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HIKING THE BLUE TRAILBlue is the color for this month’s hike in the Del Monte Forest. This hike will take you from the Equestrian Center, along Spyglass golf course, up to and beside Forest Lake, along the crest of Poppy Hills, and back down to Stevenson Drive and the Equestrian Center. I found i...

PEBBLE BEACH TRAIL HIKESChoose your color and go for a hike. Blue, Green, and Red. Hiking in the Del Monte Forest is as easy as putting on your shoes, grabbing a water bottle and picking a color. There are over 26 miles of trails in the Del Monte Forest available to explore on foot or horseback. ...

As we all know, our credit score is an important part of our financial life that can affect our ability to buy a car or a house.  It really does play a huge role in our financial life whether we like it or not.  While we have all heard about a credit score, not everyone really understands what it...

If you are thinking about buying a house in Monterey County, we highly recommend you meet Patrick Ryan at Sotheby’s Realty. Patrick made our crazy dream of owning a home in Pebble Beach a reality.To get a feel for the area we started our home search by attending a lot of open houses in the areas ...

A decision many sellers have to deal with when putting their home on the market is whether to stage the home or not. If the seller is still living in the home, then it may be just repurposing the furniture and reducing the accumulated clutter of living in the home. This can be done by the home ow...

GREEN TRAIL PART TWO So we pick up where we left off last month, on Congress Road, ready to walk the rest of the Green Trail.  The second part is about as long as the first, maybe longer, but it is relatively flat and much of the hike is along the ocean.  I was by myself this time as school has s...

  GREEN TRAIL PART ONE Let’s just say that the green trail is long.  Long enough that it is going to be broken down into two separate articles.   I was able to hike half of the trail with the trusty help of my sons Flynn and Declan.  We started at the equestrian center and followed the trail to D...

2nd Quarter Numbers in Pacific Grove, Ca The second quarter numbers are now in for Pacific Grove, so let’s take a peak and see what they tell us.  The number of new listings in Q2 was 74 compared to 43 new listings in Q1 of 2015.  There were 35 closed transactions in Q1 and 51 closed transactions...