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Montalvo’s Summer entertainment season is ending with a bang with three concerts mid-September as they prepare for fall concerts at the Carriage House Theater:
September
Saturday, September 11, 7:30pm Robert Cray Band
Wednesday, September 15, 7pm Chris Botti
Friday, September 17, 7pm Creedence Clearwater Revisited
October
Friday, October 15, 7pm: Hope Mohr Dance
Saturday, October 16, 8pm: James Cotton [...]

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I am not a foreclosure expert, but I have received training from Alain Pinel Realtors that empowers me to represent buyers of distressed properties.
As I have previously noted on this blog, Saratoga, Monte Sereno and Los Gatos are now experiencing some distressed property sales, but they are generally random (in terms of neighborhoods and price [...]

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As of Aug. 1, 2010 home mortgage servicers participating in the federal government’s Home Affordable Modification Program are required to implement the Home Affordable Unemployment Program or “UP“. This new program provides eligible unemployed homeowners a temporary period during which their regular monthly mortgage payment is reduced or suspended, which is called “forbearance”.
To qualify for [...]

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Short sales, (sales of homes for less than the amount of their outstanding mortgage debt) have tripled since 2008, particularly in California, according to a recent article in the Los Angeles Times.
The number of transactions rose to more than 160,000 in 2009 from roughly 96,000 in [...]

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Summer garden harvests in Saratoga are abundant. Today I harvested 4 bags of tomatoes, one bag of beans and a bag of squash, which were grown specifically for distribution to Family Supportive Housing in San Jose. 
This first year the SPC Community Garden is being tended entirely by members of Saratoga Presbyterian Church under the leadership [...]

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