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June 2011

3 BR/2BA for $1.7M, No Basement

Where do houses — like the one pictured above with 3 Bedrooms, 2 Baths and 2,650 square feet (and no basement*) — go for $1.7 million? On Stanford-owned land just south of the campus in Palo Alto. Thanks to booming shares in such companies as LinkedIn and Facebook, demand for housing in and near Silicon Valley is...
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Regional Driving (& Parking) Idiosyncracies

Preventing Runaway’s The first thing any Minnesota driver learns — at least in the winter — is to pump the brakes when conditions are icy (make that “learned,” now that anti-lock brakes are standard equipment on most cars). In San Francisco, the equivalent is to always angle the tires towards the curb when you park...
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“THX YAHOO”

Vanity License Plates, CA Style Need a little context? The license plate in the headline (“THX YAHOO”) was attached to a $100k ($150k?) Mercedes convertible in the parking lot of a Portola Valley eatery, just a stone’s throw from the Stanford campus and Silicon Valley. The obvious inference:  the owner cashed in when Yahoo! went public, way...
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Coit Tower Interruptus

The Limits of Vacation Coverage Veteran Realtors know that the best way to ensure that your client will want to buy a house is to show it to them just before you have to head to the airport for a flight. To that, I’d add this corollary:  the best way to guaranty that there’ll be a client emergency...
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Stinson Beach “Posting Rules” — Analog Version

These days, “posting rules” automatically refer to blogs, tweets, etc. So, it was nice to see these old-fashioned posting rules for the bulletin board (analog version) in front of a Stinson Beach (CA) cafe this afternoon: No Staples No Tape No Politics No Whining No Stradamus Not bad rules to live by, either . . .
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Super! . . . Again

“Drum Roll, Please . . . .” No, there’s no Oscars or Emmies for Realtors. The closest there is (so far) is the Mpls-St. Paul Magazine‘s annual “Super Realtors” list. So it’s nice to be selected . . . for the fourth year in a row. Local Realtors just got notified by letter; the list is...
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