Maureen Kennedy, Piedmont CA Broker

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It boils down to the notion that you "can't manage what you can't see." Someone had a story in the last couple of weeks about the town of Brighton in the UK.  It's adopted smart meters which give real-time feedback on energy usage in the house.  A nice console on the wall--Echelon in San Jose mak...
07/28/2008
To the SF Chronicle Corrections Department: Hi:   I'm surprised that the blog area comments on this story didn't cover this issue, but I'll do it--   Please put a correction in Monday's paper concerning the lead sentence on your private fire staff story--   I'm not sure which of two problems John...
07/27/2008
Just after I read the NYT piece, the Chron had a nice story on home office redecoration.  I'd argue it was actually home office layouts--much more in keeping with the tenor of the times!  Here are the bullets, clearly from a rip-and-read service: *Determine desk placement by asking "what do I wan...
07/26/2008
I remember years ago, when I was running Redefining Progress in the City, a rep from Tree People in LA came calling.  Sounds very crunchy, I know, but he made a key point that I've remembered ever since:  We in California get gobs of rain in one season and none the rest of the year.  What if we c...
07/26/2008
Despite unsettling events in the housing and mortgage markets as recently as today, the East Bay appears to be doing better than much of the rest of the state and much of the country, according to data from a variety of sources. Berkeley prices are about 5 percent below the $829,000 average in th...
07/08/2008
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That handy list of green rebates for Alameda County residents from the 1Q08 newsletter can be found here, and my list of home improvement and maintenance vendors can be found now or later at www.drop.io/MaureenKennedyUsefulStuff.  The password is MaureenKennedy (case-sensitive).  And as always, I...
07/04/2008
Maybe I just don't have kids in elementary school anymore, so I missed it, but I came across a Piedmont blog this week with a decided focus on the green agenda (and baseball, btw).  Check it out at Piedmont.Wordpress.Com.  Those guys should link back to my blog for detailed discussions of going g...
07/04/2008
Not something that most realtors would think to acknowledge in their e-newsletters, but we've just celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act.  Imagine what the country looked and felt like, and what Piedmont looked and felt like, 40 or more years ago.  (Though I remember being intri...
07/04/2008
Last Friday's Wall Street Journal included a piece covering an issue I mentioned back in April:  Home renovation projects gone awry when the lender shuts down or scales back your home equity line.  It also touches on a trend I haven't seen yet, but which makes sense.  When times are tougher and v...
07/04/2008
If you've had your home for any length of time, skip to the next blurb as Prop 13 effectively protects you and your tax bill, for better or worse.  But my favorite title company, Fidelity National Title in Montclair (they are very intentional about their commitment to e-closings--saves trees and ...
07/04/2008
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This blog is a summary of my local eNewsletter articles beginning January, 2006.