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Landlords

Is Your Real Estate Investment Strategy Creating Too Much Risk?

After performing a comprehensive and exhaustive analysis and identifying realty as your next investment, one of the most important tasks real property investors can do before pursuing an investment strategy is to determine the risks associated with it.  It’s virtually impossible to completely avoid risks so the more you can understand about your investment by conducting due diligence, the more you learn about your risk strategy and mitigation options, the better your chances will be of making a successful and profitable investment.  Doing homework, asking many questions, and performing comprehensive investigations are just some of the things that needs to be done before you pull the trigger.  Just winging it is not a strategy.

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Uncategorized

Investors – Google’s New Campus Is Poised to Revitalize Downtown San Jose – Are You Ready?

With Google’s announcement of a planned new campus in San Jose, California, investment property managers are cautiously optimistic about the opportunities that may soon become available.  The plan is for Google to build an impressive eight-million square foot campus, which is about eight times as much as the office space currently available in San Jose.  The transaction is not yet finalized because there are many details to be ironed out due to the sheer magnitude of the project.  The entire downtown core of San Jose will be revitalized and expanded to reach levels that were never previously imagined.  Small investors should be proactive and start to search out deal and be ready to make a move if you truly want to benefit from this large-scale development project.  If nothing else, start with investigation and due diligence of any and all properties surrounding the proposed project – your real estate education IQ could be improved just by this step alone.

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For Tenants

Living in Willowgate: Why This Mountain View Community Shines

Willowgate Mountain View offers a desirable living environment near major commuting routes and features charming craftsman and condominium homes. The community thrives with neighborhood associations and a popular garden that fosters camaraderie and supports local food banks. Its active atmosphere enhances safety, making it a good investment opportunity for homeowners and landlords.

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Non-Owner Occupied Properties

Solar Panels Provide Ever Increasing Benefits to Non-Owner Occupied Property Owners

Green technology is the wave of the future, not just in Silicon Valley, but across the globe as well and we can all play a part in improving the environment by utilizing alternative means for generating electricity.  As each individual makes an investment into global preservation by making the decision to include solar panels on their investment properties, or any alternative energy method, they have enforced the greater good principle which we should all consider during our time here on earth.  This especially includes those of us who are lucky enough to own real property improved with structures.  Non-owner occupied property owners are increasingly considering solar energy into their property management plans and for good reason.

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Mountain View

Discover Shoreline West: Perfect Real Estate Near Downtown Mountain View

If you wish to live or invest in real estate near downtown Mountain View, but not exactly in downtown, look no further. Until 1994, Shoreline West was considered to be part of downtown Mountain View. Residents banded together and won approval to form a stand-alone community with its own identity. The resulting Shoreline West enclave is known for its unbeatable location, welcoming and friendly residents, block parties, potlucks and annual special events that foster a sense of community.

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Landlords

Unique Architecture and Picturesque Parks Draw Homeowners and Investors to Slater, Mountain View

The pleasantly quirky Slater neighborhood was built in the middle 1950s and is known for its diverse residential makeup and unique and varied architectural styles. When you live in Slater, your neighbors will be Google execs, young families and retirees who are the original owners of their homes. As you stroll along the wide, tree-lined streets, you will pass brick duplexes decorated with wagon wheels and charming bungalows reminiscent of farm houses. If you are looking for a distinctive non-cookie cutter community that is minutes from downtown, make sure to consider investing in Slater real estate.

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Landlords

Does Your Small Business Fear Security Breaches, Malware, and Ransomware?  Silicon Valley Systems Has the Solutions for You

With today’s ever-changing IT environment of ransomware and viruses, of security breaches and ever-increasing threats to your personal and business data, it is more important than ever to have a professional and reliable data backup system in place.  However, it is no longer good enough to just have a local backup solution that copies all your data to a hard drive connected to your computer.  Ransomware will, during infection, not only encrypt your data but any drive connected to that computer.  It will also try to infect any network shares on your local network.  Another problem with a local backup is preparing for disaster recovery. As we have seen very recently with the fires in Marin, everything can be destroyed, including your backups if they are kept in the same building as your computers.

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Commercial property management

Quality Residential Cleaning Services are Few and Far Between, But We Found One

The neighborhood social media site NextDoor and other neighborhood bulletin board sites are constantly bombarded with the question “Can someone please refer a Quality Residential Cleaning Service.”  The fact of the matter is most cleaning services are mismanaged and don’t have employees who are properly trained or supervised.  Even though a company or cleaner may start out doing a good job, inevitably there will come a time when the company disappoints for several reasons.  Searching high and low for several years we used many different services but did not settle on one company until we met Maria Flores of High Quality House Cleaning, LLC in Sunnyvale, CA.  Esquire Property Management Group now uses HQHC exclusively and couldn’t be happier.  In fact, in addition to being a great company HQHC is a Santa Clara County Certified Green Cleaning Company, and they are also a fully sanctioned Woman Owned Minority Business.

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