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2018
Here is my suggestion for a Real Estate Contest aka Active Rain Challenge: What was or is the most expensive and/or most controversial sale in your market place? As most of you who read my blog posts know I am a Berkshire Hathaway Beverly Hills Realtor and we have some Astronomical List and Sale...
05/30/2018
This Contest Idea was inspired by two well respected Active Rain Members Barbara Todaro & Patricia Feager They commented on one of my Speechless Sunday Posts. Just to refresh everyone’s memory, I took the photo at a private Art Show, that one of my clients was holding at the Chateau Marmon...
05/29/2018
The latest California Trends: Electric Scooters time to regulate them…Just to give you a little background: I have been one of the early proponents of the Bike Share Program when politicians were studying them in Beverly Hills, CA and Santa Monica, CA. I have written way back then about the fooli...
05/28/2018
Speechless Sundays: weed to some people and to others it is a cause for a smile, for us it is a perspective... well at least for us...in case you were wondering these flowers popped up on our lawn and we asked the Gardner's to move them here..... I see beauty in everything, including homes that n...
05/27/2018
Ok, let’s be honest are you getting a flow of “Privacy Notices”? Well it is not just you, we are all getting them. So here is the short and sweet version of it, we are all getting a flood of emails and everyone is asking us to update and consent or should I say opt-in to the various forms of data...
05/27/2018
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These ocean views photos were taken today in Santa Monica, CA. The Ocean View is from a Public Parking Structure near Santa Monica Blvd and 2nd St.“The Ocean Stirs the Heart, Inspires the Imagination and brings Eternal Joy”I love this quote by Robert Wayland, beloved and known to most people only...
05/26/2018
Monday May 28th is Memorial Day! What does Memorial Day Mean to you?? I do not want to sound like I am preaching. I have been saying this for most of my life as far as I can remember. Memorial Day is not the first day of summer. It is a day of “Remembrance”. We as Americans should reflect and pa...
05/26/2018
The Santa Monica, CA Condominium Market Trends Report is published... The easiest way to determine how the market is doing is by checking out the inventory. If Inventory is tight the likelihood of being a seller's market is high. So without further delay let's see the Inventory:At a surface glanc...
05/25/2018
Fresh off the press: In House Realty a Quicken Loans affiliate and a subsidiary of Rock Holdings Inc. acquires ForeSalebyOwner.comInterestingly, or should I say ironically, yesterday I was commenting on a question about Quicken Loans. How ironic is it that, today I am reading a breaking news p...
05/24/2018
Well Almost Wordless Wednesdays: California Poppies at our home... They are not the "Remembrance Poppy" of Memorial Day, but ours have different colors and meaning. On a side note if you are not familiar with "Remembrance Poppy" please Google it and it you are not that interested well it is assoc...
05/23/2018