Seth Franklin - Red Oak Real Estate

04/05/2026

Come see what all the excitement is about at www.1716Hearst.com . The hottest property in Berkeley!

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Have you heard about the sweetest opportunity in the East Bay? Will you be the one to polish this Central Berkeley diamond in the rough, and will you reap the rewards? Just far enough off the main drags to be peaceful, the classic wood shingles and old Berkeley aesthetic tell the tale of a place tha...

08/23/2025

Don't Leave Your Stress at Home. Come Home to Relieve Your Stress!

Sadly, you have to buy the house before you can enjoy the hot tub or sauna. But the neighbors across the street are exceptional!

www.2961CaliforniastBerkeley.com

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04/17/2025

I am up for 2 telly awards for creative marketing videos from last year. Please consider taking a moment to vote for me!

Click on each link to watch the video and rate it to improve my chances of winning!

Film Shorts for my themed video for 6724 Pinehaven
https://peoples.tellyawards.com/PublicVoting #/2025/peoples-telly/general/film-shorts/6724-pinehaven

General Promotional Videos for my themed video for 2326 McGee
https://peoples.tellyawards.com/PublicVoting #/2025/peoples-telly/general/promotional-video/imnotsam-2326-mcgee

With special thanks to Andrew Tokuda and the Red Oak Marketing team!

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04/10/2025

Hi! Please take a minute and vote for me in the Telly Awards for advertising videos. This year I am up twice!

Click on each link to watch the video and rate it to improve my chances of winning!

Film Shorts for my themed video for 6724 Pinehaven
https://peoples.tellyawards.com/PublicVoting #/2025/peoples-telly/general/film-shorts/6724-pinehaven

General Promotional Videos for my themed video for 2326 McGee
https://peoples.tellyawards.com/PublicVoting #/2025/peoples-telly/general/promotional-video/imnotsam-2326-mcgee

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04/07/2025

For those unclear on why the president is doubling down on tariffs. It isn't complicated.
They give him what he wants, which is to have the whole world coming to him and asking him for something.
Because that is the narcissist's dream. The whole world responding to his power.
And like all narcissistic personality behaviors, it is purely short term. When the rush of it wears off for him, and counter punches start landing he will want a bigger dream. He will chase the feeling for the rest of his life, and because it didn't last, he will assume he has to go bigger.
Which means the next demand has to be bigger. This path leads our country to only 2 places: removing him from office or having a full on war.

12/18/2024

This reinforces the basis for my best home security hack. It's simple: put an image of a human face with eyes somewhere visible facing the front of your house.

People, at a VERY deep neurological level, are aware of being watched. There is also a lot of evidence that people who feel watched behave more ethically.

Will this stop someone breaking into your house the way a big fence will? No, but it costs almost nothing, isn't hostile, doesn't impede your own use of your property, and is very easy. You can literally just put a poster in your window.

A new study shows that knowing you're under surveillance triggers a faster, automatic brain response to detect faces and gaze direction.

11/26/2024

This piece of art from the Neue Gallery in Berlin has aged incredibly powerfully. A reminder from Berlin: by the time anyone sits down and announces that a war has begun, the violence is well underway. The monsters don't announce their intentions: they begin doing, when you notice -they deny it, they do everything they can to keep you from acting while they move. While we all look around at each other and say "They couldn't possibly be doing something monstrous..." they lock another door, tattoo another wrist, burn another body, build another camp, and pick another battlefield.

11/08/2024

Well, amidst the general bad news yesterday, a few positive things came up!
My friend Shoshanna O'Keefe has won a city council seat! Berkeley gained a dedicated, honest, and highly capable city council person in Chief O'Keefe! I am sorry that my friend Todd Andrew couldn't also win, but I am glad he continues to be engaged with a city he loves!
Peggy McQuaid is still in the running for Albany city council and she is LITERALLY only 5 votes behind right now as they calculate the ranked choice ballots.
Adena Ishii is still in the mayor's race as votes are being tallied!

And I got not one, but 2 houses into contract! One representing the buyer and one representing the seller!

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10/11/2024

This Saturday (12th) and next (19th)
Bake Sale for the Cornell Elementary
In front of Westbrae Nursery at 1272 Gilman (Gilman and Santa Fe)
11:30-3:30.
Please come and support the school!
Also, PLEASE buy your pumpkins at the Westbrae Nursery pumpkin patch! They donate all of the profits from the pumpkin patch to the Cornell PTA and it has a HUGE impact on the school!
The nursery is also just in general a great place with lovely people. AND they are a worker owned co-op!
I am happy to promote them not just because they are so generous to us, but also because I legitimately love them as a business! I hope you will too!

10/09/2024

This story is from October 8, 2024 via the AP. This is not something that "might happen" if we keep ignoring climate change. This happened. At the same time the south is about to be hit by its 2nd Hurricane in a week and Tampa is about to be hit by up to a 15 ft storm surge and a category 5 hurricane. Can w3 stop pretending that the people arguing for and against the existence of climate change are equivalent? Things like this cannot be prevented anymore. We waited too long for that. All we can do now is try to STOP MAKING IT WORSE for five fu***ng minutes. I am not politicizing a tragedy. I am pointing out that a specific group of people, those profiting the most from oil, have specifically stopped us from preventing this disaster. And it will get worse. Nothing we do can stop this getting worse. It's not a TV show where things have to get as bad as possible before they get better. If they get as bad as possible it's too late. We need to stop arguing about whether there is a problem. We owe it to the dead, the about to be dead, and the living.

10/02/2024

The Best Deal in the Bay!
4115 39th is now transparently priced at $1.19M. Don't settle for JUST owning a home in the bay area. Enjoy your life! This spacious 3 bed/2bath house has 2 living rooms, sweeping city views, a huge backyard (with more views), AC, Abundant Solar that is owned (not leased), and all the fixings.

Check it out at www.SomewhereOverTheLaurel.com

This is NOT a teaser price. You can really own this home. Contact me or your realtor to get all of the detailed information, inspections and reports. * Its in excellent, move in ready condition, and I want you to see that for yourself!

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*If you contact me for disclosures I will refer you to an exceptional colleague as I do not represent buyers on a property where I am the listing agent.

This Residential listing has 3 Beds, 2 Full Baths. Schedule a showing for 4115 39Th Ave in Oakland, CA.. MLS ID 41069970