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
Sonny Kwan of Seattle, Washington, posted this, and while the term "superstitions" would normally make me pause, I suspect that someone with the last name Kwan might no whereby he speaks, so I'm posting it as is. We have a lot of Asian sellers and buyers here in San Diego, as I'm sure they do in...
01/27/2009
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Remember playing "hide and seek" when you were young? When you were the seeker and couldn't find a hider, you screamed "Come out, come out, wherever you are!" Well, we had an instance of that yesterday with Zoey the Cool Cat. Whenever my marketing guru and I leave the home, we always close the d...
01/26/2009
Bridget Fredericks of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, wrote the following which should be standard reading for anyone thinking about buying a home. Maybe Google could come up with an algorithm that lists her post as the first return whenever anyone searches on "home" or "buying a home" or something simi...
01/25/2009
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01/25/2009
I didn't get a chance to watch President's inauguration, but I saw in the paper the next day that they had a chamber music group comprised of Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Itzhak Perlman (violin), Anthony McGill (clarinet), and Gabriela Montero (piano) performing "Air and Simple Gifts," by John Williams, a ...
01/24/2009
The San Diego Cat Fanciers CFAAll-Breed show is this weekend, from 10:00 a.m. to5:00 p.m. on January 24 and January 25 at the Exhibit Hall at the Del Mar Fairgrounds in Del Mar. Cost is $8 for adults, $6 for children, seniors, and military (Isn't that discrimination? President Obama? Help! I'm b...
01/23/2009
My marketing guru was born and raised in Texas, and even though he's been here in San Diego since April 1993, he still has some of those Texas colloquialisms. For example, any soft drink is a Coke, even if it's A&W Root Beer, Sprite, Orange Crush, or whatever. We'll go to a baseball game and he,...
01/23/2009
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Dorie Dillard of Austin, Texas, has some useful information for anyone who drives and has a cell phone with AT&T service. I suspect that AT&T might not be the only one that offers this service. Thanks Dorie. As a Realtor you can get stuck more than the averge driver with a flat tire, dead batter...
01/22/2009
Christine Donovan of Costa Mesa, California, (not too far north of me), wrote this useful blog for us. Thanks, Christine. You've decided it's time to buy your first home, and you're running the gambit of emotions - excitement, stress, exhiliration, fear, joy. The question uppermost in your mind...
01/22/2009
Sally and David Hanson of Brookfield, Wisconsin, wrote this useful post and I re-blog it here to remind all of us that trying to determine why someone is in a short sale or had their home foreclosed is not in our job description, nor should it be, nor should we specifically care. As Sally and Da...
01/22/2009
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Jim Frimmer
Realtor & CDPE, Mission Valley specialist