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Success with craigslist really depends on several factors. 1. Be The One to Blaze the Trail. Is your area's craigslist well known and widely used? I'm in the Bay area where craigslist was born, so it is a given that this will be where it will be most active. If your area isn't often used --- yet ---be the one to use it most often. 2. ...

Mixed bag of emotions --- that's par for the course. OH, JOY! Today, I received a call from a prospective seller who told me I got the job of their realtor, beating out two other realtors in bigger local offices. I am thrilled. This is a very good listing in a desirable part of the island. This is a home with very good bones...needs a ...

To all buyers out there.... Please listen to your realtors who make a living pricing, selling, researching values of real estate property. We do have your interests at heart. We're not in it just to sell you something. We want you to be happy because we are counting on you to tell your friends, your associates to look us up when it comes time ...

Welcome, Alameda Wine Company! Alameda, we have arrived! For all oenophiles in Alameda, this is wonderful news indeed! It was a guilty pleasure to go to the Ferry Plaza Wine Merchant at the Ferry Terminal in San Francisco, but we now have our own wine bar next to the Alameda Theater.  Today, a friend and I wanted to take a break ...

I am not an "original" or native born Alamedan. Nor do I know everything there is to know about Alameda. But I am making an effort to get to know more about this beautiful island.Having lived in New York, New Jersey, Florida and Texas, and having sampled living in San Francisco apartment by the marina, a virtual warehouse loft by the ...

Going on line is the life....whether one is shopping or looking for specific information. This is the way to go. As a REALTOR, I rely on the internet to get my listings the maximum exposure in different venues. Today, in the real estate section of San Francisco Chronicle, the cover story is about "Real Property, Virtually" and that ...

LAST RESORT In a last ditch effort to help my sellers who are upside down on their loans and can't pay their mortgages with Downey Savings and National City, I contacted Mortgage Resolutions to see if they can help my clients. Mortgage Resolutions offers, according to them "as full complement of services designed to assist homeowners, ...

We know the foreclosure activity picked up. We also know that we have brisk activity when writing offers, many times, at a multiple-offer situation. So it wasn't a shock to see this headline that talked about repossessions in the Bay area soaring. Read the storyIn the Bay Area, mortgage companies recorded 18,516 notices of default, up more ...

Alameda, in spite of being a small island, has its share of restaurants that tickle the palate. Whenever we want to go out and get something to eat, we fight the urge to go off the island because there are so many to choose from. When I meet new clients who don't know much about Alameda, I take them to different restaurants so that they will ...

Folks who haven't yet discovered Alameda may want to come to one of the most fun events in the island -- the monthly Antiques Faire by the Bay http://www.antiquesbythebay.net/. It's billed as Northern California's largest antiques and collectibles show with over 800 dealers. According to theri website, everything sold at the show must ...