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People forget in our urban world, that the fun things in life are often the simple ones. Remember walking to the local duck pond to feed the ducks or biking to the store to buy candy? I remember those sort of things. Not alot was involved, get on your sneakers and walk till you got there. Get on...
07/20/2010
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Santa Cruz real estate has always been an enigma for most investors. It does generally not have the metrics that one would find on your duplexes and 10 plexes in san San Jose or Portland. Real Estate is one of those things that for an investor is a cashflow return, versus what they could get, le...
05/14/2010
You know I was recently at 3054 Pleasure Point Drive,Santa Cruz, checking it out for someone as a rental. Santa Cruz beach houses sometimes do well as as a dual function. Part investment, and part fun. Many Santa Cruz beach property owners prefer to keep them as second homes, and who could argue ...
05/08/2010
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Was thinking about the eastside of Santa Cruz the other day as I drove around. We have an area called Seabright. Santa Cruz was once a smaller town with a bunch of little communites connected by trails or roads and eventually in the later 1800 by rail. The area has some great beach cottages and o...
05/01/2010
When people think they can succeed at a business, because they have a great idea, they often find that is just the beginning. Whether you are a Santa Cruz foreclosure Realtor or one who has been selling for a long time. The fact of the matter is that a huge number of small businesses fail – in fa...
04/25/2010
We sometimes forget that public works projects are for the public good. Too often I think Americans think the government is someone else. When I pay taxes, I realize that not all of what I support or need to draw upon is what my money is going for. I realize that I am the government and that if I...
02/01/2010
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Most of us who have lived around Santa Cruz County have known someone that has worked at or with people at the old Davenport cement plant. The cement plant has been integral to Santa Cruz county for several generations. The cement produced had built many a building, bridge or drive way here in Sa...
01/22/2010
If you are lucky enough to live in Santa Cruz, Ca, you can enjoy a fine day like this on January 3, 2009. Really if you own any type of Santa Cruz real estate, you can take a short drive to the beach or walk in many cases. That speck at the shore line is a girl in a bikini. Yes here it is in th...
01/03/2010
This was a pretty compelling article I read of the local drug scene. The location is one I enjoyed as a young man, but not for drugs. It is really pretty up there. The Santa Cruz real estate scene takes you into a lot of different places and across people with different things going on. This coul...
12/04/2009
Now on the surface, thinking Santa would have anything to do with Santa Cruz real estate seems, well preposterous. You know, on the surface it does. Some would say that even believing in Santa is well, preposterous. But let's suspend disbelief on both accounts for a moment. Thing about it, the po...
12/02/2009