Haydennet.com, personal site of Joseph A. Hayden, J.D.

Check it out with Googlemaps and Streetview:  914 Blossom Way, Cherryland, CA  94541 (also comes up for Hayward, CA, but it’s actually an unincorporated area of Alameda County, much like where we live now in Castro Valley).

The house is basically a two story single family home with 3 distinct bedrooms if you don’t count the two rooms in the basement, one of which was used for a bedroom, two full baths (one on each main floor), a kitchen with a nook, plus a distinct dining room and large living room, a fully fenced backyard, large maintained front yard and detached two car garage with driveway.

Here are some of the features we love about the house:

1. There is a full basement with an extra, unheated bedroom with windows and cabinets.
2. The main basement room has a washer and dryer already.
3. The kitchen has a dishwasher and kitchen nook with large windows for maximum light and even the nook has built-in cabinets.
4. Near the sink in the kitchen there is a window built out for maximum light for plants.
5. There are cabinets built in throughout the house (it’s a “Craftsman” style), but especially near the nice mantle which already has a large mirror, curtains and the adjoining, but distinct dining room which takes up a huge part of the front of the house.
6. Gardener to maintain the front yard is included  in the rent.
7. Rent is still hundreds of dollars cheaper than what I pay now, and even that is hundreds of dollars cheaper than what I was paying for a two bedroom/one bath fifth floor walkup on 97th Street in Manhattan!
8. There is a large, fully enclosed backyard with lots of twists and turns for our little dog Monte to enjoy.
9. Much of the backyard is cemented for our hot tub, porch swing, picnic table, bbq and other outside furniture.
10. The two car garage with an automatic door opener  is detached, completely empty and in great condition.  There is a normal door from the garage which leads right into the backyard and just steps away from the back door of the house.
11. There is tons of attic storage easily accessible from a door on the second floor.
12. There are two full baths.  The master bath has jets in the tub!  Both bathrooms have windows.
13. Alex will take the large bedroom on the first floor near the kitchen, which has a huge walk in closet.  The closet itself is like a room with a built in dresser AND A WINDOW!  She agrees that this is better than any dorm she would ever have.
14. I will take the upstairs rooms (my suite).  The smallest bedroom with maroon walls will be my office, and the master bedroom will easily accommodate my king-sized bed and other furniture.
15. I believe on a clear day you can see the Hayward Hills in one direction and San Francisco in the other.
16. Like where we live now, the closest BART station is two miles away, so I would expect to continue walking four miles a day to get exercise, although they do have free parking.
17. The house is also within a short drive to downtown Hayward, which actually has many ethnic restaurants, gay bars, and the best Lucky’s shopping center I’ve ever been to.  There’s also a farmer’s market by the new City Hall every weekend.
18. We are only blocks from San Lorenzo, San Leandro and Castro Valley (where we lived).
19. The house is two blocks from Mission Blvd., which, while it has many vacant commercial buildings, there is still a great deal of convenience that we just didn’t have where we were.
20. Because we are sandwiched at a crossroads 880 and 580 and 238 for that matter, we will not have to take 880 to get everywhere.  580 doesn’t have big trucks and is much more scenic, but getting to either is easy.
21. We will actually be slightly closer to San Francisco than where were were, while still close to the San Mateo Bridge and closer to my mother in southern Hayward.  We will be a few minutes further from my sister in Danville.

Landlords divorced after decades and foreclosed, basically. I can’t buy the place, so unless a family member comes through with a cash offer, we have to move anyway by beginning of April.