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421 Wildwood Avenue, central Piedmont:Please celebrate the Roaring '20s in Piedmont with a glass of Pomegranate Punch at 421 Wildwood AvenueFriday, July 20th, 5-7 PMIt will come to market Thursday at $3 million.RSVP to me on 510-986-9517. Check www.421WildwoodAvenue.Com on Thursday morning for a ...
10/31/2007
Click here for the story, which appeared on the front page of Sunday's Open House pull-out section. Take special note of the bit about the persimmon cake . . . . Not to toot my own horn too much, but this is what it takes to sell a great home in a market like we have right now. Attention to de...
10/23/2007
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Let's say your birthday is in June, and you'd love to sell your long-held house and move to a wonderful, three-bedroom, two-bath 20th-floor condo on Lake Merritt. Or a great house within walking distance of Market Hall and the Rockridge BART. But, your PHS junior has one year left, and you'd ra...
10/23/2007
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I imagine you don't spend a lot of time at open houses. But let's talk about 25 Mesa Avenue, a fabulous fixer with great bones, on the market in January.Usually I make Hershey's brownies from Costco for open houses--assuming there's no white carpet! But 25 Mesa Avenue, a great home in Piedmont'...
10/23/2007
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While we don't quite need an interior paint job, we have a number of nicks and bumps in our walls. Now that the boys have finally moved beyond the ''look Mom, it's much more efficient to hop over the bannister upstairs and climb down the wall, rather than walk down the stairs'' stage (they reall...
10/23/2007
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My favorite dog-friendly hike spot is gorgeous right NOW. Sibley Volcanic Preserve, written up a year or two ago in the New York Times by Piedmont's Patty Brown, is in full bloom NOW. Great raptors and bluebirds, wildflowers, rocks (after all, as the material in the shelter points out, this is ...
10/23/2007
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HGTV has an 8-week program to get your home organized, together with a million other households around the country. I signed up because I REALLY need it after such a busy spring. Click here to get going.
10/23/2007
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Really. The editors wax about restaurants, walks, the Farmer's Market, theater and more. See the article HERE. And you saw Piedmont Avenue's coverage as the ''Gourmet Ghetto of Oakland'' in San Francisco magazine a month or two ago, right? And then click here for San Francisco's most recent u...
10/23/2007
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The Piedmont UpdateInstitution or ''too predictable''?You know you're a bit of an institution when a long-time Piedmont real estate hand emails you in late March and says, ''Maureen, I know you're e-newsletter's about to come out, and here's what I think . . . .'' So while the message may be pre...
10/23/2007
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Contact me (Kennedy@MaureenKennedy.Net) to borrow several "A-Frame" realtor signs (I can't use the Prudential ones for my business anymore) to announce garage sales or special events around town. They'll be in full use on Thanksgiving morning, giving directions for the Turkey Trot and were used ...
10/19/2007