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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2010
The onslaught of cold, rainy weather means that Mother and Father Nature's little critters are wanting to upgrade their omes, preferably to something higher, drier, and warmer. Something like, uh, YOUR home! One of the significant advantages of condominium living is that it will be extremely rar...
01/24/2010
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Although this year's San Diego Cat Show yesterday and today appeared to be larger than last year, with more vendors and more cats, I couldn't really decide on a clearcut favorite like last year. I have become partial to the Maine Coon cats, though, but there were only two at the show this year, ...
01/24/2010
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Your marketing plan doesn't have to be complicated, although how you choose to go about implementing your marketing plan certainly could be. In fact, it can be as complicated as you like. Personally, I prefer simple, along the lines of the KISS principle. Here are what I believe to be the six bas...
01/24/2010
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When I go for a walk, I take pictures and worry about what I got once I get home. At a recent walk around the San Diego Wild Animal Park, the Western Burrowing Owls were out, probably because with all this rain their burrows were flooded. When I got home, this little fellow was trying to tell me ...
01/23/2010
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Several days ago I was reading a blog post that ended with something similar to this: If you need a Realtor to help you buy or sell a home in the City of San Diego, well, let me Google one for you. Notice that "let me Google one for you" is underlined. That means it's a link. Go click on it and ...
01/23/2010
Today must be you-want-it-free? day here at ActiveRain since three of the blog posts I've read this morning touch on rant about that subject. I find that particularly interesting when it comes to Realtors whom I have always considered the epitome, the definition, of asking for things free. Is tur...
01/21/2010
I like to go to networking meetings whenever I can and listen to each individual's 60-second commercial. One of the things I noticed at a recent meeting is how many people in all industries think that location, location, location is the most important thing: "I'm from The Pit Stop, which is where...
01/20/2010
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The City of San Diego has 101 defined neighborhoods, which are further divided into 121 neighborhoods by the San Diego Police Department for the purpose of compiling crime statistics. Here are the 121 neighborhoods in alphabetical order: Adams North Allied Gardens Alta Vista Azalea/Hollywood Par...
01/19/2010
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I have so many saved emails that one of the things I've added to my daily schedule for 2010 is to decide what to do with at least one saved email each day. One of the marketing newsletters that I subscribe to had this short but brilliant observation: If you make the phone ring, people will call w...
01/19/2010
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Jim Frimmer
Realtor & CDPE, Mission Valley specialist