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
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I was talking with one of my buying Clients a couple of days ago about homeowner's insurance since he has a beautiful pure white Samoyed. He said that many insurance companies are excluding certain dog breeds and the liability they bring to a property. I didn't know anything about dogs except ...
11/29/2008
My mom is trying to make friends with a beautiful feral cat but is having some problems because there's a yappy dog next door and the lights on that side of the house are usually burned out since no one goes over to that side. She sent me the following, and yes, there is something here for cat...
11/29/2008
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The days are still getting shorter, the evenings and nights colder, and rain and snow often blanket the outside world. That means that many young children will have to play inside. Don't let inside play time become tragic during the holidays. Yet another story in the paper this morning -- this...
11/29/2008
As a follow-up to my blog entry about compact fluorescent light bulbs, the newspaper this morning ran a story about a woman who lives in a high-rise condominium building and wanted to be helpful to her neighbors. She decided to gather of used CFLs and take them to the Household Hazardous Waste...
11/26/2008
SPAM is up! No, not email spam, although I think that's up, too. I'm talking about sales of Spam, the meat (and I use the term meat very loosely here). Fortunately, I haven't had to eat Spam since the depression of the late 1970s and early 1980s when I was still just a tyke in junior high and ...
11/26/2008
Quite often I read various lists about going green, how to make your home green, how to turn the Chicago River green on St. Patrick's Day, how to have a green lawn that needs no watering, and various other things relating to green. One thing that shows up on most of these lists is to switch ou...
11/24/2008
Okay. This was a new one on me. Let's say that you have a Client who made a full-price purchase offer on a short-sale listing. Let's say that, all things considered -- and that's a lot of presumptions for a short sale -- the purchase offer was progressing smoothly. As with all short sales, it ...
11/20/2008
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Even though I'm only one person, I do all I can to conserve our natural resources and help Mother and Father Nature protect what they have created. A story in today's paper says that scientists are seriously talking about bringing extinct species back to life by decoding DNA from those species...
11/20/2008
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If you're like me, and you always have a couple of extra holiday cards from those boxes, send them this year to an American Soldier.I know quite a few people who write their Christmas cards right around Thanksgiving. I just wanted you to have the opportunity to think of others during this Holiday...
11/20/2008
I've always known that chocolate was bad for our little furry friends -- both dogs and cats -- but I've never really understood why. Since I'm pretty much a chocoholic, albeit a controlled chocoholic (can there be such a thing?), and Zoey the cool cat lives with me, I thought I'd see what the ...
11/19/2008
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Jim Frimmer
Realtor & CDPE, Mission Valley specialist