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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The past two weeks have been about as busy as I've ever been.  It started with my beau's surgery, which is routine and outpatient, but the recovery is very slow and they just don't prepare you for just how little this person is going to be able to do for the first week - walking was a challenge.  I spent the first days ...

At the last minute my beau and I decided to head for Sacramento over Memorial Weekend to get some sunshine, warmth and jazz - it was the annual Sacramento Jazz Festival.  We attended last year and had a lot of fun and this year was another winner for fun, if not for sunshine and warmth.  We arrived Friday evening and headed out to ...