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2 Friday, June 17, 2022 — DAILY REPUBLIC
Mortgages hit 14-year Mandatory arbitration clause takes high as Fed hikes away your right to judge, jury rates to curb inflation ALL THINGS REAL ESTATE
Q: I am an insurance broker in Vacaville. I read your columns every week and really enjoy them. I’ve learned a lot through the years. But something you’ve written about from time to time has always bothered me, so I thought I would write and see if you were willing to address the issue. Specifically, I dispute your opinion regarding arbitration provisions in contracts. You have consistently urged readers not to enter into arbitration agreements. As I’m sure you know, pretty much all insurance contracts contain arbitration provisions. The purpose is to provide an inexpensive and fast method for our clients to resolve any disputes they have with the company. You seem to see something evil in this. It’s really in our client’s best interest to be part of an arbitration and mediation provision in a contract and I don’t think you are doing your readers a service by advising them to avoid arbitration. A: To my recollection, I haven’t written about arbitration or mediation provisions recently, but I’m happy to share my views on the subject. First, let’s define our terms: Mediation is a formal “can’t we all just get along” session that employs a trained person to help negotiate a compromise or settlement between the parties. Arbitration is a substitute for the court. With arbitration the parties have given up their right to a judge, to a jury, to the right of appeal and to many other civil court protections afforded to litigants. Both arbitration and mediation are alternate dispute resolution tools, known in the business as ADR. To clear the air about this, I am most definitely not opposed
Tim Jones to arbitration. I have served as an arbitrator on real estate cases and I firmly believe arbitration serves a valuable purpose in the resolution of disputes. Just not 100% of the time. What I have openly criticized, and continue to do so, are mandatory arbitration provisions in contracts, particularly when they are aimed at consumers. A mandatory arbitration provision in a contract binds the people who sign the contract into forfeiting their rights to go to court and to have a jury, as well as the other rights listed above. The problem is, agreeing to such a provision in the contract means you give up those protective rights even before you know what the dispute is all about. For any readers who are saying to themselves, “Man, I would never sign a contract that required I give up my rights to go to court or to a jury,” let me assure you that you already have. The Law Offices of
Do you have a credit card? Medical insurance? Any type of consumer loan? Car insurance? A parking decal for work? An employment contract? Each of these, and many, many more, contain mandatory arbitration provisions you likely are totally unaware of. How can that be? Easy. Just like me and everyone else, we sign things or check boxes on install programs for our computer, without reading the fine print on page 32 of the user agreement. Heck! If you have ever pulled into a parking garage and grabbed the ticket out of the machine, you’ve agreed to binding arbitration. That’s the fine print on the back of the ticket. So there’s no way, short of living in a cabin in the Alaskan wilderness, you can get away from mandatory arbitration clauses. And why are they so common? Because businesses, the guys who write the contracts and to whom you give your money, don’t want you going to court. See Jones, Page 11
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THE WASHINGTON POST Mortgage rates skyrocketed this week, soaring to their highest levels since 2008. The unexpectedly speedy escalation has had a chilling effect on the U.S. housing market, increasing pressure on an economy already hounded by unremitting inflation. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, the most popular home loan product, jumped to 5.78% this week, up from 5.23% a week ago, according to Freddie Mac data released Thursday. The more than a half-percentage point rise was the biggest one-week jump since 1987. The jump came in anticipation of the Federal Reserve’s rate hike this week. The Fed hiked interest rates by the sharpest pace since 1994, to curb soaring inflation. Consumers have been facing higher prices in nearly every facet of their lives. Now higher mortgage rates are limiting their housing choices or pricing them out altogether. A week ago, a
$300,000 loan with a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage at a rate of 5.23% would have cost a borrower about $1,653 a month, excluding other costs such as taxes and insurance, Jacob Channel, a Lending Tree economist, wrote in an email. This week, that same loan costs them $1,756 a month, at 5.78%. That’s another $103 a month, $1,236 a year and $37,080 over the lifetime of the loan. The housing boom that had been fueled by low rates is beginning to subside. Prices have yet to moderate, propped higher mainly by low inventory. Home prices were up 20.6% in March compared to a year earlier, according to the most recent Case-Shiller home price index. But sales have slowed. Existing home sales fell for the third month in a row in April, the most recent data available from the National Association of Realtors. Data from the Census Bureau released Thursday See Mortgage, Page 9
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Designer Jonathan Adler offers advice on how to find your decorating style JURA KONCIUS
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otter, designer and author Jonathan Adler’s career is full of creative highlights, including designing swanky hotels, being a judge on HGTV’s “Design Star: Next Gen” and creating a real-life Malibu Barbie Dream House. His furniture, pillows, rugs and vases are sold throughout the world, including at 11 Jonathan Adler stores, and he recently launched his first collection of tiles for Lunada Bay. His latest gig is a 13-episode instructional series, “Decorate Like a Designer, with Jonathan Adler,” which premiered in May on Wondrium, a subscription streaming service for educational content. “I have spent my life thinking about how design works,” says Adler, 55. “I felt it was time to share what I know.” The show’s topics are wideranging: lighting, accessorizing, salvaging old objects, color, the magic of repetition – and a compelling lesson on the history of design over the past 100 years. (He even shows viewers how he makes a pot.) It’s a well-organized introduction to the basic principles of design for anyone who wants to improve their skills and for young designers looking to learn from a seasoned pro. Caution, though: Do not watch all 13 episodes in one day. (I speak from experience here.) It could leave you muttering the series’s mantra, “glamour equals swagger,” in your sleep. We caught up with Adler last week in a phone interview from the Shelter Island, N.Y., home that he shares with his husband,
Potter, designer and author Jonathan Adler. fashion guru Simon Doonan, who also appears in the Wondrium series. (The two also have a home in Palm Beach, Fla.) We asked Adler to share advice on finding your own style. Q: How do you explain to people how to find their own style? A: I like to explain how I come to my own style. There are three filters through which I see the design world, three voices that wend their way into all of my work, from objects to furniture to decorating: pop, natural and deluxe. Pop is about bright, bold, minimalist, somewhat cheeky voices and muses like Andy Warhol and Ellsworth Kelly and is an opportunity to be witty and artistic. Natural comes from the fact that I am an artisan and that I believe in impeccable materials and honest, timeless craft. And deluxe is more luxury. [In the Wondrium lesson, he mentions velvet, sparkles, gold
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Jonathan Adler’s Wondrium decorating series emphasizes expressing your own personality in your home. Here, his Ether curved sofa with stiletto legs and his “Eyes” wall art are two strong statement pieces. and chinoiserie.] I hope that one of these styles will resonate or that people will create their own personal, idiosyncratic style. Q: Where can people find designers and tastemakers to inspire them? A: The holy trinity for me: Pinterest, Instagram and 1stDibs. I am transported by Pinterest. It almost makes me comatose, and I lose track of time and space. The company 1stDibs is great, because it breaks things down by designer. If you like someone’s objects and furniture, then you can see everything
that person has done. This is a great way to get a sense of design history and context. Q: Can your clothes be an indication of what style you like in your home? [Adler’s uniform is white jeans year-round and Stan Smiths.] A: In an ideal world, your sartorial and decorating styles would be the same. I often see women who look very groovy and chic and edgy, and I imagine them living in a minimalist, artfilled home, but then I get there, and it’s a cabbage rose English country cottage look. Sometimes
there is a complete dissonance between someone’s sartorial and decorating styles. It’s a lot easier to change your clothes than your decor. Decor is often a snapshot of where someone was, and clothes are more the now, so it doesn’t always work. Q: How do you decide whether you are a minimalist or maximalist? A: You have to really think about what makes you happy at home. Are you a person who loves to have one handbag you See Style, Page 11
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Real estate transactions BENICIA
TOTAL SALES: 12 LOWEST AMOUNT: $310,000 HIGHEST AMOUNT: $1,750,000 MEDIAN AMOUNT: $765,000 AVERAGE AMOUNT: $868,958
1032 West 5th Street – $310,000
05-13-22 [3 Bdrms – 1076 SqFt – 1956 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 06-24-21, $237,000
2513 East Atlantic Court – $570,000
05-11-22 [3 Bdrms – 1129 SqFt – 1966 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 08-06-14, $265,000
2539 Beaufort Court – $425,000
05-10-22 [3 Bdrms – 1272 SqFt – 1973 YrBlt]
2802 Calaveras Drive – $500,000
05-10-22 [4 Bdrms – 1738 SqFt – 1976 YrBlt]
5227 Calendula Street – $950,000
186 Carlisle Way – $780,000
117 Del Norte Court – $237,000
05-09-22 [2 Bdrms – 1087 SqFt – 1984 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 05-01-18, $335,000 05-09-22 [3 Bdrms – 1338 SqFt – 1972 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 05-13-19, $575,000
867 Corcoran Court – $875,000
05-13-22 [4 Bdrms – 1943 SqFt – 1980 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 11-02-09, $435,000
77 Denfield Avenue – $692,500
05-11-22 [3 Bdrms – 1008 SqFt – 1951 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 10-03-05, $450,000
136 East E Street – $750,000
05-13-22 [2 Bdrms – 1170 SqFt – 1915 YrBlt]
1421 Fry Court – $970,000
05-11-22 [4 Bdrms – 2006 SqFt – 1988 YrBlt]
375 West I Street – $1,750,000
05-13-22 [4 Bdrms – 2667 SqFt – 1978 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 07-01-14, $608,000
710 East J Street – $1,150,000
05-12-22 [3 Bdrms – 3390 SqFt – 1992 YrBlt]
1800 London Drive – $635,000
05-10-22 [3 Bdrms – 1480 SqFt – 1980 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 04-26-16, $426,000
664 Mcallister Drive – $1,400,000
05-10-22 [5 Bdrms – 4233 SqFt – 2007 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 11-28-07, $769,944
DIXON TOTAL SALES: 5 LOWEST AMOUNT: $435,000 HIGHEST AMOUNT: $620,000 MEDIAN AMOUNT: $520,000 AVERAGE AMOUNT: $520,800
905 Dawson Drive – $581,000
05-09-22 [4 Bdrms – 1902 SqFt – 1979 YrBlt]
620 Glenside Drive – $448,000
05-09-22 [4 Bdrms – 1474 SqFt – 1969 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 10-24-05, $381,000 05-12-22 [2 Bdrms – 1000 SqFt – 1974 YrBlt]
1240 Delaware Street – $995,500
05-10-22 [3 Bdrms – 3133 SqFt – 1941 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 10-06-03, $410,000
5033 Donatello Court – $683,000
05-10-22 [4 Bdrms – 1647 SqFt – 1999 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 07-25-17, $455,000
1188 Dove Way – $420,000
05-12-22 [3 Bdrms – 1524 SqFt – 1965 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 07-13-11, $180,000
4512 Green Valley Road – $1,679,000
05-09-22 [4 Bdrms – 3299 SqFt – 2012 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 10-28-15, $949,000
4409 Green Valley Road – $1,515,000
05-10-22 [3 Bdrms – 2745 SqFt – 1951 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 09-10-12, $742,000
692 Greentree Circle – $760,000
05-12-22 [4 Bdrms – 2412 SqFt – 2005 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 06-26-14, $250,000
5286 Klingsell Place – $810,500
05-13-22 [5 Bdrms – 3119 SqFt – 2013 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 02-21-22, $845,000
2377 Malibu Court – $510,000
05-09-22 [4 Bdrms – 1373 SqFt – 1969 YrBlt]
2486 Marquette Way – $548,500
05-13-22 [3 Bdrms – 1475 SqFt – 1983 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 01-30-19, $415,000
702 Marsh Place – $612,500
05-09-22 [3 Bdrms – 1544 SqFt – 2002 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 07-08-15, $300,000
474 Mountain Meadows Drive – $790,000
05-12-22 [4 Bdrms – 2614 SqFt – 2002 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 06-06-12, $320,000
05-10-22 [4 Bdrms – 1619 SqFt – 1974 YrBlt]
1779 Muir Court – $800,000
05-11-22 [3 Bdrms – 1025 SqFt – 1959 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 09-08-08, $195,000
725 Outrigger Court – $648,000
720 Humboldt Drive – $435,000
1319 Magnolia Court – $520,000
05-12-22 [3 Bdrms – 1487 SqFt – 1981 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 05-05-14, $265,000
910 Sievers Way – $620,000
05-12-22 [3 Bdrms – 2012 SqFt – 1965 YrBlt]
FAIRFIELD TOTAL SALES: 29 LOWEST AMOUNT: $237,000 HIGHEST AMOUNT: $1,679,000 MEDIAN AMOUNT: $570,000 AVERAGE AMOUNT: $649,052
05-11-22 [5 Bdrms – 2920 SqFt – 1979 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 11-15-18, $595,000 05-12-22 [4 Bdrms – 2012 SqFt – 2002 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 03-08-02, $287,273
1906 San Anselmo Street – $450,000
05-10-22 [4 Bdrms – 2085 SqFt – 1961 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 08-02-10, $190,000
1627 Shadywood Court – $745,000
167 Kodiak Drive – $720,000
05-10-22 [4 Bdrms – 1734 SqFt – 1977 YrBlt]
05-13-22 [5 Bdrms – 3246 SqFt – 2012 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 10-25-12, $472,500 05-10-22 [4 Bdrms – 2380 SqFt – 2016 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 10-26-16, $452,000
1608 Mcguire Circle – $730,000
198 Lassen Circle – $365,000
05-09-22 [2 Bdrms – 968 SqFt – 1971 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 12-07-18, $170,000
905 Muscovy Court – $585,000
154 Longview Drive – $555,000
05-10-22 [2 Bdrms – 960 SqFt – 1971 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 12-04-13, $215,000
250 Redstone Circle – $550,000
349 Mono Drive – $585,000
1020 Towhee Way – $566,500
201 Moscato Court – $565,000
1753 Ventura Way – $539,000
176 Olympic Circle – $392,500
2331 Whitecliff Court – $420,000
RIO VISTA TOTAL SALES: 10 LOWEST AMOUNT: $405,000 HIGHEST AMOUNT: $655,000 MEDIAN AMOUNT: $486,250 AVERAGE AMOUNT: $499,850
218 Cedar Ridge Drive – $405,000
05-09-22 [2 Bdrms – 1139 SqFt – 2001 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 07-06-18, $309,000
340 Del Monte Drive – $475,000
05-09-22 [2 Bdrms – 1392 SqFt – 2003 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 05-11-17, $310,000
70 Highland Drive – $502,000
05-11-22 [3 Bdrms – 1759 SqFt – 1964 YrBlt]
1958 Lavender Place – $560,000
05-13-22 [3 Bdrms – 1635 SqFt – 2019 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 05-30-19, $386,000
362 Pebble Beach Drive – $429,000
05-13-22 [2 Bdrms – 1391 SqFt – 2002 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 01-26-21, $358,000
202 Riviera Drive – $655,000
05-09-22 [3 Bdrms – 2840 SqFt – 2003 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 01-31-12, $257,000 05-10-22 [3 Bdrms – 1277 SqFt – 1981 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 09-02-21, $535,000 05-12-22 [4 Bdrms – 1568 SqFt – 1994 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 03-30-16, $325,000 05-10-22 [3 Bdrms – 1492 SqFt – 1989 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 12-18-98, $124,000 05-11-22 [4 Bdrms – 1474 SqFt – 1987 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 01-10-06, $409,000
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341 Spyglass Drive – $639,000
05-11-22 [3 Bdrms – 2483 SqFt – 2003 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 06-15-21, $550,000
826 Virginia Drive – $421,000
05-12-22 [2 Bdrms – 925 SqFt – 1953 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 09-20-21, $396,000
SUISUN CITY TOTAL SALES: 11 LOWEST AMOUNT: $350,000 HIGHEST AMOUNT: $850,000 MEDIAN AMOUNT: $566,500 AVERAGE AMOUNT: $592,955
05-09-22 [4 Bdrms – 2209 SqFt – 1989 YrBlt]
409 Avalon Way – $850,000
05-10-22 [2 Bdrms – 816 SqFt – 1986 YrBlt],
600 Fulmar Drive – $525,000
05-12-22 [3 Bdrms – 1560 SqFt – 1973 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 00/1990, $158,000 05-13-22 [6 Bdrms – 2996 SqFt – 1972 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 08-15-14, $465,000
05-11-22 [3 Bdrms – 1631 SqFt – 2009 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 09-25-08, $310,000 05-09-22 [2 Bdrms – 1314 SqFt – 1964 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 07-02-18, $350,000
601 Overland Court – $769,000
05-12-22 [5 Bdrms – 2457 SqFt – 2009 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 12-19-09, $389,000
142 Sandalwood Drive – $602,000
123 American Way – $527,000
05-13-22 [2 Bdrms – 1022 SqFt – 1990 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 11-06-17, $324,000
293 Arrowhead Drive – $450,500
05-13-22 [4 Bdrms – 1402 SqFt – 1971 YrBlt]
133 Berryessa Drive – $550,000
05-10-22 [2 Bdrms – 1837 SqFt – 2018 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 06-03-19, $428,500
05-13-22 [4 Bdrms – 1402 SqFt – 1965 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 03-19-20, $425,000
05-12-22 [2 Bdrms – 1066 SqFt – 1979 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 06-10-14, $205,000
315 Acorn Court – $385,000
05-13-22 [2 Bdrms – 1105 SqFt – 1997 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 11-04-14, $215,000
343 Silver Ridge Drive – $497,500
05-13-22 [4 Bdrms – 1432 SqFt – 1973 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 03-31-99, $129,900
278 Red Pheasant Drive – $960,000
392 Bartlett Lane – $525,000
961 Saint Andrews Drive – $415,000
05-11-22 [2 Bdrms – 918 SqFt – 1964 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 12-28-09, $145,000
TOTAL SALES: 27 LOWEST AMOUNT: $265,000 HIGHEST AMOUNT: $1,033,000 MEDIAN AMOUNT: $600,000 AVERAGE AMOUNT: $620,611
05-13-22 [2 Bdrms – 2178 SqFt – 2007 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 12-17-21, $583,500
416 Avalon Way – $350,000
2915 North Texas Street #221 – $343,500
05-12-22 [3 Bdrms – 2967 SqFt – 2003 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 11-17-03, $503,000
05-11-22 [4 Bdrms – 2040 SqFt – 1992 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 07-24-17, $450,000
05-10-22 [2 Bdrms – 868 SqFt – 1952 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 00/1991, $106,000
05-10-22 [4 Bdrms – 1638 SqFt – 1995 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 09-05-12, $220,000
1150 Tanglewood Drive – $515,000
813 Josiah Court – $1,033,000
405 Marina Boulevard – $399,000
113 Villa Court – $250,000
529 Dahlia Court – $605,000
05-09-22 [4 Bdrms – 2179 SqFt – 2007 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 08-20-07, $535,000
05-09-22 [4 Bdrms – 1304 SqFt – 1952 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 10-02-17, $322,000
307 East Utah Street – $555,000
05-09-22 [3 Bdrms – 2254 SqFt – 2019 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 09-03-19, $498,500
900 Cambridge Drive #179 – $390,000
924 Iron Drive – $751,000
1154 Kellogg Street – $760,000
1831 Vermont Street – $410,000
1412 Clementine Lane – $730,000
05-12-22 [3 Bdrms – 1960 SqFt – 1978 YrBlt]
1205 Gray Hawk Lane – $668,000
05-10-22 [2 Bdrms – 816 SqFt – 1986 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 12-29-09, $134,000
05-10-22, Previous Sale: 08-14-20, $5,984,500
30 Alta Loma – $725,000
05-10-22 [4 Bdrms – 1760 SqFt – 1943 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 01-03-13, $288,000
Previous Sale: 06-27-19, $230,000
2915 North Texas Street #125 – $345,000
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05-09-22 [2 Bdrms – 1323 SqFt – 2000 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 10-28-14, $330,000 05-11-22 [4 Bdrms – 1402 SqFt – 1964 YrBlt]
1225 Black Oak Court – $950,000
05-12-22 [5 Bdrms – 3314 SqFt – 1993 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 01-08-21, $808,000
05-12-22 [4 Bdrms – 3623 SqFt – 2004 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 09-12-17, $563,000
636 Rutgers Street – $820,000
05-11-22 [5 Bdrms – 2266 SqFt – 1989 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 04-25-18, $565,000 05-10-22 [3 Bdrms – 1293 SqFt – 1978 YrBlt]
155 Santana Drive – $515,500
05-09-22 [3 Bdrms – 1540 SqFt – 1971 YrBlt]
109 Stirling Drive – $645,000
05-13-22 [3 Bdrms – 1626 SqFt – 1978 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 07-02-19, $465,000
VALLEJO TOTAL SALES: 37 LOWEST AMOUNT: $297,000 HIGHEST AMOUNT: $1,020,000 MEDIAN AMOUNT: $551,500 AVERAGE AMOUNT: $575,973
869 Clifton Way – $610,000
130 Arkansas Street – $403,000
143 Currant Lane – $600,000
568 Birkdale Drive – $360,000
105 Dream Street – $621,000
5347 Chenin Blanc Place – $750,000
2001 Eastwood Drive #14 – $265,000
148 Clydesdale Drive – $551,500
799 Embassy Circle – $655,000
301 Contra Costa Street – $535,000
222 Fairview Drive – $590,000
1678 Devlin Drive – $575,000
379 Frisbie Circle – $750,000
1615 Dewey Street – $626,000
05-13-22 [3 Bdrms – 1312 SqFt – 1994 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 07-26-19, $445,000 05-09-22 [2 Bdrms – 1744 SqFt – 1997 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 11-05-12, $279,000 05-09-22 [3 Bdrms – 1445 SqFt – 1987 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 01-08-03, $269,900 05-12-22 [2 Bdrms – 890 SqFt – 2001 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 09-05-18, $210,000 05-13-22 [4 Bdrms – 1942 SqFt – 2011 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 06-15-20, $499,500 05-11-22 [4 Bdrms – 1430 SqFt – 1978 YrBlt] 05-11-22 [4 Bdrms – 2237 SqFt – 2009 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 06-04-19, $547,000
05-13-22 [3 Bdrms – 1184 SqFt – 1905 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 00/1990, $42,000 05-11-22 [6 Bdrms – 3042 SqFt – 1990 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 05-21-09, $369,000 05-10-22 [3 Bdrms – 2068 SqFt – 1999 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 03-09-99, $235,314 05-09-22 [3 Bdrms – 1341 SqFt – 1986 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 04-17-04, $385,000 05-12-22 [2 Bdrms – 1162 SqFt – 1930 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 04-17-13, $163,000 05-11-22 [3 Bdrms – 1125 SqFt – 1960 YrBlt]
See Transactions, Page 11
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s temperatures and energy bills spike this summer, it might be time to consider installing a heat pump. Despite its name, a heat pump cools your home as well as warming it in winter, but the device is far more efficient than a conventional air conditioner and fossil fuel furnace. The most commonly installed are air-source heat pumps, which resemble air conditioner units that sit outside your house. During hot months, liquid refrigerant in a copper coil extracts heat from the interior of a home as warm air naturally moves toward the cold. The hot air is then vented outside the house. A heat pump in cooling mode also lowers the humidity in a house, creating a more comfortable environment.
That’s increasingly useful in temperate areas of the United States, where people typically don’t have air conditioners but are being hit with climatechange-fueled heat waves, such as the record-breaking temperatures that seared the Pacific Northwest in June 2021. California and other western states are also experiencing more frequent and widespread wildfires that can blanket distant cities in toxic smoke. “We do see in places like California that because of wildfires, folks want to have AC because they want to shut their windows,” says Lacey Tan, manager of the carbon-free buildings program at the nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute. A report on the 2021 Pacific Northwest heatwave by RMI found that a Seattle home equipped with a heat pump would save $228 annually com-
pared to conventional cooling and heating systems and reduce the building’s carbon dioxide emissions by about 25%. “While more and more people in the United States and around the world look to add cooling to their homes, it’s important to ensure that cooling equipment has minimal climate impact,” the report stated. Equipment and installation costs typically run from $4,000 to $12,000 for an airsource heat pump, depending on the size of the pump, the brand, and whether you use a ductless system. The price of a conventional air conditioning system ranges from $3,800 to $7,500 while a gas furnace costs $2,000 to $6,000. In other words, installing a heat pump to cool and heat your home costs roughly the same as buying a separate air See Pump, Page 10
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This recipe called Breezy Shore features a color scheme called triadic harmony using Laguna Sky Blue lobelia, Superbells Dreamsicle calibrachoa, Flambe Yellow chrysocephalum, Boldly Deep Red geranium with Graceful Grasses Blue Mohawk rush as the thrille.
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From Page 6 I would like to take you down memory lane to about 15 years ago. I was coordinator for the Mississippi Medallion Award program for Mississippi State University. In our trials, we were looking at several Juncus species, but mainly Juncus inflexus, the native J. effusus and other varieties. They all did exceptionally well. We did something a little odd in that we chose “Juncus species” as the Mississippi Medallion Award winner for 2008, along with Diamond
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Jim Porter premium regardless of FICO score is 1.75% up front and then .85% annually for the life of the loan on a 96.5% loan-to-value. A conventional buyer with a FICO score of 680 and 3% down payment will pay nothing up front and .79% annually till the loan balance drops to 78% loanto-value in seven years, or they can get the PMI removed sooner with an appraisal after as little as two years. If a buyer does an FHA $500,000 loan today, they pay HUD 1.75% or $8,750 up front for the mortgage insurance fee plus $360 per month mortgage insurance premium. If this middle-class American sells her house in two years and pays off the $500,000 loan, she gets none of the $8,750 mortgage insurance refunded. I understand the risk and I get the idea that the Great Recession was rough but, from 2003 to 2007, HUD was barely exposed to the huge losses that resulted from the Wall Street funded
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mortgage fraud scheme that took place from 2004 to 2007. Buyers didn’t need FHA loans from 2004 to 2007 and sellers wouldn’t take offers from FHA buyers here in Solano County during this period because a 680 FICO score buyer could purchase a home with no down payment and close escrow in 21 days with no proof of income required. HUD needs to get back to the mission. The other thing that the government needs to stop doing is talking about owner-occupied home equity as if it is money in the bank or a stock portfolio that can be used to buy things. Using your home equity like an ATM machine cost a lot of people their homes from 2008 to 2013. People that started 2004 with a mortgage balance of $200,000 and
by 2007 owed $500,000, were in a heap of trouble when the value of the house dropped to $200,000 in 2009. Homeownership does not create an income-producing asset for retirement nor does it produce a big free capital gain unless the person sells their free and clear $500,000 house they bought 30 years ago, and moves from California and buys a house in Tennessee or Texas for $250,000. The key benefit of homeownership is a hedge against inflation in housing. Lots of Solano County seniors own their home free and clear and only pay for maintenance, taxes and insurance while others are renting at today’s prices. Many local seniors may owe $400,000 on their home at
a 3.5% interest rate but have a lifetime monthly pension at five times their house payment of $2,500, and some still owe $400,000 on their house but have both a pension and a million dollars in IRAs. Homeownership makes a person rich over time and rich is being 70 without any worries about having a place to live. Jim Porter, NMLS No. 276412, is the branch manager of Solano Mortgage, NMLS No. 1515497, a division of American Pacific Mortgage Corporation, NMLS No. 1850, licensed in California by the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation under the CRMLA / Equal Housing Opportunity. Jim can be reached at 707-449-4777.
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Mortgage From Page 2 showed housing starts fell 14.4% from April and are down 3.5% year-over-year. Besides leading to a pullback in sales of new and existing homes, higher rates have curbed the appetite for mortgages. Volume is down more than 50% compared with a year ago. The refinance share of mortgage applications is at its second-lowest level since December 2000. As a result, real estate and mortgage brokerages are shedding jobs. Compass cut 10% of its non-broker staff and Redfin announced it was laying off about 470 employees. Pennymac Financial Services, a non-bank mortgage lender, is reducing its staff by 207 employees after cutting 230 employees in March. The cool down in housing is due to the Federal Reserve raising its benchmark rate by 0.75 percentage point. The rate hike is the third this year by the Fed. At its May meeting, the central bank raised the federal funds rate by a half-percentage point. It took its first steps toward bringing down inflation in March when it boosted its benchmark rate for the first time since 2018. Although the Fed doesn’t set mortgage rates, its actions influence them. The central bank has launched this initiative to rein in the highest inflation in 40 years, making a whole lost of lending beyond mortgages more expensive in an effort to reduce demand for goods and services. “The annual inflation rate unexpectedly accelerated to 8.6% in May, and mortgage rates won’t have much reason to fall as long as inflation remains elevated,” said Holden Lewis, home and mortgage specialist at NerdWallet. “The Federal Reserve increased short-term rates ... to slow economic growth and get inflation under control.” Mortgage rates “continued climbing this week in response to last week’s inflation data and
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to be less volatile in the near future. “Mortgage rates tend to go up and down in anticipation of Fed rate moves, which is a way of saying that the Fed increase was already baked into mortgage rates,” he said. “In other words, mortgage rates are more likely to go up or down before Fed meetings than after Fed meetings. Over the next week or two, we probably won’t see big movements in mortgage rates like we did last week.” The Fed signaled another 0.75 percentage point increase could be on the table next month as well, although Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told reporters in a news conference after the meeting he does not expect moves of this size to be common. Low rates fueled the revival of the U.S. housing market after the Great Recession and have helped drive home prices to record levels. But after the pandemic sent rates to historical lows, rates have been on a tear. The 30-year fixed average, which started the year at 3.22%, hit 4% in March and 5% five weeks later. Although economists had expected rates to rise, they have escalated far more quickly than they had predicted.
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in anticipation of this week’s increase in the target federal funds rate,” said Hannah Jones, an economic data analyst at Realtor.com. “Although rates tracked by Freddie Mac remain in the fives, other mortgage surveys showed interest rates exceeding 6% early this week.” Investors had largely anticipated the aggressive move, which is why long-term bond yields tracked higher this week. The yield on the 10-year Treasury climbed to its highest level in more than a decade, reaching 3.49% on Tuesday before falling back to 3.33% after the Fed announcement. At the beginning of the year, the yield was 1.63%. “The 30-year mortgage rate tends to follow the 10-year Treasury yield and the 10-year Treasury just hit its highest yield in 11 years,” Steve Reich, chief operations officer at Finance of America Mortgage, wrote in an email. “The 10-year Treasury is rising because investors are anticipating rate increases in the future. As a result, we’ve also seen mortgage rates follow suit and tick up recently. In the shortterm, mortgage rates will likely continue to follow a similar range and keep pace with the 10-year Treasury yield.” Lewis expects mortgage rates
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Pump From Page 5 conditioner and furnace. But what if you need cooling but your existing furnace still has life left in it? Tan recommends installing a heat pump rather than purchasing a more inefficient conventional air conditioner
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SQ. FT.
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LOT/AC
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that won’t be replaced for another 15 to 20 years. “If you’re going to install cooling, it should be at a heat pump, period,” she says. “Then allow people to keep their furnaces until they burn out.” The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that a heat pump can lower a homeowner’s energy costs by hundreds of dollars a year. Meanwhile, a study published in October
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2020 in the journal Nature Energy found that houses with heat pumps get a premium of as much as $17,000 on average when they sell. The environment also benefits: A 2018 paper published in the Electricity Journal found that air-source heat pumps could reduce household greenhouse gas emissions from heating in California by as much as 54%. Some states offer incentives
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for air-source heat pumps, such as rebates up to $4,800 in California, $1,200 in Maine and 0% financing and other rebates in Massachusetts. A barrier to wider adoption of heat pumps is a lack of contractors with the knowledge or willingness to install the devices. “Unfortunately, we’re not seeing a push from the contractor side for heat pumps,” Tan says.
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Shop around, and check to see if your utility or state rebate program lists recommended installers. Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships publishes a guide to choosing a contractor and the questions you should ask. In the San Francisco Bay Area, a program called BayREN offers a list of approved contractors that install heat pumps and are qualified for rebates.
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Transactions: Homes From Page 4
05-09-22 [3 Bdrms – 984 SqFt – 1961 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 01-19-22, $320,000
05-13-22 [3 Bdrms – 1405 SqFt – 2004 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 02-05-16, $330,000
800 Modoc Street – $565,000
05-11-22 [4 Bdrms – 2645 SqFt – 2005 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 01-11-21, $645,000
155 Nantucket Lane – $405,000
05-10-22 [3 Bdrms – 1052 SqFt – 1948 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 09-16-13, $135,000
105 Nantucket Lane – $385,000
05-13-22 [4 Bdrms – 1808 SqFt – 1978 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 08-23-18, $430,000
201 Navone Street – $500,000
05-10-22 [4 Bdrms – 2182 SqFt – 2004 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 02-09-10, $270,000
412 Ohio Street – $575,000
05-12-22 [3 Bdrms – 1545 SqFt – 1988 YrBlt]
184 Platt Court – $645,000
05-13-22 [4 Bdrms – 1993 SqFt – 1988 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 10-28-09, $250,000
1819 Redwood Street – $590,000
05-10-22 [4 Bdrms – 2261 SqFt – 1978 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 09-02-15, $430,000
744 Rollingwood Drive – $610,000
05-10-22 [5 Bdrms – 3528 SqFt – 2003 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 12-11-13, $580,000
103 Rounds Street – $450,000
05-13-22 [4 Bdrms – 3104 SqFt – 2001 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 03-07-02, $465,177
542 Russell Street – $500,000
05-10-22 [3 Bdrms – 1448 SqFt – 1986 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 08-13-19, $425,000
1009 Sacramento Street – $400,000
05-10-22 [2 Bdrms – 840 SqFt – 1988 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 10-25-16, $175,000
120 Simonton Street – $499,000
05-11-22 [2 Bdrms – 892 SqFt – 1900 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 08-17-17, $260,000
301 Skyline Drive – $750,000
05-11-22 [3 Bdrms – 1326 SqFt – 1962 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 04-28-20, $180,000
1015 Skyline Drive – $675,000
05-11-22 [3 Bdrms – 1202 SqFt – 1955 YrBlt]
1028 Western Avenue – $550,000
1109 Flagship Drive – $710,000 1427 Florida Street – $545,000
1347 Granada Street – $642,000 1239 Halsey Street – $640,000
243 Hawkins Street – $712,000
285 Honeydew Drive – $339,000 124 Hyde Court – $850,000
1896 Landmark Drive – $1,020,000
1622 Landmark Drive – $1,000,000 616 Lighthouse Drive – $638,000
223 Lighthouse Drive – $297,000 738 Louisiana Street – $435,000
1935 Magazine Street – $530,000 237 Melba Drive – $527,500 406 Mini Drive – $526,000
Jones From Page 2 When a consumer gets hurt and sues a business, who do you think is likely to be on the jury? Consumers like you, that’s who. Juries are notoriously sympathetic toward individuals and not corporations. We don’t need to debate the accuracy of that statement. All that matters is corporations
Jonathan Adler likes the way the light glimmers through his Aries cocktail table, which is made with two acrylic rams under a glass tabletop. His sculptural Ripple floor lamp features a shiny nickel base and a powder-blue shade.
05-09-22 [3 Bdrms – 1593 SqFt – 1942 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 09-29-03, $250,000 05-09-22 [1 Bdrms – 894 SqFt – 1984 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 02-04-20, $310,000 05-10-22 [2 Bdrms – 1197 SqFt – 1984 YrBlt] 05-09-22 [2 Bdrms – 806 SqFt – 1942 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 12-27-21, $250,000 05-09-22 [3 Bdrms – 1739 SqFt – 1922 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 04-10-12, $135,000 05-11-22 [3 Bdrms – 1810 SqFt – 1985 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 05-24-99, $169,950
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05-10-22 [4 Bdrms – 1900 SqFt – 1955 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 12-10-19, $380,000 05-09-22 [3 Bdrms – 1520 SqFt – 1954 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 08-11-21, $433,000
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05-10-22 [3 Bdrms – 1438 SqFt – 1950 YrBlt]
use every day, or do you need 10? Although people might not think that I’m a Marie Kondo guy, I have learned that I only keep pieces around me that spark joy. (I just happen to have a lot of them.) I am a minimalist/maximalist. I try to keep it sleek and modern and elegant and cleanlined. Design should be a process of paring things down to be clear and to communicate, but you can still end up with a lot of items.
Q: How do crafty pieces you’ve made fit into your decor? A: If objects have personal meaning and history, then they are worth displaying. There is an incredibly profound and lifeaffirming feeling that comes from making something. I am very nonjudgmental and very anti-snobbism. Not everything needs to be expensive, and it should not be about what other people think. It’s about stuff at home that will make you happy. It’s about finding your voice, not a trendy voice. Q: How do you find the colors that are really you?
A: My people think of me as a very colorful character. I am actually a lot more restrained in my use of color than people might think. I would follow my lead and go to timeless, forever colors such as black and white, which are in the foundation of everything I do. Then you inject an accent color in smaller items such as pillows and accessories. This can be a go-to formula for creating design that will be lasting and not too ephemeral. The colors you consider should stick around for a while and be more restrained in larger pieces and freer in smaller ones.
believe it. So they don’t want to wind up in front of a jury. Your insurance carrier doesn’t make you sign a mandatory arbitration provision because they want you to save money if you sue them. They do it because they want the dispute taken out of a jury’s hands. “But Tim,” you say, “you’re just being cynical. And besides, you just want to make more money by going through that long and expensive court process.” To which I respond, “Fine!
Then don’t pay any attention to what I’m saying.” I might also add that arbitration doesn’t usually save anyone even a nickel. In fact, it’s usually more expensive. In arbitration you not only have to pay your lawyer, you have to pay the arbitrator (and often an entire panel of arbitrators) out of your pocket. There is seldom less work for your attorney to do, especially since most of the procedures your attorney might use to end a case early are unavailable in arbitration.
On the other hand, mediation provisions I believe in. The cost is low and if it quickly resolves the issue, everybody is money ahead. An arbitration may be the right venue for your dispute. If so, all the parties to the dispute can agree to go to arbitration without the need for a mandatory arbitration clause. But I believe voluntarily giving up your right to your day in court ahead of time is simply foolish. Frankly, I’d like to see federal
legislation that prevents one party from forcing a mandatory arbitration provision on a consumer. If they’d like to offer it, and the consumer agrees, then fine. At least they’d know they had agreed to it.
05-13-22 [3 Bdrms – 1032 SqFt – 1958 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 09-07-10, $65,000 05-09-22 [2 Bdrms – 840 SqFt – 1941 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 03-09-20, $371,000 05-10-22 [3 Bdrms – 1320 SqFt – 1904 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 11-13-19, $326,500 05-10-22 [3 Bdrms – 2430 SqFt – 1957 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 10-22-98, $82,900 05-10-22 [4 Bdrms – 2869 SqFt – 1979 YrBlt] 05-12-22 [3 Bdrms – 1519 SqFt – 1980 YrBlt], Previous Sale: 01-26-11, $223,000
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Tim Jones is a real estate attorney in Fairfield. If you have any real estate questions you would like answered in this column, you can send an email to AllThingsRealEstate@ TJones-Law.com.
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This recipe called Misty Seas features Supertunia Mini Vista selections Indigo, Violet Star and White all surrounding Graceful Grasses Blue Mohawk rush used as an elegant thriller.
From Page 7 called Misty Seas, which was also seen at Young’s Plant Farm. It features Supertunia Mini Vista Indigo, Supertunia Mini Vista Violet Star and Supertunia Mini Vista White – all award winners, and as you might guess, surrounding the Blue Mohawk. This could be the perfect choice for your porch, patio or deck. The Blue Mohawk rush is considered a warm season grass. It can be perennial from zones 5a through 9b, or treated as an annual, which is what many mixed container designers do. In the landscape you may wish to let it perennialize. They will reach 24 to 36 inches tall with a 12-inch spread. As a perennial it has the possibil-
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Though a simple design, this urn with Supertunia Vista Silverberry and Graceful Grasses Blue Mohawk rush is nothing short of picturesque. NORMAN WINTER/ TNS
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ity of doing a slow spread by underground rhizomes. Once frost has induced a winter rest, you can leave the stalks to add winter interest. Once spring arrives and growth is eminent, cut the stalks back to ground level. The rush is on for the long growing season ahead, and I promise you could not find a more picturesque thriller for your mixed containers than Proven Winners Graceful Grasses Blue Mohawk. Just know you will make your gardening friends jealous! Norman Winter is a horticulturist, garden speaker and author of “Tough-as-Nails Flowers for the South” and “Captivating Combinations: Color and Style in the Garden.” Follow him on Facebook @NormanWinterTheGardenGuy. He receives complimentary plants to review from the companies he covers.
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