I try to keep the length of these videos down to a minimum, but this one is personal:
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Jim Klinge
Klinge Realty Group
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- 682 S. Coast Hwy 101, Suite #110
Encinitas, CA 92024 - (858) 997-3801 call or text
- klingerealty@gmail.com
CA DRE #01527365, CA DRE #00873197
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Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. We sold a home with Jim and Donna and from beginning to end they were consummate professionals. Their initial walk through the property resulted in a list of items to be repaired or updated. They supplied a list of vendors and job quotes to do the repairs and updates. We originally wanted to sell âas isâ and just get it over with. They gave us a selling price for âas isâ and options for doing a few updates/repairs to doing it all with the selling price for each option. We agreed to do all they suggested and we sold for the exact price they predicted. For every dollar spent we got back more than $2 back in the selling price. And they got that price in a rising interest rate environment! Donna and Jim are extremely detailed and guide you through ever aspect of the sale. There were no surprises thanks to their guidance. We couldnât be more pleased with their representation. Thank you Donna and Jim, Jerry and MaryTrustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. We have known Jim & Donna Klinge for over a dozen years, having met them in Carlsbad where our children went to the same school. As long time North County residents, it was a no- brainer for us to have the Klinges be our eyes and ears for San Diego real estate in general and North County in particular. As my military career caused our family to move all over the country and overseas to Asia, Europe and the Pacific, we trusted Jim and Donna to help keep our house in Carlsbad rented with reliable and respectful tenants for over 10 years. Naturally, when the time came to sell our beloved Carlsbad home to pursue a rural lifestyle in retirement out of California, we could think of no better team to represent us than Jim and Donna. They immediately went to work to update our house built in 2004 to current-day standards and trends â in 2 short months they transformed it into a literal modern-day masterpiece. We trusted their judgement implicitly and followed 100% of their recommended changes. When our house finally came on the market, there was a blizzard of serious interest, we had multiple offers by the third day and it sold in just 5 days after a frenzied bidding war for 20% above our asking price! The investment we made in upgrades recommended by Jim and Donna yielded a 4-fold return, in the process setting a new high water mark for a house sold in our community. In our view, there are no better real estate professionals in all of San Diego than Jim and Donna Klinge. Buying or selling, you must run and beg Jim and Donna Klinge to represent you! Our family will never forget Jim, Donna, and their whole team at Compass â we are forever grateful to them.Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. WeI had the pleasure of working with Klinge Realty Group to sell our home in Carmel Valley, and I cannot recommend them highly enough! Jim and Donna demonstrated exceptional professionalism, offering expert guidance on market conditions and pricing strategy, which resulted in a quick and successful sale. Communication was prompt and we were well-informed throughout the entire process. For anyone looking for a dedicated and knowledgeable real estate team, look no further! ---Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Donna and Jim Klinge of Klinge Realty Group have our highest possible recommendation. From Donna and Jimâs first visit to our house through closing their advice and counsel was candid and honest in all dealings. They kept us fully informed throughout the process. The house sold less than three days after listing with a two-week closing. My wife and I have sold several houses during our lives. This was by far the best experience. Klinge Reality is a premium service realtor. You canât make a better choice for someone to sell your home fast and for top dollar.Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Donna and Jim provided exceptional support and professionalism throughout the entire process. We couldn't have been happier with their efforts. They made our house shine, and thanks to their expertise, it sold above the listing price in the very first weekend! Truly a fantastic experience from start to finish.Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. This year has been difficult on our family, mainly due to having to sell our home. Thankfully we knew God had a plan for us and working with the Klinge team was a key part of it. It was an obvious decision to work with them again after such an amazing experience when purchasing the same home we needed to sell. The challenge was, how will we do this in so little time with so much going on? Jim and Donna held our hand every step of the way. Whenever an unexpected issue arose they found and provided a solution. Never once did we feel pressured to make a decision and the Klinges were always reassuring after providing the information that the decision was ours to make. Despite the curve balls, they never panicked and exemplified the âcan doâ attitude, making us feel optimistic and taken care of. Their expertise and professionalism was superb. But of all the reasons to work with the Klinges, the most impactful and valuable is their compassion and genuine care for their clients. We pray that we can one day purchase our forever home and you better believe that Jim and Donna will be representing us - as long as they will have us of course. Thank you again Klinge team! Your execution, experience, and care are unmatched.Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Jim and Donna were fantastic! Jim understanding my needs, recommending potential places, pointing out the pros and cons of each property was invaluable. Then when the offer was accepted Donnaâs organized guidance through the inspections, paperwork etc made the whole process seem effortless. So grateful that I had them on my side!Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. We first found Jim through his blog at bubbleinfo.com, which really showcased his knowledge of SoCal real estate. Since then we've done three transactions with Jim and Donna, and they are an incredible full service agency, with Jim's deep market insight and Donna's deft contract and project management. We trust them implicitly in their analysis and strategy, which is based on years of experience. They're always available and on top of things, and we strongly recommend them to anyone.Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. The Good The Klinge Realty Group operates like a finely tuned machine, with a very personal touch. We contacted them on a Sunday and they were talking to us about our family and our needs on our living room couch the following day. They carefully listened to us and worked with us to identify the best and quickest path to listing within 2 weeks to take advantage of the low inventory conditions in our South Carlsbad neighborhood. They knew our tract specifically and had many previous sales there over the years - they came prepared with a thorough analysis of comparative sales and recommended a pricing strategy that they felt confident would yield offers the first weekend on the market. The Great Over the next two weeks Donna coordinated a range of vendors who she knew from experience could get the preparation to list work we needed done on time and with high quality. Our light tune-up involved excellent experiences with their stagers, landscapers, contractors, electricians, and plumbers. Throughout this period Donna's daily communication was clear, concise, and responsive. Any time we had questions Donna picked up the phone or texted immediately - but almost always, she answered our questions before we even knew we had them. The Outstanding We had a tricky situation with a shared fence that could have delayed our escrow. Donna used superb mediation skills to negotiate the terms of replacement and was personally on site with the fence contractor to make sure everything went smoothly. The fence looks great and escrow closed on time. The Truly Exceptional Our house came on the market on a Wednesday and between then and Monday morning Jim was personally at all three open houses. He was in constant communication explaining potential buyer reaction and strength. As he predicted offers began to come in on Saturday and each one was incrementally higher than the last. At the end we had 5 offers, 4 of which were over list, and the final accepted offer was $100,000 over list. In addition to being over list it included rent back terms that met our needs. The Recommendation For all of these reasons we would strongly recommend The Klinge Team to anyone wanting to sell in North County Coastal San Diego. I had been reading Jim's bubbleinfo.com blog for 15 years and knew when the time came to sell that he would be our first call. Jim Klinge is not your standard realtor. He is keenly aware of market conditions and sales strategies. And, works his tail off - though not as hard as Donna . At this point he's gone from realtor to friend and I plan to have him over to grill and chill at our new place to talk real estate, but also just about life and raising kids in San Diego. He's more interested in relationships than his sales numbers - and that's why his sales numbers are so high. We have already recommended the Klinge's to some close friends and another successful sale is on deck right around the corner...Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. We recently had the pleasure of working with Jim and Donna from Klinge Realty Group to sell our house, and we couldn't be more satisfied with the experience. From the initial meeting, they listened attentively to our needs and provided invaluable guidance on specific improvements to get our home market ready. Their responsiveness throughout the entire process was truly impressive. Anytime we had questions or concerns, they were quick to address them, ensuring we felt comfortable and informed every step of the way. What stood out the most was their team and extensive network of tradespeople, which made addressing any necessary repairs or updates seamless and stress-free. Thanks to their expertise and dedication, our house sold quickly and at a great price. We highly recommend Jim and Donna to anyone looking to buy or sell a home. They are a fantastic team who truly care about their clients and deliver exceptional results.Load more
Sure hope the car rental company wasn’t watching. But I’ll bet your mother liked it. Best wishes to you all. The good days lie ahead.
The car rental lady said the last guy who rented the ‘vette did two doughnuts in their parking lot when he brought it back. (I only did one…)
Happy Birthday, Jim! Was nice taking a trip to the Bay Area with you in your cool car. I’m sorry to hear about your mom. It’s sad to see what is happening to people due to out of control medical costs. Hope things turn out okay for them.
You rented a ZR1?!? SWEET!!!
Should have transfered that house over time to the kids years back. You keep the house and the state get nothing.
Damn’it Jim, my tears are flowing from this and I don’t know you!
You know, Jim, that’s really a very nice house. Here’s hoping you have multiple offers well over list!
5.Should have transfered that house over time to the kids years back. You keep the house and the state get nothing.
I’m laying my family’s personal struggle on the line, and you gotta make this comment. You don’t know what you’re talking about.
Thanks Daniel.
TJ – here’s the 2010 ZR1 road test:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckNA9wskLFI
0-60 in 4.0 seconds!
Brother Dave delivers appliances for a living. He was telling me that he delivered two of these this week – each 875 lbs going for $15,000:
http://www.warnersstellian.com/products/7126
I’m sorry to hear about the troubles Jim. Hopefully everything will work out for your mum.
Bambino Parker smiled cause he saw uncle Jim’s vet keys hanging out of his pocket!
Wow, videos of two bridges and a tunnel all in a car that screams “look at me!” You know what would happen if you tried that in New York?
Nice house, sweet babies (and mama and granny too) and a sweet gold-Corvette whirlwind tour of the bridges of my old stomping grounds. Best wishes to you and your fam, and happy b’day, Jim (another year younger). Thanks for sharing.
Hey Jim – If you need any help with papers, lock boxes etc, give me a holler. Glad to help a fellow realtor!
Here’s hoping that the house is in escrow quickly. Very sorry to hear the circumstances behind its sale, and I hope your mom’s financial worries will be resolved. It was fun to get to see a few of the Klinges though.
Best wishes to you and your family as you sort all this out. Happy Birthday a bit early!
But, did Mom get a ride in the Vette too?
You Americans really, REALLY need a Universal Health Care program. In this day and age, there’s simply no excuse for anyone to have to sell off part of their heritage in order to pay for essential medical care.
Still, it’s great that your family was able to ride the storm. As for the house, that bathroom is definitely an asset that could seal the deal pretty fast.
Future Realtors? They can come work for Uncle Jim! Too cute.
The shower is huge. I agree that health care in America is great for the healthy. Sick, that’s another story.
My family’s problem is that we still have my mother’s house. She now lives with one of my sisters.
It is a unique house. It started off as a small brick house in 1692 in Virginia. People kept adding on and living there ever since. No one has ever tried to restore it so most of it is very original. It even has one window still framed for solid shutters on the inside for when the natives were unfriendly.
But it sits empty now. We are reluctant to sell it and even more reluctant to give it to the tender mercies of renters. Sort of a weekend house now.
I’m in Sacramento now. My cheap foreclosure and Prop 13 makes it very unlikely for me to go back and put up with Loudoun County’s
ridiculous taxes, cold winters, and congested narrow two lane roads.
I do miss the place but tell my sisters perhaps it’s time to let go.
Good video, I went to Yagnacio Valley High in Concord, mom’s home is a very nice
The Bitter truth–Today’s Health Care in America is great for the poor–they don’t have to pay monthly insurance bills because they don’t have health insurance. Then, if they are hurt or become sick, they get treated and simply don’t pay the bills–end of story, simple as that!
Hahaha, loved the start to this one. You should be on TV Jim, your stuff is infinitely more entertaining than the bland real estate shows on HGTV.
Any producers out there?
When my dad was sick, medicare was going to demand the sale my mom’s house in order to pay his medical bills. Luckily, she pushed Aetna a little more, and they paid 100% of the bills. Private insurance saved her (and us) from the ruin that is state-run insurance.
I hope your mom does better. It is a bummer to sell a house at a 40% loss, but that does go to show that you give advice with the hard truth even to the one who gave you birth.
Seriously Local Boy? Your take on our healthcare system is that it is structured to benefit the poor? Yes, the poor have been extremely successful with the billions of dollars in lobbying to ensure that they have access to quality healthcare so that their rates of things like infant mortality or preventable amputations from diabeties or death from treatable chronic conditions are comparable to…uh…not at single industrialized country and actually worse than if they received health care in Cuba.
Can’t think of anyone else who might be benefiting from our spending 2-3 times what Canada, Germany or France spends per capita? We are heaping all that extra cash on our poor! The poor are getting healthy and rich off of our extra spending on health care!
I didn’t know Michael Moore read this blog.
Didn’t see Michael Moore’s movie, but I know it is a mistake to engage on the issue. These blog dialogues always seem to devolve into pointing fingers at how “extreme” the other is.
I’ll admit that my sarcastic post had that tone. I have no idea why I bothered to post at all.
Now that I cannot resist the Michael Moore bait, I suppose I will have to explain that my post was simply a response to what I saw as the absurdity of LocalBoy’s suggestion that of all the places to lay blame for the perverse incentive, high cost and burden to families like Jim’s – LocalBoy came up with “the poor.”
I should never have included Cuba as a counterpoint since it obviously confused the meaning of my post.
For what it’s worth, I personally will only continue to benefit financially if health care stays exactly the way it is.
There are so many ways the healthcare system could provide higher quality care at a lower cost. The fact that so many other places in the world can do so is evidence that we should be looking for ways to get those better outcomes and reduce the burden we are putting on families, especially in caring for elderly relatives and end of life care. You don’t become Michael Moore by recognizing that.
And it does not follow from my point (1)that the poor are not to blame and (2)that we are spending a lot of money to get not very good public health outcomes that I MUST be proposing we adopt a Cuban, or French or Canadian or Japanese healthcare system.
More succintly – we can do better, and if you think it’s “the poor” who are the most effective at getting laws passed and structuring healthcare to benefit themselves, I have a bridge to sell you.
If only I were poorer I would get invited to those meetings where compromises are made.
That must be what happened in the last healthcare reform process…the poor people got together and said to the president – we’ll support your reform as long as you promise to never bargain for lower prices…wait no, that was the pharmaceutical lobby…
I’m sure you have your examples to back up the fact that the poor are in there making sure the system is set up to increase their wealth and health.
Now look what you did, Localboy….no fudgesicle for you at the next Bubbleinfo meetup.
I know that this is not a healthcare blog but I really feel for Jim’s Mother (and Jim)–my Mother too will soon be in the exact same position. In all due respect, I did not blame the poor–I didn’t blame anyone. I do blame the high cost of medical and medical insurance. The point I made is, the poor simply have less to worry about because they typically are not obligated to pay for their healthcare bills or their health insurance, while others are. A person with no money or assets sees a bill of $500,000 and says “WOW”, I feel bad, but I can’t pay it–end of story. I see that bill and say, OMG–I better scramble and try to come-up with that amount of money somehow (in Jim’s Mom’s case, sell the house), because I am obligated to pay! Do I have a solution, no. However, if I were poor, had absolutely nothing, America, beyond ANY question, would be the place I would want to live (or come to). Can we do better, of course. Are we doing better than any other country, of course!!!
MostlyLurk, you need to change your handle now!
Clearly do not have the temperament even for MostlyLurking…gonna have to change it to OnlyLurk.
Such a nice blog. Sorry to have hijacked this thread.
Dude, my heart was in my throat watching you drive one-handed across the Bridge in the suicide lane. Please do not ever do that again.
Your nephews look adorable. It will not be so very long until you are called Uncle Jimbo. In stereo.
The house in Concord looks quite nice; I daresay you under-priced it.
Oh, and if you want to open up a Corvette, there’s this segment of Highway 280 just south of the 92 interchange… đ
On Michael Moore. Be very careful. He has a nasty tendency to massage facts to score a few brownie points. He made the Canadian health care system appear to be much better than it really is. He’s pretty much a professional manipulator.
Yes, we do have problems with our health care system, but these are mainly managerial problems. If you even try to take our health care away, you’ll hear the words “from our cold, dead hands” uttered from across the nation! đ
The system definitely benefited my father. Despite his previous severe health issues, despite being diagnosed with liver cancer, and despite being too old for traditional chemotherapy treatments, the doctors used an alternative treatment program and managed to keep him alive for over five years!
All paid for through our tax dollars. No pre-existing condition BS, and no bills to worry about except for various travel expenses to the hospital located two hours away that could perform the specialized treatments.
Sorry for making this into a health care debate Jim, but when I hear of people who had to go bankrupt to be treated or, worse yet, have died because they couldn’t afford proper medical care, that really makes my blood boil. There’s simply no valid excuse for ANY government to allow their citizens to die from curable diseases.
BTW, ewhac is right. Driving, filming AND blogging all at the same time while crossing the Golden Gate Bridge?!? Stop giving us heart attacks!!! đ
Add one vote for seafoam green carpet. Anything is better than brown or beige. The list of colors that fail is long: orange, yellow, red, blue (walking on water), black, white, green (your lawn need mowing?). While it may not always work, seafoam green is one of the few shades that’s legit. Neutral colors are for furniture, not carpet.
Well, my computer was dead for a month but now a new Apple means I can retrace my steps and check out this “classic” from JtR on 1/29.
I grew up in the East Bay in the same house from the age of 3-20 in a little town called Orinda of 3,000 (then) with a pop. of 10,000 now. (The teenagers there call it “Borinda” now.) It’s the first exit on Hwy 24 after the Caldecut Tunnel where Jim was cruising.
But folks are right, Jim. Puh-leeze don’t ever drive, blog and film at the same time again. There’s only one JtR!
Your mom, two nephews, sister and brother–Wow, Jim, you have a sweet family!