Archive for June, 2009
Invited lunch guest at World Famous SPA.
June 25th, 2009 categories: San Diego Real Estate
This past week provided me a very special and rare experience of being an invited lunch guest by a patron of the Golden Door, The World famous Health Spa. From the moment the front gate opened, you feel the exclusive nature of this amazing luxury spa. Set on over several hundreds acres of the most magnificent grounds, one is easily taken in by its sheer beauty and tranquility.
A family friend who frequents the spa with annual regularity, invited me to join her and her two daughters for a specially prepared lunch at the coy pond. The stylings at this spa opened since 1958 are of the Japanese Honjin inns famous in Japan. And as far as I could tell, from style of the architecture to the sheer beauty of the surroundings, that I just as well could have been in Japan. Read the rest of this entry »
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If a Seller actually wants to Sell…….
June 25th, 2009 categories: San Diego Real Estate, Selling San Diego Real Estate
There are many listings of San Diego homes on the market where the Seller has priced the home to test the current market. The truth is that any good real estate professional that facilitates this is also participating in the fantasy of a unchanged reality. You will notice that I said, any good real estate professional. The unprofessional has a business plan and a process that I neither understand nor wish to discuss in this post. I can tell you from experience that if a property is over priced, isn’t staged properly or has any noticeable amount of deferred maintenance it isn’t likely to go anywhere and ends up languishing on the market wasting time and resources.
The most successful sellers in todays San Diego Real Estate Market should not be driven to list and sell by their bottom line. The priority of the move must outweigh the actual dollar consideration. When that is not case, there is a much greater likelihood that the seller in our current market will be staying put. Read the rest of this entry »
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