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The Importance of Your Home Scent What are the first things you notice when you walk into someone's home? Your eye examines their décor, layout, and organization. And your nose is struck with their home scent. Maybe it's the smell of cookies baking in the oven, fried chicken from dinner, garbage ...

Add Color to Your Home Color has power. Colors can influence how you feel, how you look, and what your home reveals about you. We also associate certain colors with specific times, places, and people - and those associations are not always pleasant to recall. People carry all sorts of opinions ab...

Why It Is So Important That Your Home Is Correctly Priced and Marketed Properly"...you need to be beware of agents who set the list price on homes at unrealistically high levels simply to get listings..."While many agents may promise to sell your home for the money you want, the reality of the re...

Why It Is So Important That Your Home Is Correctly Priced and Marketed Properly"...you need to be beware of agents who set the list price on homes at unrealistically high levels simply to get listings..."While many agents may promise to sell your home for the money you want, the reality of the re...

Home Improvement Tips to Increase the Value of Your HomeBuying a home may be a dream, but the initial purchase is only the introduction to that dream. There's always something about your house that could be a little better, a little closer to perfect. Now, with a little planning, you can bring yo...

This fabulous Jeff Armstrong built home offers walls of glass looking toward S.F. and the Bay. Oakland Real Estate at its best, it offers a fabulous open floor plan with gleaming bamboo floors, spectacular entertainer's kitchen with granite slab counters and stainless appliances, vaulted exposed ...

Before Disaster StrikesFires . . . hurricanes. . . floods . . . earthquakes . . . tornadoes.... Natural or other disasters can strike suddenly, at any time, and anywhere. Your first priority, of course, would be to protect your family and your property.  But it's also important to protect against...

5 Things You Must Know about Recent Mortgage Loan Changes"....Insider Secrets that can make owning your Dream Home possible..."Increased Ability To Finance Your Closing Costs  You can now finance up to 100% of your closing costs thanks to recent changes in Federal Housing Administration (FHA) gui...

Oakland Real Estate at its finest!Tucked into the Montclair Hill's and just minutes from the Village or Hwy 13 you'll find this fabulous oasis. 301 Capricorn Avenue, Oakland, CA 94611 Open floor plan with glowing wide-plank hardwood floors and a kitchen afar with concrete counters greet you as yo...

 5 Highland Blvd offers wonderful walls of glass with Bay views from almost every room! Warm, glowing hardwood floors throughout, Master Suite w/updated bathroom and office/nursery room, Open kitchen w/granite slab counter tops, lower area perfect as in-law or au-pair with separate laundry, kitch...