Home Depot Offering 10% of Appliances

Home Depot is offering 10% off of appliances over $398 with free delivery and haul away.  Thanks, Home Depot!

It is raining cats and dogs in Berkeley and the surrounding areas… Check your sump pumps!

El Nino is coming to Berkeley for dinner tomorrow?
Wait! I am not ready!
It’s raining, it’s pouring, soon we all will be snoring.
Checked the weather lately?
Did you know that it is supposed to rain for the NEXT TWO WEEKS?
A biologist friend sent me an email from a climate scientist that said “The next 2-3 weeks (at [...]

When CFL’s Break- You Need To Know!!

We are all making an effort to become more green.  The easiest switch is changing out your lightbulbs.  So when I walked into a house over the weekend I noticed that one of the CFL’s was broken.  I thought, “Hmmm, this can’t be good.”  It never occured to me what would happen if it did [...]

Contra Costa County Homeowner Repair Loans

 
 
 
 
 
Did you know that there are programs out there to help low-income homeowners fix up their homes?  In Contra Costa County there is a program called the Neighborhood Preservation Program which is operated by the CCC Building Inspection Department. 
The program, created in 1975, makes loans to very-low and low-income homeowners to help fix up homes, [...]

Berkeley Burglars Kicking in Doors in the Hills

COMMUNITY CRIME ALERT – BURGLARS KICK DOORS IN THE HILLS

Berkeley, California (Friday, October 24, 2008) – City of Berkeley Police Department (BPD) Property Crimes detectives are alerting the community about a series of daytime burglaries that have been plaguing the North Berkeley Hills in the past two months.
I have clients and friends in the hills. [...]