Photographing Your City or Community or Neighborhood- Be Sure To Join the ActiveRain Photo Blogger Group A Local Neighborhod View Since I started taking photos with a DSLR camera, I have been busily taking pictures of just about anything I see with a heavy emphasis on " All About San Diego" . Th
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01/22/2011
One of the big mistakes homeowners make with California stucco homes where I live is to paint them. Stucco was meant to breath and painting seals the stucco surface and it can't breath so moisture can build up and create some secondary conditions, the least of which could be staining. Stucco fini
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01/20/2011
Carmel Mountain Ranch - The Summit Carmel Mountain Ranch or as we often refer to it, CMR, is a picturesque master planned community in the heart of San Diego North County. Carmel Mountain Ranch is bounded by Poway to the East, Rancho Penasquitos to the West, Rancho Bernardo to the North and Sabre
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01/20/2011
San Diego 2010 Housing Market Stable The 2010 year end numbers are in and the San Diego 2010 Housing Market was reported as stable. There were a number of mixed signals but the general consistency of the market this past year seems to bode well for the market to gradually improve throughout 2011
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01/18/2011
The Colors of Winter For Some, the vibrant colors of the other 3 seasons disappear in the winter months to be replaced with the crystalline combination of all the colors making white the prominent color the eye perceives. Where I live in the Winter, the colors of the days end are often more vibr
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01/17/2011
The Top 10 Mistakes Made in the Home Buying Process - And it's Not Always the Buyers Making the Mistake. This post was inspired by Bob Stewart. We all have made mistakes in the way we first go about fulfilling the desire for owning our own home. ( notice I didn't say the Dream of Home Ownership
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01/16/2011
While interviewing for a listing of an older home that had an addition, I made an observation that ran counter to the homeowner’s understanding of the marketable size of the home. The home was originally built as a 3 bedroom home and an addition was added years after it was originally built to e
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01/15/2011
My 2011 Forecast. More"Rain" My forecast for the year 2011 is that there will be a lot of great new consumer, industry, community and informational posts appearing here on ActiveRain. With our great ActiveRain staff and some great enhancements to the site, ActiveRain will continue to lead the wa
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01/08/2011
San Diego Real Estate | Is the Mortgage Interest Tax Deduction Sacrosanct ? Instinctively, for most of us in the real estate business, it is. For decades our real estate lobbyists and leaders in the industry have preserved and even enhanced this incentive for home ownership and helped us market o
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01/02/2011
Happy New Year 2011 I brought in the New Year attending a party with a client, friend and neighbor , all in the same person. If that sounds like religion ( The Trilogy) , well I won't dispute that I believe, :-). About a week ago I was talking to client, new friend and neighbor about their proper
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01/02/2011
