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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2016
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A Little Bit Of Everything Southern California Southern California is a wonderful place! Living in Orange County, you are 2 hours or less away from anything you could want. Permanent attraction? Plenty of them. I've spent a good deal of my life in Mission Viejo, California....Orange County in ge...
01/17/2016
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Yep, that's my son on the right. All 6'3" of him....going back to back with Jeb Bush at a rally last night in New Hampshire. Connor is participating in a political science field study program for the past couple weeks. He and his fellow students have met virtually all the candidates and Connor ha...
01/16/2016
How To Play Nice In The Active Rain Sandbox Respect I did a little reading this morning. I'm participating in the Jumpstart Challenge and as part of that, we have topics to review and use in our blog posts. Today I focused on the Active Rain Community Guidelines.The first thing I did was read the...
01/15/2016
Ringing (And Singing) In The New Year With Pat Kennedy I feel a little like we're in a mutual admiration society. Pat Kennedy and I had a great time catching up. I'm not sure you can even say you're catching up if you've never spoken on the phone before nor met in person. But that's how I felt! ...
01/13/2016
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Oh my goodness!! I love it when my kids are home for vacations. Nothing they love more than making fun of me. Hmmmm...maybe we were too hard on them when they were young? This Christmas it was no different! After listening to a phone conversation I had with a client the comment was "oh mom...you...
01/13/2016
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Prejudging A Property Based On The Listing I read a featured post today by Becca Rasmussen, Listing Snob. In it, she highlighted all the ways listings can be done wrong. Oh there are so many listings we see that are just awful. From the bathroom picture with the toilet seat up to the fluffy-say-n...
01/12/2016
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Do Your Clients Feel Safe With You? We in the service industry talk a lot about how we treat our clients. We write about how to treat them and how we want them to see us....as experts, professionals, smart, tough. But what about safe?Feeling safe with someone has more than one definition, but it...
01/12/2016
The Active Rain points system is a popular topic of conversation here. Clearly we are all somewhat competitive, or we could not be successful. The points are just little pearls of acknowledgment that we are better than the next guy...at least in participation.That's what the points are about..how...
01/12/2016
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Where's My Low Gas Price? I just heard on the radio how low gas prices are nationwide? What are they talking about? $1.42/gallon in St. Louis? I've been to St. Louis...is that too far to go to fill up my tank? My morning fill up was $3.09/gallon.It's always something with a "9" at the end. It's...
01/11/2016
Searching Homes On The Internet? Use All The Tools Available You found it! The perfect home! "Did you see that kitchen? There are two dishwashers!!I don't have large parties, but what a cool thing to have in a house!"Ok, ok....settle down. Yes that's a great kitchen and of course you'll spend hou...
01/11/2016
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