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Here is a selection of my recent posts:

Karin Cunningham:  

San Bruno Posy Parade 2009

The Posy Parade in San Bruno is held every year in June. It is put on by the San Bruno Lion’s Club. This year it will be on Sun. June 7th at 1:00. The theme this year is “The Many Cultures of San Bruno”! It is a parade dedicated to children and it’s themes are always deocrated with flowers!

At its height in the 1960s, the parade attracted as many as 3 thousand participants and 20 to 30 thousand spectators. This year is the 69th Annual Posy Parade in San Bruno. The parade includes all of our baseball teams, school floats, orginization floats, marching bands, a Posy Parade princess and her court.  The mayor passes by in a fire truck and the city council in old fashioned cars throw candy to the crowds who are lining the street! The end of the Posy Parade is in San Bruno Park which holds a ceremony for the best floats, hot dog sales and 2 MAJOR San Bruno baseball games! See you Sunday June 7th for the 69th Annual Posy Parade in San Bruno, Ca.!

Posy Parade Poster

Posy Parade Brochure

http://sbpsd.k12.ca.us/schoolhouse/posy-parade.html

Picture taken from website above.

Signs of a Real Estate Rebound

 I am not one of profound wisdom, but I am hearing some positive signs of real estate making a turn around, a turn around for the better! Basically, the thinking goes like this, “Hmmm, real estate values are down, not only do I still have my job but I have some cash sitting around, and rates are very low – and may not go lower. So maybe I will stop renting and buy a place (or pick up that non-owner occupied property, or that vacation home), or at least see what is out there.” The market will tell you that at some price, there is a buyer for everything.

San Francisco, the San Mateo Peninsula, East Bay and South Bay are experiencing a surge in homebuyers who are jumping off the fence to try and get their hands on property that they could have only wished they could afford a few years ago. Check out the link below to see what I’m talking about!

http://cbs5.com/business/real.estate.sales.2.956968.html

Here’s another example:

San Bruno 2 bedroom/ 1 bath

Listed at $344,900 just went pending with approximately 20 offers!!

 

The Real Estate Therapist is “IN”!

Real estate therapy for the home buyer, home seller and home owner is a pretty common request these days. Some of the most frequently asked questions start  from what the current value of a home is in order to make a decent offer or sale to how one could lower their property taxes. It’s a different market out there in real estate but there are some interesting things going on! Read more

Can I really buy a house in Daly City for under $400,000?

Not only can you buy a house in Daly City for under $400,000 right now but in South San Francisco, Pacifica, and San Bruno as well. Most of these lower priced bargains are short sales and bank owned property. They are not always in the best shape or have a lot of bedrooms but they are opportunities that some people have been waitng for! Although there is competion again to buy in this price range, more and more homes become available every week. It’s sad on one hand but a hopeful first time buyer’s dream!        Read more

How to Rock Real Estate Sales in 2009!

If you are a full time real estate agent in the Bay Area, you may relate to some of what I am saying. It may not work for all “necks of the wood” but I have some strategies that really work. I know from experience. I had a lousy 2006 and 2007 in real estate sales…the worst ever even! Then 2008 came along and to my surprise, it started AND ended with a BANG!    Read more

Do you feel like you are in a media induced recession?

If it were not for all of the news I watch on TV or the newspapers and internet news, I wouldn’t think I was in a recession! I don’t live in a bubble, in fact, I live in the Bay Are and I am a Realtor. My phone rings everday with people who want to buy real estate at the new opportune prices and I receive emails each day as well. The malls, Serramonte and The Shops at Tanforan, where we have our real estate kiosks see 1,000s of holiday shoppers all day long and meet PLENTY of people interested in buying buying buying and gas prices have gone down to boot!

I am only one person making my own observation. I have had some hardships as well and DO realize that the economy has slipped but my point is, if we did not have the media would we be so overwhelmed with a recession? My husband is a stay at home dad and our family and friends in San Bruno and the Bay Area are doing ok and I AM GRATEFUL FOR THAT! I just wonder how other people in the Bay Area are doing? Please comment!

 

10 Reasons to buy a home in San Bruno

I wrote something like this before but it’s been awhile! I am partial to San Bruno because I live here and my office is here as well, Prudential California Realty, San Bruno. My kids go to school within walking distance from our house, my office is only 8 blocks away, the corner store is 4 blocks away, and if we need to go San Francisco, it’s only 10 minutes away! So that would be the number one reason to buy a house in San Bruno because a home near San Francisco is desirable because a lot of people work there and don’t want a long commute, so…. Read more

More than just a picnic in San Bruno! It’s a family affair!

Boing! Boing! Boing! On Sept. 27, 2008 our office at Prudential California Realty- San Bruno had its annual company picnic, bounce house and all! Our agents brought their favorite dishes, pot luck style while the office supplied the hamburgers, hot dogs and drinks. It was a HOT day in San Bruno border-lining 90 degrees! Our favorite title companies supplied the kids with a jumping castle with a slide, piñata, and other goodies! There was a committee that put this all together and they did the greatest job, planning, shopping and preparing!

Our office family, together with our real families, were playing and eating together! It was a great atmosphere! The day was an absolute blast!

  

Kids waiting to hit the piñata!

Picture-Courtesy of Shokoofeh Nowbakht