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One of the great pleasures of living in Carlsbad or Encinitas is that we get great sunrises and wonderful sunsets. But, have you ever seen an Earthrise or an Earthset? Well, click on the video, and you’ll see both! I found this at OpenCulture, which is a wonderful site that has free audio books, free [...]
Don’t Mess With Your HOA
The Stantons decided that they wanted new casement windows on the front of their home in a condo development controlled by declaration of covenants and conditions and restrictions (CC&RS). Those are often known as your Homeowner Association (HOA) documents, or “docs.” You know, that packet of 50-or so pages you receive just before you close [...]
Carlsbad Home Prices – July 2010 vs July 2009
Carlsbad home prices in July of 2010 didn’t vary very much from the median prices in July of 2009 except in zip code 92008 as you can see from the following chart. [ Click on Carlsbad Home Prices chart to get a larger version. Median home prices in Carlsbad zip code 2009 were up about [...]
Carlsbad Home Prices – Where Have They Gone
Carlsbad home prices are analyzed monthly by Dr. Robert Brown, an economist and professor at the University of California-San Marcos. He does it as part of an analysis of the whole of the North County residential real estate market under the auspices of the North San Diego County Association of REALTORS®. We’ve been waiting anxiously [...]
Where’s Your Favorite Pizza Joint in Carlsbad?
I was looking at the latest issue of the Clipper Magazine that comes in the mail to our house trying to find a place to have lunch. Well, I just got back from lunch at Big Red Pizza, located in the Bank of America shopping center at the southeast corner of El Camino Real and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Victor Borge on KPBS
Victor Borge on KPBS There was a special on PBS tonight about Victor Borge and his life. Much of it was in Danish, and covered his life from his youth in Dane as a young Jewish performer, and his immigration to the U.S. ahead of the German invasion of Denmark. How I Met Victor Borge [...]
Carlsbad Bucks the Case-Shiller Trend
The New York Times reported today that Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller home price index for October rose 0.4 percent from September on a seasonably adjusted basis in the 20 metropolitan areas it covers. The article also reported that the index is down 7.3 percent from October a year ago. As I’ve said in the past, and [...]
Carlsbad Results Through November
Carlsbad is bucking the trend in home prices for November of 2009. The California Association of Realtors (CAR) reported that there was a 5.8 increase in the State’s Median home price to $304,520 in November from $287,880 in November of 2008. In Carlsbad the Median Price for single family detached (SFD) homes went DOWN by [...]
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