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.
The Painted Lady closed today – for full price, $499,000 VA. 
Congratulations!!!
I don’t think poor home inspections are humorous at all. It can cost a seller tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars. And home inspectors do not need to be accountable to anyone.
Quality product, quality seller, quality agent.
Man, I wish I lived in San Diego (rather than, at the moment, the flat featureless Midwest…)
I don’t know what it is about that picture but it almost looks like there’s snow on the ground and the home isn’t in San Diego but somewhere in the midwest or east coast. I think it’s just how the colors contrast or maybe that it’s not the typical San Diego tract look. Still looks really nice. Where’s the damn palm tree to remind me I’m in San Diego.
Congrats to you both!
Where did this half-blind inspector come from? Doesn’t sound like a Jim recommendation.
Congrats! Though I’m not surprised. 🙂
Extraordinary builder, exquisite home, and epic Realtor. Too bad the inspector added inept to that streak! Congratulations to Tom and JtR…
The buyer was represented by a downtown realtor, who recommended the inspector.
A good reason why you should select your realtor carefully!
From experience I can say that a good inspector can help your deal in ways you won’t expect. A bad inspector will only hurt you when negotiating.
Congratulations on the sale!
Sort of off-topic, where is JtR on this list ? Gonna’ make it in ’11?
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/dec/07/san-diego-top-producers/
http://realtrends.com/products/top-1000-sales-professionals/team-volume
We (with jtR representing us as buyers) tried to close with two in the top 50 representing the sellers and they couldn’t get the deals closed. One was a complicated short sale that was foreclosed before we could buy it and the other was a lemon that Jim’s inspector was able to detect before we closed escrow.
The service JtR provided to us far surpassed what we saw from those on the list in the link above.
We closed on a much nicer home that was also a short sale and JtR did all the work to get it closed and used some great, creative solutions so we were in position to close escrow less than 48 hours after the short sale approval was signed.
Hope to see JtR on the list next year.
I’m a boutique operation – those are teams of 10+ people.
I was the number one salesman worldwide for KR though! 😉
I watched your video throughout this process and this is a great way to improve this potentially super neighborhood. The only thing that I would have done differently is make the back porch deck a wrap-around, creating a useful outdoor room with kitchen access. But no big deal, it sold in a flash. Nice.
Hey Peter that sounds great, nice vision. Maybe even do it in the historic style to match the front: )
Tom #13 – now you’re talkin! There is a home like that in PB that I’ve always loved. Street view of it: http://g.co/maps/gn4ct . Not that good of an image, but you get the idea.
Congrats to both Tom and Jim, I’m looking forward to reading about the next project.
I love that house
Congrats Tom, Jim.
I’ve seen the house from in person and it looks awesome.
Can’t wait to see your next property Tom. Improving SD one home at a time.