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Someone asked me recently on Trulia Voices if there are any Old Town areas in San Mateo. Author of the question liked my reply, therefore I decided to share it with you: There are no Old Town area in San Mateo so to speak. However there is nice down town (between 2nd and 4th Ave and B and El Cam...

I love Active Rain and effects of their effort – creation of a vibrant online real estate community. I think that our community can play leadership role in elevating the quality of our service. I believe that real estate community at large made a lot of improvements in the quality of the service...

Dan Lowery posted a following question: “Why the attack against realtors?” http://activerain.com/blogsview/130113/Why-the-attack-toward In Poland where I was born we have a proverb "there is no fire without a smoke". It certainly applies well to our (agents and brokers) situation. There are many...

In the beginning of June I posted a sad story "You can never be too careful" on a house bought on probation auction that later collapsed when buyer was trying to fix its foundation. If you have not read it - you can click here to do it. Today, on Sunday, San Francisco Chronicle published on its ...

Past Saturday (June 23) was another gorgeous day on the San Francisco Peninsula. It was sunny, not too much wind, not to warm (70-75 on the Bay side and 63-66 degrees on the ocean side). Just perfect! My duties took me to Half Moon Bay. I had my camera with you and took some shots of favor pasti...

Whose product are you using to create a website for your listing, e.g. htpp://www.4321BurlingameAve.com? I found a product called Listing Producer, a product of Baynet World from Cupertino, CA. It lets you to create a website from your listing in a matter of minutes.  Additionally, you can creat...

We all know that there is fog in Pacifica, especially in summer. The city is called sometimes “The fog capital of California”. You sometime forget how beautiful this place is.  I was passing by to visit a client today and I was just amazed. It was a beautiful sunny day (first day of summer!) and ...

There are many “nice” things about San Mateo, CA.  It has a mild climate, a lot of beautiful homes (as the one below), interesting (but not necessarily exciting) history, etc. But is there anything special or unusual about San Mateo?   Here are 10 things I came with:  You Tube was a San Mateo sta...

Why would you want to live in Millbrae, CA? Really. It is sandwiched on the San Francisco Peninsula between Burlingame and Hillsborough with their great houses and restaurants to the South and San Francisco a few miles away to the North. But prices of homes are only slightly lower than in Burling...

In my recent blog entry "Why is Burlingame, CA so desirable?" I mentioned the death of Charles Frank Burlingame III, whose plane crashed to the Pentagon on 9/11. He was a descendant of Anson Burlingame, after whom Burlingame was named. On December 5, 2006, the Burlingame family suffered another l...