Garry Kucer's (gkucer) Blog

Garden Terraces in downtown SLO nearing final OK Architecture committee will offer its last design suggestions before sending project to council. By AnnMarie Cornejo | acornejo@thetribunenews.com AnnMarie Cornejo The Tribune Garden Street Terraces — a large hotel, residential, retail and commerci...

Cal Poly football home opener at Spano Stadium today at 4 p.m. against South Dakota State. Poly has lost its first two games away of the season and hoping to cap their first win at the home opener. Two Cal Poly graduates will do a military flyover prior to game for military appreciation day and y...

The bond markets saw modest gains today despite a rise in the Equity markets.  This comes after four days of modest losses as an increasing stock market stole the thunder.  Stocks had a 5-day win streak for the first time since the week of June 27.  The Dow rose 75.91 to end ...

Only 2 weeks and our reliable mortgage financing will diminish. If this happens, many people wanting to purchase homes will be priced out of the market. Plus, it could worsen the housing recovery we so much need to occur. National Association of Realtors urges everyone to contact their congressme...

  Here are some updates you should be aware of for mortgages in general:   As of October 1, high balance conforming loan limits for San Luis Obispo County go down from $687,500 to $561,200 for a single family residence with similar decreases for 2-4 unit properties.  If you have any pending trans...

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Housing market still in distress in San Luis Obispo County. Distressed sales encompassed 44% of all home sales in the second quarter of this year. This is better than last year in which distressed sales were about half of all sales. In a normal market, foreclosure sales account for 5% or less of ...

Today is our official new listings in San Luis Obispo day. Only a few on tour today and I am focusing on the single family residents for sale. There was one at 323 and 353 Grand Ave. near Cal Poly University. 323 Grand Ave. is a tidy 1 bed two bath two story home on a huge lot of 12,000 sq ft. It...

I finally made it to one of my children's PTA meetings. He is in 7th grade grade and today I  made it to the Laguna Middle School Parent Teacher Association meeting. It was not nearly as horrific as  I thought it would be. In fact, I made it through the entire hour and half meeting. Other people ...

Well, I am going on my third colonoscopy come Weds and I am only 56 years old. How did such a thing happen. Well, let me tell you. I followed the common practice of having my first colonoscopy by Dr Steven Carlson in San Luis Obispo when I was 50 years old. Unfortunately, or probably, fortunately...