Sonoma Second Homes and Sonoma Vacation Rentals. When I'm working with Sonoma buyers, I frequently hear that they want to buy a property they can rent out as a vacation rental to help cover their costs when they are not using it. Fact is, many Sonoma County homes can be used as vacation rental
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01/29/2011
Are You Looking at ME?!? Camouflage is hard to come by during the winter in Sonoma Valley when our deciduous Oaks have lost their leaves. Some residents, like this lovely doe, find it hard to keep a low profile at this time of year when there aren't many places to hide. We met eye-to-eye while
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01/26/2011
Looking For Sonoma Foreclosure? If you're looking for foreclosures in Sonoma Valley you might want to take a look at the statistics I've put together as of January 25, 2010. Essentially, you'll find Sonoma foreclosures only among the lowest priced properties---those listed at $400,000 or less
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01/26/2011
White House Music in Sonoma County Sonoma County's Santa Rosa Symphony is gaining international attention and drawing world-renowned artists. Last night, symphony-goers were given a special treat---a performance by classical guitarist Sharon Isbin. Isbin, who was raised in Minneapolis and trai
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01/23/2011
Sonoma Valley View. My Sunday morning view looking down Sonoma Valley toward San Pablo Bay. With Mount Diablo in the distance, those wispy clouds in the brightening sky, and a light mist floating over the water, it's a view of Sonoma Valley that seems to say, "Look closer...look closer...and ne
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01/23/2011
A Brighter Picture for Sonoma Sellers. When five hundred people gathered on Tuesday January 19th in Rohnert Park to hear about the 2011 economic outlook for Sonoma County, I was there. I went as a board member of a non-profit organization but I also got an earful about real estate. There was on
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01/20/2011
Slim Pickin's for Sonoma Homes. Our Sonoma broker tour for Thursday, January 20th, is puny---just three new listings in all of Sonoma Valley! We've got one Sonoma REO listed at under 300K, another single family home priced in the mid-500's, and a new Sonoma home at $1.5 Million that I wrote a p
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01/19/2011
Great Deals on Sonoma Foreclosures?!? It's a question Sonoma agents get a lot these days'''Where are all the great deals on Sonoma Foreclosures?" Here's a look at some charts on the Sonoma foreclosure market provided by ForeclosureRadar: If you want more detailed information on these Sonoma fo
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01/18/2011
Friends on Sonoma Plaza. On Sonoma Plaza....new friends and old (er) friends. My Sonoma real estate office is conveniently located at 109 East Napa Street just off our charming, inviting, and historic eight-acre Sonoma Plaza. This picture reminds me of my childhood and the many times my grandfat
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01/16/2011
Bones in your Sonoma Backyard? Old Sonoma homes are much more common than new Sonoma homes. When you live in Sonoma or buy a home in Sonoma Valley you are living with the ghosts...or as my mother says...the "Tinkerbells" of others. Whenever I visit an old home in Sonoma, a turn-of-the century
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01/16/2011
