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Shop East Sac

Posted by on Oct 27, 2014 in East Sac, Events | 0 comments

Get a start on your holiday shopping while supporting East Sac businesses (and avoiding the mall) with the 2nd annual Shop East Sac program, running from November 1-29. Organized by the East Sacramento Chamber of Commerce, the Shop East Sac program encourages people to stop by neighborhood stores. Visitors to each of the participating stores will be entered in a drawing to win a $1000 shopping spree (announced Dec. 3). And while no purchase is necessary to participate, many of the local businesses will be offering tempting discounts and gifts. For more information, email eastsacchamber@aol.com or call (916)...

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Harvest Festival

Posted by on Oct 20, 2014 in Events, Theodore Judah Elementary | 0 comments

This Friday afternoon, October 24, Theodore Judah Elementary opens its doors to the public for its free harvest festival from 4:30-8pm. All who attend can expect a great celebration of all things autumny and spooky. There will be live entertainment, food trucks, game booths and a haunted house. Adults and children alike are encouraged to get into the Halloween spirit by wearing a costume. Proceeds from the event, which is being organized by the school PTA, will go toward classroom supplies and funding field trips. For more information about the festival, email hellotjpta@gmail.com....

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Just Sold – 31 River Bluff Lane in Carmichael

Posted by on Oct 16, 2014 in Carmichael, Just Sold | 0 comments

A couple months back, one of my past clients referred his friends to me. These friends needed me to help their 90 year old mom, Pat, sell her home at 31 River Bluff Lane in Carmichael. They were all such a delight to work with throughout the whole process. Pat is such a darling lady. She gave me a two bags of Heath Bar mini candy bars at different points in the transaction. These are definitely one of my favorite candy bars and a wonderful treat to have in the bottom drawer of my office desk. Making friends like these while helping someone with what is often a very complicated and stressful process really makes my day. I love what I do and wouldn’t trade it for any other job the world.  ...

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Sacramento Orchid Forum Fall Show

Sacramento Orchid Forum Fall Show

Posted by on Oct 14, 2014 in East Sac, Events, Shepard Garden and Arts Center | 0 comments

There are more than 30,000 species of orchids found all over the world. Each one is distinctively colorful, exotic and, let’s face it, one of the sexiest flowers. To find one of your very own–or to get advice on how to successfully grow orchids you already have (or just keep the ones you’ve been given alive)–come on by the Sacramento Orchid Forum Fall Show this weekend, October 18 and 19, at Shepard Garden and Arts Center. There will be orchids on display and instructional seminars as well as plants and accessories for sale. The event is free and runs from 10:30am-5pm on Saturday and 11am-4pm on Sunday. For more information on what you can expect, check out the Forum’s facebook page at Sacramento Orchid Forum Fall Orchid Show...

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Light Switch Locations in Old Homes

Light Switch Locations in Old Homes

Posted by on Oct 12, 2014 in Ramblings | 0 comments

I have no idea when it became common practice to put light switches in the places that make sense for the flow of traffic in a home, but it was obviously before my home was built in 1936. Since about 75% of my business is in East Sac, I help about 18-20 clients per year buy or sell a home in East Sac and I see a lot of older homes. Very often, the location of the light switches don’t make sense for the flow of traffic into or out of the room. Let’s take my home as an example. When we bought this home last year, there wasn’t a light in the living room, you had to walk through the dining room to turn the dining room light on and you had to walk through the breakfast nook, the kitchen and into the laundry room to turn the kitchen light on. The light switch for the central hallways was at the far end of the hallway, so by the time you got to the point where you could turn the light on, you were already leaving the hallway. While it might have been easier to wire it this way 80 years ago, living with it for the past year and a half and knowing that we planned on living there for the rest of our lives, I had to fix this. Paying an electrician to work with the old knob and tube wiring wasn’t something that I wanted to do. Fortunately, when I hired a great electrician, Karen Viciguerra, to install a ceiling fan with a remote controlled light in the living room last year, she told me about wireless light switches. I looked for them at the time, but didn’t find any in HomeDepot or Lowes. Since I had 100 other items on my To Do List for home projects, this one fell to the bottom of the list when it wasn’t easy to find whatever she was talking about. When my wife and I were at Lofings Lighting at 2121 J Street a couple months ago, I saw a display for wireless lights and asked Joan Gilly, the wonderful sales associate that was helping us. She went through all the details of what we would need and hooked us up. The process was very simple and if you can change a light switch (turn off power, remove a few screws and wires and put them onto the new switch and put it all back together), then you can do this easy project. All it takes is replacing an existing switch with the Lutron Maestro Wireless switch and then putting the wireless remote switch somewhere that makes sense. The first set took me a little less than an hour to do since I actually read the directions in full. Each additional switch only took me about 30...

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