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About JN Real Estate Appraisal & Valuation Services

Professional real estate appraiser Amateur photographer

More Stats – Stat Overload

More employment data from the CA EDD… March was not an improvement on February… that’s not good news. SF Bay Area Employment growth has stagnated. See March 2016 Employment Data Here.

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Observation

If you hang out in a gym long enough and push some weights, eventually, you can look at a set of barbells and decide if you can handle the weight. The power of observation combined with experience goes a long … Continue reading

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Future

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” Søren Kierkegaard My kids are the future but they always yell at me when I point a camera in their direction. Recently, I was going through a box … Continue reading

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Landscape

It’s no April Fool’s Joke when Cheri Lucas Rowlands lays down a landscape photo challenge. Cheri has even provided some helpful hints on getting it right. Laying out a landscape photo is not as easy as it looks. I know. … Continue reading

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Half-Light

The half-light signals when day loses its battle with night. Twilight, the blue hour, takes over from the golden hour when the Sun dips below the horizon. It’s the moment when your mind lets you feel the cool night air … Continue reading

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Dance

“Pow… Pow” So ended the dance routine of my then three-year-old daughter who was dressed in a cute cowgirl outfit. She danced on until she was about 15 with that school which meant we spent many Memorial Day weekends at … Continue reading

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One Love

A Friday diversion into the definition of: One Love: refers to the universal love and respect expressed by all people for all people, regardless of race, creed, or color.  —The Urban Dictionary A couple of years ago I ventured out … Continue reading

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Ut Oh

Here in the San Francisco Bay Area the labor market has gotten off to a slow start in 2016. Well, actually, it’s just continuing the year-end 2015 trend: DOWNWARD. See updated San Francisco Bay Area employment stats here. Is the … Continue reading

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Are Old Home Prices Coming Back?

Skip the year-over-year price trend and look at the median home price data over the past month, three months and six months. Not a lot going on here with prices slowly trending flat to downward. Only San Francisco shows much … Continue reading

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State of Mind

Ben Huberman laid down the weekly photo challenge. Show a photo that reflects your state of mind. While on my way home from an assignment in San Francisco yesterday I stopped at one of my favorite places to hang out … Continue reading

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