More about Santa Cruz and the 2008 Housing Bill
Here's a bit of a run-down on some of the acronyms used in my last post: A GSE is a Government Sponsored Enterprise - in…
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Marisa Miller, Santa Cruz Local, Back in the Press
Marisa graces the cover of Maxim Magazine's July 2008 issue . I had a subscription to Maxim magazine once upon a time - it was…
Changes to the Santa Cruz MLS
I think they expanded the digit count because the MLS is growing, it won't just be the five counties around here (Santa Cruz, Santa Clara,…
From Santa Cruz to Vegas
And, while I said that hardly anyone outside the real estate profession knows what those designations mean, many of my colleagues in the industry (especially…
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…
Santa Cruz Fire Safety
There are many homes in Santa Cruz county that are in wildfire and forest fire hazard areas. With all the fires raging this year, it's…
This is getting ridiculous
For example, we were doing an exercise on calculating the rate of return on an investment in a home purchase - you buy it for…
I’m buying an HP 12C
How about a smart phone - probably my suck-ass Palm Treo 700p can do most of what I'll ever need. As you may have read,…
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…