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Marina del Rey Real Estate

2008-09-25T14:36:41Z

Please visit my new website for real estate information on the Marina del Rey condo, townhomes, and the new lofts district. I'm constantly updating so check back frequently. If there is a particular complex of interest you want more information on, please let me know and I will get you the answers!!

Have a great weekend!!

Kirstin

24th Annual Abbot Kinney Festival, Venice, CA (Sept. 28, 2008)

2008-09-23T20:46:45Z

Annual Abbot Kinney Festival in Venice : Sunday, Sept. 28, 10:00 AM to 6:30 PM

-Gourmet green food court by Chef CJ of Bravo TV's "Top Chef"

-Sustainable art workshops

-Bike valet station sponsored by Whole Foods Market

-Test drives of alternative-fuel vehicles by Drive Clean California.

The free festival stretches along Abbot Kinney Blvd. from Venice Blvd. to Main St. in Venice. It includes three live music stages - Clif Bar's punk bike polo demonstration - 350 arts & crafts booths - three food courts - and a beer garden featuring Anheuser-Busch's Michelob Amber Bock and Shock Top.

Music Line Up:

BROOKS STAGE produced by The Hotel Café

12:00 PM - WAZ

12:40 PM - Buddy

1:20 PM - Laura Jansen

2:00 PM - Holly Conlan

2:40 PM - Steve Reynolds

3:20 PM - Brian Wright

4:00 PM -Jesca Hoop

4:40 PM - Greg Laswell

5:20 PM - Chris Pierce

YOUTH & FAMILY STAGE produced by Inside Out Community Arts

9:00 AM - Drum Circle at California St. and Abbot Kinney Blvd.

10:00 AM - Family Parade

10:15 AM - Drumming on Stage

10:40 AM - Mama Maria

11:00 AM - Yeh Dede

11:40 AM - Ina Buckner-Barnette, the Sunshine Storyteller

12:10 PM - Aradhana Silvermoon

12:40 PM - Maesyn

1:10 PM - Everybody Dance

1:40 PM - Kids on Stage

2:20 PM - Inside Out Community Arts

2:40 PM - Stephen Longfellow Fiske

3:30 PM - Super Broke Brass and Tin and Strings

4:30 PM - Preeta & The Peace Makers

5:15 PM - The Luminaries

ANDALUSIA STAGE

10:00 AM - Kathy Leonardo

10:30 AM - Terese Carlton

11:00 AM - Dicki Fliszar

11:30 AM - d henry fenton

12:15 PM - Holly Long

1:00 PM - Kim Michalowski

1:45 PM - Eric Schwartz

2:30 PM - Kathrin Shorr

3:30 PM - Molly Venter

4:30 PM - Paul Chesne

5:30 PM - Matt Ellis

PALMS STAGE produced by Air Conditioned Supper Club-Venice

10:00 AM - Too Pretty for Porn

10:45 AM - A Warrior Nation

11:30 AM - TBD

12:15 PM - With a Bible and a Gun

1:00 PM - Hi Stereo

1:45 PM - Stephanie Quayle

2:30 PM - War Tapes

3:25 PM - Miss Willie Brown

4:20 PM - TBD

5:15 PM - Honey Honey

I CAN'T WAIT TO GO!! I MISSED LAST YEARS AND HAVE REGRETED IT. :(

Coastal Cleanup Day! Saturday, September 20, 2008. SO GET OUT AND CLEAN:)

2008-09-17T11:58:06Z

Last year more than 60,000 volunteers worked together to collect more than 900,000 pounds of trash and recyclables from our beaches, lakes, and waterways. California Coastal Cleanup Day has been hailed by the Guinness Book of World Records as "the largest garbage collection" (1993). Since the program started in 1985, over 800,000 Californians have removed more than 12 million pounds of debris from our state's shorelines and coast.

You will be provided with all the bags and gloves you need. bring some friends and make a game of it. Team up and see how much you can pick up in 30 min and then try to beat that record over and over again.

Be part of the solution to marine pollution!

2008 Coordinators for Los Angeles County
To participate, contact one of the coordinators listed below, use their online registration form, or just show up at a drop-in site at 9am on Saturday, September 20th. Thank you for helping out with the 24th Annual California Coastal Cleanup Day! See you at the beach (or river, or lake, or creek...).

Countywide: Heal the Bay http://www.healthebay.org/ For more information or to register online with Heal the Bay, visit www.healthebay.org/ccd. Drop-in Sites: Follow this link to a map of all of the different sites: MAPS TO ALL THE FOLLOWING PICK UP SITES Abalone Cove Ballona Wetlands Restoration Cabrillo Compton Creek (2) Culver City Ballona Creek (A) Sepulveda Blvd Culver City Ballona Creek (B) Overland Ave. Culver City Ballona Creek (C) Duquesne Ave. Dockweiler State Beach at Imperial Highway Dominguez Channel Downey Echo Park Lake Exposition Park Hermosa Beach at the Pier John Muir School Ken Malloy Harbor Regional Park Leo Carillo Los Angeles River - Elysian Park Los Angeles River - Sepulveda Basin Lynwood Park MacArthur Park Malaga Cove Malibu Beach / Surfrider Malibu Creek State Park Malibu Lagoon Manhattan Beach El Porto Beach @ 45th Pasadena @ Arroyo Seco Play Del Rey (Toes Beach) Playa Del Rey Jetty Point Dume Redondo Beach - King Harbor, Near Breakwall Redondo Beach Cleanup Robert Meyer El Matador Robert Meyer El Pescador Robert Meyer La Piedra San Pedro Santa Monica Beach (Tower 1550) Santa Monica Beach (Tower 18) Santa Monica Beach (Tower 22) Santa Monica Beach (Tower 27) Santa Monica Beach (Tower 8) Silverlake Sun Valley (5) Topanga State Beach Torrance Beach Torrance Beach at Neighborhood Church Tujunga Wash (Sunland) Venice Beach at Breakwater / North Venice Blvd. Venice Beach at Rose Ave. Venice Beach Pier at Washington Blvd Westward Beach White Point at Royal Palms Will Rogers Beach at Temescal Canyon Rd Will Rogers Beach at Chautauqua Zuma

ps. You can also do this every time you go to the beach if you dont have a bag with you just look around and unfortunately you will probably find one that you can use.

HAVE FUN, I WILL BE OUT THERE TOO!!

Marina City Club

2008-08-11T19:45:00Z

Marina City Club
4337 Marina City Drive
Marina del Rey 90292

Built in 1970, the Marina City Club was Marina del Rey's first highrise and original condominium complex. More of a resort than a residence, it offers a amenities galore. Its three distinctive curved towers, with 600 private residences, overlook the marina, the coastline, the green hillsides and the city. I've heard that Howard Hughes owned a part of the land that the Marina City Club was built on.

In addition to valet parking, switchboard services, banquet and conference facilities, and full security, the complex has a tennis club with six tennis courts, three racquetball courts, two paddle tennis courts, and ping pong; a 16,000-square-foot fitness center with classes, three swimming pools, trainers and nutritionists; a bar/restaurant and café; a day spa with steam, sauna, Jacuzzi and an assortment of treatment options; an on-site convenience store and beauty parlor; a yacht club; and a year-round schedule of tournaments and social events. As aformentioned they have an amazing tennis pro who lives next door to me. Prices range from $300,000 studios, to bigger units at $1 million and up and then everything in between. Big views.

Here is a really interesting link about Howard Hughes and his involvement with this complex. Even metions ties w/ Nixon. So interesting!!http://books.google.com/books?id=IS7Cq3Ypj8kC&pg=PA456&lpg=PA456&dq=howard+hughes+marina+del+rey+city+club&source=web&ots=apAHMMyICF&sig=JDnvGk5n5dRrT4nEoeVHAySoV5g&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result

Denim Nation

2008-05-12T12:26:24Z

Is wearing denim for an open house really that terrible? I held open a property one week wearing denim and a really nice blazer. I held the same property open the following week wearing another nice denim combo. I then received a call from the agent saying the owners thought I was under dressed. So, I'm thinking denim is still not widely accepted.

To have a photo on your business card.....or not?

2008-05-05T14:32:39Z

I've heard such mixed feelings about pictures on cards. I just received some great advice that was pro picture. If you are in a room of people passing out cards and networking, when those folks go home and browse through their collecton of cards.....who is going to be remembered, the cards w/ just a name, or the ones w/ a picture? (of course they may laugh at the photo but at least their laughing! Any press is good press)

New Pier Point Condos, Marina del Rey, CA.

2008-04-23T21:20:24Z

There is a new developement that is now selling in Marina del Rey!

2 blocks to the beach on Washington Blvd in Marina del Rey.

2 & 3 bedroom high-rise flats: ($800,000 and up )Level 2 has 9 units ranging from 1,060 sq ft to 1,293 sq ft. Levels 3-6 have five different floor plan options ranging from 1,416 sq. ft. to 2,387 sq. ft.

2 & 3 bedroom condos: (1,100,000 and up) The condo section is found in the center of the property. There are 6 different floorplans: (C) 1,682 sq. ft. 2 Bed, five units (D-DR) 1,925 sq. ft. 3 Bed, 12 units. (E2-E2R) 967 sq. ft., 3 Bed, 2 units. (E) 959 sq. ft. 2 bed, 3 units. (F-FR) 1,995 sq. ft., 3 bed, 3 units.

2 & 3 bedroom townhomes: (1,300,000 and up) The townhome phase is around the perimeter of the property There are 3 different floor plans. (A-AR) 1,807 sq. ft. 2 bed 2.5 bath, 34 units. (BR-B) 1,863 sq. ft., 3 bed 2.5 bath, 15 units (A2)

3 bedroom high-rise penthouses: (2,000,000 and up) The pentouses take over levels 7 through 9 and house four different floorplans that range from 2,280 sq. ft. all the way up to 3,140 sq. ft. Plan 7 is 3,140 sq. ft w/ North West exposure, 3 bed 3.5 bath. Plan 8 is 2,280 sq. ft w/ North East exposure, 2 bed 3 bath. Plan 9 is 2,527 sq. ft. w/ South East exposure, 3 bed 3.5 bath. Plan 10 is 2,950 sq. ft. w/ South West exposure, 3 bed 3.5 bath.

Views: Mountain View, ocean view, marina view, and a city view.

Really neat location. Just thought I'd get the basics down on this new development. If anyone would like any more informtion please give me a call send me an email or go to: www.mdrcondos.com

RAW DATA FEEDS

2008-04-18T16:58:45Z

My local MLS won't allow me to have a raw data feed for my website. I really want to autopopulate a map w/ all of the current listings in certain condo complexes. Does anybody know of a way around a local MLS to acquire this?

Thank You!!

Kirstin