Living In Sonoma County, CA

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  I swear, occupancy checks get more and more interesting every day. While trying to find a foreclosed home WAY up in the hills of Healdsburg, I came across a gate with 21 locks attached to it. One lock belongs to Pacific Gas & Electric, another belongs to the phone company. I'm assuming all of ...
11/04/2012
  For those of you who have been following my blog, you know that I live in a very rural county, considering where it is located. Sonoma County is only 45 miles North of San Francisco, but if you happen to be in both places on the same day you would feel an intense difference. San Francisco = hy...
11/03/2012
Treats for Chickens, a chicken supply business, recently opened up shop in Cotati CA. If you ask proprietor Dawn Russell, she chose the location because "Cotati is just so stinkin' cute". I mean, after all, how many cities do you know of that has a flock of free-range chickens roaming around dow...
11/02/2012
Unless your head has been buried in the sand lately, you know full well that lenders have been inundated with refinancing requests from existing homeowners. I'm one of those homeowners. After having refinanced in 2009 at 5% APR, I told myself that I was done, no more refinancing. But when you hav...
11/01/2012
Many times the English language drives me nuts. Why do we have words that are spelled the same but sound different, and other words that are spelled different but sound the same? Yesterday while I was loading groceries onto the checkout counter, I felt a spray of water. I looked up towards the ch...
10/25/2012
What does it mean when a property has been RED-TAGGED? In a nutshell, if a property has been red-tagged, the county in which the property resides has a recorded lien or liens against the property because of a violation that the property owner failed to cure. In some cases, a "red-tagged" property...
10/11/2012
    I don't know about you, but the first time I saw Alfred Hitchcock's THE BIRDS I was terrified. It took almost 20 years for me to watch that movie for a second time. Now that 40 years have passed, I have a different appreciation for this movie ... it was filmed in Sonoma County where I live. ...
08/30/2012
Sonoma State University is a 4 year college located a mere 3 miles from my office. I get calls all year round from college students and their parents asking if I know of any rentals available in the area. Lately, though, many out-of-area parents are opting to buy a condo or home for several reas...
08/28/2012
This blog post is about my Lucky Lockbox. Wait ... you DO have a Lucky Lockbox don't you? You know, the Lucky Lockbox that you slap onto those listings that you know are going to be a nightmare challenge? You can't just buckle your Lucky Lockbox onto ANY listing, you can't afford to waste its mag...
08/26/2012
I have to confess, I never watched a Little League World Series game until this year. That is because an incredible group of 12 and 13 year olds from Sonoma County are in the match of their life today in the U.S. Championship game. Most folks have never heard of Petaluma, CA. I know I hadn't unt...
08/25/2012
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