Bernard’s Danville Real Estate Blog

The California Association of Realtors has launched the C.A.R. Housing Affordability Fund Mortgage Protection Program, for first-time home buyers in California.

Through this Program, first-time home buyers who lose their jobs due to lay-offs could to receive $1,500 per month, for six months, to help make their mortgage payments. A qualified co-buyer can also participate in the program, and receive $750 per month for up to six months.  Program benefits also include coverage for accidental disability and a $10,000 death benefit. 

C.A.R.’s Housing Affordability Fund is dedicating $1 million toward its Mortgage Protection Program, and estimates that as many as 3,000 families will benefit from the program this year. To qualify for the Mortgage Protection Program, applicants must: ·          Be a first-time home buyer – someone who has not owned a home in three          or more years·          Open escrow April 2, 2009, or later, and close on or before Dec. 31, 2009·          Use a California REALTOR® in the transaction·          Purchase the property in California·          Be a W-2 employee (cannot be self-employed) To apply for the program, home buyers must request an application for the H.A.F. Mortgage Protection Program from their REALTOR®.

This is a short video I have just produced to show off some of the sights and homes of Danville, California, the nicest town in the San Francisco East Bay.

More details available at ZIPVO.com.

Picture yourself living in this cozy 1960s character home in a quiet secluded location just above downtown Lafayette. Enjoy the charming ambience created by the well-proportioned rooms with beamed ceilings and gleaming hardwood floors.

This exceptionally well-maintained home has been tastefully updated and remodeled to a high standard and significant improvements include the installation of high quality dual-pane windows, a composition shake roof and a particularly attractive remodeled master bathroom. Outside, there is a large wooden deck at the front of the home, ideal for catching the last rays of the setting sun, and an attractive well-stocked garden at the rear filled with a wide variety of trees and shrubs including oranges, figs, olives and pomegranates. All this together with a completely private seating area and also a sheltered side garden with raised vegetable beds.

Sierra Vista Way is a quiet lane in a country setting, within walking distance of downtown Lafayette with its wide range of restaurants and shopping facilities to meet your everyday needs.

Freeway access is only minutes away and it is generally accepted that Lafayette schools are among the best in Contra Costa County.

1149 Sierra Vista Way, Lafayette, California

Offered For Sale at $817,500