Many years ago, we purchased a home in Carlsbad, using a realtor that was recommended to us - Jim Klinge. Fast forward to 2025, we recently had the privilege of selling 2 homes in Carlsbad, CA and didn't hesitate to reach out to Jim and Donna Klinge of Klinge Realty Group to guide us through the sales. The transactions were very different, each with its own unique situation, opportunities and challenges. From start to finish, Donna and Jim helped navigate the pre-sale preparation, the listing, showing of the house, buyer negotiations, the final close and all of the paperwork and decisions in between. What stands out with both transactions is the professionalism of Jim and Donna (and their team), wonderful communication (timely, relevant, concise), their deep understanding of market dynamics (setting realistic expectations), their access to top-notch contractors, and last, their ability to guide us across the finish line successfully. We wouldn't hesitate to use Jim and Donna in the future and highly recommend them for anyone looking to buy or sell a property in North San Diego County.
Bank of America won’t pay for new toilets! How classy of ’em…
And talk about classy. Ah, The Association! Mahalo for the tunes, Jim, and the beach scene. (No matter how hard I look there aren’t any of ’em in Spudville…)
Isn’t $20 for a toilet seat a valid marketing expense? The porcelain will probably clean up OK if the cleanup crew works at it.
Love Oceanfront in Del Mar! See if you can work your way into videoing some of those!
The $14,000,000 for a 2,000sqft type of place.
Where I am looking, there are 87 homes in some stage of foreclosure with NOD issued in 2009. The banks are not moving them.
Loan Mods?
They gotta keep somebody in the loan-mod purgatory.
Jim, I saw this listing with the warning
“Home is in the process of being cleaned up.” and thought of your CV house. It could be worse…
http://www.sdlookup.com/MLS-110023445-2602_Mesa_Dr_Oceanside_CA_92054
Many are empty, but some are still occupied. Going through the title histories, many have questionable transactions. Lots of grey going on and I don’t think it is going to work out well. But who knows, this whole market has been manipulated by so many actors, government and private.
Yeah, replace the toilet seats but for the porcelain bowl, its Easy Off oven cleaner into a dry bowl. You’re gonna need the sodium hydroxide to scour that mess. They’ll shine like new.
Thanks for the birds at the end. They can show the Blue Angels a thing or two.
Is the garage for the del Mar beach house below sea level? Where does the water from the garage get pumped to when you are already at the low point?
* Chances are good you have a view of POWERLINES!
* Yards are TINY!
* Community is BORING!
* A lot of in Debt people that think they are rich
– I know the schools are good. But so is Poway, La Jolla, Encinitas, and others.
– I have seen too many kids come out of the CV district and become nothing.
– Just because your kids go to CV does not mean they will be doctors. And, just because you kids go to San Ysidro does not mean they will be blue collar workers.
Funny, I always feel like I am riding with my dad when Jim starts talking about cars. Now I notice I talk the same way with my 3 year old!
One thing Jim hasnt commented on is the detroit river noise. I lived right by there. Not only did the noise bug me but you get exhaust particles (little black dust particles- tires?) on your patio etc. I think the house will sell for 700K easy, but there are a lot of problems with that area.
I would gladly pay out of my own pocket to move the house as Jim mentioned
Cost benefit analysis: Jim leave the toilet seats as they are until all the paint/carpet/cleaning is done. Then compare the offers with the current seats with the offers after you switch out the seats. $30 worth of seats is equal to how many thousands?
“Active/solds (1,497/189) = 7.92 months’ of inventory (under 6 is ideal)”
Under 6 is only ideal for sellers. 🙂
John
John nails it!!! Lol
Division has higher precedence than addition, so the addition needs to be grouped. The correct expression for the ratio is:
A / (P + C)
This has been your gratuitous math nitpickery for today.
Did someone mention my name? 😉
Jim, I can’t believe you actually let people into that house. The smell must have been atrocious! Even worse, it’s highly doubtful they’ll ever want to buy the home and have the memory of that stench imprinted in their heads for as long as they own the place.
The walls are less of a deterrent since that’s relatively easy to fix. But it can still knock a few G notes off the price. That’s what happened with the loft I purchased years ago. The former owner had painted the walls in such a variety of ugly pastel colours, I almost didn’t buy the place!