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	<description>A Central Coast Real Estate Blog giving the inside scoop on pricing and life in Cayucos and Morro Bay</description>
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		<title>Vinyl Sounds Better</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was a Nicolas Cage movie, perhaps The Rock, where he received a record album in the mail for which he had paid a large price. When harassed by his fellow workers,” Why vinyl?&#8221; he replied, “It sounds better.”
I got to pondering that response, and I remembered the slight degradation of quality from 4 track [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cosmology and Observations on Western Thought</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It may come as a surprise to some but be common knowledge to others, that people think differently.  It’s not that they are thinking about different things.  The process itself is different - rooted in it’s own tradition, perspective and heritage.
For example, western thought is liner reason. Not just reason but linear reason.  A + [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home Sales Jan-Apr 2007 – 10 Coastal Cities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While it has been widely reported that home sales are down, and they are, it is still comforting to know that during the first four months of 2007 the number of homes sold between $400,000 and $2,500,000 totaled 428. There were additional homes sold for less than $400,000 plus some mobile homes. So over all while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homes Sold Jan-Aug 2006</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In all markets certain price ranges of homes sell faster than others. There are many reasons for this. When I lived in Fremont, they were in a massive expansion of new homes and numerous homeowners decided to trade up. This flooded the market with lower priced homes and drove the price of the homes they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fabric dye on wood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was in the shop turning sticks for walking canes when I decided to turn a 1.5&#215;1.5 piece of douglas fir. After turning the first one and polishing it up, I thought I should try some dyes for the next one. But since I did not want to wait two weeks for a catalog shipment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Area Price Reductions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Tribune recently reported the median prices for SLO County homes rose last month.  While this may be true, it may also be caused by the continued sales of properties over 1 million dollars.  If high end home continue to sell when everything else slows down it will increase the median and tend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hats off to the Sun Bulletin!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The weekly Cayucos column by Dick Weiss has been moved from page 3 to page 7.  While this may seem like bad news it is actually great news because Page 7 is in color.
They have also given Dick more space for photos of Cayucos Events.
So write, email, or phone the Sun Bulletin and thank [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cayucos Chamber of Commerce</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As many of you know I have been President of the Cayucos Chamber of Commerce for the past year and a half. While my term ends in December many have expressed their desire for me to continue for another two years so I have decided to place my name on the ballot for another term.
There [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More price reductions.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[July is looking like a record month for price reductions. With only a week left, we could surpass 80 reductions by the end of the month.

A few price reductions are common, as sellers and REALTORS® overestimate the current value of a property and need to make adjustments. A trend, such as we are currently seeing, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pricing Your Home for Sale - Part 3 of 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WHERE ARE WE NOW? – JULY 2006
It started last summer. The interest rate bottomed out, and there was massive new construction. The media began talking about a housing bubble, and even Greenspan commented there was “Froth” in the real estate market. The US economy involves how we feel collectively, rather than inventories of consumer goods, [...]]]></description>
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