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2010 

Eastern View The price of a lakefront home can be significantly influenced by the home's orientation to the sun's path as it courses through the day from dawn to dusk.  Lakefront homes are most enjoyed, obviously, on the lake side.  Decks, porches, patios, and, especially, expansive windows are ...
10/31/2010
. . . and These Are the Words That He Said . . . "The Town of Grass Valley, California now requires sewer line inspections and upgrades at every Point of Sale."  I first heard these words from Sewer Superstar Doug Urke at a Nevada County Association of Realtors workshop.  If your own burg doesn'...
10/29/2010
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Door knocking for real estate leads can be fun--and you get a lot of exercise.  It's hand-to-hand combat for Realtors.  Here are some basic door-to-door techniques I learned when paying my shoeleather dues.  Door-to-door work is scary for some people.  But there are a few things you can do to red...
10/25/2010
Each Summer at our Lake of the Pines 4th of July Celebration (the biggest event of the year) we set up a booth where adults can win Century 21 water bottles filled with ice water and kids can win balloons.  All the contestants have to do is correctly answer one question about American History, Po...
10/24/2010
I don't usually advertise in my blogs, but something nice happened to me at the Thai Garden restaurant in Auburn, California, so I thought I'd give that business a little "product placement" plug.  First, you need to understand that Auburn is NOT the Cuisine Capitol of California, so you can ima...
10/21/2010
The trails at Weimar are not spectacular.  No long-range vistas of the snow-capped mountains.  No thundering waterfalls.  But these trails are some of my favorites of all the trails I know in the Sierra foothills.  Weimar Institute is a Seventh Day Adventist enclave (ashram?) between Auburn, CA ...
10/20/2010
  Getting ready to teach a couple of classes called "Eating Locally."  I thought it would be a fine idea to drop in on my farmers and see if I could pick up a few ideas . . . and maybe a free vegetable. Alan Haight and Jo McProud are the owners of Riverhill Farm, the CSA (Community Supported Agri...
10/19/2010
Small Town Portraits introduction We provide real estate services for a hard-to-describe geographic area of the California Sierra that we call "The Golden Hills."  Our turf extends from Nevada City in the North to Foresthill in the south, from Colfax in the east to Newcastle in the west.  Our "go...
10/16/2010
Small Town Portraits introduction We provide real estate services for a hard-to-describe geographic area of the California Sierra that we call "The Golden Hills."  Our turf extends from Nevada City in the North to Foresthill in the south, from Colfax in the east to Newcastle in the west.  Our "go...
10/16/2010
Small Town Portraits introduction We provide real estate services for a hard-to-describe geographic area of the California Sierra that we call "The Golden Hills."  Our turf extends from Nevada City in the North to Foresthill in the south, from Colfax in the east to Newcastle in the west.  Our "go...
10/16/2010
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