Silicon Valley Real Estate Info

Friday night was the Springer Elementary School Auction at Michael’s at Shoreline.  The theme…Caddyshack!  I have attended numerous Springer Auctions and based on my un-official estimates (number of attendees, donations, and the level of frenzied bidding) the auction was a huge success!
All of our local schools do some sort of fund raising during the year.  At [...]

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Downtown Los Altos was the place to be last night.  It was the site of the annual Los Altos Festival of Lights Parade.   The parade is designed to bring the our community together to share the warmth of the holiday season. 

I arrived around 5:00 p.m. to take some pictures.  I also wanted to see how parade enthusiasts creatively “reserved” [...]

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In addition to each of our local schools having a Halloween party/parade, the town of Los Altos will provide plenty of kid friendly activities this Halloween. The fun begins Friday afternoon with the Los Altos Village Association’s Halloween Spooktacular. Just look for the orange Halloween Spooktacular signs in participating storefronts.  These stores will provide candy [...]

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Many real estate agents and their buyers use Google Street Views to preview real estate prior to visiting it.  For you “off street” enthusiasts, Google has mounted a tricycle with it’s Street View camera and is looking for off road sites worthy of showcasing.  So far they have collected imagery of Legoland in Southern California, San [...]

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On Tuesday I was fortunate enough to participate in a Habitat For Humanity build in the Belle Haven neighborhood of East Menlo Park.  Usually Habitat for Humanity builds homes from the ground up and then “sells” them via sweat equity and interest free loans to it’s partner families.  Yesterday’s build was a little different and [...]

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Sweet Shop in Los Altos is now open, originally uploaded by David Blockhus.
The Sweet Shop, located at 994 Los Altos Avenue, has opened.  I stopped by this morning while on the Friday real estate broker’s tour to check out the place.   It looks like a nice north Los Altos neighborhood handout and a great kid friendly place.
An interesting tidbit on [...]

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Los Altos to Lake Tahoe, a great reward, originally uploaded by Los Altos Dave.
One of the benefits of living in Los Altos is we are near great
vacation spots like Lake Tahoe. This is the view from our back deck.

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The Los Altos pet parade is an annual tradition in my household.  I have participated in over 15 pet parades with four different dogs (Patches, Hero, Sugar, and Bear).  Below is a little video taken at the 62 annual Los Altos Pet Parade.  Enjoy!  

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Today my son and I went to downtown Santa Cruz to volunteer as course Marshall’s at the Amgen Tour of California bike race.  This is my third year at the race and my first year as a volunteer. 
We arrived at 8:30 a.m. for check in and received our lovely Cal Trans looking volunteer shirts and were at our assigned intersection [...]

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If you are looking for something to do this weekend that doesn’t involve 300+ pound men smacking each other around in order to move a ball over a goal line, I strongly recommend ZAP’s Zinfandel Festival.  

ZAP, Zinfandel Advocates and Producers, is having it’s annual Zinfandel wine festival. Tickets to all available events can be purchased here.  
Zin [...]

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