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ANDERSON VALLEY, CALIFORNIA AND SURROUNDING AREAS  BOONVILLE-YORKVILLE-PHILO-UKIAH-COMPTCHE

Downtown Boonville 
P.O. Box 277  
Boonville, CA 95415  
(707) 895-3762  
fax (707) 895-2628 
Michael Shapiro, Broker   
e-mail: mike@mendocountry.com  
Associates
John Prince
, Jimmy Humble
 Victory Theater 
367 N. State St. #207 
Ukiah, CA 95482 
(707) 468-9101 
fax (707) 468-0605 

  North Country represents buyers and sellers in Anderson Valley and throughout Mendocino County. We are members of the County and Coast MLS, Multiple Listing Service. If we don't have it, we will find it for you.
Real Estate Loans Available for Land and Country Property.
Existing Notes Purchased.
 


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Mike Shapiro

Michael Shapiro: 
Owner / Broker
E-mail:
mike@mendocountry.com

Mike Shapiro, originally from Buffalo New York, moved to Anderson Valley in 1972 after living in Kentucky and serving in the Peace Corps in Turkey.  At the time Mike moved to Anderson Valley he worked for the Children's Television Workshop, producers of "Sesame Street' and "The Electric Company".  After moving to Boonville Mike ran the restaurant in the Boonville Hotel and in 1976 tried his hand at real estate.  In 1979 he founded North Country Realty (NCR). 
         There had been a lot of problems when Mike purchased their Boonville property, in 1969, no legal access to the parcel and the parcel turned out to be a portion of an illegal subdivision.  Mike said when he started NCR  that 'there had to be away to do this business right so the customer receives good reliable service'….and that has been the goal ever since. 
         Mike has brought together a group of like minded people to NCR.  All the Sales and Broker Associates at NCR are committed to providing reliable, trust worthy services to our clients while enjoying the process.  After all,  our clients are our friends and neighbors. We are here to stay and want our clients to be as satisfied and enjoy the Valley as much as we do.                                     
Mike lives between Boonville and Ukiah with his wife Sharon on 40 acres, where they garden, raise grass fed cattle and fish.  They raised 3 boys who went to Anderson Valley Schools and graduated the State University and Collages of Northern California.  Now the boys live and work in the Bay Area, and Sacramento areas.  They come to visit but never enough.

 

 


Jimmy Humble
E-mail jimmy@pacific.net
Home phone: (707)895-2336.
Cell                (707)489-3833
          Listing and sales agent Jimmy Humble has been living in the Anderson Valley since 1989 and was born in San Pedro, California.  Jimmy has a daughter and granddaughter living in Petaluma.  Jimmy is the host of the popular radio program Humble Pie, heard every Saturday morning at 9 on KZYX & Z, 90.7FM & 91.5FM (Mendocino County Public Broadcasting).  Jimmy also enjoys singing and playing music with guitar and friends on his off hours.      
 

 

 

 

 

 

Terry Phenicie

Terry Phenicie’s background in real estate spans over 20 years in sales and lending. He has made a point to take the road less traveled in the real estate industry, involved with REDI (Renewable Energy Development Institute) assisting clients with financing off grid properties, a speaker at Solfest in Hopland on how to finance off grid strawbale properties ; and speaker on behalf of NYSERDA (New York State Energy Research and Development Authority).

Terry has worked with builders, architects, real estate agents; and clients to ensure their financing for their dream home funds smoothly. 

Terry knows rural properties and how to finance them when conventional sources are unwilling.

Terry sees an opportunity to work with North Country Real Estate to assist clients with financing, listing, selling those rural properties; also to assist clients who are interested in becoming investors or selling or borrowing on the notes investors have already invested in.

With the experience Terry brings, we at North Country look forward to adding to  the high degree of knowledge and experience we offer in  marketing, selling and financing country property. 

When Terry is not solving those unique rural properties issues he enjoys time with his family, golfing, and playing music.

 

John Prince

Why Ukiah? The correct answer to any question asking "why", according to what I remember from Philosophy 101 , is always "why not".  Why not a small town where when you come to a stop sign and look both ways, you may have to wave to a neighbor? Why not a last look of the California Redwoods might have been like, where you still can head up a creek at the edge of town just blocks from your front door, or where you can bicycle along the Russian river just the other direction a couple of miles to the East?

Actually, the second best answer to "Why", as I remember it, is simply "because".  Now you may not quite get the same positive cast to that word, but let's just go with it for a moment. Maybe I relocated to Ukiah because I ran out of gas on my way to Oregon. Hmmm....maybe because the traffic commute at 5pm is only two signals long while the rest of California creeps hours in bumper wasteland?  Or is it because there simply are no lines to wait in? With an Countywide population that has barely altered over the  years, I guess our little town is not going to ever be full of trendy restaurants or Malls of America.   

I don't know really. I guess maybe the answer is really best left to the next generation. I know I always hoped my kids would go off to see the world, get a good education, make lots of money, buy a three story condo in the City with a little room in the back for me in my dotage. Well, when I finally got one through the University, helped her see the world for a while, one day maybe when she got caught bumper to bumper somewhere, stood too long in a theater line or whatever, she upped and married her high school sweetheart (Ukiah High of course), and moved back to town, where my grandkids are now just a block away.

Come to think of it, maybe I better shut up about little Ukiah.  I might induce too many of you to come and figure it out for yourself.  I'd hate to think I'd have to run the gamut of a third traffic signal on State Street. And I don't know how many more friends I can wave to without becoming a traffic jam myself.

John Prince