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 — 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 — we are forever grateful to them.
That confirms with what we are seeing on some of the short sales we are doing Jim, no NODs even when they are severely deliquent. I guess if you don’t file foreclosure notices you can make the numbers appear like they are improving when quite the opposite is true.
So weird. I don’t know when my neighbor stopped paying their mortgage but they bought in December 2006 (too late), got a notice of default recorded 4/1/2009, notice of trustee sale 7/21/09, and the house sold on the courthouse steps 11/2/09.
That’s in California’s default central (Sac. County). Seems to have worked as designed, what causes all of these other delays, did people just manage to hang on long enough for the government to step in and “save” them from the big bad banks?
IIRC, even Casey Serin’s parents with their various phoney bankruptcy shenanigans only managed to postpone their foreclosure for ~1 year.
The PMI is nearly $500/month thanks to all the deadbeats.
2) interesting –
I’ve heard that if you have equity in the house and you default, foreclosure happens quickly.
If you are upside down, it drags.
Maybe your friends put alot down ?