The Fate of New Homeowners and The Advertisers, Business Owners Who Welcome Them with Fliers, Literature & Offers of Services
Welcome to your home sweet home! You have gone through so much to become a homeowner. You found your dream house. You are ready to transform it into a home. For your reward, you will be bombarded with ads. From Cape Cod, Florida to California, new homeowners are complaining about all the ads that await them. Even before they move into their new abode, fliers from cement workers, landscapers and blind company owners are hanging all over the place from the front door knobs to the front yard. Whether you are a first-time homeowner or a broker or anybody with experience with home buying, the chance that your information will be out there for the public to see and target you is high. You will get a lot of ads from lenders asking you to do all kinds of things. Some are more trickier than others. They will disguise their mailings to look like something you are familiar with. They will tell you everything you want to hear in order to reel you in. Once you take their bait, you are taken.
How homeowners' info got to the public: Property purchases are recorded in the county Recorder's Office. They are open to the public perusal. There is not much that anybody can do about it. So owners of small businesses get this trove of information about you in their laps. That is why that weeks and days before you move in and months after you have been settled down, you will receive unsolicited direct mailings from them. They imagine that you must have some money to buy a house and do all the other works that need to be done. Their reasoning is that you must have some more money that you can spend on landscaping, cement work, flowers, plants, blinds, paint and pavement. What I hate the most are the drive-bys. Owners of landscaping businesses usually wrap their ads and include a rock to be able to throw them onto your lawn and driveway. If you happen to be on vacation, all this trash is left there. The neighborhood you choose to reside in will welcome with ads announcing the multiple businesses that are waiting for your hard-earned dollars. From the pizza parlors, the local dentist, restaurants, satellite TV provider, real restate companies and agents asking you to sell and use their services to the local church, everybody wants you to know they are around and want your business. This is a phenomenon that occurs anywhere in the United States of America.
Examples of home Sales
Los Altos Hills
25400 Becky Lane $2,900,000, 3,282 SF, 5 BR, Smith Trust to D. Tanaka; 1999:$1,770,000
Los Gatos
64 Central Ave. $1,537,000, 2,044 SF, 3 BR, R. Snee to D. Malone; 2003:$650,000
24 Fillmer Ave. $2,260,000, 3,220 SF, 5 BR, S. Ferguson to Anders Trust; 2000:$760,000
16230 Jacaranda Way $1,245,000, 1,412 SF, 3 BR, Ramsay Trust to D. Carr; 1973:$37,500
21126 Locust Drive $740,000, 660 SF, 1 BR, K. & R. Kaikkonen to P. Kelly; 1996:$152,500
41 Peralta Ave. $2,595,000, 2,112 SF, 3 BR, Wooley Trust to S. Ferguson; 2005:$2,420,500
109 Via Santa Maria $1,900,000, 2,490 SF, 4 BR, Dunbar Trust to K. & S. Saul; 1991:$560,000
Menlo Park
70 Amherst Ave. $885,000, 1,824 SF, 5 BR, G. Burley to Karpowich Trust
874 Cambridge Ave. $1,270,000, 1,750 SF, 3 BR, D. Kern to M. Goldsmith; 1993:$390,000
1143 Hollyburne Ave. $500,000, 1,270 SF, 3 BR, F. Vasquez to M. & E. Guillen; 1984:$63,000
2240 Sharon Road $773,000, 1,054 SF, 2 BR, H. Ardalan to S. Diamond; 2002:$575,000
1043 Tehama Ave. $1,358,000, 2,970 SF, 4 BR, J. & J. Perez to M. Sabio; 2004:$1,250,000
Millbrae
254 Barclay Ave. $1,203,000, 1,750 SF, 3 BR, D. Ly to C. Alcantar; 2005:$954,000
746 Clearfield Drive $950,000, 2,180 SF, 3 BR, L. Landi to J. Szeto
1396 El Camino Real #203 $610,000, 1,135 SF, 2 BR, A. Camacho to Q. Liao; 2004:$410,000
416 Millwood Drive $1,120,000, 2,380 SF, 7 BR, Y. He to A. Untalan; 2001:$650,000
612 Santa Barbara Ave. $975,000, 1,950 SF, 3 BR, M. & A. Silvera to L. & I. Mosteiro; 1993:$320,000
Milpitas
831 Cameron Circle $880,000, 2,247 SF, 3 BR, A. & A. Bhandari to M. Ngo
478 Coelho Court $750,000, 1,634 SF, 5 BR, G. Lum to J. Pardenilla
897 Coyote St. $710,000, 1,262 SF, 3 BR, R. & E. Coria to I. & A. Barrera; 1996:$232,000
970 Coyote St. $768,000, 1,773 SF, 4 BR, Cartus Financial to H. Hufana; 1986:$171,000
1371 El Camino Higuera $1,116,500, 3,352 SF, 5 BR, D. Luu to R. & E. Coria
265 Krismer St. $629,000, 1,116 SF, 3 BR, P. Moyers to C. Villanueva
1811 Landess Ave. $458,000, 1,155 SF, 3 BR, A. Pacheco to J. & S. Valenzuela
1267 Lassen Ave. $680,000, 1,228 SF, 3 BR, J. Lucas to F. Angeles; 2005:$605,000
591 Manzano St. $663,000, 1,234 SF, 4 BR, D. Nguyen to L. Rafael
259 Michigan Road $571,000, 1,350 SF, 2 BR, R. & D. Clarin to Q. Bao; 2004:$425,000
1660 Mt. Rainier Ave. $660,000, 1,484 SF, 3 BR, A. Sichlinger to R. Balakrishnan; 2002:$465,000
200 Parc Place Drive $570,000, T. Chan to M. Bankston
107 Serenity Place $596,000, 1,243 SF, 3 BR, P. Makanawala to S. Ohtake; 2002:$436,000
323 South Park Victoria Drive $738,000, 2,001 SF, 4 BR, Corpac Trust to D. Prudente
1837 Strawberry Lane $385,000, 873 SF, 2 BR, K. Lian to H. Nguyen; 2004:$325,000
1366 Terra Alta Drive $695,000, 2,082 SF, 3 BR, S. Sundar to P. Bhutani; 2000:$500,000
1187 Torres Ave. $675,000, 935 SF, 2 BR, Shepard Trust to J. & T. Luna; 1992:$174,000
291 West Capitol Ave. $760,000, 2,104 SF, 4 BR, J. & L. Lucero to M. Ocsona; 1990:$188,000
Morgan Hill
440 Atherton Way $1,612,500, 4,506 SF, 4 BR, Zinn Trust to T. & K. Kahlenberg; 1991:$785,000
612 Buck Hill Court $1,000,000, Deprice Properties to M. Khaira
1591 Calle Serra $791,500, R. Mission to P. & J. Muniz
180 Coriander Ave. $1,072,000, Coyote at Capriano to E. & T. Deleon
458 Creekside Lane $545,000, 1,473 SF, 3 BR, P. Brooks to E. Deharo; 1995:$176,500
1400 Jasmine Way $590,000, 1,160 SF, 3 BR, P. Ault to R. Muya; 2004:$405,000
1375 Kelly Park Circle $638,500, 1,260 SF, 3 BR, L. & J. Marr to C. & M. Bishop
15202 Monticello Way $790,000, 1,956 SF, 4 BR, W. & C. Link to T. Doran; 2003:$600,000
1525 Painted Feather Court $1,680,500, Coyote Estates 2005 to S. Burke
18670 Purissima Way $1,520,000, Alicante 2004 to M. & J. Sawyer
685 Spring Hill Drive $929,000, 3,266 SF, 3 BR, R. & I. Altamirano to G. & T. Delcarlo; 2004:$725,000
15695 Via Castana $284,500, 1,644 SF, 3 BR, S. Duncan to J. Tapia; 1999:$213,500
519 Via Sorrento $820,000, 2,479 SF, 4 BR, C. & S. Carroll to S. & L. Shurley
Mountain View
204 Beatrice St. $675,000, 832 SF, 2 BR, D. Sykora to J. Young; 1999:$380,000
1173 Bonita Ave. $1,055,000, 2,112 SF, Bonita Avenue Limited to M. Jorda
1106 Boranda Ave. $1,060,000, 1,747 SF, 3 BR, Collins Trust to C. Olston; 2003:$917,000
913 Camille Lane $906,000, 2,022 SF, 3 BR, J. Light to J. Vogel; 2003:$633,000
171 Campbell Drive $675,000, 1,288 SF, 3 BR, Y. Chou to Hernandez-Fentanez Trust
476 Carmelita Drive $880,000, 1,710 SF, 3 BR, R. Narayan to S. Nejad; 2001:$565,000
1706 Cherrytree Lane $870,000, 1,280 SF, 3 BR, Moeller Trust to L. & C. Collins
1282 Cuernavaca Circulo $1,045,000, 2,261 SF, 3 BR, M. Zarrabian to J. Cece; 1999:$674,000
99 East Middlefield Road #25 $443,000, 1,083 SF, 2 BR, S. Oleary to E. & A. Nelson; 1992:$176,000
141 Irene Court $675,000, 1,236 SF, 2 BR, Gibbs Trust to K. & T. Reynolds; 2002:$535,000
2539 Mardell Way $875,000, 1,140 SF, 3 BR, P. Wang to D. Pistor; 2005:$670,000
152 Paseo Court $725,000, 1,331 SF, 3 BR, S. & N. Fedel to P. Kim; 2000:$487,000
1983 San Luis Ave. #25 $610,000, 1,171 SF, 2 BR, C. Radkowski to D. & K. Fong; 1992:$220,000
49 Showers Drive #J326 $556,000, 1,206 SF, 2 BR, E. Lin to J. Martin; 2006:$486,000
181 Stockwell Drive $677,500, J. Lu to J. Black; 2006:$630,500
818 Tulane Drive $932,500, 1,538 SF, 3 BR, A. & M. Lian to M. & R. Golden; 2003:$770,000
1040 Williams Way $906,000, 2,187 SF, D. Hardenbrook to M. Dumas; 1997:$397,000
Newark
36012 Burning Tree Drive $695,000, 1,482 SF, 3 BR, K. & L. Beaty to S. Haro
6249 Cotton Ave. $555,000, 950 SF, 3 BR, C. & B. Lemos to A. Diaz; 2006:$450,000
5792 Dichondra Place $650,000, 1,339 SF, 3 BR, X. Zuniga to E. Aguilera; 2002:$395,000
6906 Jarvis Ave. $500,000, 1,131 SF, 3 BR, E. & J. Nava to H. Johnson; 1998:$177,000
6395 Joaquin Murieta Ave. #D $410,000, 1,132 SF, 2 BR, K. & L. Pilcher to M. Mutahaba; 1990:$145,000
35350 Ramsgate Drive $810,000, 2,383 SF, 4 BR, D. Huynh to D. Hernandez; 1994:$335,000
6391 Robertson Ave. $685,000, 1,379 SF, 3 BR, S. Boggs to C. Carranza
35347 Severn Drive $750,000, 1,604 SF, 3 BR, M. & T. Raposa to H. & J. Lara; 1993:$245,000
36341 Shelley Court $700,000, 1,453 SF, 4 BR, A. Cafferata to A. Barakat
6203 Zulmida Ave. $575,000, 942 SF, 3 BR, Soper Trust to N. Silva; 2004:$400,000
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