Santa Cruz and the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008
The effective date for reforms is immediate upon enactment, but the loan limits will not go into effect until the expiration of the Economic Stimulus…
Category: Santa Cruz Real Estate
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…
I’d like to point something out
Or, rather, he loves it when the seller pays the discount points, although it's all pretty much the same thing, since it's your money (the…
Santa Cruz Mobile Home Owners, rejoice!
And now, today, here's the scoop: [From Prop. 99 passes; Prop. 98 defeated - Los Angeles Times ] Californians on Tuesday rejected a state ballot…
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,…
Happy 4th of July!
I have been crushingly busy - and that's a good thing, considering how many Realtors are suffering the fate of the Maytag repair man .…
Santa Cruz is on fire!
After I dropped her off, I headed south to Watsonville and I saw that it wasn't fog at all - I had the radio on,…
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…
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…