Stimulus adds tax credit for home solar panels — San Francisco Chronicle Homeowners interested in sticking solar panels on their roofs got a big boost from the $787 billion economic stimulus package signed Tuesday by President Obama. Homeowners will now be able to get a federal tax credit worth 30 percent of the cost of [...]
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Leaf Blowers’ Legacy / Leaf Blowers Cause Dust, Pollution, and Hearing Loss — Santa Barbara Independent, October 23, 2008 The leaf blower is 27 years old, having hit the market in the early 1970s; the controversy over its use is just a few years younger. As early as 1975, Carmel and other cities were discussing [...]
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Solar roofing tiles comes to tract housing — CNet News.com Call it building-integrated solar power for cookie-cutter housing. DRI Energy has developed roofing tiles with solar cells built in them. For commercial customers, it has solar panels that literally glue onto flat roofs. The products, branded under the Lumeta name, will be available in the [...]
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East Palo Alto plan hits bump — SV/SJ Business Journal According to public record, including hundreds of documents on file in San Mateo County court, Taran has spent well in excess of $100 million since September 2006 to acquire 70 parcels, mostly contiguous, in a thin ribbon of land fronting U.S. 101 and a stone’s [...]
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East Palo Alto hazardous waste plant ordered to close and clean up — San Francisco Chronicle, 2007-08-31 The state has ordered an East Palo Alto plant that treats and stores hazardous waste to permanently close. Romic Environmental Technologies Corp., which runs the plant, also must clean up its 10-acre bayfront site and return it to [...]
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The two major pieces of news are that we have a new Property Management company and a new Board of Directors. Late last year, the serving Board contracted Dominic Ferrari to take over managing Mission Palo Alto from Deborah Sell. You can contact Dominic via email or by phone or postal mail: Dominic FerrariFerrari Management [...]
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Prices up, sales down / Median in Bay Area rises 19% over last September: “Bay Area home prices jumped nearly 19 percent on a year-over-year basis in September, but there is some evidence — including a continuing decline in the number of homes sold — that the housing market is moderating. The median price for [...]
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Bush’s tax panel would limit break for homeowners / Dems complain plan would hit California, other blue states hard: “A tax reform proposal agreed upon Tuesday by President Bush’s advisory panel would eliminate the federal deduction for state and local taxes and sharply limit the tax break for home mortgage interest. That’s leading some Democrats [...]
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Mortgage Rates Are on the Rise: “Americans may have seen the last of long-term mortgage rates below 6 percent, and borrowing costs for home buyers likely will climb further, slowing frenetic demand that has stoked U.S. housing in recent years. Realtors have spotted a drop in the appetite for housing in recent months, and a [...]
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