Friends of the Parks

Yesterday in my Rotary Club meeting, we heard a speaker from the Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks give a talk. It was a great…

Home Staging on the Cheap

Yesterday, two of my favorite clients invited me to have lunch with them at Gayle's Bakery in Capitola. Just as a side comment - have…

Further Developments

A few months ago I made a posting about the Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks, and I mentioned that I had not yet been…

Scene of the Crime

This past Wednesday I went back to the house I've got in escrow, the one where we released our contingencies last weekend. I was there…

Buyer Buy-Down

A few posts ago, I wrote about Seller Rate Buy-Downs...many sellers are offering to "buy down" the interest rate that the buyer will pay on…

A Primer on Foreclosures in Santa Cruz

This is an article that I wrote which will appear in the Good Times Magazine here in Santa Cruz in a few weeks...I thought I…

NIMBY!

A couple of months ago, I mentioned how I had attended a meeting of the Zoning Administrator at Santa Cruz City Hall. In that entry,…

Weekend Update

I had a great weekend, so I thought I'd share a little bit about it with you folks. Very little of it was real estate…

Sales Plunge 30% in July

Did that headline get your attention? It sure got mine! Just a few days ago, I was telling some colleagues: "It's not that bad -…

Santa Cruz Architecture

Being a Realtor is really an interesting business. The thing that's most interesting about it is that it touches upon so many aspects of life!…