Time to start thinking about something fun to do this weekend!  I have a couple of suggestions that might bring a smile to your face, none of which involve breaking a sweat with boring household and/or yard duties! At our wonderful PCPA (Pacific Conservatory for the Performing Arts), tonight is the premier of an exciting new musical, "My Fairytale" about the...Read More!

Freddie Mac reports the lowest fixed rate on 30 year loans for the year  at an average 4.32%.  What will it take to get buyers off the fence?  Record low prices, combined with record low interest rates, ought to provide plenty of incentive!   However, according to a post in the Los Angeles Times, home loan applications have slipped to...Read More!

Why should you want to move to the beautiful neighborhood known as Foxenwood Estates in Orcutt, California?  For starters, it is located in the Santa Maria Valley, on the incredible Central Coast!  Fabulous Mediterranean weather, friendly people, clean air, sandy beaches, verdant wine country --- those are some amazing reasons right there!  Then add a lovely, immaculate home, which you can...Read More!

July produced 82 pending sales for the Santa Maria Valley, which will result in closed sales (hopefully for all of them) in either August or September most likely.  Of the 82, 64% were in Santa Maria (52) and 36% were in Orcutt (30).  At any given time, there are more homes for sale in Santa Maria than in Orcutt.  I continue...Read More!

Feels like our own Farmer's Market, right in our own backyard! Not too shabby for a couple of city folks, dabbling with a small 6' x 12' garden plot and a quartet of fruit trees!  We have salad-size tomatoes, huge green squash and yellow squash, tasty red beets and sweet carrots!  Our orange and apple trees are currently laden with fruit,...Read More!

July is typically a fairly busy month!  The June activities -- weddings, graduations, Father's Day, vacations, getting children settled into summer camps, day care, etc. --- are ending, and buyers wanting to get relocated before school starts are out house-hunting in full force.  So those sales results will show up in the September sales figures, following heavy looking and 45-60...Read More!

I'm really proud of this classic traditional beauty in Foxenwood that I just listed!  The owners of this home didn't just give an old home a face-lift; they completely renovated it from top to bottom, and added a great room, another bedroom upstairs with its own bath, a lovely master suite on the main level, and an over-sized 3 car...Read More!