Under budgetary constraints, the Encinitas Union School District is considering a consolidation of its heralded dual-language immersion program which operates at both Paul Ecke and Capri Elementary schools. Administrators propose to put all of the...
Month: March 2012
Jenae’s Mastermind Goes To Jail
Back in 2006-2007 when you could borrow 100% of the purchase price up to $1.5 million with only a 700+ FICO score, there was a team of scammers working the Carlsbad area. They hosted seminars where they offered to help unsuspecting marks get a piece of the...
Graft & Corruption, Part 1
Hat tip to Susie for sending this in, from the latimes.com: (story was first broke here: http://loscerritosnews.net/index253.htm) A former Los Angeles County property appraiser who secretly granted large, unauthorized tax breaks to wealthy homeowners told officials...
Buyers Flocking to Turnkey Homes
The first house shown in this video is on the same street where we saw the stinky short sale that closed for $368,000 in December. The rest of the comps in this area have been $450,000 to $500,000, with a 3,004-square-footer closing last month for $505,000. But that...
Grow House
Here is the story about the former owner of the house - I don't know how his case turned out: http://ahharsfnews.com/2010/07/09/rancho-santa-fe-house-with-bonus-room-at-center-of-alleged-medical-marijuana-fraud-bust
Ocean View Under $600,000
They did get several offers, and accepted one today. If it got close to $600,000, that's only 20% off the 2006 sales price. A couple of years ago we thought we'd be seeing 50% discounts by now around SEH:
Home Data Via Photo
Have you been driving around and wondered about a house you saw? Now you can take a photo of it with your iphone, and using HomeSnap’s unique technology, it will instantly tell you all about the home. What is it worth? When did it last sell? For how much? Beds?...
Foreclosure Counts
CoreLogic, a leading provider of information, analytics and business services, today released its National Foreclosure Report for January, which provides monthly data on completed foreclosures, foreclosure inventory and 90+ delinquency rates. There were 69,000...
View Of…
The enthusiasm around Carmel Valley is running unabated. If the yard was good enough, could you ignore the rest?
Stench
They must have had everything from polar bears to the red river hogs living in this house: