Eva's Blog

I found myself stuck in another traffic bottleneck this morning.  It took me half an hour to drive off the exit ramp and creep the 1/2 mile to my Coldwell Banker Del Mar Village office.  And, what gets me is that it was totally avoidable! Del Mar Fairgrounds I ought to know better after living an...

My partner and I met with a seller yesterday, a very attractive but sad looking woman in her early 40's.  We were referred to her by her divorce attorney, who had gotten our name from the president of our company.  As part of the settlement for the divorce, they will need to sell their home, a pr...

Running out of prefixes for 760 With the ever growing number of cell phone and fax users on the planet, combined with the tremendous increase in the quantity of homes in North San Diego County, the region using the 760 area code has rapidly been running of out of telephone numbers. To split or n...

Several responded to my recent blog post regarding my experience with a VA appraisal that fell far short of our agreed upon purchase price ($270k vs $284k).  The listing agent had not met with the appraiser, AND had failed to tell me she would not be there.  I always meet with appraisers at my li...

I have a sad story.  And a question... After spending months showing clients homes all over the county, I'm afraid they were beginning to feel they'd never succeed in buying a home in today's market - their price range is hot! Then, I heard thorough my personal grapevine about a house that had be...

As the stream of terrible economic news continues, I have to admit - there has been one good side to it all for me personally...  I am ever more present to the many things I do have that I am so grateful for. While 651,000 more people lost their jobs in February, I have several closings on the ho...

The lockbox on a colleague's listing was cut off its railing yesterday, broken into, and then someone took the keys and broke into the house!  How this was possible, I'll never understand.  We were told our lockboxes were impenetrable.  Absolutely inviolable, they said... You may consider having ...

I've been spending the last 5 or 6 weeks running my head off for several clients - writing multiple offers on short sales and REO's, only to have each offer get lost in the pile of the other multiple offers submitted on the same property. I was about to write a blog post about how it seems like t...

Anyone who has visited Encinitas in Northern San Diego County knows the people living in these communities LOVE their gardens!  Most don't have a very manicured look - they often feel like the land that time forgot, with lush landscaping taking over fences, hydrants, telephones poles.  It's no su...

Those of us fortunate enough to live in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California, have been anxiously awaiting the opening of the new restaurants Zenbu Sushi and Rimel's Rotisserie in the old Yogi's site in Cardiff Town Center.  They finally opened last Monday.  Yahoo!  In addition to sharing the same owne...