Thoughts On Real Estate And Other Things I Care About
A Southern California Coastal agent's perspective on real estate and other things that interest me! Based in Laguna Beach, Real Estate is my passion.
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2014
In Lake Arrowhead, April Brings Spring SNOW Showers Some people plan for a vacation home purchase. They plan and save and think it through. That's not how I do things. I "plan" for a vacation home by showing a cool log table to my husband from a catalog and saying "why don't we buy a cabin?" Th...
04/26/2014
Lake Arrowhead Real Estate: Understanding Access Roads Orange County, California real estate started to boom with the development of Disneyland in the late 1950s. The new venture needed employees. They not only needed people to create and build Disneyland, but they needed a supportive community...
04/23/2014
Moving? Don't Ignore Your Neighbors, Include Them I get it! You want your privacy. You don't want to hear all the opinions of every neighbor on the street. They would like to tell you all about the value, the recent sales, the horror stories of their friends. They have opinions about EVERYTHING...
04/15/2014
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Sometimes we see things that just amaze us. A couple weeks ago I was still dealing with the turmoil of getting my jeep back into Pre-deer condition. The body shop gave me a nice rental car to use during a second trip back to see them. Which I do appreciate even though it was the "least" they cou...
04/13/2014
On My Planet, All Offers Would Include A Non-Refundable Fee I'm not talking about the Earnest Money Deposit. That is a separate issue. What I'd like to see is a small processing fee. Maybe it goes to the buyer's agent, maybe the listing agent, maybe the seller. The point isn't to make money on th...
04/12/2014
I'd Like To Show Your Listing, Can You Offer Me A Bonus? I should know better not to answer my phone before my morning coffee. In the bright morning sunshine I thought I heard an agent ask for a bonus in exchange for just SHOWING my listing. I must have heard wrong! So I headed for the half fu...
04/12/2014
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Cliff May Mid-Century Modern Home For Sale Walk through the garden room french doors into the courtyard and you can imagine Frank Sinatra walking up to offer you a Martini. The Mid-Century Modern Architecture was a popular style with the Rat Pack Era in Southern California. A true California Ori...
04/11/2014
Home Buying Is Not One Big Decision But Series Of Little Ones I hear often that buying a home is the "Biggest Financial Decision" most people make in a lifetime. That's almost true! Of course buying and selling a home or property IS a big financial move, but it's not one decision....it's a seri...
04/04/2014
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