Jim Minkey - Re/Max Today

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About Jim

I grew up in Denver, proudly graduated from the University of Colorado, Boulder and spent many hours visiting with my family at their home’s on Flying Fish and Flying Cloud Isle in FC so I got to know it pretty well. I met my lovely bride Lesley in 1989 and we moved to the Bay Area where I became a Realtor and worked for the Re/Max office that used to be at the location the Inktomi Mausoleum now sits on…Hillsdale between Shell and Foster City Blvd.

When our building was torn down I moved to Re/Max Today in San Carlos where I still am today. My office is the most productive office in San Mateo county and I’m proud to say that I’m associated with it! In 2006 I was 4th out of 67 agents there and have been in the top 1% of Real Estate agents in the US for years now.

I know what I’m doing and my experience can be very helpful to you if you’re either buying or selling, so please don’t ever hesitate to contact me…even if you just want to pick my brain a bit!Lesley and I have been happily (really!) married for 19 years and have 2 beautiful little girls, Christina and Elena. We’ve been attending Central Peninsula Church over on Shell since 1991. My life’s sort of an open book so please let me know if you ever have any questions…or you would like to talk Colorado football! Go Buffs!

Jim Minkey, Re/Max Today
Offices in Foster City & San Carlos
Office: 650-610-6423

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Funky Foto Contest Week 202
OK, pay no attention to that shadow there. I’m not sure exactly who that is. This week’s question is simply, where in Foster City is this bench? If you’re first to answer that you’ll win a $30.00 gift card to Noah’s Bagels.  All the rules of the road are available to view on the left hand [...]

Recovery
There’s a well known real estate blogger in the mid west who wrote a post a week or so ago in which she disputed the use of the term “recovery” with regard to the real estate market. She really wasn’t being negative, it just doesn’t seem to fit with the reality of her market place. [...]

Funky Foto Contest Winner Week 201
Well, that was a pretty good turnout on Friday! Good job folks! Congratulations to Debbie Yeung who was first to arrive with the correct answer, that could either be Whalers or Chevys, and wins the $30.00 Jamba Juice gift card! Good job Debbie! Also answering correctly was Jeff, Michael, Pak, Phoebe, Jim S, Nessa, Bill, [...]

Funky Foto Contest Week 201
It’s such a gorgeous day today…and promises to be a hot one too, that I thought this shot of cool water would fit perfectly. This weeks question is a multiple choice one, name either the neighborhood across the water or the place just on the far left of the picture overhanging the water. If you’re [...]

Somewhat Confusing
    Every week I have a number of clients that anxiously await the arrival of new listings on the market. That’s especially true so far in 2012 with the inventory being so amazingly low. Folks flock to open houses on new listings and multiple offer feeding frenzies occur quite frequently now a days. Sometimes places are in [...]

All Time High
            One of my favorite things about Foster City, as a realtor at least, is the fact that it’s relatively easy to study comparables. There’s a finite amount of homes and floor plans in this town so I can simply search by square footage and find what these houses have sold [...]

Funky Foto Contest Winner Week 200
Now that was a bit easier than last week, of course Friday’s pic was of Port Royal park and our winner is Ranjana Suresh who arrived first. Congrats Ranjana!! Also answering correctly was Phoebe, Shrikant, Nicole, Alex O, Bill, Bryan, J Kwan and Anurag. Thanks for playing folks! See you again this Friday.

Funky Foto Contest Week 200
While we’re on the subject of parks in Foster City…we might as well do it again! This week’s question, what park is this? If you’re first to answer that you’ll win a $30.00 gift card to Chipotle. All the rules of the road are available to view on the left hand margin as well as [...]

Good New & Bad News
OK, the bad news first. As I’m sure most of you know, both Cold Stone Creamery and Turtle Bay Restaurant have gone out of business. It’s really an incredible thing to me that Foster City can’t support a single white tablecloth, fine dinning type of restaurant. Amazing! Foster City has a ton of great things [...]

Complete Insanity
We’ve officially crossed over into a realm of total insanity now. The vast majority of offers that are being accepted have no contingencies of any kind, almost every property is going over asking…often by a bunch and the old rules are being scrapped on a weekly basis. Some of which I wish were not being [...]