Can you Smell the Herd Mentality or We’re not out of the Woods Yet!

Housing, housing, housing, Cassandra what say you?  Well according to legend, we wouldn’t believe her, even if she told us what is going to happen.  So as the song goes, if we didn’t have bad news, we wouldn’t have any news at all.  The stock market has been all over the place in the last couple [...]

Bike or Celebrate this weekend in Livermore :}

                      Lets have some fun this weekend in Livermore, instead of talking about market corrections or foreclosure rates.  First up at 11 am this Saturday morning, December 1, the new Sunken Gardens Bicycle Course will open.  I was walking by it last week as it was being completed and it should be great.  It is [...]

Dog Parks in the Tri-Valley, Gottta Love ‘em:}

Initally, I was just going to post a video of our dog, Casey having fun at a local dog park, but then I realized this would be a great place to have links to other dog parks in Livemore and else where in the East Bay and like here.  I also noticed in the Valley Times, a [...]

Oh My God, What a Week in Housing! Or Homes aren’t Piggy Banks.

 
Several other shoes have fallen in the local as well as the national housing market, with a few exceptions.  The new CEO of Wells Fargo said the worse isn’t over yet, read another year or two.  A disclosure here, we own a lot of WFC stock and were holding on.  But Wells Fargo, while having its [...]

Are you using the “Dead Parrot” Theory to Price your Home?

As a seller are you being an optimist about pricing your home like the pet shop owner in the classic Monty Python sketch about a dead Parrot?
Mr. Praline: ‘Ello, I wish to register a complaint.                                          
 Owner: We’re closin’ for lunch.
  Mr. Praline: Never mind that, my lad. I wish to complain about this parrot what I [...]

Downtown Livermore – Coming and Going!

Going out of Business in downtown Livermore
       
   During the reconstruction of Downtown Livermore, there were winners and losers.  Mel’s Furniture is one of the ones, that couldn’t survive the changing demographics and traffic patterns during after the reconstruction of Downtown Livermore.  Here’s a recent article in the local paper about this.

                              
Groth Brothers, the downtown auto dealership [...]

Ya Baby, It’s All about Curb Appeal :}

  We are not doing Rocket Science today, but more of a review of do’s and dont’s.  The well over used true-ism that you only have one chance to make a first impression is always true, except on realty TV fix-up home shows.  The first first impression for a house is of course how it [...]

The Revenge of the FSBO’s or How to buy the Bay Bridge for No Money Down.

While cleaning out a pile of papers, I came across a New York Times article my in-laws sent me, about FSBO (for sale by owners) homes in Madison, Wisconsin that according to the article were netting more money than sellers who used a real estate agent.  The above article came out this June.  I’ll let the story give you [...]

Jungle Trails in Livermore

              
Our dog, Casey and I took a walk today and yesterday on the Arroyo Mocho Trails mainly because we were bored with our usual walks.  However while writing this blog I saw headlines about a program called ”No Child Left Behind“, which is basically saying we may be hurting our children by being over protective and keeping [...]

Chicken Little is the newest Fox News Anchor!

          
Rupert Murdoch announced today that Chicken Little, the famous prognosticator, will be joining the Fox News team … ahh just kidding.  Besides Chicken Little makes too much money on the lecture circuit to bother with Fox.  I don’t know about you, but this fear selling by the media is really getting old.  If you [...]