Warning to Home Buyers and Real Estate Agents – Smart Devices May Be Listening Be careful what you say when you’re viewing a home or on a real estate tour of homes. You might be being recorded. Yep, between smart homes, home security, Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant, you’re probably being eavesdropped on. Maybe […]
Get Organized! 5 Easy Tips for Organizing Your Home
Let’s Get Organized Welcome to a new year and perhaps some chaos left over from the holidays. Personally, I’d rather have leftover turkey than the mess left over from family celebrations, libations, and vacations. But if you’re lucky, or just motivated, your home didn’t fare too poorly during December. But for those of you who […]
DIY Home Improvement Ideas To Build Your Home Equity
Home Improvement Ideas – Sans Tim “the Tool Man” Taylor Here in the land of the do-it-yourselfer, Home Depot, Lowe’s, and countless hardware and home improvement stores, we crave ideas and inspiration for making our homes more attractive, livable, and enjoyable. Just look at HGTV with 8.3 million followers on Facebook alone. They feature shows […]
2017 Year in Review * Guthrie Group Homes, Realtors
2017 was another crazy year, both in real estate, and California as a whole. Not to mention the nation and the world! I’m not sure if it’s me, but things seem to get stranger every year. Maybe it’s just my age. Despite the craziness, it was a pretty good year. But that all depends on […]
Ken & Libby’s Big Boat Adventure – Part 2
Part 2 – “The Maiden Voyage” Back in August, our article “Ken & Libby’s Boat Adventure – Part 1”, described how Ken and Libby bought their long-awaited fishing boat. That was the “drydock report.” The boat had not been in the water yet. Ken was taking the United States Power Squadron basic powerboat certification course. […]
Happy Thanksgiving from Guthrie Group Homes, Real Estate
Well, it’s just about Thanksgiving again, just a few days to go, with the rest of the holidays following in the next couple of weeks or so. Wow, did this year go by fast or what? Hopefully this season you will have some time to spend with your family and relatives, your kids, or dogs, […]
How to Help Victims of the Northern California Wildfires
California’s Wine Country is still in a state of emergency as over a dozen wildfires burn through neighborhoods, homes, wineries, and the countryside across Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino, Lake, and Yuba counties. The fires have destroyed at least 5,700 structures, burned over 217,000 acres and caused at least 41 fatalities. While a total of around 75,000 […]
