Blogging Broker

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

I just got an email informing me that the DR Horton is offering a $40,000 in builder incentive discount and up to $20,000 in closing costs and lender incentives for Buyers for 4 homes in Bella Lago, a private gated community adjacent to the Pheasant Run Golf Course in Chowchilla. They’re also offering the co-operating brokers (who brings the Buyers) a %4.25 commission.

Share This

Sometimes when you need to show a home tenants just don’t cooperate. Of course, if they just let you SHOW the home, I consider that cooperation, since some won’t even do that. Don’t get me wrong, some tenants are angels; just know that some are devils too

In the video below an agent is doing a showing, and as you can see the tenants could care less.

Share This

10/02/2007 - A plan to add dozens of sheds to house the homeless in downtown Fresno failed at city hall Tuesday. While the majority of council members were for the project, there weren’t enough votes to bring 44 more sheds like these to downtown Fresno, because some felt they did not want another temporary solution. Read full story here.

Well the homeless just got the shaft from city hall; more specifically from Perea, Sterling and Dages. WTF are those knuckleheads thinking?

Well, let’s see, Dages says: “A shed like I have on the side of my house for people to live in. I wouldn’t ask my relatives to live in it, and I have a really hard time asking the homeless to live in it.”

How dumb is that!

Don’t ask your middle class, never-been-hungry or homeless relatives if they would be willing to live in a shed — ask the homeless man or woman living out a shopping cart if THEY would be willing to live it. Look, if someone is starving and they come to you for a meal to sustain them and all you have is stale bread and turnips, you don’t need to get all hung up about taking care of their “long-term” problem; give them what you have and then worry about the next meal. You don’t say - well gee all I have is this stale bread and turnips and I wouldn’t feed this to my relatives… wait until the end of the month when I get my paycheck and I’ll buy you a proper meal!

Fresno. Sometimes I love it here; sometimes I hate it!

Another article on today’s meeting here.

Has Mike Dages ever gone a day without food or shelter?

Cynthia Sterling looks well fed:

Henry Perea gives a link to his blog on the Fresno.gov website: check it out here
I guess he doesnt have anything to say or is too timid to say it. This from his website:

Disclaimer
All contributions to this bog will be reviewed before posting. We reserve the right to exclude any items that may be offensive, threating, inaprotiate or unrelated to the current discussion.

Well, he certainly did a poor job of reviewing HIS OWN POST before posting. He didn’t spell blog, threatening, or inappropriate correctly. The guy obviously lacks basic writing skills. He’s smart NOT to be blogging. I would think the bloggers would eat him alive. But LOOK — when he started the blog last year he issued a news release. Looks like he came in like a lion; I think the content of his blog describes how he left. Remarkable how that forth grade grammar has remained on his site for a year and half without anyone mentioning it to the poor guy. Now that I have pointed it out I bet its corrected or gone within the month. We’ll see.

Share This

Wow! Here’s and article I just read in the Fresno Bee about a meeting tonight to discuss potential plans to develop land in s.e. Fresno. No small development, that’s for sure, they’re talking about 9,000 acres! Now just to put this into perspective that’s just over 14 square miles of land, or 5 times the size of San Anselmo, the city I grew up in. Ok, so that doesn’t really help you get the picture, so try this: 14 square miles is roughly the equivelent to the area between Blackstone and Temperance (east/west) and Shaw and Herndon (north/south). That’s a lot of land.

Peter Calthorpe, the author of

The Regional City: Planning for the End of Sprawl

The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream

New Urbanism: Peter Calthorpe Vs. Lars Lerup

and the Principle of Calthorpe and Associates has been hired by the city to help oversee the project. He looks like he has the credentials. He will be at the meeting tonight.

The meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. in Sunnyside High School’s cafeteria at 1019 S. Peach Ave.

Share This