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.
@JtR
“…that you have to spend at least a million dollars to buy a decent house near the coast.”
Can you clarify or quantify “near”? <10 miles? <5 miles?
Oceanside doesn’t make the Coastal list? Seems like a bubble there. Would you recommend buy or wait in 92054
Waiting makes sense if you think there will be sellers who dump on price.
Banks used to do that, so all you had to do was wait until there were foreclosures stacking up which drove prices down.
But the banks quit foreclosing, and Kamala all but made them illegal.
So you might wait if you think there could be other sellers besides banks that might dump on price – and you only need one. But the greed factor is so ingrained in every homeowner’s mind that it is unlikely that you will find one who will dump, let alone see enough of them do it that general pricing goes down.