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2 Offices in Boonville, one at the Caboose, one at the glass Gas Station, close to the Post
Office...
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We service
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
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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.
E Mail us at
North Country Real Estate
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Michael Shapiro:
Owner / Broker
E-mail:
mike@mendocountry.com
DRE License # 00561367 |
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.
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Cell
(707)489-3833
DRE License # 01270335
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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
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 John
Prince DRE License # 00559251
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
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North Country Real Estate