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.
Terrible floor plan.
Oh, and remember that you don’t want to make the guest quarters too nice — they’ll never leave!
According to their disclosure docs, Chase is only willing to transfer title via a quitclaim or special warranty deed, not a grant deed. Big difference, and not that insurable.
Shall we play another guessing game on where this one ends up? Of course I’m guessing “reserve” is within about 10% of list.
I wonder whats up with the quitclaim deed?
I guess with a quitclaim you are simply releasing any interest in the title you have.
I wonder whats up with the title that would make them go this route rather than a grant deed?
There are a lot of protections with a grant deed for a buyer arent there?
Speaking of contests… looks like the 5764 Soledad Mtn Rd house just went pending. Guess some brave soul took the plunge. Should see a contest winner pretty soon.
“I wouldn’t touch it with a ten-foot pole.”
I followed some of these auctions on other properties, mostly up in the OC. It seemed like most never hit reserve price; I’ll bet the reserve price is somewhere near 5% below the current MLS price. BFWOT (big fat waste of time). Plus quit claim deed means you just bought the uninsurable liability of their defective foreclosure processing, among other things. Quit claim means they are selling what they have, if anything. If they screwed up the foreclosure and don’t have good title, you just bought nothing. No refunds, sorry, Moose out front shoulda told ya. Thanks, but no thanks.
I agree with elb. Has auction.com ever sold a house?
Craptacular is right. Location is OK, but who thought that floorplan was desirable? Add the quitclaim deed and the auction approach, this one is one to run away from.