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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2009
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Week eleven came in with 43 visitors to my web site, on par with the previous week which had 47 visitors. The percentage of visitors who have signed up for listing alerts in these eleven weeks is at 71%, well above our goal of 10%. I got one new prospect out of the 43 visitors, bringing my total...
06/29/2009
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I was looking through the visits to my blog this morning and discovered something really cool. Sitemeter shows you the visits to your website and you can click to see the page that brought them there - the google, yahoo, bing search or whatever. Well I clicked on one of the links to see the refe...
06/29/2009
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If you don't know it by now, Big Brother is here, and he's keeping his eye on you, all in the interest of safety and the good of the public. If you walk into a grocery store in San Diego County, it's highly probable that you'll see some television screens, and if you're lucky, you'll see your sm...
06/29/2009
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Usually I plan my trips to the San Diego Zoo but today I went just because. I always stop by the meerkats and was able to get this picture of a new little cutie at the Zoo: I'm not sure who the daddy was, possibly the one in the picture, although he was in a group of four who really looked proud:...
06/28/2009
I was over at the San Diego Zoo recently, and on my way out to the parking lot after my visit, I passed a car with an unusual graphic on it. Now I know that there are pigs at the Zoo -- wild ones, not people ones -- well, there are people pigs at the Zoo, too, but nonetheless.... I didn't know t...
06/28/2009
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While many people become jealous of what others are able to do, I take what they can do as suggestions of what I myself could actually do. I think inspiration is a far better emotion than jealousy. Downtown at Seaport Village, there are often people who can balance rocks. Now I'm not talking abou...
06/28/2009
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Animals or pets loose on the street? Need a dead animal removed? Did you miss trash collection? Know of a traffic signal that is not working, or vandalized or missing street signs? Following are numbers for assistance in East San Diego County. El CajonAnimal Control for dead animal removal or lo...
06/25/2009
If something needs fixing in your neighborhood -- potholes, graffiti, non-working street lights, etc. -- you can contact your city goverment to request repairs. Many city governments are understaffed and under budgeted, so any help you can provide to help keep our cities and neighborhoods safe i...
06/25/2009
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Recycling centers throughout San Diego County vary in hours of operation, what items they accept, and whether or not they pay for certain recyclable materials. There are several resources that can help you with recycling: I Love A Clean San Diego County at ilacsd.org. If you live in an incorpora...
06/25/2009
The San Diego Zoo has five Malayan tigers in residence, but they usually spend most of their time sleeping. Unfortunately, their sleeping quarters are out of view of the general public. A recent visit, though, found three of the tigers running and frolicking. Well, maybe running and frolicking m...
06/24/2009
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Jim Frimmer
Realtor & CDPE, Mission Valley specialist