Anne Fashauer Anderson Valley Real Estate

It's that time of year when it seems everyone is having a party or there's some kind of gathering to attend.  It's fun to see everyone out and about and often dressed a little differently, perhaps with a little more flair, than the rest of the year.  Two recent events included the Boonville Big Band at Lauren's and the ...

The past few weeks have been busy!  I had several clients come into town to look at property and it looks like two of them have found the places they want to buy.  Have they made offers yet?  No.  And I think this is indicative of our current buyer's market.  The buyer's now know that the clock is on their side; ...

You know how you can live in a place and still not take advantage of all that there is to offer?  For years I lived in San Francisco, but other than the first trip to Alcatraz when I was a freshman at USF I never went there again.  Well, this past weekend I took a walk for the first time on the Haul Road in Fort Bragg.  What a ...

We often get this little break in the weather in February that reminds us that Spring is coming.  It's been beautiful - in the 70's at my house and 59 this morning early.  I hope it was beautiful wherever you are also. Things continue to be on a better course in the real estate world.  Looking at the recent activity, ...

I was reminded today of the importance of a buyer speaking with a mortgage lender prior to beginning the home search process.  I received a call from a local renter wanting to take advantage of the current buyer's market.  I suggest the person speak with our local Century 21 Mortgage broker, Steve Guenza; all of our agents have ...

We had a wet and windy couple of days - wonderful to get all of that rain.  My mom keeps track of what we get at my place and she said we had two inches over the rainy period!  There was also some thunder and lightning, which always is exciting.  We are expecting a few dry days and then apparently a series of storms are headed our ...

I just sent out my monthly newsletter (if you don't already receive this, please drop me an email at anne@annefashauer.com) and in that I covered the foreclosure process, mostly as it relates to buying a bank owned property.  One subject that came up there that I want to talk a bit about here is the appraisal process. What we've been ...

Hard to believe Thanksgiving 2009 has come and gone and here it is December 1st!  The day started out cool (47 degrees near Philo) but beautiful.  The coast was quite nice, but now at 2pm the fog has come in and we look like Mendocino again. Things seem to be happening again with real estate.  Several of the agents in my office ...

Last week I had another birthday!  I ended up spending part of the day with friends and their horses, which was very nice.  I took a two hour lesson, with my friend Floriane, with a wonderful trainer named John St. Ryan.  His methods are simple and clear and it was wonderful to watch my horse respond so quickly.  The idea is to ...

This past weekend I went to the circus!  What a fun and amazing time I had.  There are so many talented people here in our area.  We were treated to all ages on the silks, performing amazing feats of strength and agility, fire dancers (using light, not fire indoors!), mimes (my friend's two boys, quite talented), live music and ...