Real Estate Blog
SPLIT PEA SOUP WITH HAM STEAK – EASY AND YUMMIE!
Split Pea Soup with ham steak is super easy to make and healthy, hearty and YUMMIE! As the weather turns in San Diego there is nothing better than to make a great soup that you can munch on for a couple of days. Making soups that are “hearty” and used as meals is what...
SOLANA BEACH OVERPRICING NIGHTMARES!
Here's a great phrase from our annual Marketing Meeting ... from the owner of the company: You can be ON the market or you can be IN the market! With great frustration I saw a house in my neighborhood go on the market with what seems to be a Discount Agent. I checked...
REAL ESTATE INTERNET MARKETING IS EVOLVING
Clients in Real Estate usually come from referrals. If as agents we are lucky enough and a buyer or seller walks “in our door” when we are at the office doing “floor time” that is beyond great! However this is the era of the big “Monster” Real Estate Marketing on the...
PROPERTY MAKEOVERS SAN DIEGO
Picture if you will what you would think as a prospective home buyer if you drove up to the first photo. With a few suggestions from us you will have the SECOND photo. Property Makeovers-San Diego! It keeps coming to my attention from buyers and just folks who want to...
DEL MAR COMPARED TO CARMEL VALLEY
First of all I have to say that I love Del Mar. I have lived here on and off for 30 years and have seen the many changes and faces it has gone thru. When I moved to Del Mar, California I was still in college and felt like I was going on an “outing” driving here from...
SAN DIEGO’S BEST NEIGHBORHOODS IN NORTH COUNTY
An amusing but Real Description of some of San Diego’s North County Cities! First of all in all fairness there are many many San Diego’s Best Neighborhoods North County and Inland. But this way I can do various blogs and your eyes won’t get crossed from reading. I am...
GETTING YOUR HOME READY TO SELL!
Getting Your Home Ready To Sell even in a market that is low on inventory is one of the most important things you can do!! I drive clients crazy with a “laundry list” of homework to get their house ready. I LOOK at houses all day long and I know what buyers see and...
PRODUCTS MADE IN THE USA
It’s amazing the perception that there is in this country about the cost of products made outside of the US. I have dogs – spoiled dogs – and they eat lots of treats during the day! I am so sick and tired of all these “organic natural” treats coming in from China as I...
SHORT SALE IN SAN DIEGO REVIEW
To be truthful I have done a couple of Short Sales in San Diego which have gone fairly smoothly if you don’t consider the CLOSING time! The first thing I have learned is to hire a real estate NEGOTIATOR. Let’s face it there is nothing in the Real Estate Course that...
HOUSEWIVES OF REAL ESTATE COMING SOON
I hate to admit that I am an avid Housewives viewer on Bravo. My husband walks by and literally chokes as he says “I can’t believe you are watching this AGAIN?” While I work on my I Pad I actually have it on for background noise as I surely seen the segment at least...
DEL MAR REALTOR – STAGING UPDATE
After reading the blogs on Active Rain the other day – the real estate geared web site and was amazed at some of the stories that are posted out there. Of course considering the state of the world nothing is that strange anymore! I Read a post from an agent who had...
JUMBO LOANS AROUND THE CORNER
Well it seems like the latest government economy boost is to lower the conforming loan amount from the high $600,000 to the mid $500,000. Meaning that if a buyer was to stay with a conforming loan and wants to purchase a $800,000 home they pretty much have to come up...
PROPERTY INSPECTIONS – INSPECT THE INSPECTOR
I was on Active Rain the other day and found an interesting blog that I had to respond to. An agent on the east coast was commenting how amazed she was when agents don’t attend their clients property inspection. I am in a transaction now where not only did the agent...
HOME BUYING PRICE VS. EMOTIONS?
I am in a very interesting escrow- one where the seller is representing himself after “firing” his agent in the middle of escrow. Once again this one is “brand new for me” situation. Needless to say it is very difficult dealing directly with a seller as emotions run...
SAN DIEGO REALTOR FOOD REVIEW
I had a great meeting with a very wise man who is one of the heads of my real estate company. I was saying how boring it is to blog about real estate or TRY to blog about real estate…we all know the bad news that doesn’t get better. We all know that even though it’s a...