A Happy & Blessed New Year to You! May You Enjoy Good Health, Joy and Prosperity in the Year of the Tiger! Visit my blog at http://www.activerain.com/results SELLERS: Click HERE to Find Out Home Values BEFORE You Sell...FREE Online, No Obligation Friendly Reminder! Offers due by NOON on Tu., Feb. 2nd for 20644 Oak Creek, Saratoga! PRDS & As-Is Please - Email Offers direct to lynbrookhomes1@hotmail.com PENDING! Multiple Offers! 3735 Pruneridge-Westwood Oaks! Open Sat. & Sun., Feb. 6th & 7th, 1:30-4:30 *3*Get RE$ult$ Team Open Homes !! Prestigious Saratoga Address! Private End Unit! Prime Cupertino Schools! Hidden Jewel Offers Best of All Worlds !! DRAMATIC SOARING CEILINGS !! Glowing & Gleaming Hardwood Floors !! Tile Baths !! GORGEOUS GRANITE SLAB Kit. !! All Stainless Appliances !! Abundant Warm Cabinetry !! 20644 Oak Creek Lane, Saratoga 95070! Blue Hills, Kennedy & Monta Vista High !! Delightfully Affordable! Quiet Location in Popular Complex! 7100 Rainbow - NOT YET ON MLS! 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The new measure allows both first-timers and existing homeowners to take advantage of thousands in the form of a tax credit. All properties must close by the end of April. The measure would continue giving an $8,000 tax credit to first-time buyers. In addition, it provides a $6,500 tax break to qualified homeowners looking to move up to middle-market homes that cost no more than $800,000. The legislation also significantly raises the qualifying income levels to $125,000 for individual income tax filers and to $225,000 for joint filers. SELLERS: Click HERE to Find Out Home Values BEFORE You Sell BUYERS: Click HERE to Find Out Home Prices BEFORE You Buy To receive a FREE subscription to the full Lynbrook High Homes Update, including information on homes not yet on the open market, send an email request to subscribe to lynbrookhomes1@hotmail.com orinfo@michellejudycarr.com. To see any of these homes, Just Call 408.252.8900! Curious about home values and sales in your area? Wondering how prices are in the area youd like to move to? Simply click on the link below, fill in your current address and submit it to obtain a free, detailed market snapshot of whats happening right now in your area. To find out about values Click Here to Find out Home Values in Your Area! SNEAK PEEKS! 1 Lynbrook 3 Br!?1 Monta Vista 3 Br! Showings Daily! 252.8900! Thank you for your time in reading this. Aloha & God bless you! To receive a FREE subscription to the full Lynbrook High Homes Update, including pending sales, closings and exclusive information on homes not yet on the open market, send an email request to subscribe to lynbrookhomes1@hotmail.com or to info@michellejudycarr.com. To see any of these homes or obtain a FREE market or home buying analysis, Just Call 408.252.8900 !! EXCLUSIVE OPPORTUNITIES! ? EXCLUSIVE! $1.049M! Large, Lovely & Well- Maintained! 4 Br & 3 Full Baths + HUGE Bonus Rm/ 5th BR*! Soaring Ceilings & Stone Fireplaces! Los Gatos! 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Award-Winning Moreland & Campbell Schools! CLO$ED! Multiple Offer!??1031 Forest Knoll, SJ! Bright & Light END UNIT!?A/C! ?$620K! Soaring Ceiligs! ALL 1 Level! Updated Tile K! Plantation Shutters! ?Quiet St. & Location! E-Walk to Nationally Recognized CUPERTINO Scls! Dilworth! Miller! Lynbrook!? Are you TOO LATE? Lynbrook High Homes Update - Single Family Homes Equilibrium Reached **TOO LATE! $OLD & CLO$ED! The Oasis on Bollinger !! (Multiple Offers) **TOO LATE! $OLD & CLO$ED! Charming Cottage on Kimberly !! (Multiple Offers Received) **TOO LATE! $OLD & CLO$ED! Short Sale on White Rd. !! (Multiple Offers Received) **TOO LATE! $OLD & CLO$ED!Saratoga Private Park! Huge ~4,000sf on~1.7 Acre in Saratoga! Is This YOUR YEAR to Buy a Home?? ... Michelle Carr-Crowe Michelle created a new quiz on FaceBook- Is This YOUR Year to Buy a Home? A series of Fun, Yet Thought-Provoking Questions to help you discover whether this is a good year for YOU tobuy a home EXCLUSIVE - Los Gatos! 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Why Buy a Home in Lynbrook, Cupertino, Palo Alto or Saratoga in 2009?

It is a great question, best answered by data and an area real estate expert. In today\\\\\\\'s market, Buyers always want to know two things: when is the best time to buy, and how to pay the lowest price. When you meet with an experienced real estate consultant like me or one of my skilled team members for a Buying Power Analysis, you learn about the market, market trends, yourself, your priorities, and your options, as well as yourbuying power in today\\\\\\\'s current market.

Atraditional agent will focus only on your ability to pay a mortgage - how much you make, how much you have for a down payment, what your credit score is, how long you and your spouse have workedin your job/industry, and how much debt you have -- and push you to buy a home now.

In contrast, during our time together, weshare knowledge and data with you, help you learn more about yourself, and show you ALL of your choices--including theoptionNOTto buy a home now. We will show you both the long and short-term trends for the overall Cupertino, San Jose, Santa Clara, Palo Alto, Saratoga or other specific cities and or school areas you are interested in. We show youall of the home choicesavailable, and what homes are successfully in contract or closed, with all available pricing data. We also ask you some thought-provoking questions to help you learn what truly most important about possibly buying a home to you, and then, and only then,share our professional opinion about which ofyour options best fits within your stated goals--and that option may even be not to buy a home now.

The high-performing schools in Cupertino, San Jose, Santa Clara, Palo Alto and Saratoga have helped these areas maintain their value during the market downtown. Yet the overall uncertainties of the economy and job market have now opened a window of opportunity for wise and well-qualified buyers willing to accurately assess themselves, their needs and the market, and move forward with courage while others hesitate.

Reasons to buy a home now include:

1) historically low interest rates lower than last year, and in many cases, at rates near a 46-year low,

2) larger inventories than in the past for these exclusive areas (for example, 32 properties in Lynbrook High as of 2/17/09)

3) a wider range of available property types, from condos and townhomes to duplexes, fourplexes and single-family home

4) a conservative lending environment although this means a longer process with more documentation and paperwork, it translates into loans people truly qualify for-now, and in the future

5) more realistic sellers in terms of price

6) sellers who appreciate Buyers concerns about loan terms, property condition and timing.

7) the $8,000 tax credit for first-time homebuyers8) the mortgage interest deduction on owner-occupied property, which in most cases, results in homeowners paying less (after taxes) every month to own rather than rent

8) the mortgage interest deduction, which, for many buyers, results in paying (post-tax) LESSmoney each month to own a home.

Many buyers and investors will get rich buying property this year. It wont necessarily be immediatelythe flipping days are gone for now. However, the strength of an excellent education offered in Cupertino, San Jose, Santa Clara, Palo Alto and Saratoga, as well as the traditional benefits of homeownership stability, tax deductions for interest, the first-time homeowner $8,000 credit, and community remain compelling reasons for people to buy a home now.

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11 Local High Schools Make Top 1000 List of U.S. Public High Schools in Newsweek Poll

Gunn, Monta Vista, Mission San Jose, Saratoga, Hill, Palo Alto, Lynbrook, Los Gatos, Mountain View, Homestead & Silver Creek all make the list in Santa Clara County!

Lynbrook High is #56 in California & #362 Nationwide!

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