Maureen Kennedy, Piedmont CA Broker

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Real Estate Agent - Pacific Union Real Estate-GMAC
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Why?1.  Of course it's Just Listed.  So why waste that great white space on an obvious point?  Why not point out the fabulous view or the vintage charm or the sunny exposure?2.  This is about the owner's home, not about me, right?  So why say ''[ I ] Just Listed'' when I could say ''Who do you kn...
10/19/2007
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This blog is a summary of my local eNewsletter articles beginning January, 2006.