I've decided to do my first blog with the help of my marketing assistant, Laura Monroe, who has very excitedly has been telling me about Active Rain, and all that I have been missing! I will keep this short until I have gotten the hang of "blogging". My wife, Fran and I are residents of Pleasanton, California, and are proud to call it our home. Pleasanton is a community of 67,700, situated in the Tri-Valley Region of the Bay Area in Northern California.  It not only is a wonderful place to live, but a wonderful home for our real estate business Keller Williams Tri-Valley Real Estate. We concentrate on providing the best in experience in service for Buyers & Sellers in the community of Pleasanton, and its surrounding areas in the Tri-Valley.We have put together a Real Estate Show in hono... 01/23/2007

Pleasanton is poised to see major change and progress in 2007 in its business, government and services sectors.  Already, four multi-million-dollar projects are under way downtown: restoration of the Veterans Memorial Building and the Kolln Hardware Building on Main Street, a new two-story retail and office building on Angela Street, and the rebuild of the old I.O.O.F. hall on St. Mary that will house a new restaurant, offices and possibly a night club.  Across town, two new restaurants, P.F. Chang�s and the Cheesecake Factory have opened at Stoneridge Shopping Center, where Nordstrom is set to build a new department store in front of its current location. That project is on hold while the Mills Corporation, the mall�s owner, restructures its finances and determines if it, or some other... 01/07/2007

I just wanted to say congrats to the Keller Williams Tri-Valley Realty Office in Pleasanton for being voted Residential Real Estate Firm of the year by the East Bay Business Times!I feel proud to work with and know many of you! And for those I DON'T know...well let's just say you are on my HAVEN'T MET database;) Have a great 2007!   01/05/2007