Featured Inspiration Saturday: Fear
Featured No Surprise Here! The National Association of Realtors (NAR) conducted an annual survey to create a profile of home buyers and sellers. It helps define the trends of the past year and look forward to those of the next. I want to share some of their key findings: Homes typically sold at a record pace of one week […]
Featured Inspiration Saturday: Heart
Featured Mt. Diablo’s 100th Birthday! Did you know 2021 is Mt. Diablo’s 100th birthday? In 1921, it was just a few hundred acres of land you could reach by private toll round. Now, in 2021, it has grown into the 20,000-acre park we all get to enjoy today! For thousands of years, the caretakers of the land were Native Americans […]
Featured Remember To Turn Your Clocks Back! Daylight Savings Time is ending tonight at 2 a.m.! Make sure you’ve turned all your clocks back to get that extra hour of morning light this winter!
Featured Rates Have Never Been This High!* *since 2021… My friend Jay Vorhees at JVM Lending recently wrote about this, and I wanted to share a couple graphs he included in the blog to give context to the “rising” interest rates. As Jay mentions in his blog, there is perspective to be considered when discussing the rising interest rates. They HAVE risen […]
Featured Happy Halloween! Have a safe and fun Halloween!
Featured Pumpkin Hacks & Tips! It’s that time of year! Halloween is just around the corner and you want to carve the most epic pumpkin of your life. Well, lucky for you, I’ve found a few great tips and even a pumpkin hacks video. First, tips on how to make your pumpkin last longer: Before you start, let your pumpkin […]
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Featured Inspiration Saturday: Live
Featured Another Buyer Closing! I recently represented a buyer for a home in the Antioch area. It was a 4-bedroom fixer listed at $575,000, but my client got it for $540,000. The picture below shows what the house looked like when my client put the offer in. He has since landscaped the front. This was a trust sale, and […]
Featured Inspiration Saturday: Courage
Featured Understanding California SB9 I received an email from Chicago Title recently about California Senate Bill #9 (SB9), which was signed into law in mid-September and takes effect on the first day of 2022. The language of the bill means that up to four homes on parcels where one currently exists may be allowed (by allowing current single-family homes […]
Featured Inspiration Saturday: Remember
Featured A Must Try…Dumpling Hours! Dumpling Hours is the newest (and apparently, the can’t-miss!) location in downtown Walnut Creek for dumplings. They opened back in mid-August and are always packed. Even when I drove by on a weekday at 11:30 a.m., there were already people eating outside! No longer do you have to go all the way to San Francisco […]
Featured Inspiration Saturday: Possible
Uncategorized Hikes with a bar at the end John Solaegui, a realtor in San Francisco (ironically, I went to high school with his sister!), shared a blog about five Bay Area hikes that end with a reward – in this case, a drink! I know we typically talk about actual roadtrips here, but hiking is just as much a way of life in the Bay […]