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How to Lower Your San Mateo County Property Taxes

By Raymond Stoklosa · June 15th, 2010

If you have bought a home in San Mateo County in the last several years, you may be eligible for a reduction in your property taxes. Upon request, the tax assessor will reassess the tax value of your home. By following a few rules, you may save yourself some money. How to Lower Your San [...]

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Why are There So Many Listings on Realtor.com?

By Rebecca Williamson · July 24th, 2009

Realtor.com is notorious for boasting how many listings they have on their site and driving consumers to use their site as their only home search site. Consumers see all the homes they have for sale, as compared to other home search sites and think Realtor.com must know of some properties that the other sites don’t. [...]

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LivingWellinSanMateo Named One of the Best San Francisco Bay Area’s Real Estate Blogs

By Rebecca Williamson · June 25th, 2009

Relocation.com, the largest online marketplace connecting consumers who are moving to professionals that can best service their needs, evaluated San Francisco Bay Area real estate agent’s blogs in the San Francisco Bay Area. Six blogs made the list and….LivingWellinSanMateo.com was one of them! What Categories Were Considered? The folks at Relocation.com sought out to find [...]

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Where Do I Find Information About Schools?

By Rebecca Williamson · March 23rd, 2009

Where Do I Find Information About San Mateo County Schools? One of the factors that affect property values is the strength of the public schools. Even if your children are grown or if you aren’t planning on having any children, it is still a good idea to take a look at the schools in the [...]

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NeighborhoodScout.com

By Rebecca Williamson · October 13th, 2008

Some of you potential San Mateo County home buyers may have heard about NeighborhoodScout.com. Although it’s been around awhile now, we hadn’t really explored the site, which claims to match home buyer to their perfect neighborhood. So, I took a test drive of the site to see how well it performed. The user-interface is very [...]

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