Many years ago, we purchased a home in Carlsbad, using a realtor that was recommended to us - Jim Klinge. Fast forward to 2025, we recently had the privilege of selling 2 homes in Carlsbad, CA and didn't hesitate to reach out to Jim and Donna Klinge of Klinge Realty Group to guide us through the sales. The transactions were very different, each with its own unique situation, opportunities and challenges. From start to finish, Donna and Jim helped navigate the pre-sale preparation, the listing, showing of the house, buyer negotiations, the final close and all of the paperwork and decisions in between. What stands out with both transactions is the professionalism of Jim and Donna (and their team), wonderful communication (timely, relevant, concise), their deep understanding of market dynamics (setting realistic expectations), their access to top-notch contractors, and last, their ability to guide us across the finish line successfully. We wouldn't hesitate to use Jim and Donna in the future and highly recommend them for anyone looking to buy or sell a property in North San Diego County.
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.