While I knew the home in Davis might take longer than a few weeks to sell, I did not anticipate it taking almost a year. A good part of that can be blamed on the two separate sets of buyers who tried to purchase this home and then later changed their minds. Through no fault of the property.One pa
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01/20/2019
It may surprise you to learn that vanilla beans come from vanilla orchids. I know, right? If you're like me, you can hardly wrap your head around the fact a vanilla bean needs to go through a process to become vanilla extract. On top of which, you might not know that you can make your own vanilla
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01/19/2019
Finding secluded, out-of-the-way beaches in West Hawaii is one of the great joys in life. And while we did not make it to the beach billed as the most beautiful in all of Hawaii, we will do it, even if I have to do it myself. We had already walked to the closest beach to the first parking lot, fo
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01/18/2019
Oh, I remember this scene like it was yesterday. There I was, standing in the pouring rain, squeezed under an eave with my back flat against the wall to stay somewhat dry. Although, I was also splattered with mud, pretty much head to foot, due to riding ATVs in the rain and mud of Hilo. Trying to
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01/17/2019
For years I had noticed the sign for Holualoa on the Queen K but never drove the route. It was only 3 miles but I always had an intended destination that needed to be dealt with first, plus I had no idea what was there. Well, yesterday seemed like a good day to make the journey up the winding roa
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01/16/2019
We got to the beach out on Old Airport Road yesterday with about an hour left of low tide. My plan was to hit the beach earlier but we had commerce to attend to. More specifically, we were on a search for a mortar and pestle. I made grilled shrimp on skewers a few nights back, yes, I actually coo
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01/15/2019
Ordinarily, I would not be interested in a movie like this. If it was the only other choice, say for a transpacific flight movie selection, after smart dramas or hilarious comedies, above maybe movies about guys in jail or historic war battles (Game of Thrones doesn't count in that category), I w
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01/14/2019
Back in the days when I bought homes to fix up and flip, I thought I knew everything about real estate. In retrospect, I knew the bare basics because I lived in a state where I knew little about local real estate, much less statewide, and because I wasn't actively practicing representation during
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01/13/2019
Just attended an annual HOA meeting for our community in Kona last night, and it was packed. I suggested the HOA set maximum percentages on the number of homes that could be rented, and that seemed to be a new concept that nobody had heard of before.Mostly people wanted to talk about the coqui, a
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01/12/2019
The last time I checked, our MLS is owned at least 50% by a handful of brokers in Sacramento. You would think that MLS might reach out to its membership through a survey to determine which features are useful or to gather opinions on types of improvements members would like to see, but that idea
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01/11/2019
