Jim's blog about Mission Valley and San Diego
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2009
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The Federal Housing Administration recently announced that an estimated $798 million budget deficit would limit the maximum amount of reverse mortgage loans that it would approve for its 2010 fiscal year. It notified all of its approved reverse mortgage lenders that the new limits would go into ...
10/08/2009
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There was a Letter to the Editor in the Monday, October 5, edition of the San Diego Union-Tribune about "creeping property taxes." The letter writer was complaining because his property tax bill was up two percent. That's as it should be. Now before you have a fit because you believe that the pr...
10/07/2009
Not too far from Mission Valley in San Diego, California, is the world-famous San Diego Zoo, one of just a handful of Zoos in the world that have some giant pandas. The San Diego Zoo has been at the forefront of working with China on research to try to save the giant pandas from becoming extinct...
10/07/2009
I made a conscious decision to become a Realtor. That decision, though, was based on much more than saying to myself, "Gosh! My Realtor just made $5,000 for having me sign a bunch of papers saying that he didn't know anything about the house I bought and that he didn't do anything illegal while h...
10/07/2009
Mission Valley in San Diego, California, is a sprawling area full of condominium complexes, office complexes, shopping centers, and restaurants. Running through the middle of Mission Valley is the San Diego River, which is a nature preserve and has many miles of concrete paths along both shores....
10/06/2009
Creekwood at River Run is a large, sprawling condominium complex in central Mission Valley in San Diego, California. Creekwood at River Run has to rank as one of the most beautifully landscaped condominium complexes in Mission Valley with its many streams and bridges. Amenities include swimming ...
10/06/2009
I like Fall here in San Diego County because along with cooler temperatures, we have more clouds than usual, or at least more clouds that are discernible as clouds rather than just a mass of fog moving in off the Pacific Ocean. I was a little farther out in East San Diego County than I normally ...
10/04/2009
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Some might be familiar with the two acronyms in the title, but I recently discovered that many people are not, although they are familiar with the phrases once they hear them. They represent two of the most common, if not THE most common, questions that people ask. WIIFM stands for "What's in it...
10/04/2009
I like fish ponds, especially when they are stocked with koi. The San Diego Zoo has a very large koi ponds right by one of the restaurants, so I guess one could eat fish while watching fish. Actually, I've never eaten at the restaurant there, so I don't know. What I do know is that the fish are ...
10/04/2009
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I'm fortunate because many of our greatest National Parks are not too far away from us here in San Diego. Before meeting my marketing guru almost sixteen years ago, I had not been to any of the nation's National Parks, even though I was born and raised in Southern California. Since then, I can't...
10/03/2009
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Jim Frimmer
Realtor & CDPE, Mission Valley specialist