My nemesis and Seattle carpetbagger fellow Bay Area freelance writer, Kristina Shevory, wrote an interesting article about buying into Diablo Grande Winery & Resort in Patterson, Calif. It turns out, like all grand developments opened in 2007, going belly-up and sold at auction. Although one family in the article, the Gardalis, bought a $500,000 home (I [...]
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Attorney General Jerry Brown announced today arrest warrants for five people allegedly getting homeowners in foreclosure to pay $10,000 and save their home by deeding their property to a “land grant” company. The Federal Land Grant Company, run by Bill Hutchings and wife Xiaoke Li out of San Diego, reportedly attached a survey of the Spanish Land [...]
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It’s time for our Broken Dream Home feature, where we unleash our frustration on the market on a poor, hapless soul who bought into the feverish buyer market of the last three years. Today’s broken dream home is a beauty in Vacaville: a 4-bedroom, 2.5-bath, 2,663-square-foot Edwardian charmer sitting on the market for 203 days [...]
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I’m sure you saw this on Inside Edition, the Los Angeles Times or even WSJ. We are all a big too into schadenfreude, are we not? Oh, yeah, we are. I feel better cashing in my plastic bottles to buy groceries if I know that Jose Canseco is living in a modest house and owes [...]
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So, you found your dream house! Excellent! But what do you know about your neighborhood? Hopefully, you investigate before you buy. My intrepid reporter friends, especially those with children, love this Web site, Megan’s Law, and will not buy a house without analyzing it repeatedly. (California only.) The other one, although not as informative but [...]
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It’s time for our semi-weekly feature and today we visit the beautiful city of Livermore. Yes, the I-580 may be murder during rush hour, but this house on Cindy Lane is *thisclose* to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. You might be able to walk it, as long as you have security clearance, that is. This 2,064-square-foot, three-bedroom, [...]
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