There was so much hype around the musical Hamilton, at least in my reading material, that I could not escape it. I tried not to read much about the show because I did not want anything to alter my experience. Being at the theatre is magical all by itself. Magic happens up there on stage and it tr
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11/10/2017
When I asked Endre Barath, Jr. if he had any restaurant suggestions in Hollywood, he gave me two tourist places to go, one of which was Yamashiro. I was actually searching for fine dining, creative presentations, wine pairings, tasting menus, cutting edge approaches. But Endre said Yamashiro was
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11/09/2017
Many people when they visit Los Angeles want to visit the iconic Hollywood sign on Mount Lee. You can view the sign from Hollywood Boulevard and from the the Griffith Observatory on Mount Hollywood. I did not feel a personal desire to need to touch the letters, like some people. It made me wonder
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11/08/2017
When a Sacramento Realtor encounters a stressful situation during the day, there are always things to learn from it. What I learned from my ordeal yesterday is three-fold. First, don't drive down a dead-end street in a luxury vehicle, even in broad daylight, into a depressed neighborhood you don'
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11/07/2017
You would think that moving the Los Angeles Museum of Art right next door to the La Brea Tar Pits would be a great boost to the numbers of visitors at the tar pits. Maybe it is. I don't know because I don't live in Los Angeles. But I can tell you what it was like in the 1970s. Well, no, I can't r
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11/06/2017
It's like the word is out that all the crazy people in Los Angeles should head to Hollywood Boulevard. Probably because they will blend right in and not stand out. There are so many of them. Throw in the tourists, the porn lingerie shops, the guys who start walking in the crosswalk but then sudde
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11/05/2017
Mentors from many years ago are the credit for the statement about why four bedroom homes are so danged popular. I remember it like it was yesterday, and with my poor perception of time passing, it pretty much was yesterday, even though it was the 1970s. The saying goes that if a buyer needs a fo
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11/04/2017
This new listing in Penryn has been a work in progress. I believe I started discussions with the sellers about this last year when I sold a duplex in Sacramento for them. They have really put forth an effort to prepare the home for sale, most conscientious sellers I've worked with in a while. If
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11/03/2017
The question from about half of the sellers I work with is how much is the real estate commission in Sacramento. That depends, I tell them. Do you want your home to sell? How quickly? For how much? Do you want to hire a Realtor who is brand new or a person with decades of experience? What do you
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11/02/2017
When I moved to Sacramento in 2002 from Minnesota, the first thing I did was make a beeline from The Hyatt to the DMV. This was before the days of having the availability of appointments. Back then you had to walk into the DMV, take a number, and wait for the sun to go down. Now you can make an a
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11/01/2017
