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Real Estate Agent - Chris Alston (Keller Williams Realty, Silicon Valley, California) - 01338415
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2011 

Speechless Sunday - Rain in Saratoga So it really rained last weekend, and this picture tells the whole story.  I took this picture out my front window, and it is out towards the field and a pump house and storage tank.  It had been raining for a few days, and it really started coming down.  I ha...
01/09/2011
Home Sales charts for Santa Clara County, CA.  Year to date, ending December 31st 2010.  The first chart is for Single Family Homes. The Blue line shows homes that are currently for sale in Santa Clara County.  It is showing a seasonal decrease that should show signs if increases in January.  Thi...
01/07/2011
It's that time of the month again to talk about stats, and the Cupertino Market.  These stats are compiled by hand daily, and posted as the number from the last day of the month.  (+/-). This first chart is for Single Family Homes in Cupertino, showing year to date. (Monthly) The Blue line shows ...
01/07/2011
The California Home, Garden & Gormet Show is coming to San Jose! Santa Clara County Fairgrounds.  244 Tully Road, San Jose CA On the weekend of Jan 7th through Jan 9th 2010! Topics at this year's event! How to use your iPad, iPhone or other technology to enhance your home and life. Road to Recove...
01/05/2011
Bill and Liz Spear are some great friends of mine on AR.  They wrote an awesome blog, that I had to share!  Click back to their blog to leave comments, as they are the awesome writers!!!  :)Do Buyers See Your Home As Closed For Business?Some sellers operate under the premise that if the buyers ar...
01/05/2011
I remember one year as a kid, maybe 6th grade, my dad was visiting from out of state and staying with us.  My good friend was over from down the street, and we both were going to stay up till midnight and ring the New Year in!  I asked my dad if he wanted to stay up with us, and he was all for it...
01/05/2011
I am always amazed at what I get to see out my front window, and Christmas morning I was able to catch several bucks in the same picture.  Usually I just see one, with a lot of female deer, but this was a stag party.   There were actually 7 deer hanging out, eating the clover and wild oats that g...
01/05/2011
As real estate agents, we spend so much time looking for the perfect 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom home for our clients, that we may be missing the point.  They call us, tell us what they are looking for, then we become a computer in trying to find exactly what they are asking us to find.  Or we put them...
01/04/2011
Okay okay... When someone wakes up late, it could be due to many reasons...  It could be due to going to bed late, maybe hitting the snooze button to many times...  Or just ignoring the alarm all together...  Or forgetting to actually set your alarm.  Or maybe turning down the volume so low, that...
01/04/2011
"One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle." James Otis, On the Writs of Assistance, 1761 I thought that this qoute was a great one, since we are in the art of real estate. The sales of real estate.  If one of the basic founda...
01/02/2011
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