It is with great pleasure and excitement that I have made the change to a new office in the Santa Clarita Valley.

SCV Home Buyer, specializing in of all things foreclosure properties. Bas Panch is the broker that truly has a gift for convincing banks to list there properties for a quick sale.

Currently the majority of the inventory does not even make it to the MLS. It gets sold to someone from our data base that has been pre-approved and has the resources to purchase quickly.

If you are a buyer and you would like to be added to our data base, please don't hesitate to contact me.

My name is Rob Baldwin, Santa Clarita, CA REALTOR®

To understand what I would like to convey, a little ground work needs to be done. Ask your self this question. In the last few days what have you complained about. The heat, rain, to much wind, not enough traffic in that listing you have had for the last eight months, sellers are not listening, buyers can't get a loan.

Any thing, wether you consider it to be big or little in your life.

Now ask yourself another question. How have I helped the situation by complaining about what ever it is I'm not happy with. If you are speaking with someone about these troubles, they probably are thinking to them selves, yeah yeah yeah take a number buddy and get in line. We all (think we) have something to go off on these days.

For myself I really experienced an eye opener. This past Monday I visited the Leukemia, Lymphoma section of the Children's Hospital in Los Angeles, were I met some really brave little souls ranging in age from 2 to 14. And the one thing that really inspired me was none of them had anything negative to say and I think they had every right to complain.

I spoke with a 13 year old boy named Augustine that had just under gone a round of chemo the day before and he was not able to move his legs. He said every time he has his treatment this happens. I also met an 8 year old girl named Sarah, she is in her third relapse of Leukemia. These kids had an excellent reason to complain...........But they don't.

Here's my point, when we think that nothing is going our way, what ever you are going through and the outcome is not what you had planed or envisioned. My advice to you would be "let it go" don't dwell on what is not going right, dwell on creating a solution, there are worse things in life that can happen. Be grateful you don't have to go through what these kids are going through.

Now the pitch. I am involved in raising money for a cure for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and they could really use your help. For more info please visit this site, I promise you it will only take a minute to read the content, it is only a couple of short paragraphs. What ever you are able to do would be greatly appreciated.

Rob Baldwin

P.S. I know that those kids would be grateful if you passed this along to others, for them.

Always this time of year I start getting really excited. Why, because September is not far off, and in my mind that is the start of fall. I love that time of year when the weather starts cooling some what, Monsoons blow in to the high desert (it gets a little muggy). And the best part......it's home stretch time for MLB. I love it! 

Roster's get expanded to show case up and coming talent, some get a chance to help a contending team and may even prove themselves to hang around for a post season spot.

You gota love it.

Remember the last two weeks of the season of 07 the Mets blew there 7 or so game lead, the Rockies won there last 14 or so games to take the west, and go to the World Seris.

WOW! what do we have to look forward to at the end of this year! 

The Ray's hang on to win there division, the Mets win without Willie, the Dodgers take the west by 3 games and finish 2 games under 500.

Man do I love surprise's, kinda like when the phone rings out of the blue, and on the ohter end is your next client.

Have Fun!

Rob

OK all of you baseball purist's. I can't believe no one has written about the all star game the other night. In my opinion that was the best game in recent memory.

There was some offense, at the plate and the base's. Oh and how many guys were thrown out at the plate. You had awesome pitching from both sides. For those that really love extra innings you had that. And the last all star game that will be played in the house that Ruth built.

The home run derby Monday night was awesome. Josh (I can't remember his last name) from the Rangers hit 28 home runs his first time up. That had never been done before.

And of course I always like seeing the old timer's at events like this.

So for those of you who watched the game give me your take.

To sum it all up the all star game was like the best real estate transaction you could ever hope to experience. Looking forward to the post season.

Go Dodgers!!!!!!!!

Rob

Greetings!

 I am raising money for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society as a participant in 
their Team In Training and I'm asking you to help by making a 
contribution.  Each donation helps accelerate cures for leukemia, lymphoma 
and myeloma and brings hope to the patients and families who are on the 
front lines of the battle against these diseases.

 Please use the link in this email to donate online quickly and securely. 
You will receive a confirmation by email of your donation and I will be 
notified as soon as you make your donation.

 On behalf of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, thank you very much for your 
support.  I really appreciate your generosity!

 You can learn more about my efforts and make a donation by visiting the 
following Web site:

 http://www.active.com/donate/tntgla/tntglaRBaldwi

 P.S. Please forward this email to as many people as you can to encourage 
them to donate as well!

My goal is that 4000 Activerain members donate just $1.00, one dollar, that's it. This goal seems reachable since there are over 96,000 members and with the help of my fellow Activerainers I don't see why in just a few days this could be acomplished.

Thank you in advance for your carring and generosity to help others that are not able to help themselves because of there dibilitating disease .

Rob Baldwin

Santa Clarita's running REALTOR®

Buyers, what are you thinking right now? I use the term "buyers" loosely. Let me qualify what I term are buyers.

A buyer is a person that has a strong desire and the need to buy something, anything. You can not classify a person a buyer by virtue of putting them in your car and driving them around for months. That's a person using you to site see your town and just might not be that interested in jumping in the pool yet.

OK, now that I have that out of the way, let me ask the question again. Buyers what are you thinking right now? Are you still waiting for the market to bottom? If so let me tell you a little secret. The only way to know you have hit the bottom of the market is when you look back on the past and realize that the graph is now pointing up. Ooops, too late, you missed it.

Now what? Consider this as an option. If you think the Santa Clarita market is still tanking. Then I want you to choose the home you really would like to have, tell me what you think the price should or could be, and I will then present your offer.

That's it, simple. Now what are you waiting for?

If you qualify, I can assist you in fulfilling your need!

Rob Baldwin Santa Clarita REALTOR®

If you have lived in Santa Clarita for some time, then chances are you have driven past a large vacant piece of Santa Clarita real estate at the corner of McBean and Decoro, that in the past few months has undergone a transformation.

The parcel is owned by the Metropolitan Water District, and was built by Newhall Land & Farm. The fences are due to come down sometime in June and in July the responsibilty of maintianing the area will be in the competent care of the Land Maintence District of Santa Clarita.

Emilio Blanco who's job it was to build the park says that there are future plans for the rear portion that borders the San Francisquito river, to be made into a grass park.

There are rumors that the vacant parcel could not be built on due to a fault line running through it. Emilio Blanco said that he was not aware of any fault lines, however there is a large water line that belongs to the Metropolitan Water District that runs through the middle preventing any buildings being built on the property.

Rob Baldwin Santa Clarita REALTOR®

Recently I bought an Epson v200 photo scanner. After scanning and touching up with the scanners software I still was not satisfied with the end result.

Then I remembered a post that Jeff Turner of Real Estate Shows had done last year talking about a site called Picnik that he used to really snaz up his pictures. I think that the following pics speak for them selves.

Not bad for a free site!

This picture was taken in the late 60's (who would

have guessed) as you can see the first picture

looks washed out, and this is after I touched it

up with the scanners software. Then I went to

Picnik and played with it for a couple of minutes

and this 2nd picture is what I ended up with. Note

the yellow on the little girls coat was due to a

lousy storage practice, not recomended. In the

event you are wondering who these people are. The

man is my father-in-law, my brother in law is on

his right, and holding his left hand is the gal I have been married to for the last 22 years.

Now when I take my pictures for the MLS, of the great Santa Clarita Real Estate, they will look awesome.

All right Mr Moderator, you win!! Recently I have had several of my posts pulled on Baseball talk 101 because they were lacking......to say the least in baseball content. So I have only baseball content for this post. (for the most part anyway)

Are you a little fed up with these touted phenom wonder arms racking in the cash from Japan, only to belly flop when they get here. I am speaking of the Dodgers Hideki Kuroda, if memory serves correctly they paid him like 45 million for a couple, three years or such, and so far, aside from an opening day win he has been as flat as a pancake.

Now I bet you guys in Boston are shaking your heads saying yep last year we had "Dice-K" (didn't really follow Boston, however I didn't here great things about him latter in the season either). Do you think all those pitchers from Japan think they are Hideo Nomo. Please don't misunderstand me, I am not saying I don't want to see any more players from Japan come over here and try to compete. I just don't want to keep flippin the bill that these owners keep paying these guys.

Kinda sort-a reminds me of a few of my collegues grumbling about taking out some of these buyers these days that just don't make the grade either, wasting there gas. Just goes to show you, you never know who is going to come up big in the clutch. Oh yeah his name is Blake Dewitt, rookie third baseman for the Dodgers. As of tonight he is 6-6 with 12 RBI's with the bases loaded. Not bad for a guy playing double A ball last year.

Oh well I guess such is life in the big leagues.

Looking for a long ball in the ninth, down by one and a man on first with two out.

I'm Rob Baldwin Santa Clarita REALTOR®

Yeah! alright an update on the Dodgers pitcher Hideki Kuroda. I finally got his second win tonight.(May 21) I knew if I wrote something a little negative about him he would come around. Now I need to come up with something for Lowe and Penny. They have really stunk up the park in each of there last few outings.

Recently I read a post Missy Caulk wrote about how the government has a goal that by 2030 20% of our electricity will be generated from wind using windmills.

While I am glad that we are looking for natural resources to produce power. It disturbs me that we will forsake the beauty of a horizon by polluting it with windmills no matter how remote the location is.

While I am not a tree hugging extremist. I am a person that would like to manage better the way I live and use resources. And by doing so save some money.

I have a dream that some day my home will be totally self sufficient. Electricity will be solar power or another self sufficient source and water will come from a well.

You don't have to look very hard on the internet these days to find plans for using water in your vehicle to generating heat using water. Better for the environment and better for your pocket book in the long run.

This leads me to my original thought. While on utube the other day I ran across this clip. I'm sorry to say I have not yet figured out how to have the link directly in my post so until then you will have to access it the old fashioned way by clicking on this Free Energy Home Generator Zero point Energy off the Grid its just over 4 min long and I would love to hear what you have to say about it.

Thanks for listening,

Rob Baldwin Santa Clarita REALTOR®