JoAnn Poole's (jpoole) Blog

So, I won the live auction for a "Night with Jenny McCarthy" at the Joshua Project Fundraiser this November.  We had a fabulous time!  We went to the Soho House in West Hollywood and enjoyed not only Jenny's company, but Donnie Wahlberg, her significant other, as well…How thankful I am to be invo...

  An associate who works nearby blogged the other day about being thankful and appreciative. I have thought of posting that same subject and wasn't sure about it. After some thought and discussion with fellow Simi Valley homeowners, I decided it's all right to post such content. If we have feelin...

I frequent the restaurants in and around Simi Valley real estate and would like to share some of them with you. Fire Island Grill is a newer restaurant near my office down the road from Wood Ranch and offers Island Cuisine right down to the sauces.  All the veggies are fresh, no freezers in the r...

I'm an amateur photographer, have sold some, have many on my office walls, and rarely come across one like this with such detail and perfection. I don't know the name of the flower. Do you? I snap pictures at many Simi Valley properties and I was visiting a past client and saw the beauty...check ...

Latest Simi Valley/Wood Ranch Stats I've been talking for weeks now about the low inventory in Simi Valley properties. We are all feeling it...no Wood Ranch luxury homes to sell our long list of buyers...none available, no condos/town homes to single family dwellings...here are the statistics as ...

Today was the day I left early early from Simi Valley to Westwood to see the eye doctor. My good friend takes the ride with me and we chat and enjoy the drive and checking out nature. As I leave my Wood Ranch townhome, I look forward to seeing my friends at Starbucks and a quick hello. I scurry t...

How does the title of this Blog have anything to do with Simi Valley real estate? And what about the graphic? Well, to me it looked like to could be a squirmy worm... Here this...I have families now in the throws of two escrows...purchasing a new home in Wood Ranch contingent on their principal g...

Call them minor, and they are. But when we allow minuscule and mundane things to get in our way and we allow them to annoy us...well, all I can say in retrospect is: WHY!? I turn off the thermostat in my Wood ranch town home when I go to bed...this morning, I knew I looked at it and saw 61 degree...

We closed escrow on August 30, 2012. The house was owned by a family who lived out of state and had it as a rental for several years. It needed lots of work and updating to today's standards, and they were done! It's a gorgeous Simi Valley home south of Ventura Boulevard. I had it on the market f...

SIGNS THAT HOUSING IS REALLY RECOVERING! 1.  Discussions among agents are different when talking about Simi Valley homes and Wood Ranch homes.   We're all sharing what we're doing to obtain more listings and negotiate hard for our buyers. 2.  Asking prices and rents among Simi Valley properties a...