The first weekend of summer will feel like…summer. Temperatures will hit the upper 90’s in some spots and it will be dry. CalFire won’t have the weekend off. They’re working dozens of fires statewide, including a couple not that far away. The Sites fire In Colusa County is still only about a quarter contained. 19,000 plus acres have burned there. The smaller, but still dangerous Point fire near Healdsburg is about 75% contained at around 1,200 acres.
Some changes going on at the Mendocino County Planning and Building Department. If you visit the office. You’ll notice the office is moving to a station approach to the front counter. The county says it’s more efficient. They’re also remodeling to put in a new scanner to handle large documents the department often gets. That bit of news is one of the items in County Executive Darcie Antle’s monthly report for June. You can find it online through the county website.
If you’re going car shopping, or taking your car to the dealer’s shop this weekend, you might run into delays because of a cyberattack against a vendor that’s affected dealers in California and across the US. The attack hit CDK, a company that provides back-office software to dealerships starting Wednesday. It appears that the company based in is still having problems. That means many sales and service departments have to go old school for things like scheduling, writing orders, and figuring bills with pen and paper. Hundreds of dealers in California are dealing with the headache, among the more than 16,000 coast-to-coast.
Homes in California are more expensive than ever. The California Association of Realtors says the median price of an existing, single-family home in May was $908,40. That beats the old record set just in April. Median means half cost more, half cost less–and good luck finding the lower half. Industry experts say the up trends will likely continue through the summer. Based on back-of-the-envelope math–not counting other costs–if you put 20% down and got a 30-year fixed mortgage at the average rate of 6.11 percent, you’d be looking at $4,400 a month for a mortgage for your new median price home.
