Your Exceptional Life

I’ve just read a couple of interesting commentaries on the current state of money, mortgage money in particular. Brian Brady has written on numerous blogs that the interest rates are equal to what they were in July of 2007. And he backed it up. Nice job Brian.  The Federal Funds rate [...]

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In recent years a couple of automated real estate valuation websites have cropped up. The two biggies are Zillow.com and Cyberhomes.com. The way they are set up they take recent sales in your area and factor that into your most recent sale and “guesstimate” what your home is worth. They are chock [...]

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The news has been full of reporting on foreclosures and I’ve mentioned it several times here. Currently the number one city for foreclosures in the country is Stockton, CA, followed by Coral Gables, FL, Merced, CA, Modesto, CA and Riverside, CA, Las Vegas, Vallejo-Fairfield, CA, Bakersfield, CA, Sacramento and Port Lucie, FL is #10. [...]

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My goodness it was a hot four days there.  PG&E keeps sending me these things about installing some air conditioning switch that they operate from headquarters and turn up or down or something your air conditioning when you’re at work.  Then you get some sort of break.  What kind of break do you get if [...]

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Yesterday was a lucky day for me in the shadow of the mountain. I started the day with a ride OVER the mountain. I’d never done that before. It was a five hour bike ride door to door. It was also the hardest thing I’ve done in years. And I’m [...]

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