Jane Pacheco's (pachecorealty) Blog

On a cloudy afternoon, the sun tries to break through the sky. And it looks like the trees are giving way, welcoming the sun's entry no matter how faint.  This photo was taken on an afternoon drive in Highway 4, going to Big Trees, Arnold.    

I drove by a computer store recently and noticed that it was surrounded by a cluster of electric towers. It reminded me of a drive-by BPO I did a few months ago wherein a home was directly backing into a lot with several power towers. In fact, you would think the neighborhood had been designated...

Finally had a chance to try out Five Guys Burgers and Fries, which opened its first East Bay location in the city of Fremont (Northern California) earlier this year. I must say all the buzz about its unique selling points pushed me to slightly compromise the diet that I have so firmly committed ...

  Fremont is located on the southeast side of the San Francisco Bay, and is a city of about 213 thousand residents, making it the Bay Area’s fourth largest city. Fremont boasts of its highly-rated schools, as well as beautiful parks, like Lake Elizabeth.   Fremont’s real estate market continues ...

The city of Hayward is conveniently located in the “Heart of the Bay” – it is about 25 miles southeast of San Francisco and 26 miles north of San Jose. It has a population of about 151,000 and is the 6th largest city in the Bay Area. The City has created a Wi-Fi “Hot Spot” in the Downtown area, ...

Union City is one of three cities that make up the so-called Tricity of the East Bay (the other two being Fremont and Newark). It is an ethnically diverse community of about 74,000 residents. Short sales continue to dominate the Union City market on both active listings and pending sales. There ...

Life's challenges are there because they are reminders of one's vulnerability. It's easy to burden yourself with the worries of this world, of day-to-day living. But if you shift your focus on the goodness that surrounds you, on what you have in life rather than what you don't, on those who love...

The internet has provided homebuyers with an overload of information. They do their own home search; they run their own filters. They educate themselves with buying foreclosed properties. They run home valuation programs to find out if a home is worth the list price. They ask questions in differ...

I got myself a new PC, loaded with the new Microsoft Office 2010. If I had the choice, I would have opted to install my old MS Office version, except that I was told it can't be installed with Windows 7. So, ok... Once I started working on the new version of Word, I came to the realization that ...

      Ardenwood is a small Fremont community located on the northwestern part of the intersection of I-880 and Hwy-84. It is next door to Union City on Fremont’s western border. About 16 thousand residents call Ardenwood their home. Real Estate Based on past 6-month sales, Ardenwood home values ...