50 Rutherford, San Anselmo, is a Mediterranean gem located in the Hawthorne Hills neighborhood.
It came on the market in early December. It showed itself well; bathed in full winter sun sporting a big, sunny back yard.
Wih only two bedrooms and one and a half baths on a lovely, quiet street near to Fairfax's iconic Good Earth Market, not just a few
of my clients thought the price would go down, not up.
I tried to explain the tangibles and the intangibles: architecture, lifestyle, schools etc.
In addition to the style and setting, this home is located in San Anselmo's
Ross Valley School District boundaries; Brookside Elementary, I think.
This gem of a home came on the market priced at $799,000.
It closed in 20 days for..... $965,000! (The price has no typos, by the way.)
It sold for over 120% of list price!
Yes, it was cute as a button, but it was not turn key.
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January - It Does Not Have to be a Blah Month
January is a time to explore and try new things. Marin
County offers so many opportunities that there is no reason for us to hear or say,
"There's nothing to do."
Do you have a budding young animator in your home?
Afterschool Animation Demonstration
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Date: Wednesday, January 8
Time: 3:00-5:00pm
Location: Microsoft Store - The Village - Corte Madera
Screening of SAF shorts, questions & answers with young
animators and a demonstration of Toon Boom 6.0 animation software.
Ages 8-18 - Free
For more information contact: http://cafilm.org/...
A new loan product
for the California market is offering jumbo financing with reduced down payment
requirements and 30-year fixed terms. Typically, most jumbo loans (those
exceeding the high balance limit of $625,500 that is extended to high cost
counties) require 20% equity as collateral to secure financing. Very few
lenders have offered jumbo financing beyond the 80% threshold and, of those
that have, consideration has been limited to Adjustable Rate Mortgage (ARM) loans
with fixed periods of between 3 and 5 years.
This new jumbo
product offers loans up to$850,000 with down payments of just 10%, supporting a
purchase price of $944,444. Financing of up to $1,000,000 is available to 85%
of purchase prices as high as $1,176,450. Credit score requirements are fairly
liberal with scores as low as 680 permitted. Loan reserve requirements are nine
months of the combined monthly total of principal, interest, and prorated monthly
mortgage insurance,...
A great website to get recipes for anything is All Recipes. It's like a recipe box with thousands upon thousands of recipes to sift through depending on what you fancy for breakfast, lunch, and/or dinner. Since it's Christmas Eve and a lot of you are probably cooking away or trying to figure out that last dessert treat to add to your holiday table, here's a great recipe that everyone loves, with a little variation from the original recipe.Â
The original recipe by All Recipe member Jackie Schmidt is titled Chocolate Mint Candies Cookies recipe, but with the variations that will be provided, the recipe is really Dark Chocolate Peppermint Cookies.Â
Ingredients:Â
- 3/4 cups butter
- 1 1/2 cups...
One of my personal favorite restaurants is Piazza D'Angelo in Mill Valley! Opened in 1981 by Domenico and Paolo Petrone, two brothers from the southern part of Italy, the Mill Valley restaurant is an oasis for everything from a drink and a snack in the elegant bar after work, to a luscious luncheon on a lovely day, a special dinner with family and friends, or even a group from your company. Choose the elegant dining room, one of the two enclosed patios, or an al fresco table facing the downtown Mill Valley square; It's hard to go wrong!
Under the direction of Chef Andrea Giuiliani, the expert and attentive staff consistently deliver a delicious and enjoyable experience created from their friendliness, flexibility, dedication, and skill. Whether you choose a...
415 Area Code - The End of an Era!
If your attached to the 415 area code and thinking about
changing your number - do it before February 2015 because the 415 is coming to
an end! Looks like the 415 will soon max out and a new era will begin - SF and
Marin get ready for 628!
(photo courtesy of SF gate)
Never understood what the big deal was when area codes were
changed and added like in Sex and the City when Carrie gets a new number, but
I've ALWAYS been a 917 girl."Â Now I
get it. I have been "A 415 girl" my whole life. I have had the same landline
phone number since I moved to SF in the late 80's and have been able to hold
onto my original cell number...
Photo courtesy of Movoto.com
Cool things just keep happening! San Rafael was named the #11 Most Exciting Small City in America by Movoto.com. The criteria was as follows to declare the top most exciting small cities, with a population between 50,000 to 60,000 residents:
- Nightlife per capita (bars, clubs, comedy, etc.)
- Live music venues per capita
- Active life options per capita (parks, outdoor activities, etc.)
- Fast Food restaurants per capita (the fewer the better)
- Percentage of restaurants that are fast food (the lower the better)
- Percentage of young residents ages 20 to 34 (the higher...
Every child has seen at least a dozen Disney movies growing up, but nothing beats the classics: The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Cinderella, and Beauty and the Beast. It seems like Broadway may be feeling a little nostalgic since NETworks has created Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Luckily for those who live in Marin, the East Bay, San Francisco, and anywhere else in the Bay Area, Disney's Beauty and the Beast is coming to the Curran Theatre! The story we all know very well comes alive on the broadway stage.
The classic story of Belle, a young...
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Every child has seen at least a dozen Disney movies growing up, but nothing beats the classics: The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Cinderella, and Beauty and the Beast. It seems like Broadway may be feeling a little nostalgic since NETworks has created Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Luckily for those who live in Marin, the East Bay, San Francisco, and anywhere else in the Bay Area, Disney's Beauty and the Beast is coming to the Curran Theatre! The story we all know very well comes alive on the broadway stage.
The classic story of Belle, a young woman in a provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a young prince trapped in a spell by an enchantress, comes alive through song,...
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I had the pleasure of working with Renee Adelmann to stage
and list this magnificent, first time on market, mid-century estate designed by
Roger Lee which was listed at $1,100,000 and just closed escrow at
$1,244,200.Â
The property located at 1220 Monticello Road in the Happy
Valley Glen neighborhood of Lafayette was commissioned and constructed by the
sellers family in 1954, completed in 1956 and has been in their family
since. The home is set on a 2.5 acre
private parcel with expansive panoramic views abutting the Briones Regional
Park.
We were helpful to the sellers in setting up contractors, obtaining
pre-inspection reports and sprucing up the property for market. After two weeks
of open houses, the property received six offers and closed escrow 113% over
the...
