The above illustration appeared in the November 20th, 1941 edition of the Oakland Tribune.  Because of the date two weeks before Pearl Harbor and the outbreak of World War II.  It is doubtful whether this exact building was ever built.However, the homes in Alameda's Southshore neighborhood appear to share architectural DNA to the 1941 design above.  These homes built around 1955, 14 years later even share the horizontal siding of the original design.  The two car tandem garage in the original design was streched forward to be two garage/carports sharing a large open entrance atruim.  12/07/2007

SAN FRANCISCO - September 4, 2007 - LighthouseListings.com, an online real estate listing service, now offers all paid listings to be featured in property searches.  Now when a potential home buyer or renter searches their database of property listings, the listings that have been added through their paid services will always appear at the top of the list and display a thumbnail image of the property.  This allows paid listings to receive more attention and visibility to potential buyers and renters over non-paid listings.  With this new feature, LighthouseListings.com delivers more of the same features that other larger real estate listing websites offer but at the lowest price on the internet.  LighthouseListings.com continues to show their commitment to their users by offering a full... 09/05/2007

In June the California Associaton of REALTORS is having their Legislative Day in Sacramento. We will meet in mass and have lunch with our legislative representatives. We will discuss our issues with them. Last year Arnold spoke to us and hopefully we will see him again. He is an excellent speaker. Along with Led Day there will be a mini trade show and for the second year will include a Commercial group of REALTORS. That is great as most Commercial Brokers do not usually include themselves with non Commercial agents. In October we will have our Tech Tuesday and large trade show in Anaheim. Maybe we will see Mickey and the Gang! 05/03/2007

Reaching the top of the Search Engine doesn't happen overnight as a lotof you might know or not know. People takes shortcut in hopes of finding a link exchange miracle (joining automatic link farms etc...) here is a small but incomplete guide how I made some of my sites TOP in it's Search class :this are my ranking : many of the sites just started this year and I will continue to experiment.http://www.my-ranking-online.com/my-ranking/number-one-real-estate-website.htm (this are very old data, I can assure you if I have a new one, it's better with more competitive Keywords in the first page, more pages with more keywords, etc...)1. link with quality sites2. make sure you have tons of link pages for this purpose (it's a turn off to have only 1 page dedicated to link partners, make a 50 pa... 10/31/2006