Venus is a Beauty, but Not a Bargain.

As I mentioned in a recent blog, although bank owned properties (REO’s) make up 10% of all active properties, and short sale properties, where homes are worth less than than their loans, represent 18% of all actives, these two groups make up at least 40% of all pending and sold homes in  Livermore so far this April.  Currently the MLS  does not [...]

Livermore Real Estate, It could be Worse.

At the annual Livermore Real Estate Round Up on April 16th several speakers painted a generally upbeat take on real estate market in Livermore.  A fuller description is given in the April 24th edition of The Independent on page 4.  Essentially commercial real estate is doing rather well with 60 new businesses opening in Downtown Livermore [...]

It’s Time to Party Livermore Style at the Livermore Wine Country Festival

 It’s Party Time again in Livermore on May 3rd and 4th.  Join 120,000 of your closest and dearest friends at this year’s celebration in Downtown Livermore.  This is the largest celebration in the Tri-Valley and second largest in the East Bay.  This year’s theme is 125 Years in Livermore Wine Country with Wente Family.  There is of [...]

What’s the Difference between the Energizer Bunny and House Maintenance?

Nothing.  They both just keep going and going and going. I’m a Realtor, as you all know, and you would think, I should know better about house maintenance, but you would be wrong.  We just had a very complete whole house inspection for possible water leaks.  By just checking the first window, it was discovered [...]

Homeownership Economics and LaLa Land Economics

Being in the third year of the current Housing ’situation’, and with headlines like these from the Huffington Post   screaming ‘60% of Americans wont buy a home in the next two years’, well it’s time to take a breath and remember what housing is and isn’t.  Steve Butler in Sunday’s Contra Costa Times wrote abut the myth that real [...]

10th Annual Livermore Film Festival

Renamed the California Independent Film Festival, it starts this Wednesday, April 16th celebrating its 10th anniversary.  Go on line to see the full schedule.  This year honoring Penny Marshall is this year’s honoree.  If you want to check out more details visit on line or go to there office at 171 South J Street here [...]

The Auctions are coming, The Auctions are Coming…Oh they’re already here.

I remember the first auction I went to.  I was in college in Miami and it was a police bicycle auction of recovered bikes.  Well, the room was full and the first items came up for bid.  Nothing great, but not bad and the bidding started and only one bid was made and it won the [...]

Don’t Blame us if Housing and the Rest of the Economy is in the Toilet!

“An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing.”
Sometimes as I listen to the politicians or the experts, I realize that they not only don’t know what they are talking about, but that they don’t understand that they don’t know what they are talking about.  [...]