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2012
Energy is high in the Silicon Valley and San Mateo County, and nowhere is it seen more clearly than in the housing market.# 1 Los Altos# 2 Newport Beach (SoCal)# 3 Saratoga# 4 Menlo Park# 5 Palo Alto# 6 Los GatosAn article in today's issue of Silicon Valley/San Jose ...
11/30/2012
It's not too early to save the date--this year's Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Half Marathon and 5K Fun Run will take place February 3, 2013. This is the 30th annual run that takes one through beautiful Golden Gate Park and along the Great Highway. Limited to 10,000 participants, one must pre-r...
11/29/2012
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We all know we should .... Many of us do .... Some just let the idea float in their head .... Business Planning for the Coming Year Here it is, almost the end of November, and today is the day I'm finally pulling away from the busyness of work, and work on the business. My strategy i...
11/28/2012
Again this year my office, Today Sotheby's International Realty, is supporting two fabulous charities this holiday season.Second Harvest Food Bank serves the needy in our own communities. Did you have any idea that 1 in 10 people in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties receive food from Second Harv...
11/26/2012
Trader Joe's has a loyal fan base, and excitement is running high in the Middle Polk Street neighborhood of San Francisco -- the long-awaited Nob Hill Trader Joe's is set to open its doors on Thursday, November 29, 2012. Grab your reusable shopping bags (remember, there's now a bag fee in San Fra...
11/26/2012
Each day I realize anew how much I enjoy the urban lifestyle my husband and I are now leading since we moved to San Francisco in 2011. We've been here over 15 months, and it's hard to imagine living elsewhere.My life in the suburbs was great--same town for 40 years; same house for 35 years. Wonde...
11/25/2012
Many of us in the real estate industry have been using electronic signature programs like DocuSign for quite a while. Not only does it make a business run more smoothly and efficiently, clients love it, too - we're helping them simplify their lives as well as ours. Rarely does a week go by withou...
11/24/2012
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One of the pleasures of living my San Francisco dream is that it is so easy to enjoy some of the fabulous events our City has to offer, as we did last weekend when we went to the San Francisco Opera's performance of Tosca. Tosca is a tragic tale told through the gorgeous music of Giacomo Puccini....
11/22/2012
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So much for which to be thankful -- family and friends, food, a warm house. Today, Thanksgiving Day, we'll celebrate all of that, and be ever so grateful. Those thoughts were running through my mind yesterday afternoon as I wrapped up my work day early. Also going through my mind was how thankful...
11/22/2012
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Thanks to a Facebook friend, I now have another great reminder posted on my bulletin board at my desk: "Holding on to anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die." ------ Buddha It joins: "I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplis...
11/21/2012