sam shueh realtor: Year around day light saving?
- 03/11/16 02:54 AM
Sam Shueh
WW 1 patriotic poster -advertisement promoting cigars
According to a poll 33% of US participants think the Day Light Saving(DLS) is justified. This is way lower than past studies. The DLS is advocated politically by special interest groups. Sports industries want people buy more … (3 comments)
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sam shueh realtor: 2016 q1 home prices north San Jose, CA
- 03/07/16 12:14 PM
Silicon Valley Housing Market-2016 1st quarter
Sam Shueh
No one is hinting of a housing slow down because there is a tremondous of corporate funds and high tech jobs in the area. We began see this year a diminsihing return in home appreciation since 2012 Q1 from 20+% YTY appreciation. As I mentioned over and over the steller appreciation can not be attained. In fact, majority of gain is already attained unless there are strong momentum to push for more.
This report encompasses an area with zip codes of 95131, 95132, 95133, and 95134. These single family homes often were built before 1960s. The gross … (1 comments)
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sam shueh realtor: Silicon Valley Homes 2016 1st quarter - central San Jose, CA
- 03/06/16 12:54 PM
Sam Shueh
It encompasses an area with zip codes of 95118, 95117, 95130, 95128 and 95126. These single family homes often were built before 1960s. The gross living area is bracketed from 1200 to 1999 sf with a minimum 3 to 4 bedrooms and 2 full bath.
We only look for trends like YTY price increase, gla/sf. Each neighborhood home prices are slightly … (1 comments)
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sam shueh realtor: Silicon Valley home prices 2016 first quarter - west side
- 03/06/16 12:53 PM
Sam Shueh
Realty One Group
Campbell, CA
Silicon Valley is a … (0 comments)
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sam shueh realtor: Safer cities to live in America
- 02/22/16 03:45 AM
Some people claim there is no place safe in America.
Link shares NOT SAFE CITIES TO LIVE IN AMERICA.
Everyone should bear arms to defend him selves. Even small rural American towns can have crazy people shoot at others. That is not necessarily true.
To find out which cities are the safest, researchers establish a list of all American cities with a population above 250,000. Then we ranked each city on the number of violent crimes per 100,000 residents using recent FBI data. Traffic fatalities matters with data coming from National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Year to year cities names do change but recent demographics … (6 comments)
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sam shueh realtor: Flowers are blooming in Silicon Valley, CA
- 02/21/16 12:24 PM
Sam Shueh
Men planted and native plants all are blooming after an El Nino year.
There are just so much time for them to reproduce as seeds.
Our area is still declared as Drought Year since it will take several of these wetter winters to replenish water lost from past years over pumpage.
What a lovely time of year, time of year, time of year.
What a lovely time of year, in our garden … (8 comments)
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sam shueh realtor: Fruit tree flowers are blooming i
- 02/21/16 08:59 AM
Sam Shueh
While the Valley of the Heart's Delight grew less and less of Silicon these days, there are still some home grown and smaller agriculture farming is continuing as the mild climate and long sunny days making this as an idea place to grow fruits.
The area was once one of the 11th largest agricultural food source. During World War I dried fruits were … (9 comments)
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sam shueh realtor: Flying used to be fun
- 02/16/16 11:43 AM
Sam Shueh
As the gasoline price drops to less than $2 a gallon even in California you expect the plane ticket fare is more reasonable and airlines will provide better service and may be a lower price. Wrong.
Not long ago, we used to fly with enjoyment in mind. Services were much better one gets a choice of meals. Drinks were subsidized. The flight attendants were selected for their people skills and looks. It made the flying trip quite comfortable and … (4 comments)
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sam shueh realtor: Flowers are blooming everywhere
- 02/16/16 12:31 AM
Sam Shueh
Silicon Valley, No California
We had a colder winter here in South San Francisco Bay last December. I saw snow on the mountain top. Between New Year and now, we get a few showers along the way. Spring already started here in Mid February. Orchard flowers are blooming in the Valley of … (8 comments)
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sam shueh realtor: Year of the monkey is around the corner. What sign are you?
- 02/02/16 10:27 AM
Sam Shueh
Silicon Valley, California
The Chinese New Year of the Monkey will commence on February 8 (1 day after the Superbowl). In Lunar calender it would be second New Moon after the Solstice. Monkey is the zodiac for people repeats every 12 years.
Monkey is an intelligent animal. They are problem … (1 comments)
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sam shueh realtor: Superbowl 50 count down - SF Bay Area
- 01/31/16 01:40 AM
We have 49er team in our town. Their so so performance during the last season is not impressive. So what? The stadium gets to host 2016 Superbowl.
The Levi Stadium was constructed and completed in 2014 at the cost of $1.3 billion dollars as the home of 49er professional team in Santa Clara, California.
The Stadium is next to the Great America Amusement Park. However, it is in the middle of Technology center with many companies blocks away. Some of the major companies are Intel, Texas Instruments, Applied Materials, Norton antivirus.
The Stadium is certainly built with the latest technology many … (7 comments)
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sam shueh realtor: Realtor's Testimonials
- 01/23/16 02:22 AM
Tes·ti·mo·ny ˈtestəˌmōnē/ noun a A formal written or spoken statement, especially one given in a court of law. evidence or proof provided by the existence or appearance of something. a public recounting of a conversion or experience. Majority of us will use an on-line source to determine credibility of a service a professional performed or evaluate a product. In my experience. I search for reviews of restaurants, mechanic on Yelp. The same goes with Home Depot, Lowes, Jify Lube, Angie's list etc all for their product and service. When a product has negative feedback, restaurant owners are not afraid … (3 comments)
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sam shueh realtor: US states with high income taxes- 2016
- 01/22/16 12:24 AM
When relocating one needs to do their home work not to migrate to a state with high taxes if one can help it. I live in California and always thought local taxes are high but we are just number 5 with more sunshine than the others for the State taxes.
The following are 15 States with highest taxes
New York-(in total, 12.7% of their income goes to paying state and local taxes), New Yorker tax payers paid on average $6,993 in annual taxes to their own and other states.
Connecticut- Its tax burden is 12.6% and total taxes paid per capita were $7,870.
New Jersey- … (6 comments)
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sam shueh realtor: US Housing - new builds cut back slightly
- 01/19/16 11:08 PM
Home builders cut back slightly on new construction in the final month of 2015, though they built the most homes last year since 2007.
So-called housing starts fell -2.5% last month to an annual rate of 1.15 million, the US government said Jan 20. Economists expected starts to total a seasonally adjusted 1.23 million units earlier.
Yet, for the full year home builders started work on 1.11 million new houses, the largest number since the Great Recession. Home starts climbed nearly 11% compared to 2014.
With this bear stock market started late 2015. This is just the beginning of an overvaluation era. It was … (2 comments)
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sam shueh realtor: Cupertino school home prices -2016
- 01/18/16 12:25 PM
Cupertino Schools
This is a neighborhood consists of west side of San Jose, City of Cupertino and parts of Sunnyvale. It is known for its good schools. During the early 1990 Dot Com days it had one of the highest unemployment resulting in about 10% home price erosion. This is in contrast to other neighborhoods which had ~5% price reduction, as internet was still at its infancy stage.
During the Great Recession, thanks to no layoff at Apple, Google, Linkedin etc, the unemployment experienced 9% briefly and home price erosion lasted just 15 months. Today its unemployment is a low 2.5% way … (0 comments)
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sam shueh realtor: Santa Clara City, CA -home prices 2016
- 01/18/16 12:10 PM
Santa Clara City, CA
It is the oldest city in California incorporated in 1852 centered around a Spanish Mission aka Santa Clara University. Its preparatory Jesuit school is called Bellarmine High School, one of the best private schools with 96% graduates going to a four-year university.
In recent months due to unaffordability of homes west of there, the close proximity to industry like Intel, Texas Instruments, Applied Materials, Yahoo prompt to a surge in home appreciation and demand for more housings in Santa Clara City. 49er Football team is calling the city as home by Great America next to Cisco, Norton antivirus, cell … (0 comments)
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sam shueh realtor: Palo Alto Home Price Update-2016
- 01/18/16 09:02 AM
Palo Alto had the most number of professionals with attorneys, physicians and academic professionals who had full employment. The number of home owners who bought the properties with cash or have no mortgage did not prompt to any sizable home value loss. Its price erosion stayed 15 months. The unemployment rate in PA was ½ of other cities in the south Bay at 7% and recovered in Q2 2010. By mid-2015 it remained at 2.4%.
During the 15 months the avg single family home of interest dropped to -8%. But some of the other neighborhoods the price may have dropped a total … (3 comments)
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sam shueh realtor: Famous horse street names in Santa Clara County, CA
- 01/18/16 12:17 AM
The developers always come up with interesting street names to attract people. Here is a list of famous racing horses in East and south San Jose, CA.
Furthermore, the same names are used again in south county where they allow horses with equistrian trails all over.
Grey Ghost is one of the most celberated racing horses in America winning 21 out of 22 races. He is a stud sired 43 stake winners (aka Native Dancer). He passes away in 1967 and is honored in National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. He was born in Lexington, Kentucky.
Gallant Fox is a … (6 comments)
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sam shueh realtor: "No Name Uno", south Santa Clara county, CA
- 01/17/16 11:12 AM
Every time I drive on this street I chuckle at the street name. This is in South Santa Clara County in South Bay of San Francisco, CA outside Gilroy Factory Outlets. This is a 2.5 mile rural road parallel to I-101 freeway,
It connects a regional hospital named Saint Louise Hospital to the 1,000s of name stores aka Gilroy Factory Outlets.
Sam Shueh Realtor
As the author of South Santa Clara County(South Santa Clara … (0 comments)
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sam shueh realtor: Interesting street names in San Jose, CA
- 01/17/16 02:19 AM
The developers always come up with interesting street names to attract people. Here is a list of Disney movies and characters in East San Jose, CA.
Do not expect a deer coming out greed you. It is more a modest ranch 1 story style homes built at the end of 1950s. Some have modern upgrades but others have original features.
Do you like Peter Pan? As a child I was so facinated when our parents take us to watch these cartoons at the movie house. I still miss these good old days.
We also have Van Winkle, Sleep Hollow Avenues … (3 comments)
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