Marie Kletke Broker-Long Beach,CA's Blog

What could be worse that just sitting around day after day in jail?  The warden of this provincial jail in Cebu, Philippines decided it was time to get the prisoners of his facility moving.  His solution?  Dance calisthenics.  Every able bodied man was forced to dance.  You dance to get good beha...

     When McDonald Douglas and Boeing were in Long Beach, the higher echelons in these companies used to schedule their lunches around their golf games.  Rumor has it that many ideas regarding plane safety, structure and the like were formulated over a round of golf at Lakewood Country Club!!!A b...

 You are getting ready to meet with your Long Beach broker.   You've asked him to show you some Long Beach homes.  But after reading today's paper, you feel this may not be the right time to buy a home for your family.Your offer has been accepted.  You are having some doubts about the market.  Yo...

  "We cannot afford this house anymore!!  We would like to see someone enjoy what this house has to offer!!" Located in a tree-lined street, this cute Long Beach ranch-style home is located close to two freeways, shoppings, and the ocean.  Live here and you have access to the Los Altos school dis...

  August 1, 2007.   News Flash!  "The Getty museum has agreed to return a prized statue, dubbed "The Aphrodite," to Italy following an acrimonious dispute over allegedly looted antiquities"... There are museums all over the United States and all over the world watching this news with anticipation...

There is much history in my family.  My grandparents from both sides experienced Spanish colonialism.  My parents experienced overwhelming fear at a young age fron the atrocities committed around them during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. As young adults, they dreamt of studying in S...

Naples, California is a peninsula on the southern most tip of Long Beach.   It was the dream of A.M. Parsons and his son to bring a taste of Italy into southern California. Along with financier Henry Huntngton,A.M. Parsons formed the Naples Company with the hope of developing canals and a grand c...

With soccer legend Beckham  playing for the LA Galaxies at the Home Depot Center, children throughout Long Beach now have stronger aspirations to become a soccer star.  Heartwell Park is home to two children's soccer leagues - Long Beach Youth Soccer Organization (LBYSO) and American Youth Soccer...

Acapulco is a really old city that has been a vacation destination for Europeans since the 1920s.  In the 1960s and 70s, Acapulco became the destination for Hollywood's rich and famous.  Los Flamingo Hotel is where the likes of John Wayne and Ron Ely used to stay.  (In fact there is a "Tarzan" ca...

Making an impression in the Long Beach Real Estate market (as with other Real Estate markets) takes team work.  It takes a vision, a mission and a plan.  What if you only had 20 minutes to interact with someone and bring out that person's true potential, how would you do it?  What if you were pas...