The trip to Coronado was to swing by this REO listing that is going to auction at the end of next month. The opening bid is quite a tease, only $469,000.
This tape is a little longer than usual because I had a specific client looking at it from out-of-town, and was hoping to provide enough of a feel that they could buy via video. It wasn’t for them, figuring that this’ll end up around…..$850,000?
This place interests me at less than 600K, but more than that I will go for standard suburbia.
Obviously others have different thresholds.
Jim, you give great tours of these houses. I really feel like I have already been in this house and would feel reasonably comfortable making a bid based soley on this video.
If, however, you are interested in adding even more value to the already high level of information you provide, a quick tour of the surrounding streets would be welcome for these older established neighborhoods.
I will add that you do an amazing job for someone “producing” these videos solo. You don’t have any writers, editors, etc. Incredible!
Just to add, I was at a soccer tourney in Coronado two weekends ago and it did seem like a great place to live.
If, however, you are interested in adding even more value to the already high level of information you provide, a quick tour of the surrounding streets would be welcome for these older established neighborhoods.
You mean like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkrXu-j3y98
The 701 in the beginning is on the f-list.
Thanks for the compliment about the production, I try to take it very seriously. Most important to me is that it’s unrehearsed and spontaneous, yet clear and accurate. It is what you can expect when we are on-site looking at houses you might buy – straight talk.
Nice house. Coronado is all about quality of life. It has maintained a constancy unlike any other San Diego County community…good or bad, there’s an almost ethereal 60’s naivete to its being. On another topic: Have you thought about using the surprisingly inexpensive Flip HD video?? It has a very fast focus, terrific fidelity, great sound and exposure control. I just got one for Christmas and it blows-away my Fuji handheld cam.
Peter, HD Flip lacks in the zoom department. I wrote Jim to find out what he is using and you need to spend the bucks to do what Jim is doing due to zoom shortfall of the flip. I have a flip and like it except for ZOOM. Did I mention zoom? 2:1 is dull when you are trying to “Be Like Jim”.
My house in PA had a skeleton key like that when I bought it. It was almost 100 years old and I was the 3rd owner. (Ladies I bought from were 85 years old and her 104 year old mother… finally moving to a retirement community.)
I knew I wanted to upgrade to deadbolts pretty quickly – but a spring in the skeleton key lock broke literally while I was moving in… That set the timing for me.
That house is great. Small, quirky, but full of charm.
Jim, your knowledge of kitchen appliances impresses me. 🙂
It’s definitely a nice home, almost a turnkey package. It’s just a little too close to the neighbours though.
As for the video camera, I can understand why Jim uses what he has now. While most camcorders can easily handle the telephoto requirements, they seriously lack the wide-angle capabilities Jim needs to film inside the homes. Some places are pretty tight.
I have the Sony Webbie and the auto-focus is awesome. But it doesn’t have the 18-200 lens to pick up the zoom and wide-angle capabilities.
I’ll do a video with the Webbie and we’ll compare.
It’s almost like you queued up the sound effects.
Looking into the closet “I don’t hear any traffic”…then a car drives by.
Walking in back yard “nice and quiet”, then a dog barks and a plane flies overhead.
I dunno, that place might work for a single person or maybe a couple. But I know we’d never be able to survive with the lack of storage space, lack of parking, and lack of privacy.
To each their own.
Point taken on the zoom. It’s important to zoom-in on the high-tension power lines that scar North County’s more expensive tracts (ironic, huh?). Also, I imagine the zoom helps in Jim’s never-ending quest to capture the Green Flash. Someday….