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Telestrations™ is a fun new game developed by USAopoly®, headquartered here in Carlsbad. My son, Tony, is head of the Art Department, which had a big hand in designing the game’s graphics. He also recruited his family and me to play the game and appear in a video version for YouTube. That’s Tony explaining the [...]
Carlsbad Christmas Coming
Mark Stone, of our Sterling/Stone,REALTORS® real estate company, sent me some great advice about being safe this Christmas. It’s such good advice that I thought I’d pass it on so you can be safe too! Holiday Lights Electric holiday lights and displays sparkle and wow children and adults alike. But because too many homeowners don’t [...]
Retire in Carlsbad At 55 & Get Paid $76,440 Per Year
According to Carlsbad city officials, the average police officer or firefighter retires at age 55 after 28 years of service in Carlsbad. In the past, the City and public safety officials had negotiated what was called a “3 at 50″ plan, which lets some 50-year olds retire at 90 percent of their highest salary. Someone [...]
Carlsbad Homes & Divorce!
My friend, Randy Hopwood, is a long-experienced family law attorney and mediator here in Carlsbad. He spent many years practicing law in Palo Alto before moving down to beautiful Carlsbad-by-the-sea. We often talk about the law as it impacts real estate and the family. I gave up handling family law matters after a view years [...]
Homes Sales Don’t “Plummet” in Carlsbad
If today you received the new format San Diego Union-Tribune, now renamed, it appears, “San Diego U-T,” then in Section C, the business section, you would have seen the headline “County Home Sales Plummet 21 Percent In July.” The article goes on to point out that’s the percentage drop from sales in June 2010. NOT [...]
Looking Back At Carlsbad Year-End Prices
Click on this Carlsbad Link for a larger image of the chart. Every once in a while, I like to take a look back at where we were at the beginning of the year in Carlsbad. It puts things in perspective for what’s happening now. Keep coming back here, and you’ll see more data about [...]
Where Do You Live?
I was listening to A Way With Words, on NPR, on my way home through Carlsbad, when I head a discussion of how apartment complexes are sometime named with no relationship to their actual location. One of the examples used was the Bayshore Apartments, somewhere in Indiana with no bay in sight! It occurred to [...]
California Homebuyer Credits Of $200 Million Approved
The President of the California Association of REALTORS(r) sent out the following announcement after the Governor signed AB 183: “AB 183 will provide $200 million for home buyer tax credits, allocating $100 million for qualified first-time home buyers of existing homes and $100 million for purchasers of new, or previously unoccupied, homes. The eligible taxpayer [...]
Carlsbad’s Best Donut / Croissant Shop
Discovering Croissants I served in the U.S. Army in Germany for my two-year tour of duty after receiving my Officer’s Commission as an ROTC graduate of Cornell University. I decided to stay and Europe after my service, and was lucky enough to find a great job, and I lived in various European communities for the [...]
San Diego Assessments To Go Down
I was at a recent meeting of Commercial Brokers at the Vista headquarters of the North San Diego County Association of REALTORS® (NSDCAR). David L. Butler, our County Assessor was the speaker. Assessed Values Drop According to Mr. Butler, the Total Assessed Value of all property in San Diego dropped by 2.3 % in 2009. [...]
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