way around – but the distance is not the point. The point is enjoying the hour spent on the train wi...

Bay Area home prices continued moving up in the month of October as a result of strong sales and low inventory.  As can be seen from the chart below reproduced from the San Jose Mercury, sales in the counties south and east of San Francisco are up dramatically from a year ago. In the face of stro...

Once again, the League of Volunteers is serving Thanksgiving Dinner at the Newark Pavilion for those who might otherwise be spending the day alone or simply do not have the resources to enjoy the bounty that so many of us take for granted on this day of gustatory overindulgence. LOV – League of V...

Turkeys are taking over California! What? No! This is not a political statement nor is it a comment about freeway drivers. It is about…TURKEYS. You know, the kind with feathers…the kind Benjamin Franklin proposed should be the National Bird. Wild Turkeys!   I wrote a post last year that featured ...

John McCormack, an Albuquerque Realtor and one of my favorite Active Rain contributors wrote a blog in which he advised a buyer to buy conservatively. Good advice, John, but…   Buying the most house that a buyer can afford is a viable strategy that has to be weighed against buying the house that ...

Last year I posted a blog on Thanksgiving Day that featured a wild turkey that landed in my neighbor’s yard in Newark, Ca. This year, I am looking forward to eating our turkey dinner which is being prepared by my wife with the aid of our daughters. (It is sure good to be married to someone who lo...