We will soon find out. The verdict is in for the Johannes Mehserle trial being held in Los Angeles.
 
Fear of civil unrest following the announcement of the verdict is causing the Alameda County Recorder’s Office to close until the coast is clear. No one knows if this will really happen or, if it does, how […]

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My long-time friend, Don Signer, has set up a web page and started a blog. The first entry makes me sad. Don is the owner of Signer Buick-Cadillac in Newark, Ca. The only Buick-Cadillac sales point ever in the Fremont, Newark, and Union City area. I was manager of a bank in Fremont when I first […]

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The California Association of REALTORS®, through its Housing Affordability Fund, is offering a new Mortgage Protection Plan. What is the Mortgage Protection Plan? The Plan offers a combination of involuntary unemployment, accidental disability and accidental death protection for qualified first-time home buyers.
Through the program, first-time home buyers who lose their jobs or become accidentally disabled […]

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Mortgage rates have been low for a while. They remain low. Unusually low. Attractively low. You don’t really expect them to stay this low forever…do you?
A recent article in The Business Journel, covering the Triad Area of Greensboro and Winston/Salem , North Carolina stated that ” Freddie Mac says the average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell to 4.78 percent this […]

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My local newspaper reprinted Martin Luther King, Jr’s famous “I Have A Dream” speech today. Here is the on-line version from my paper in which the YouTube video of King delivering the speech is included. Is is slightly less than 18 minutes long.  http://tinyurl.com/9cryep
What a wonderful way to revisit an event that helped to […]

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I didn’t work last weekend. While the good old cell phone is always a tether to work and my clients, it was the only connection to my real estate business last weekend. Instead, it was a family weekend.
 On Saturday, we went to the 50th wedding anniversary of a cousin. We drove 3 hours to get […]

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For those of your who had any interest in my friend’s trek across America on a Piaggio MP500 3-wheel motorscooter, his blog address has changed. To to www.piaggiousa.comto find it. Click on the big picture and you will be taken to the blog. They are currently motoring across Nebraska on the effort to follow the Lincoln […]

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Now for a change of pace After all, its Mostly Real Estatewhich means that this is not all about real estate. The following is not about real estate.
I have a friend who is leaving in about a week for a trip across the country on the Lincoln Highway. Chances are good that you dont know […]

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A little over a month ago, I wrote about a rare event in the Mission San Jose area of Fremont—an bank-owned property (REO) was listed for sale. This is a rare event because the excellent schools in the Mission San Jose attendance area of the Fremont Unified School District makes this the most sought after area in […]

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There was a time when I skied two or three weekends per month. Those were the days before kids and other family stuff. I was even a volunteer patroller who rendered first aid and emergency sled transportation to fellow skiers who needed those services. Sorry to say, I retired from patrolling years ago and rarely […]

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