I try to keep the length of these videos down to a minimum, but this one is personal:
Jim Klinge
Klinge Realty Group
Broker-Associate, Compass
Are you looking for an experienced agent to help you buy or sell a home?
Contact Jim the Realtor!
- 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
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… 🙂
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! 🙂
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!!! 🙂
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!