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2010
I recently encounted a problem that I think probably happens too often, although I have no proof. At the closing, the title rep gave the buyers a copy of everything that was signed. The buyers' copies do not have their signatures. The title rep went over everything page by page and explained eve...
01/19/2010
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Itshak Perlman is coming to San Diego this coming weekend. More importantly, he's bringing his violin with him, and even more important than that is that he's going to play his violin in a recital open to the public. Perlman is one of my four favorite violints, the others being Joshua Bell, Yehu...
01/18/2010
I was 8 when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed, and I remember some of my relatives celebrating, with hindsight eerily similar to what happened in some religious theocracies overseas when the terrorits took down the Twin Towers on 9/11. There are other forms of terror besides death and phys...
01/18/2010
Not only did I have a successful open house today, my second best ever with 41 visitors, but I also had my longest open house, not closing up shop until 5:45, 1¾ hours past my advertised closing time. I was not too far from Qualcomm Stadium where the San Diego Chargers were hosting, and losing t...
01/17/2010
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I had no idea that government employees work on Sundays. Good news, though from HUD Secretary Donovan. I disable comments on posts that I reblog. In an effort to stabilize home values and improve conditions in communities where foreclosure activity is high, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan today annou...
01/17/2010
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Ever heard the old adage, "You have to spend money to make money"? That doesn't mean that you should go out and buy a a Jaguar as your company car, or that you can go out to eat every day for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. What it means is that you have to spend money on things that will make you ...
01/17/2010
After last week's fiasco open house over in Coronado, which was out of my knowledge area, I'm back in my farming area today, where I know everything about everything. The only thing I didn't know was that since Spring is here, a lot of the condominium complexes have already done their Spring lan...
01/17/2010
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An interesting and motley crew of famous people were born on this date. Happy birthday to them, and to you if you were born on this date! Benjamin Franklin - 1706, Boston, Massachusetts - Founding Father, inventor, scientists, politician, diplomat, and much more. Alva Belmont - 1853, Mobile, Alab...
01/17/2010
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Did you have a tough week? Snow in the north. Ice and cold in the south and southeast. Heat in the southwest (76°F today). Grumpy Clients, grumpy family.... Purina recently told us what cats do when their staff is away, but I think their research is faulty. Courtesy of my mother-in-law via email,...
01/16/2010
Here is a great list that Susan Neal put together for helping out our neighbors in Haiti. Comments on this reblog have been disabled.The country of Haiti has been devastated by the worst earthquake to hit the area since the 17th century, and the capital city of Port au Prince, with a populatin of...
01/14/2010
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Jim Frimmer
Realtor & CDPE, Mission Valley specialist