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$975,000 Luxurious  79 acre Creekside Mountain Retreat in the Siskiyou Nat'l Forest - OFF-THE-GRID. Post & Beam construction 1783 sf 3 BR, 2 BA Chalet with cedar siding & shake shingle roof & in-house sauna. Great room has open-beam ceiling, rock fireplace, & hardwood floors. MBR has rock firepla...

Did you know that the earliest "Mother's Day" celebrations in the U.S. were mostly marked by women's peace groups. A common early activity was the meeting of groups of mothers whose sons had fought or died on opposite sides of the American Civil War. For more details on "Mother's Day" celebration...

$399,000 for an ocean view and this 1576 sf 2 BR, 2 BA Custom Built (1996) home on 1.19 acres. This well maintained home has a greatroom with cathedral ceiling, fireplace, & ceiling fan, upgraded italian tile & WilsonArt flooring, granite counter tops, crown molding, portico over front entrance a...

Get away to Oregon's Hidden Seaside Town is the title of the article recently published in Sunset Magazine. The hidden seaside town is Port Orford and the writer, Susan Houser, and the photographer, John Clark, have done a very good job of portraying "the not-so-sleepy charms of one of Oregon's m...

According to research firm Campbell Communications, “Three out of four potential short sale transactions fail, principally because the mortgage servicer takes too long to respond to the offer.” After foreclosure, these properties are sold at a price on the average of 20 percent below market and t...

A friend of mine who is also my neighbor and a client has one of her properties listed with me. During previous visits my friend has ‘WOW'd me with stories about psychic readings and the uncanny accuracy of her most trusted psychic counselor. So recently, when she was in need of some additional c...

The conventional wisdom is that you have to go talk to people who live in a place, and you have to visit the place. If the place is in a climate zone that has seasonal changes, you need to experience it in all four seasons. Correcting the ‘wrong place' decision has complexities similar to those e...