Jim's blog about Mission Valley and San Diego
Tips, tricks, ideas, and suggestions for buying and selling, marketing, home maintenance and safety, and much more.
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2008
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People in my office often ask how I'm so successful in my farm area, and it really comes down to two things: Branding myself Knowledge The area that I chose as my farm is an area that I lived in for over 10 years, and I currently live just a block outside of my farm area. I specifically chose an ...
08/17/2008
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The headline in the paper recently is that San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) wants to raise rates because people aren't using as much energy. Well, duh. Everywhere I look SDG&E is telling us to conserve energy and how to do it. Is there a conflict of interest here? So there's a nice little green b...
08/17/2008
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If I don't have a listing, or my Clients don't want me to have an open house on a certain weekend, I'll call up Realtors in my office to see if I can have an open house at their listings. Inevitably I'll get, "Absolutely! When? How about next Saturday? Sunday? Good! What about the weekend after t...
08/17/2008
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Last year I accompanied my Clients to the home inspection where the property was vacant and foreclosed. It was in pretty good shape, but when the inspector came down from the attic, he showed us the following picture: He told the Buyers that they might be able to find something valuable in the at...
08/14/2008
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Cats and dogs are wonderful friends, but they are animals, so treat them with the respect and caution that any animal requires. Most of the time when I go with Clients to show a property, the MLS listing sheet has warned me ahead of time: Dogs in back yard! Indoor cats. Please don't let them out!...
08/14/2008
Many years ago, we would simply look in the phone book, some of us looking for the biggest ad, or the most colorful ad, or the ad with the most pictures. In today's Internet world, well, I don't even have a paper copy of any of the five yellow page directories for San Diego County. I could do an ...
08/14/2008
I just read a home inspector's blog asking "What is nitpicky?" and thought the answer deserves a blog entry of its own: Being nitpicky has nothing to do with the actual documentation of the condition of the property—it is what it is. it has more to do with how that condition is reported in writin...
08/13/2008
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Wanna be a millionaire in five years? How about overnight, next week, next month, or next year? Perhaps one needs to be a little practical. I can find a word that begins with the letter P to describe virtually any Part of a succesful business. However, I want the sum of those P's to be greater t...
08/13/2008
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In addition to what Russel said in his blog, the latest animal story involves 363 animals at a property in St. Louis. Included in that total were 70 dogs, 36 cats, donkeys, rabbits, ducks, chickens, and exotic fish. Unfortunately, 15 dead rabbits, dogs, cats, and poultry were also found, and chi...
08/13/2008
Recently a visitor to one of my blog entries asked me how I got retailers to partner with me in offering discounts on their services and products to my Clients and prospective Clients. I thought my answer deserved a blog entry of its own. It's not hard at all to get just about any retailer to let...
08/12/2008
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Jim Frimmer
Realtor & CDPE, Mission Valley specialist