REO leaders thrive even though it's been hard to fatten up for the winter this year. The market is in turmoil, sales volumes are down all across the board. Still, in spite of tough conditions, there are always winners. In our market, like everywhere else in the country, the reo specialists have h
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12/10/2009
I normally don't advise anyone to steal. I suppose a more accurate word would have been "use", but I wanted to make a point. The internet is build on the great ideas of other people. Every innovation worth copying, is copied. Going back to the earliest days of HTML 1.0 with gray pages and monocol
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12/08/2009
Warm weather wimp. That's what I am these days. I used to be a cold weather tough guy, but 40 years of California living have made me forget what ice and frost look like. We knew cold weather was coming for a few days, so I was able to build a makeshift greenhouse for the hibiscus and orchids tha
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12/08/2009
SEO optimization doesn't have to be confusing. I started with a long and complicated post earlier this morning, but I decided to start from scratch. Almost everyone on ActiveRain already has a life and they don't need to become web gurus to sell real estate. On the other hand, a little knowledge
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12/07/2009
Persimmons were a mystery to me when I first saw them. Orange fruits on trees after Thanksgiving just seemed too improbable to a youngster from Minnesota. They hang, gloriously brilliant, long after the rest of the tree is bare. If you had to invent a tree covered with Christmas ornaments, you c
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12/06/2009
Windsor California has been through some tough times. Windsor is one of the newer cities in Sonoma County, at least in terms of the housing stock. A lot of Windsor's homes were built just in time to take part in the housing boom. As a consequence, whole neighborhoods paid top prices for their new
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12/05/2009
Sebastopol median prices for single family homes are still falling. My feeling is that Sebastopol remained an attractive location for home buyers and maintained a higher median price all through 2008. Home prices in Healdsburg and Sonoma were falling far faster than in Sebastopol last year. What
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12/05/2009
Santa Rosa is the biggest city in Sonoma County. Single family home sales dominate the volume of all transactions. Santa Rosa has seen modest appreciation across all quartiles of the housing market. The bottom two quartiles haven't budged much from their low points earlier this year, but they hav
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12/05/2009
The Healdsburg real estate market is still on the quiet side. The numbers represented by these charts reflect a very modest volume of transactions in Sonoma County's wine country gateway. The two middle quartiles show modest improvements in value over the course of 2009 for Healdsburg housing. Bo
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12/05/2009
The Healdsburg real estate market is still on the quiet side. The numbers represented by these charts reflect a very modest volume of transactions in Sonoma County's wine country gateway. The two middle quartiles show modest improvements in value over the course of 2009 for Healdsburg housing. Bo
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12/05/2009
