Are there any upcoming East Bay meetups or North Bay/wine country?  

I just did a road trip through wine country in Baja last week and saw a lot of amazing architecture in a lot of the vineyards out there.  

They had a huge opportunity to be another Napa for wine tourism and completely blew it it with similar business unfriendly policies. 

Rick Dave Del Dotto was my neighbor in the Napa valley I lived right across the street from his winery, I enjoyed many a late afternoon drinking his wine and listening to his stories of the day..

In 2010, I was looking to open a wine bar in Los Angeles.

However, a restaurant does not include a business that primarily sells pre-packaged food or beverages not for immediate consumption, such as a grocery store; specialty food store; beer, wine, or liquor store; drug store; convenience store; newsstand; or a vending machine or kiosk.”Bad news for the drinkers among us, I guess.

It did a standing jump over an 8 foot wooden fence when the owner came out.  .....The mountain lion was holding a fully grown German shephard in its mouth when it did the standing jump over the fence.

My wife and I have an STR in Oregon Wine Country.

Here in Portland you'll find some of the best food, beer, wine, spirits, and the list goes on in the country.

Good Mortning all, I am newbie in  buying HUD property and would like to get opinion/suggestion/tips from all of you guys,I am buying a property in connecticut as owner occupant , its 3 family home and I would live in one floor and rent 2 other floors, its  a HUD property opening bid for owner occupant, and  my question is if I bid cash versus buying with mortgage do I have better change of wining that bid with cash?