Greetings All, The numbers are in. If you’re like me, all the (almost gleeful, at times) media pronouncements of the “death of” San Francisco, the Bay Area, and California at large, bug the heck out of you. Moving to Austin? Yuck, that’s in Texas! Relocating to Arizona? Is it hotter than 68 degrees? Forget it! […]

  Greetings All,   Welcome to 2021! Well, another time measurement is upon us. Time may be an illusion, but my graying hair isn’t.   Maybe instead of the usual “What New Year’s Resolutions Have You Made?”, we should think in terms of “Letting Go”. Letting go of old habits that don’t serve us. Letting […]

  Greetings All, EVERYTHING IS ENERGY.  I’ve understood this for a while now. Spiritual leaders, psychologists, self-improvement gurus and life coaches preach it. But, boy, it’s been rough this year keeping things positive, hasn’t it? Well, I encourage you to make a list of the Best Things about one of the Worst Years Ever. Here’s […]

View in browser Greetings All, I must be getting older. Author Eckhart Tolle reminds us that we should focus on the “Power of Now”: ” Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have”, he writes. Yesterday is gone; tomorrow is not guaranteed. But these past 8 months, and with yet another birthday […]

View in browser Greetings All,   My mom, bless her soul. She texts, emails or calls me at least once a week to tell me someone she knows may be looking for a Realtor, soon. “How do you know this?”, I ask. “So and so’s husband just passed away, and the wife may go into […]

View in browser Greetings All,   Each month we’re committed to sending out this newsletter, recapping the ebbs and flows of the local housing market and making this information available to our clients and friends in bite-sized chunks. Geneva will remind me every three weeks it’s time to start thinking about writing the next introduction, […]

  Greetings All, Some years ago, Warren Buffet was asked about his business strategy. “We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful”, he answered. He’s done all right for himself, hasn’t he? When it comes to condos in San Francisco and elsewhere, another quote […]

  Greetings All,   Welcome to the Second half of 2020! The first half has been a mixture of frightening, maddening, saddening, uplifting… certainly unlike anything a great majority of us can ever recall experiencing. COVID-19, social unrest, equity market tumbles and rises, massive unemployment… it’s as if the first half of this year has been […]

Greetings All,   Welcome to the “new normal”, our “new reality”. The events of the past three-plus months have led to the use of new terms, bordering on clichés. “In these ‘challenging,’ ‘trying,’ ‘uncertain’ or ‘unprecedented’ times, we’re assured that “we can all get through this, together”.     But with constant repetition, it’s no […]

Greetings All,   This pandemic has certainly affected us all in many different ways. It’s safe to say even after a reliable vaccine is available, our lives will never again be the same. How we each respond to the goings on around us may vary, but my money is on a collective positive payoff across […]