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I've had a rough week--nothing major--just hard. Tuesday morning I woke with a sore throat and very tired. By Wednesday I had to acknowledge I was sick. To top it off, Wednesday evening I jammed my toe into the edge of a door--the swelling and bruising is shocking and walking is almost impossible...
11/24/2019
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Rarely if ever do I do a cut-and-paste blog post, but for all my hiking friends like Kat Palmiotti, Nick Vandekar, 610-203-4543 and Patricia Feager, MBA, CRS, GRI,MRP among others, I couldn't wait to share this article I saw on Flipboard today, 10 of the Best Alpine Hiking TrailsWe've done Hike #...
11/20/2019
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Many of you know about the San Francisco fog. It is such a presence in the city that someone (a deep, dark secret) gave it a name, "Karl the Fog." Karl has been visiting us a lot more than usual this November, more of a summer pattern than one of fall.He doesn't stay all day, and doesn't visit ev...
11/17/2019
A few days ago the California Association of Realtors released its Q3 housing affordability index. It shows a generally stabilizing or slightly declining median home price in San Francisco County, plus increasing median household incomes. Those factors, combined with falling interest rates equals...
11/13/2019
Life has a way of throwing curve balls, whether they are major ones like health issues, death, divorce or minor ones, like being too busy, too tired, or too distracted to pay attention. Sooner or later we all experience both the large and small issues, and I'm no different.As some of you know, I...
11/10/2019
With Thanksgiving rapidly approaching, it is natural for us to reflect on all we have for which to be grateful. The challenge that Debe Maxwell is spearheading this month, the November 2019 Thanksgiving Gratitude Challenge encourages us to share some of those thoughts with others, to spread the f...
11/06/2019
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"There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen." ...Percy Bysshe ShelleyI am definitely not the only one whose favorite season of the year is autumn. Buyers and sellers can use these autumn days to finalize their year-end real estate goals....
11/03/2019
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Happy Halloween Everyone As I walked around the city today on various appointments, I enjoyed seeing many Halloween costumes adorning happy, excited youngsters. Tonight in the city the scene will be quite different as costumed adults head out for the evening.For fun, I'm posting a few favorite pi...
10/31/2019
Thinking of buying a duplex in San Francisco? One happy buyer's purchase closed yesterday and he'll be making a few changes and moving in soon.Yesterday was the day the sale recorded at City Hall; title transferred then, and shortly thereafter I delivered the keys to the buyer, tied to the orange...
10/30/2019
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As fires once again rage in Sonoma County, not far north of San Francisco, a hazy sky was the view from my San Francisco condo today. Even eerier, as night has fallen there are no lights visible in Sausalito and Tiburon, two Marin County towns just north of the Golden Gate Bridge. With hot, dry, ...
10/26/2019