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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2011
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Will San Diego County home prices ever recover? That seems to have been the prevailing question over the last three years, and it will probably continue to be a good question for the next few years. Home prices are kind of like stocks, except in one key area: There's only so much land on Earth, ...
02/28/2011
This is one of a series titledOut & About with Jim Frimmer, your Realtor in Mission Valley.Read others in this series by clicking on Out & About. 2011 Flag Day parade in La Mesa One of the best Flag Day parades — perhaps the only Flag Day parade — in San Diego County is in La Mesa, not too far f...
02/28/2011
Sometimes I take my daily walk along the San Diego harbor since it's so beautiful down there — Embarcadero, Spanish Landing, Harbor Island, Shelter Island.... With the fantastic sunsets we've been having this year, the sun gleaming on the downtown buildings has been beautiful. Interestingly, in ...
02/27/2011
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Keep Your California Home There are four new mortgage-aid programs available through the Keep Your California Home program that housing officials say could help as many as 100,000 households avoid foreclosure: Up to $3,000 a month for unemployed homeowners. Up to $15,000 per household for those ...
02/27/2011
San Diego County home pricestake a seasonal dip in January 2011 After reaching a low of $280,000 in February 2009, the median sales price for San Diego County has been steadily rising with seasonal dips taking their toll on the overall price. January 2011 came in at $304,000, down from $333,000 ...
02/27/2011
San Diego County home salestake a seasonal dip in January 2011 There were 2,248 homes sold in January 2011 in San Diego County, down 29.6% from December 2010 but down just 3.2% from December 2009. Sales reached a low of 1,826 in January 2008. Sales in early 2010 were affected by state and federa...
02/27/2011
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Matching pets with patriots It just became much easier for our military personnel — active, reserve, retired, or veterans from any branch of the United States military — to adopt pets in San Diego County through a countywide partnership between Pets for Patriots, the Rancho Coastal Humane Societ...
02/27/2011
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San Diego County in 2010, by the numbers San Diego County's new tax assessor (actually assessor-recorder-clerk), Ernie Dronenberg, wants to change the dates that property taxes are due, and I'm not going to argue with him because the due dates right now are just flat-out bad. Currently the first...
02/26/2011
One of the great benefits of being a member of the ActiveRain community is the information available from all parts of the country, not to mention Canada. Another great benefit is the way the ActiveRain staff continually encourages us to examine ourselves — our businesses and our personal lives ...
02/25/2011
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This is one of a series titledOut & About with Jim Frimmer, your Realtor in Mission Valley.Read others in this series by clicking on Out & About. Santee parks will soon be welcomingour fine, furry, four-legged friends(dogs, that is)! The East County city of Santee has decided to join the several...
02/25/2011
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Jim Frimmer
Realtor & CDPE, Mission Valley specialist