The cheapest house in the East Bay is this $32,000 1,100-square-foot houseboat at Lighthouse Landing Marina in Brentwood. It’s three bedrooms, one bath and if you like the water, then why not? I’m sure there’s a docking fee and a whole list of other rules, but that’s the price you pay for a life of [...]
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I know maybe all of us in our 1,200-square-foot homes are enjoying this a bit too much. According to Kenneth Harney, homes larger than 3,000-square-feet may lose a mortgage-interest tax deduction. Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, expects to introduce comprehensive climate change reform legislation once Congress returns next [...]
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Flip your way to millions at Mansion Impossible! This game is too addictive for words, but does kind of illustrate the life of a flipper. The object of the game is to buy low and sell high, making a pile of profit to buy the multimillion-dollar mansion. Because it’s always important to show off to [...]
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Yes, this view of two peaks and a 4,600-square-foot home (with a 1,080-square-foot guesthouse) on 4.8 acres can be yours for $1,495,000! (Personally, I think it looks a little like a forest station office painted Tuscan Red. I want to go in and get my wilderness permit. Perhaps it’s the driveway that looks like a [...]
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Part of the problem in writing stories dealing with the multicultural and multilingual people of the East Bay, is that some readers seem inordinately fixed on the immigration status of people in them. The Spanish-speaking Murillos bought a house in Antioch to be close to family. Judy, 31, is a cashier at Wal-Mart, her husband, [...]
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Today’s Broken Dream Home is from Benicia — a three-bedroom, two-bath, 1,785-square-foot house listed for $559,000. Sounds sensible? Perhaps it is. However, the house was bought July 5, 2005 for $577,000, at what was arguably the height of the housing market, which means a 2007 loss of $18,000. (Man that 4.89 percent certificate of deposit’s [...]
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