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.
I should’ve moved to SD instead of LA in ’88; at that price we could’ve been neighbors!
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Jim, that view is amazing, but I like your current house much better. You inspired Jenn and I, and we’re very happy with our new digs.
Thanks, but think if I would have kept the Los Robles house and the one in La Jolla…..I might not be here today!
I like your new digs a lot too – great house on 2 acres in town in the low-$500,000s!
Hot Dang! Comments are back! (Not that I’m a prolific commentator, but I did enjoy the insights of some of the ‘regulars’). I understand that with the relative anonymity of the internet, Jim must spend a fair amount of time cleansing them from idiots and spammers.
Anyway, you betcha I can attest to having met JtR at an open house in Terramar. It has led to his becoming my “realtor for life” – a phrase he aptly coined.
I can also say that I wished I had bought that house…God is not making more property near the beach as they say. As a (much) younger home buyer at that time, I had a hard time seeing past the grease on the living room carpet left from a tenant’s motorcycle engine rebuild, and the permeating “Eau du Bongwater” fragrance that the carpet effused.
The flipside to beach living is the ever present humidity and salt air corrosion of all things metallic, and in the summer, the parking situation. Well, that’s how I rationalize anyway.
In any case, JtR found us a move-in-ready house a few miles away, and we’ve been there since. We bought another property through Jim and have recommended him to friends and family as well.
Finally, the comments are dead…long live the comments!
CB Mark
Jim,
We stumbled across you at the time you sold your old house here too, you had it open and had your signature “Chalk Board” message signs leading us to the open house from the coast highway. The person who bought it did a pretty extensive remodel if I remember? Yeah?! Nice to see the comments back.
Doughboy