I've been sitting on this photo for about ten years so it's about time! The vice president and I have things in common. We were both born in Oakland and she got her start at the same place my grandfather did. Her law career began in 1990 at the Alameda County's...
It's my Mom's 90th birthday today!
Kayla and Frank were in town for the Yankees game so we went to visit our new brick.
There was another factor that weighed in on the story I told last week about throwing in commission to make a deal. The buyers were pregnant, and hoping to buy a home to which they could move in and get settled before having their babies. We closed escrow on April...
This is where we lived when I went to high school in Phoenix Arizona. My parents paid around $35,000 for it in 1972, and when they sold it in 1979 and moved back to California they got around $80,000 for it. The owners have done the obligatory update, but the house...
For the newer readers, Donna and I have two daughters. After Kayla graduated from the University of Oregon, she worked with us for five years and then moved to Manhattan where she's been a realtor there for the last six years. Natalie has always been a dancer, and she...
From all of us to all of you - Merry Christmas!
What is the best thing a consumer can do to prepare for the 2024 selling season? Get Good Help! To check an agent's qualifications, go to Zillow and click on the Agent Finder at the top of their page. Zillow wants you to use one of the agents they display prominently,...
We bike to see Richard's son's memorial bench and then tour Cap'n Keno's before it's too late. It sounds like it is closing at the end of the month.
It was 18 years ago today that I started writing this blog. It was a Saturday morning. I set up a free account at squarespace to get it started, and it was solely because I expected every other realtor to do a blog too. Funny how that turned out! Donna said, "Yeah...
