Anne Fashauer Anderson Valley Real Estate

Last year at this time, my beau and I took a wonderful road trip to the southwest.  This year we are doing it again, with a couple of twists.  Last year we spent a couple of days at the Grand Canyon, a week in Sedona, AZ, then a few days in Death Valley.  This year we are going to spend just one night in the Grand Canyon; we've ...

2011 was not a big year for sales in Anderson Valley.  There were ten residential sales and six land sales.  One of the residential sales was "distressed" meaning it was either a short sale or an REO (bank owned sale). In 2010, there were 12 residential sales and 10 land sales.  For a little comparison, in both 2000 and in ...

We've been home from Cabo for about two and a half weeks now and it seems worlds away.  We came home just before Christmas to a bit of madness - last minute shopping, a few delayed meetings and decorating the Christmas tree.  We did that last on Christmas eve itself!  We had family here for the holiday which was really nice, ...

A couple of weeks have passed since I last had a chance to sit and write.  In that time I finally visited Hyampom, the town where my beau is working part of the time.  It's a very remote, very rural place; it's quite pretty but it has nothing on Anderson Valley.  It's also very cold - the elevation of the valley is not ...

It seems the last of our Indian summer is upon us.  I have been daily, sometimes several times daily, following the local agriculture weather forecast, checking to see how many more days of sun we have left.  My grapes are still hanging and looking fabulous, the sugars seem perfect and we should be harvesting just before the rain ...

Last Wednesday I had the most wonderful day.  It took a little planning, but it was worth it.  It started with taking my horse, Jac, up to where my friend keeps her horse on the Holmes Ranch.  We took the boys (our horses) down Holmes Ranch road, across Smith Hills, and down Guntley.  Feeling ambitious, we decided to ride the ...

It seems as though Mother Nature wanted us to make sure we knew that the season was changing as she brought in a slight rain storm just as we passed through the autumnal equinox.  The air and the light have changed; the mornings are cooler, crisper, the afternoons filled with a golden tint and the last warmth of the year as the sun moves away ...

I received a call from someone last week asking my opinion on whether or not a Class K building permit makes a difference when one goes to sell the property.  According to the Mendocino County Building Department website FAQ's page, "Class K is a relaxed construction standard available to owner-built rural dwellings and appurtenant ...

When I lived in San Francisco all I had to do for heat was turn up the thermostat and plan to open my checkbook to PG&E and write a bit larger check to them to cover this.  In one apartment we had a fireplace but it was more decorative than useful and I think I can count the number of fires we had with it on one hand.  When I moved ...

I've been thinking about summer and what that means to me.  For many years summer was a period of time defined not by the equinoxes, those floating dates in the latter half of June and September, but rather by my school year.  Most of my school years that meant early to mid-June until the day after Labor Day.  I think towards ...