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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Short Sales–The No Logic Zone
If any of you have had the unique experience of being part of a short sale you undoubtedly have discovered that, within that experience, logic has gone pretty much completely out the window. When discussing short sales it’s really a multiple choice illogical experience, so for the purpose of brevity I thought I would just [...]

Funky Foto Contest Winner Week 94
Nice detail this week folks! I like the inclusion of the indoor pool with the answer of the PJCC from Friday’s contest! Congratulations to Lakshmi Suresh who narrowly edged Nicole Fabris and won the $30.00 gift card to Subway. Great job Lakshmi! Also arriving with the correct answer was Suresh, Nancy, Joseph Chandy (on facebook), [...]

Real Estate Bore
Not bad….

Funky Foto Contest Week 94
In the last few weeks it sure was nice to have a roof over our heads, huh? This weeks question is simply, whats under this roof pictured above? What is this place? This weeks winner will receive a $30.00 gift card to Subway at Edgewater Place. All the rules of the road are available to view [...]

Worlds Apart
So, I’ve had this very interesting experience so far this year. I had a couple of listings in Foster City that sort of experienced a feeding frenzy and then followed those up with a listing in Daly City at a project called Pointe Pacific. The interesting part is the fact that although Foster City is only 19.5 [...]

The Phone
In the last couple of weeks I’ve had multiple clients inform me that they’ve read that the market is slow. They’ve been informed that the January sales numbers were bad both in the Bay Area as well as Nationally. I’ve also heard that a variety of  websites have proclaimed that the local market is struggling to [...]

Funky Foto Contest Winner Week 93
I was actually a little surprised at how many incorrect answers there were on Friday. The answer, of course, was the Edgewater Shopping Center along with multiple choices of businesses there. Congratulations to Sheetal Shetty who arrived first and won the $30.00 gift card to Cold  Stone Creamery. Great job Sheetal…who was consistently close in [...]

Over The Rainbow
OK, I know…you’ve probably seen this. After all, it’s got almost 70 million views on YouTube. It doesn’t matter…it’s still great and inspiring. Let’s see it again.

Funky Foto Contest Week 93
This weeks question is going to be just a tad bit different…mostly because I’m afraid this one is such a gimme! We’re going to have a two part answer…I want to know 1) where this tower is and 2) the name of at least 1 business that’s nearby. If you’re first to answer this you’ll win [...]

Measure A
Last week it was pretty gloomy around the San Mateo-Foster City school board and the word was out that there was going to be layoffs of more than 100 employees. Well it seems that Measure A has passed by the narrowest of margins. At one point it appeared that it was leading by 3 total [...]