Scott Elwell's (kse1kse1) Blog

If any of you have read my blogs about San Diego or my neighborhood of residence, the Marina District, you know that I am over-the-top gushy happy about living here and hope that all of you may like to visit or ultimately live here, too. Well, there comes a time in everyone's life when you just n...

If any of you have read my blogs about San Diego or my neighborhood of residence, the Marina District, you know that I am over-the-top gushy happy about living here and hope that all of you may like to visit or ultimately live here, too. Well, there comes a time in everyone's life when you just n...

South Mission Hills residents should be on extreme alert as a thief or thieves are stealing historic plaques from houses in neighborhoods like Bankers Hill, Balboa Park and Mission Hills. The reports started on July 25th and to date 23 plaques have vanished. In Mission Hills alone, nine designati...

As of today, there are currently 135 properties of Real Estate for Sale in Marina District San Diego CA, ranging from a 505 SF studio for $175,000 to a penthouse highrise of 4,000+ SF for $5,500,000. There was good activity in August in the Marina District, with 29 properties closing escrow. The ...

I raise a toast to all of you agents and brokers out there who feel that technology and social media have overrun us like a snowball rolling downhill turning into an avalanche. You know who you are. You are like me, someone who actually used a TYPEWRITER to write reports and assignments in colleg...

Schools started again this week for the San Diego youngsters out there but there's still some cool summertime fun to be had here in our neighborhood this weekend as the San Diego Symphony performs its 1812 Tchaikovsky Spectacular Friday, Saturday and Sunday night September 2,3,4 at 7:30pm at the ...

I admit, my title is a bit of a play on words. Growing up in Boston and with many formidable years spent watching the sitcom "Cheers" on television, enjoying the neighborhood bar feel and its memorable cast of characters, it was imperative that I find a neighborhood hangout here in the Marina Dis...

I just got word via CNN.com that a 5.8 magnitude earthquake had struck the east coast, mainly felt in Washington, DC as far east as Boston.I heard the Pentagon was evacuated and parts of Manhattan went into panic mode. Well, as a native east coast guy living the last four years in San Diego, I ca...

Certain well-known San Diego neighborhoods have a distinct way of naming their streets. This little bit of trivia here will hopefully be a help to out-of-towners who may find these quite interesting. Take South Misssion Hills or Mission Hills as an example. While searching for Homes for Sale in S...

While searching for Marina District San Diego Houses for Sale, one must not overlook one of the finest residential buildings Downtown in the Marina District, Park Place at 700 West Harbor Drive. A Bosa-designed gem from 2003, Park Place is known to be an architectural masterpiece built with the u...