Cursed home for sale

Ran into this while showing bank-owned homes to a buyer yesterday. It’s at the front door. She said it was a curse on the house. She said “I know how to remove the curse,” to which I replied “So do I. Tear off the paper.” And she said, “Well it’s a bit more complicated than…

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Happy Indpendence Day 2008!

The Fourth of July is always a large celebration in Redding. This year it is decidedly low-key because of all the forest fire activity going on. They canceled the big fireworks show, for instance. That’s usually a big deal around here, but the cancellation seems totally appropriate given the fire situation. Anyway, when morning arrived…

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Breakfast for 10,000

We attend the Annual Pancake breakfast in Roaring Gulch (Redding) 2008 I don’t know of any other town that does this. Really fun! We ate our pancakes while sitting across from Shasta Voice’s Mary Machado and her husband. Really interesting conversation from these civic movers and shakers. It was a really hot day, but we…

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And then there were 3……..

Two Redding area Title and Escrow companies have shut their doors. Alliance Title closed shop statewide, and Chicago Title closed their Redding doors as well. Their respective escrows are being handled by one or another of the 3 remaining companies: Fidelity, First American, or Placer. Having 5 competing companies in our market was probably too…