I was pretty sure, no I actually had no idea that I would be doing anything more on Garage doors after my last post, but the day after I did that blog, I heard a really load boinging noise in the garage. Checking around and seeing nothing, I attempted to open the garage door. It made [...]
Filed under: Home Improvement, Livermore Real Estate, Uncategorized | Tagged: garage doors, Garage Springs, Maintenance, painting, wood garage doors | Leave a Comment »
I don’t know about you, but I think it’s kind of fun to dress up your garage doors for additional Curb Appeal. For the right home a real or faux carriage doors look really great. But the real thing can be pricey, here is a company that makes the real thing and they cost [...]
Filed under: Home Improvement, Livermore Housing, Livermore Real Estate | Tagged: Carriage doors, Curb appeal, garage doors, hardware, South Livermore | 2 Comments »
The third stage of the Amgen Tour of California was held today starting in Modesto going over Mt. Hamilton and down into San Jose. But if the weather had been bad enough in the hills today, the racers would have been tooling through Livermore between noon and 1:30pm this afternoon, as we were the alternate route. Take a look [...]
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Well for some perverse reason, I was looking forward to our water heater going out. And after almost 10 years of use it started to leak. The leak wasn’t too bad, so I started to shop around thinking I could find a good price on a new water heater. I went to Consumer Reports, who had a [...]
Filed under: Home Improvement, Livermore Real Estate | Tagged: Hot Water, Maintenance, replacement, Tankless water heaters, Water heaters | Leave a Comment »
A rock and a hard place is a phrase that is pretty easy to imagine. For home owners in the current housing melt down there are various estimates of who is sitting between these two places. It’s estimated that 1.8 million people will see their current mortgages adjust upwards in the next two years. Plus homes [...]
Filed under: California Real Estate, Dublin Real Estate, Home Improvement, Livermore Real Estate, Real Estate Economics, Tri-Valley Real Estate | Tagged: 60 Minutes, Foreclosure, H.R. 3648, Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act, Ponzi Scheme, short sale | Leave a Comment »
It’s just so easy to throw blame around about everything we don’t like. I’ve blogged about noise from new highways, but I wonder about how much blame we should be dumping on sub prime borrowers, who find themselves in deep doo-doo. Both Joan and I have college degrees including an MBA and extra courses for my [...]
Filed under: California Real Estate, Livermore Real Estate | Tagged: another mess, housing crisis, laurel and Hardy, Sub-prime, sub-prime loans | Leave a Comment »
With a spring like weekend and the crocuses starting to emerge, let’s look back at our brief but beautiful winter in the valley.
Every few years and I think this year was one of the best, we get to pretend we can see Switzerland from our backyards. This post could have been about the [...]
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