California Livin' in Placer County

 My Dad served in WWII, Korea, and Viet Nam.  He met our mother in Cairo, Egypt and they had a beautiful military wedding there.  My grandparenets, who were from the Island of Malta, gave away their only daughter and watched her leave for the USA on a ship for warbrides in 1946.     A career mili...

Thank you Gary once again for saying it better than I can!  You post the most uplifting blogs around.  Be well and prosper.With Memorial Day upon us once again I know for most of us it is just another holiday where we are thankful to gather together with family and enjoy time away from work. We k...

 It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.     -Donald Trump The Donald's not alone either...there are at least 45 other billionaires who think real estate is a good investment. In an article titled The 10 Common Traits of Real Esta...

     California Home Sales at Foreclosure Rise by 35 Percent in April 2009.    Notices of foreclosure dropped and sales of foreclosures increased by 35 percent last month in California. A report by ForclosureRadar added that a record number were purchased by third parties, at an average of 28 per...

    Obama salutes veterans this Memorial Day weekend  - AP - May 23, 2009 President Barack Obama saluted veterans and urged his countrymen to do the same this Memorial Day weekend, saying the nation has not always paid them proper respect. In his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday, Obama ...

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    Local demand in Placer County and Sacramento County is picking up. This indicates that some will mis the Gold Lined Bottom (measured by a combination of willing sellers, lower prices and lowest interest rates) if they don't start the process NOW. Let us help them to understand this and act be...

House-Price Drops Leave More Underwater by Ruth Simon and James R. HagertyMonday, May 18, 2009   provided by Wall Street Journal The downturn in home prices has left about 20% of U.S. homeowners owing more on a mortgage than their homes are worth, according to one new study, signaling additional ...

First, we are a member of our home. Then our neighborhood. Then our town. Our county, our state. We are U.S. citizens, as well. But we are also citizens of the world. A part of the collective whole that constitutes mankind. That beats to a collective worldy drum. If you have a hard time wrapping ...

Keep me away From wisdom which does not cry, The philosophy which does not laugh, And the greatness         which does not bow before children.                                                    Kahil Gibran -                                                 Lebanese born American mystic, poet, p...