Sideboard in Danville CA
Cathy Lee, stager and owner of CLDesign Services, alerted me to a new coffee cafe in Danville – The Sideboard.
Cathy was raving about the pastries and the souffles, though they aren’t called souffles on the menu (I can’t remember the term they use).
So, Sunday morning I decided to give the Sideboard a try and get some real estate blogging done. I was wandering around trying to locate the Sideboard because I thought Cathy had told me it was in the back where Celia’s used to be. Cathy Lee 
happened to be there and saw me wandering around dazed and confused. She came out and rescued me just as I was leaving her a voicemail asking her for better directions. I was standing right next to it!
Just goes to show you how desperately this real estate agent needed his morning coffee!
Cathy introduced me to the owner (baker extraordinaire) Erin Andrews who tried to keep me from taking her picture, but I persevered. Later I met Erin’s husband, Ford, who was bussing tables (this division of labor should surprise no married couple).
Cathy, her husband, Kurt Waag, and friend Rose had a nice corner table. Kurt left and I joined Cathy and Rose. I had an excellent cup of coffee and a wonderful (souffle?) with asparagus and goat cheese.
I’m recommending the Sideboard to all Realtors, real estate agents, mortgage brokers and lenders in Alamo, Danville and San Ramon. I’ll probably mention it to a few others as well.
The Sideboard is located in the Danville Hotel at 411 Hartz Avenue, Danville, CA 94526.
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Realtor & Affiliate of the Year
Thursday’s weekly meeting of the RMA – Realtors Marketing Association – at the San Ramon Community Center included the acknowledgment of the Realtor of the Year and the Affiliate of the Year awards.
Jim Walberg of Keller Williams Realty in Danville received recognition for his service to the community and the association. He was awarded Realtor of the Year. Jim has been selling real estate in the East Bay for over 20 years. He is a past president of the RMA, amember of Rotary and is actively involved in the Winter Special Olympics and the One Warm Coat program.
Affiliate of the Year went to Cathy Lee of CLDesign Services. Cathy Lee is one of the foremost stagers in the I-680 Corridor. She attends all three marketing association weekly meetings regularly and is always lending a hand in the numerous yearly activities. She is actively involved with the Women’s Council of Realtors.
These awards went to well-deserving people. They are exemplars of what professionals in the real estate community should be and I consider myself fortunate to be their friend and professional associate.
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Integrity is Up Today
It seems The Question of Integrity is up for me today.
Yesterday, I was pondering doing more to recognize some of the vendors and other profesionals we work with on a daily basis. As I began to think about writing a post for today, I immediately ran into a conflict. The two people that first came into my mind to write about are: both friends, both read this blog, and are both stagers/designers.
What’s a body to do? If I write about one, will the other be chaffed? I’m taking the easy way out and writing about both of them. I would recommend both to anyone looking for design or staging services.
We work with a number of lenders and always offer at least two recommendations to a client. The client can then choose the person they feel the best fit with. So, that’s where I’m coming from and here they are (in alphabetical order!):
Cathy Lee of CLDesginServices is very well known and very active in the Realtors Marketing Association in San Ramon and Danville, CA. Cathy’s site was experiencing some problems this morning and I have alerted her to the situation (here is an alternative link). (if you get the right url John, it works fine!) She is making some site changes to incorporate a blog into her site as well as updating some of the content – so, please be patient with her – she is a designer not a web guru. Cathy Lee is suffering from being a grandmother. It seems she is in danger of losing her right index finger due to shutterbugitis. I know the reason she wants a blog is to post pictures of her twin grandsons in every staging job she does.
Elizabeth Forth of Refined Interior Designs is another friend and professional associate. You can tell a successful designer by the bright yellow Corvette they drive with the armchair and lamp tied to the trunk rack! Elizabeth has her own truck and her 9–car garage is really a warehouse for her staging inventory. I hope you can tell, that some of this is tongue-in-cheek, but seriously, we would recommend Elizabeth to everyone and anyone seeking a professional designer/stager.
Both of these professionals are fine representatives of their prfessions. They are wonderful friends and genuine people with a great deal of integrity.
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Local Stager Feared Assault
Today at the weekly Realtors Marketing Association in San Ramon, Cathy Lee, well-known stager and owner of CLDesigns told me she feared for her life the other night when two very intimidating men walked in on her while she was staging a $2 million new construction home in Lafayette, CA.
The power had yet to be hooked up and the light was fading when the first man entered. The man was acting and talking strange. When the second man entered Cathy reached for her phone only to discover she had set it down across the room. As she moved toward her phone, one of the men blocked her path.
It was at that moment, that Kurt Waag, Cathy’s husband showed up and saved the day. After the men left and Cathy settled down a bit, she and Kurt checked the house and discovered that all of the doors had been unlocked by the two men leading them to think that maybe burglary was also in the works.
Cathy told me she is going to sign up for Pam Ellis’ women’s self-defense class – Staying Alive.
We continue to bring situations like this to the attention of local real estate agents and affiliates to help raise awareness of the need to “think safety” all the time when showing property or sitting open houses.
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