After a twenty-year hiatus, I made my return today to the La Jolla REBA pitch session and broker’s open house.
The meeting starts promptly at 8:30am, and is always well attended – today there were 50-60 realtors in attendance. It is a very friendly, jovial atmosphere, but everyone is there for business. There were a handful of pocket listings pitched, some buyer wants, and a few previews of upcoming listings. There were 4-5 mentions of sellers losing $1 million-plus, but hey, it’s La Jolla.
Then it was off to conduct broker’s open house at my new listing on Loring, in Pacific Beach:
The Ghost Meter is probably shrieking at the electroluminescent display in the microwave when it’s not running. Those utilize high voltages and generate a fair amount of electrical noise.
Unfortunately, the Ghost Meter is not giving you a spectral breakdown of the EMR it’s picking up. Given that microwave ovens regularly use 1000 Watts, it’s unsurprising you’d pick up a 60 Hz wave from a few feet away. What you should absolutely not be picking up is 2.4-ish GHz, which will hurt you at sufficiently high exposures. (And for those that would suggest that all EMR is bad, then you should assiduously avoid direct sunlight.)
As for the property, I’ve always had a soft spot for mid-century/Bauhaus/Eichler-ian style.
You’ve noticed also that March we get a ‘false’ like beautiful summer like weather, then go into May gray and June glum. Then July hits and its “Listin time…like it was Summer’ (Chubby Checker I think) and add about $100 k to the price for those weary Arizonians etc buyers.
Just off thw ire…
On Thursday July 1, 2010, 10:01 am
NEW YORK (AP) — The number of buyers who signed contracts to purchase homes dropped in May to the lowest level on record, a sign the housing recovery can’t survive without government incentives.
The National Association of Realtors says its seasonally adjusted index of sales agreements for previously occupied homes tumbled 30 percent in May. The index fell to 77.6 in May from 110.9 in April. May’s reading was the lowest dating back to 2001.
Economists surveyed by Thomson Reuters had expected the index would fall to 98.4. The index also was down 15.9 percent from the same month a year earlier.
The index provides an early measurement of sales activity because there is usually a one- to two-month lag between a sales contract and a completed deal.
“a sign the housing recovery can’t survive without government incentives.”
Need to say: “…can’t survive at these high level of prices without government incentives.”
Someone once said ‘there’s nothing price won’t fix.’.
prices drop, people will buy, without government help (or any help for that matter).
Your mention of June Gloom reminded me of something vaguely similar we have up here, as memorably described by San Francisco Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll back in 2002:
ewhac, you seem to be well versed in electromagnetics, so what’s your opinion on houses near high voltage power lines?
Lesson learned for when I remodel….do not place the microwave at waist level if I want to remain fertile.
My opinion of houses near high voltage lines:
They are ugly.
You are exposed to more electro-magnetic radiation at higher frequencies from your cell phone, wireless laptop, the electric line in the wall behind your bed powering your clock, etc. I don’t think there are any health concerns from high voltage power lines, they are just ugly.