Home sales see first monthly gain in 6 months

I'm drinking my coffee and seeing what's new in the world via my handy RSS Reader NetNewsWire , and I came across this interesting article…

Foreclosure News – from Santa Cruz and Beyond

And it is also better than getting woken up by the morning news, especially in these dark days. You may have heard this one on…

The smells of home cookin’

I was out looking at some property today, and I noticed that a sign had been posted on one of the doors in the area.…

Signs of the Apocalypse in Santa Cruz

I plan to write a book that's a cross between Catcher in the Rye and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance . ... Speaking…

From Santa Cruz to Mount Diablo and Back

I've hiked pretty much all over Santa Cruz county (it took me years to see it all, or most of it, anyway), so this time,…

Santa Cruz’s Pink Man Gone Missing

Imagine my dismay when I browsed over to the Santa Cruz Sentinel, and saw this front page news: [From Pacific Avenue staple seems to have…

Slow news day

A couple of days back, I don't know if you heard, but Santa Cruz Title is consolidating its operations , getting rid of two offices.…

Special Feature at Santa Cruz County Housing Expo: Me

One of the sessions in that track (I didn't break out the sessions) is "Opportunities in the Foreclosure Market." So yesterday, I'm sitting at my…

Advice for Santa Cruz Home Sellers in 2008

That's kind of the problem. There's a large school of thought that says one reason why home prices have not slid more than they have…

Stagflate your way to Greater Home Equity

So here I am, working on some reports about the properties I've got listed, and to cut down the monotony, I browse news web sites…