The smells of home cookin’

I was out looking at some property today, and I noticed that a sign had been posted on one of the doors in the area.…

Signs of the Apocalypse in Santa Cruz

I plan to write a book that's a cross between Catcher in the Rye and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance . ... Speaking…

The Santa Cruz Rail Trail Gets Rolling?

Fate conspired against me, though, until the quiet moments of Thursday morning. [From Purchase of 32-mile rail line slated for fall - Santa Cruz Sentinel…

Is it safe to buy a house in Santa Cruz yet?

For example, our good, reliable, always-faithful friends at the California Association of Realtors (C.A.R.) report: C.A.R. reports sales decrease 28.5 percent, median home price falls…

From Santa Cruz to Mount Diablo and Back

I've hiked pretty much all over Santa Cruz county (it took me years to see it all, or most of it, anyway), so this time,…

Special Feature at Santa Cruz County Housing Expo: Me

One of the sessions in that track (I didn't break out the sessions) is "Opportunities in the Foreclosure Market." So yesterday, I'm sitting at my…

Researching Santa Cruz Neighborhoods On-Line

Whatever draws them here, a common interest is to research the various cities and the neighborhoods that make up Santa Cruz County. Fortunately, there are…

Advice for Santa Cruz Home Sellers in 2008

That's kind of the problem. There's a large school of thought that says one reason why home prices have not slid more than they have…

Santa Cruz is Better than Salinas

The title of this blog entry may sound outrageous to some, but I expect that most folks in Santa Cruz would greet it with a…

February 2008 Santa Cruz Real Estate Sales

That's good news, but if you think about it, you'd realize it couldn't actually get much worse, and even with this improvement, we're really just…