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Sunday, May 10th, 2009 at 8:15 PM

One For The Road

Lucky me!

This week I’ll be with our daughter Natalie on her 6th grade trip to Astro Camp in Idyllwild.  I’ll be back Friday, and in the interim Donna, Richard, and crew will be handling the business as usual.

The last time we went on a real vacation was August, 2007, and during that week the mortgage industry meltdown began – what will happen this week? 

And most importantly, who’ll be minding the blog?

I’ll leave you with this short youtube from Encinitas.  The first house is an REO listed for $479,900 that has several offers on it, and was marked pending on Friday.  The second house is the closed comp, and the third house just listed for $551,000.  The video ends abruptly when the memory card runs out, but you’ll get the idea – will house #3 be able to benefit from the other two, price-wise?

Posted on Sunday, May 10th, 2009 at 8:15 PM in Foreclosures/REOs, Jim TV | 12 Comments » | Print Print You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Reader Comments: 12 Responses

  1. I’ll give you 125,000! Volts, that is. No kidding the third place “needs TLC”, about 50k worth.

    doug r | May 10th, 2009 at 8:28 pm

  2. Have a great vacation, Jim, but WHO is gonna call
    that listing agent? I sure hope you can call before you go…

    Susie | May 10th, 2009 at 8:56 pm

  3. Enjoy the trip with your daughter, Jim!

    It will be a nice break from all this bubble stuff.

    Is it too much to hope that your vacation will trigger another RE meltdown? ;)

    CA renter | May 10th, 2009 at 9:03 pm

  4. I’m not too keen on that neighborhood because there was alot of turnover between ’05 and ’07. However, those who buy now, have the cash and credit and this will bring stability to the neighborhood moving forward. This neighborhood is good and I like the wide street. But, compared to the hood across El Camino Real just over the hill and down. The cars to driveway ratio averages around 3.5 : 1. One home had 5 cars parked in the driveway and lawn – these are normal sized driveways.

    3clicks from da Beach | May 10th, 2009 at 9:45 pm

  5. These sold in the low-$400,000s in 2001 and 2002.

    Jim the Realtor | May 10th, 2009 at 9:54 pm

  6. And most importantly, who’ll be guarding the pound?

    Dammit Jim! I’m a blogger not a Realtor™!

    Still I’ll try to keep the mob under control. Now go have a good time. I did the same thing with my oldest kid when she was in sixth grade.

    Rob Dawg | May 11th, 2009 at 7:04 am

  7. I changed it on the fly – I’m outta here!

    Jim the Realtor | May 11th, 2009 at 7:44 am

  8. Where’s the Ice Cream truck?

    Todd | May 11th, 2009 at 7:59 am

  9. Have a great vacation.

    3rd one has the “shabby chic/distressed look” look in the kitchen. Isn’t that in right now?

    Erin | May 11th, 2009 at 8:49 am

  10. Have a great vacation Jim. Enjoy the well deserved time off.

    ChrisG | May 11th, 2009 at 9:16 am

  11. Have a wonderful vacation, Jim.

    BAM | May 11th, 2009 at 10:06 am

  12. I am in the title industry, my last vacation was in Sep. 07, right after Homebanc started bouncing checks! We got married on that trip, came back and I was told there is no more work. About to take my first vacation since then as well. Is this a sign of recovery! Naw, we are just the few flourishing off this foreclosure madness!

    tbill | June 6th, 2009 at 7:54 am

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