Silicon Valley Real Estate Info

It’s the start of a new decade, a new year, and a new month.  It is also the start of the 2010 dating season between the managers of our local real estate companies and our local real estate agents!
Agents who had exemplary home sales in 2009 are being courted by competing brokerage houses.   Managers are looking to recruit agents who will make [...]

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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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The high winds and rain of the storm on Tuesday created some havoc for Los Altos residents.  My son, a Mountain View High freshman, got to go home early because power was lost to the school.  Numerous branches and trees came down as well.  The largest damage (that I am aware of) occurred in the [...]

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Part of my morning ritual is to log on to our local Multiple Listing Service to see what is happening.  How many new listings are there?  How many homes have gone into contract? 
When I was checking for homes for sale in Los Altos, I noticed a property that had been on the market for over [...]

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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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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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I was having a cup of coffee at Peets last weekend and this funky looking road bike caught my eye.  Check out the photo.  With the gnarly mesh-looking frame, the bike looked like it should have been in 1975 classic movie,  Rollerball.  Just imagine … James Caan ripping around an oval track on this thing!

It turns out it is the [...]

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RSVP, the Realtor Service Volunteer Program, is an annual community volunteer program supported and sponsored by the Silicon Valley Association of Realtors.  The nuts and bolts of the program is to provide household assistance like cleaning up neglected landscaping, gutters, washing windows, replacing smoke detector batteries, flipping mattresses and moving furniture for seniors or the home-bound [...]

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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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