Cupertino Bank Owned/REO Single Family Home

This Cupertino bank own/REO homeis just on the market for $684,5000. This one is lowest priced 3 bedrooms 1 bath and 1 car garage and it is located at the most affordable area Rancho Ricinconada. This area has the excellent Cupertino schools.  There are many other bank owned listings in the surrounding areas such as [...]

Silicon Valley Realtors present scholarships to high school graduates

The Silicon Valley REALTORS® Charitable Foundation, the charitable arm of the Silicon Valley Association of REALTORS® (SILVAR), has presented scholarship awards to 18 graduating seniors from public high schools in Silicon Valley. Each student received a $1,000 scholarship. SILVAR’s scholarship program, now on its ninth year, recognizes students who have exemplified outstanding achievements in academics, [...]

I am going to eat my flowers!

Almost all culinary herb flowers are edible. (Newport News Daily Press/MCT) (MCT) From time to time when I found flowers on my plates at the trendy restaurant. It looks pretty and yesm the flowers may be edible. I found the good article named “ Petals on your plate” at today’s SJ Mercury news. It said: [...]

San Jose is the number 4th of the top 10 recession-proof cities.

 I found an interesting article of the -Top 10 recession proof cities from the forbes.com . The City of San Jose is the #4 of the top recession proof cities. They used the following 3 sources to create the 10 recession proof cities.         1). The unemployment data supplied by the U.S. Bureau of Labor [...]

Lynbrook High school Real Estate Update May 2008

Lynbrook High schools area real estate is still in demend. The rating of this school is 10 out 10 from the greatschools.net. The Lynbrook High School’s boundry can be found at http://www.lhs.fuhsd.org/school_info/fuhsdzon.htm It is in between the De Anaza Blvd & Lawrence and another 2 roads are  Bollinger Rd and Prospect.Now there are 29 homes for sale and [...]

Cupertino Real Estate trend of 1st quarter 2008

            The 1st quarter of 2008 Cupertino reported 52 closed Single-Family Homes sales receiving 100.34 % of list price. These closings represented a median price of $1,185,000  and an average price of $1,271,490. There were 124 new listings on the market and current inventory is 65 homes for sale. t takes an average of 35 [...]

Top 10 Ways Sellers Can Guarantee Their Home Won’t Sell.

      I found this article is very interesting from the RE/MAX Time on line that a Hall of Fame member and a platinum agent Paul Pastore, with RE/MAX Elite in Chandler, Ariz. , he has become the master of the Top 10 lists (sorry, Mr. Letterman).   1. Be casual, not serious, about selling. A [...]

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 [...]