ÿþ<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><!-- InstanceBegin template="/Templates/masterTemplate.dwt" codeOutsideHTMLIsLocked="false" --> <head> <!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="doctitle" --> <title>Brendon DeSimone Real Estate</title> <!-- InstanceEndEditable --> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="MetaInfo" --> <meta name="Description" content="" /> <meta name="Keywords" content="Brendon DeSimone, Brendon, DeSimone, Brendan DeSimone, Brenden DeSimone, Brendin DeSimone, Brendon De Simone, Brandon De Simone, Brandan De Simone, Brenden De Simone, Brendon Di Simone, Brendon De Simon, Brendon D. 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Real estate expert Brendon DeSimone appears on KPIX CBS 5 San Francisco to offer his top tips for buying foreclosure homes.</p> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div style="margin-top: 25px;"> <p>Brendon is a member of the San Francisco Association of Realtors, California Association of Realtors and the National Association of Realtors. He writes and publishes a <a href="http://www.brendondesimone.com/news/">real estate newsletter</a> and lives in San Francisco.</p> <p>For media inquiries, please contact: <SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript"> <!-- // protected email script by Joe Maller // JavaScripts available at http://www.joemaller.com // this script is free to use and distribute // but please credit me and/or link to my site emailE=('brendon@' + 'brendondesimone.com') document.write('<A href="mailto:' + emailE + '">' + emailE + '</a>') //--> </script> <NOSCRIPT> <em>Email address protected by JavaScript.<BR> Please enable JavaScript to contact me.</em> </NOSCRIPT> or call Brendon at 415.738.7226.</p> </div> <!-- End Editable --> <div class="col1 float-right"></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div><!-- End Content --> <div id="footer"><!-- Start Footer --> <div class="col15 float-left" style="margin-top: 25px;"> <p>&copy; 2010 Brendon DeSimone</p> <div class="twitter"> <a href="http://twitter.com/brendondesimone" target="_blank"><img src="../media/images/twittericon_20.gif" alt="Follow Brendon DeSimone on Twitter" width="20" height="20" border="0" style="float:right;" /><p style="padding: 3px 25px;">Follow Brendon on Twitter</p></a> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="col1 float-right"></div> <div class="clear"> </div><!-- End Footer --> </div><!-- End Wrapper --> <script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(document).ready(function($) { // We only want these styles applied when javascript is enabled $('div.content').css('display', 'block'); // Initially set opacity on thumbs and add // additional styling for hover effect on thumbs var onMouseOutOpacity = 0.67; $('#thumbs ul.thumbs li, div.navigation a.pageLink').opacityrollover({ mouseOutOpacity: onMouseOutOpacity, mouseOverOpacity: 1.0, fadeSpeed: 'fast', exemptionSelector: '.selected' }); // Initialize Advanced Galleriffic Gallery var gallery = $('#thumbs').galleriffic({ delay: 2500, numThumbs: 3, preloadAhead: 3, enableTopPager: false, enableBottomPager: false, imageContainerSel: '#slideshow', controlsContainerSel: '#controls', captionContainerSel: '#caption', loadingContainerSel: '#loading', renderSSControls: false, renderNavControls: false, playLinkText: 'Play Slideshow', pauseLinkText: 'Pause Slideshow', prevLinkText: '&lsaquo; Previous Photo', nextLinkText: 'Next Photo &rsaquo;', nextPageLinkText: 'Next &rsaquo;', prevPageLinkText: '&lsaquo; Prev', enableHistory: true, autoStart: false, syncTransitions: false, defaultTransitionDuration: 900, onSlideChange: function(prevIndex, nextIndex) { // 'this' refers to the gallery, which is an extension of $('#thumbs') this.find('ul.thumbs').children() .eq(prevIndex).fadeTo('fast', onMouseOutOpacity).end() .eq(nextIndex).fadeTo('fast', 1.0); // Update the photo index display this.$captionContainer.find('div.photo-index') .html('Photo '+ (nextIndex+1) +' of '+ this.data.length); }, onPageTransitionOut: function(callback) { this.fadeTo('fast', 0.0, callback); }, onPageTransitionIn: function() { var prevPageLink = this.find('a.prev').css('visibility', 'hidden'); var nextPageLink = this.find('a.next').css('visibility', 'hidden'); // Show appropriate next / prev page links if (this.displayedPage > 0) prevPageLink.css('visibility', 'visible'); var lastPage = this.getNumPages() - 1; if (this.displayedPage < lastPage) nextPageLink.css('visibility', 'visible'); this.fadeTo('fast', 1.0); } }); /**** Functions to support integration of galleriffic with the jquery.history plugin ****/ // PageLoad function // This function is called when: // 1. after calling $.historyInit(); // 2. after calling $.historyLoad(); // 3. after pushing "Go Back" button of a browser function pageload(hash) { // alert("pageload: " + hash); // hash doesn't contain the first # character. if(hash) { $.galleriffic.gotoImage(hash); } else { gallery.gotoIndex(0); } } // set onlick event for buttons using the jQuery 1.3 live method $("a[rel='history']").live('click', function(e) { if (e.button != 0) return true; var hash = this.href; hash = hash.replace(/^.*#/, ''); // moves to a new page. // pageload is called at once. // hash don't contain "#", "?" return false; }); /****************************************************************************************/ }); </script> <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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