Changes afoot in real estate near and far – Red Bluff Daily News
Sources say more than 130,000 people have become brokers since the pandemic began. However, during that period, the average national sales price for a home hit a record $ 341,600 in April – the highest since the National Association of Realtors began tracking the numbers in 1999 – the biggest jump since the group began price tracking Early 1970s.
Low interest rates seem to be responsible for the sharp rise in sales prices and also the lack of inventory. However, the vacancy rate of commercial properties continues to worry owners. Since I specialize in commercial property rentals and sales, I don’t like this dichotomy of values.
However, the local Coldwell banker office just got a prominent commercial property on hold in trust on Main Street, so things may be looking up.
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An ad in Time announced that the Staauer Magnificat II watch is now on sale for $ 99. This versatile wristwatch was previously sold for $ 399. But I didn’t notice, it was a photo of this watch that shows that it not only stores the time in hours, minutes and seconds, as well as the day of the month, but also the day of the week. This watch would provide me with valuable information as I often ask the Missus what day it is and she gets irritated when she thinks I’m losing my marbles and she may have to look for a replacement one of these days. Replacement of a watch, not husband, of course. Hey hey No chance of that.
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A Scot had just lost his wife and went to the local paper to put a note in the obituary column. “How would you like to read it?” Asked the clerk.
“Maria is dead.” answered the Scot.
“But you can add more words for the same price,” replied the clerk.
“Well,” said the Scot, how about “… and a used Ford for sale.”
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I have already mentioned the concept of the “screen saver” in computer operation. If you’ve taken photos and saved them to a photo storage file, they could seemingly linger there for days, months, or years. However, given certain commands, photos will appear on your previously blank computer screen, and when they are sharp and well composed they can again be beautiful to look at and often come as a surprise.
Computer filberts know this, but for computer illiterates it can be a pleasure to see a flash of photo on the screen for, say, 10 to 15 seconds or more. If the photo is of an old friend, then he or she was resurrected before your eyes. Whether it is a building like the old Cone & Kimball building before the fire or afterwards in all of its sobering memory. Here is a photo of Judge Curtis Wetter and his wife Ruth walking in front of our office window, then Thomasina, the dog lady and her menagerie. The next photo could be the basement of the old Crocker Bank showing the excavation of their vault in preparation for one in the new US bank.
Remember that the selection and viewing of the photos is arbitrary and is interspersed with long deceased employees of our old meat factory.
So what, readers may ask? So people were once alive and well, and for a short time they all appeared alive again. This is important to me, and possibly even to the readers who may have witnessed my screensaver photos, especially those who are getting on in years.
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Sources say it is estimated that between 5,000 and 7,000 tigers are kept as “pets” – more than exist in the wild, according to Born Free USA. A tiger can be bought for as little as $ 300 or less than a purebred dog.
Now we like big dogs. We started with boxer shorts, switched to St. Bernards and eventually settled on bulldogs. They have short hair, are excellent watch dogs, and their behavior is more predictable than a tiger, for example.
So, I think we’ll stick with bulldogs. Our current big guy, All that Jazz, lives inside, gets lonely when we’re gone for a few hours, and has a big brain capable of human-like behavior and deep conversation. He’s a bow-wow lover’s delight.
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On a day when the SF Giants were not on their regular 696 channel, I stumbled upon this lovely old Hugh Grant movie called Four Weddings and a Funeral. When Grant first appeared on screen, many thought the handsome guy was the answer to the late Cary Grant. However, when he recently appeared on an HBO (spoiler alert) special as less than a matinee idol, his image was a little tarnished. His agent should have turned him off the ax-bearer. TSK tsk.
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Worth repeating:
Through the pitch black night, a naval captain saw a light ahead on a collision course with his ship and immediately sent a signal.
“Change your course 10 degrees east.”
The light spelled back, “Change your 10 degrees west.”
The captain was furious and sent another signal: “I am a naval captain. Change your course, sailor. “
The signal came back: “I’m a 2nd class seaman, sir. Change your course, sir. “
The captain was furious and replied, “This is a battleship.”
The sailor replied, “And that’s a lighthouse, sir!”
Robert Minch is a lifelong Red Bluff resident, former columnist for the Corning Daily Observer and Meat Industry magazine, and author of The Knocking Pen and his new book We Said. He can be reached at [email protected].