Just in case you haven't heard the news, the Alameda office of Prudential California Realty will be shutting down and agents are being merged into the Grand Lake Oakland office.
I am looking forward to working around Oakland's Lake Merritt and in the hills around Oakland. There are some very amazing properties in these areas and it will be an exciting place to set up base camp.
Just up Grand and Lakeshore Avenues is the POSH community of Piedmont. Piedmont is like the Beverly hills of the East Bay. There are some incredible mansions up on Glen Alpine Road that will amaze and bewilder just about anyone. (I'd love to sell you one or two)
The Grand Lake office does come with some down sides. Parking is pay at the meters only. I understand that from people in the office already parking tickets are going to be a fact of life.
Grand Avenue is full of fancy schmancy dinning establishments. I am more of a burrito and a coke type of lunch guy. A good deli sandwich would do me just fine. I am affraid I am not going to be eating anywhere near the office or just plain brown bagging it.
If I have to take clients out I think that I will take them to Becketts, The Englander, Harry's Hof Brau, or Paradiso
If you're looking for me at the Grand Lake office, my desk is at the very far back side of the building in the 1 1/2 floor level tucked in between floors 1 and 2 (have you ever seen the movie being john malcovich). I chose that location just because it's quirky and I could say I work on the first and half floor.
