We closed escrow yesterday in La Costa Valley! The seller is a bubbleinfo reader so obviously we have analyzed our results carefully over the last month. We felt that we did everything right in preparing what we thought was a superior home in the tract and utilized an...
Why You Should List With Jim
New-Listing Update
Four offers have been received and two more are promised by noon today! It means the highest-and-best round is next, and late tomorrow I'll conduct the slow-motion auction to determine the winner. Because I told everyone that we will do a highest-and-best round and...
Here’s What’s Coming
I could not feel more certain about this conclusion:
Final Product Review
Let's be realistic, shall we? It's the original roof, three original bathrooms that look like $60k-80k to fix, original furnace (no A/C), only half of the windows were replaced, no solar, no pool, no spa, no backyard improvements at all - the skimpy old BBQ is a...
Encinitas – Our New Listing!
1276 Meadow Wood Place, Encinitas 5 bedrooms + bonus room, 3 baths, 2,962sf 0.23-acre lot YB: 1990 LP = $1,850,000 Open 12-3pm this weekend! Have you been seeing Encinitas Ranch and La Costa Valley homes selling in the mid-$2 millions and higher, and wish you could...
Preparing A Home For Sale
I'll have a video tour of the house later today - we'll be on the open market tomorrow!
Why JtR?
Our listing on Deer Canyon has closed escrow! Above are the higher-end 92129 closings over the last 90 days. Who would you hire to be your listing agent?
Mid-Selling-Season
April felt busy though we had no new listings (the La Costa Valley listing hit on March 31st). Thankfully, there are more to come:
More Behind the Scenes
I like to promote my listings at the local broker meetings, just in case someone might have a buyer. It would be really beneficial if the big agents attended these meetings and participate like they do in La Jolla - the camaraderie alone is worth it. Then the open...
Bidding-War Choices
We took four listings in a row and I was going to document the whole experience but it was turning into a feature-length movie. Here is the segment where we discuss the bidding war in Rancho Penasquitos, its failure, and how we handled the aftermath: