Jim's blog about Mission Valley and San Diego
Tips, tricks, ideas, and suggestions for buying and selling, marketing, home maintenance and safety, and much more.
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2008
WARNINGComment at your own risk. If you choose to comment here,be prepared for me to visit your blog within the next 7 days and comment there.I might even comment in multiple blog posts of yours, so beware! Ever since I was old enough to understand history, I've always been fascinated with what ...
09/30/2008
WARNINGComment at your own risk. If you choose to comment here,be prepared for me to visit your blog within the next 7 days and comment there.I might even comment in multiple blog posts of yours, so beware! Earlier this month I showed a property to a couple in one of our older, yet nice, neighbo...
09/27/2008
WARNINGComment at your own risk. If you choose to comment here,be prepared for me to visit your blog within the next 7 days and comment there.I might even comment in multiple blog posts of yours, so beware! I'm a lister. I admit it. I like to make lists and analyze lists to see if I can determin...
09/27/2008
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Many of my friends consider me lucky because I've only had one hard drive crash with my computers, and in that one I only lost about 10% of my data, none of it really critical to my operations. I have my computer set to do automatic daily backups of just the new and changed files. On Friday, I h...
09/26/2008
WARNINGComment at your own risk. If you choose to comment here,be prepared for me to visit your blog within the next 7 days and comment there.I might even comment in multiple blog posts of yours, so beware! Prior to becoming a Realtor, I spent a few years working for my Partner's home inspection...
09/26/2008
WARNINGComment at your own risk.If you choose to comment on this blog entry,be prepared for me to visit your blog and comment there. Here's part two of my kitty cat story. The first one was about Sophie, our feral black cat that we were trying to convert into an indoor cat, but which was hit and...
09/24/2008
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WARNINGComment at your own risk.If you choose to comment on this blog entry,be prepared for me to visit your blog and comment there. I have to break this blog entry into two cats, one about Sophie, a feral black cat, and one about Zoey, an animal shelter rescue. This is the one about Sophie. ...
09/23/2008
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During my venture out to the backwoods of San Diego a few days ago, I found an interesting house/home pictured in a previous blog post. As we entered the front gate of the property that we were going to look at, the only thing that was visible was the "house" shown in the picture: My only guess i...
09/21/2008
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I was recently talking to another Realtor about "as-is" sales. She said that she never recommend a home inspection on such properties because the seller, usually a bank, isn't going to repair anything. It was obvious that she was using the home inspection solely as a negotiating tool for her Clie...
09/21/2008
Once all the summer tourists go back to Arizona, it's an indication thatSouthern California fire season is just around the corner. We don't have too many forests here in Southern California, even thoughwe do have the Cleveland National Forest. What exists out there in our ruralareas that burns so...
09/19/2008
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Jim Frimmer
Realtor & CDPE, Mission Valley specialist