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.
Just for sheets and giggles I sometimes look at the estimates from Redfin/Zillow/Homes. All over the place. As of today Redfin has our pad 650k above Zillow and 1.1m above Homes. Until there are better algorithms in place, that part of those services is completely useless. Appraisers and their subjectivity and even laziness from drive by appraisals are better at this point.
Redfin is on the ropes and I think they are deliberately puffing their home estimates to get homeowners to list their home with them.
The placement of a Super Bowl ad is not a ringing endorsement.
Reading Mitch’s comment I did the same. The Dawghaus shows a 30% spread.
The placement of a Super Bowl ad is not a ringing endorsement.
Agree and it could just be the beginning of a $100 million barrage of advertising by them this year. Or they can go get in line with Trulia.
The bank versions are even worse. BoA has us almost 2m less than Chase. Heck, with BoA we have lost 500k in value since purchase 4 years ago. Uh huh. Very accurate. Much accurate. The mostest accurate.
https://homevaluerealestatecenter.bankofamerica.com/
https://www.chase.com/personal/mortgage/calculators-resources/home-value-estimator
I checked out homes.com today for the 1st time. Searches and visuals are way better than Zillow, more info-tainment as well. But how many websites do we need to view real estate?