The Bay Area real estate market…

I haven’t been able to find the time to write in this blog. The market is picking up and buyers are back. Sellers are scared to death and agents are wiping the sweat from their brow. Short sales are everywhere and the bain of our existance. Read more

Bandits on the back porch…the joys of home ownership

You know sometimes I am just tired of owning property. All the little things that you have to deal with.  Its 10:48PM and Foxy Brown is going ape shit. Lily white is right behind her barking up a storm. I go to the back door, its dark, I can barely see anything when all of a sudden I see a gigantic raccoon staring at us. I don’t want to let the dogs out and I don’t want it to sit there and just stare at us so I grabbed a broom. Me and my big bad broom <heavy sigh>. I get out from behind the dogs and squeezed out the door, scared it was going to bite my leg off that’s how big it was. I ended up shooing the raccoon away and as I was squeezing back in the door Foxy got out, Lily followed. I spent the last 15 minutes out back in the dark, blind as a bat praying to god the raccoon won’t jump me. Read more