Staging Homes for sale

Selling a home is a lot like romance. It helps to set up for the mood to do so. “Staging” is show off the best side of the home to the buyers to sell the home to the highest price. The home is a product we just stage it all can be. Here are 7 [...]

Market is Cooling, but Silicon Valley is Alive and Well!

Silicon Valley Aerial Pictures San Andreas Fault curtsey from www.about.com  “ Silicon Valley is alive and well!” Carole Rodoni, a highly regarded speaker, author in San Francisco Bay Area real estate industry, she announced at 9/26/07 Los Gatos/Saratoga Tour Meeting. The former president and COO of Alain Pinel Realtors, who is now president of Bamboo [...]

Realtors care for the Silicon Valley

  The HIF Benefit Committee of SILVAR, will hold the 10th annual Home for the fundraiser on Thursday October 18th from 5:30 to 10:30 at the Avalon Nightclub in Santa Clara. Home for the Holidays features a Halloween theme with a gourmet buffet, live and silent auctions, a raffle, live music, dancing, fortune telling and [...]

HOUSE PASSES FHA REFORM BILL WITH LOAN LIMIT HIKE

It is a great news for the home buyers that the FHA will increase the FHA loan limits nationwide and in high cost areas. The current FHA loan limit for all the states except Hawaii is $417,000. In Silicon Valley or Santa Clara Valley that is price that we can only purchase may be 2 [...]

Silicon Valley Still Good Market, Realtors Just Need to Bring Information to Buyers

From the news of SILVAR Bullet of Sept 21,2007 the California Association of REALTORS® President, RE/MAX Managing partner of RE/MAX Vally Properties  Colleen Badagliacco spoke  to SILVAR members at September 17  Menlo Park/Atherton District Meeting. She encourged the realtors to  improve their skills and become more astute with new technology and the Internet, upon which Generation X and Y [...]

Los Charros Restaurant – My favorite Mexician Restaurant

The 1st location of� Los Charros Restaurant� at downtown of Mountain View – Villa St� Mountain View, CA 94040 and then the 2nd location opened this year at 89 W. El Camino Real Mountain View, CA 94040 I like it because The food�tastes �great!�The Chicken� fajitas is my favorite food here. It is delicious . [...]

What do the Chinese believe when you buy a home and the stairs is facing towards the door?

I received an email last month:� �What do the Chinese believe when you buy a home and the stairs is facing towards the door?� Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese art of living in harmony with the home, garden and business. 1.� If you stand in front of the front door, you can see cars [...]

Santa Clara Valley Water District provides FREE FEMA flood map-reading service

Federal law requires flood insurance if you have a federally backed mortgage and your building is in an area shown on maps prepared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency )FEMA) as subject to flooding during a 100-year flood event (a 100-year flood event has a 1 % chance of occurring in any given year). While [...]

New Cupertino Bowling Lane Strike Cupertino

Today I joined the the August Cupertino Chamber of Commerce mixer atthe Strike Cupertino. The Strike Cupertino was just opend July 21 2007.It is so cool to see 34 lanes of glow-in-the-dark bowling lanes, with a sophisticated setting. I tried some fusion foods like: wraps, satayand other finger foods.They tasted pretty good. I did not [...]

Real Estate Risk management

Today I attend a real estate course of the “Risk Management by design” taught by the Risk Management Trainer, Robert Brand.� As a realtor we have a duty to disclose all� known facts to the agent materially affecting the value or disability and the seller has to disclose all the know facts. It will be [...]