Home Security

Emergency Preparedness Kits That Could Save Your Life!

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by The Dawn Thomas Team on February 14, 2013

No one ever wants to think about disasters. If a disaster in the Silicon Valley does occur, wouldn’t it be smart to take some precautions now to prepare your home or auto rather than wait until an emergency is upon us? The City of Mountain View has created a Disaster Preparedness Checklist to help you [...]

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Why does the “For Sale” inventory keep shrinking?

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by The Dawn Thomas Team on January 30, 2013

We’ve been writing quite a bit lately about the shrinking inventory here in the Silicon Valley Real Estate market and a recent article in The Wall Street Journal agrees with our findings. Below author Nick Timiraos explains the miniscule inventory in quite a few metropolitan markets around the United States; if you’re thinking about selling your home read [...]

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Title Insurance- what is it and why do I need it?

by The Dawn Thomas Team on August 27, 2012

This blog is courtesy of The Dawn Thomas Team who is an award-winning Real Estate Agent team at Intero Real Estate Services in Los Altos 650-701-7822. We help nice people with selling and buying homes from Palo Alto to West San Jose!

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An Eight Point Financial Health Checklist

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by The Dawn Thomas Team on August 7, 2012

Trulia published an article entitled An Eight Point Financial Health Day Checklist that speaks to a very important reminder for current home owners-checking your financial health. With automatic payments, such readily available credit use, identity theft and the current financial status of our country-being responsible and knowing exactly what your financial picture looks like is crucial. [...]

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6 Ways Your Home Can Help You Retire

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by The Dawn Thomas Team on July 24, 2012

Trulia published an article that is important to every home owner: what is my home doing for me? If I invest in my home can it be my retirement plan? With the bubble bursting on the Real Estate market many people saw their “retirement” evaporate before their eyes; the once sound investment turned upside down. If [...]

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Sunnyvale is rated 7 among 10 Best Cities to Raise Children!

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by The Dawn Thomas Team on June 25, 2012

Recently an article featured in the Mercury listed Sunnyvale #7 out of 10 Top American cities to raise children!  The list was based on an article from “Kiplinger.com, a national business and finance magazine.”  The website took data from the 2010 census to rate the cities; the biggest factor was metropolitan cites with a large [...]

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Make Your Home a Safer Place-The Real Solution

by The Dawn Thomas Team on January 26, 2011

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aka:  The Real Solution to Home Security Protecting your home, installing an expensive alarm system and/or security cameras are great.    The investigators [from the police department] for our home burglary; however, told my husband and I that when they interview burglars who have been caught,  the burglars know that there is approximately 5-10 minutes [...]

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Make Your Home a Safer Place-Part 3

by The Dawn Thomas Team on January 25, 2011

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9 More Things a Burglar Won’t Tell You: Sometimes, I carry a clipboard.  I frequently pose as a magazine sales person.  You’ve seen me–I’m the one carrying the duffle bag strolling up and down neighborhood streets.  Sometimes I even dress like a lawn guy and carry a rake.  I do my best to never, ever [...]

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