Postcards From Success - San Diego, CA

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Real Estate Agent - Big Block Realty 858.232.8722 - CA BRE# 01261476
In his blog posts, Thomas invites you into his business, his personal life and his beloved city of San Diego, CA. He authentically shares about his life in San Diego as a husband, father, REALTOR® and real estate business owner. He enjoys living and working in both the Mission Bay Park area and the UTC/La Jolla area, the popular University Towne Centre community that hosts UCSD and one of San Diego's most robust Real Estate Market Areas. Enjoy the posts, share your feedback and please comment on his pearls of wisdom and nuggets of gold.

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2017 

I complain to my bride about the BLUE Faces when we're out to dinner or a show. Here on ActiveRain they are the anonymous and it's not much different in life. The "blu faces" are those people at dinner in a restaurant that are face-first in phone instead of conversation with thir table of family ...
04/30/2017
In this episode we have one of the top rated San Diego based Property Management company's on our show: CEO Neil Fjellestad of FBS Property Management joins us to discuss how to decide on what the right property is for you to invest in, how to analyze it for cash flow and then properly manage it....
04/29/2017
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My Setting Yourself Apart - A Niche Contest Entry  hosted by Evelyn Johnston    Riches in The NichesSince moving to San Diego, CA I was able to reinvent my business and actually specialize in 3 very distinct groups.         UCSD Campus in La Jolla, CA 1. Parents of Students at UCSD, USD and SDSU...
04/25/2017
I open this post with a THANK YOU to ActiveRain Member Jeff Dowler for reminding me to go see this beautiful place in his recent blog post:Wordless Wednesday: Koi at the Meditation Gardens in Encinitas CA  I share with you dear readers, this is the power of a blog; Jeff moved me to stop putting t...
04/25/2017
The Sweet Nothing of Sundays Shhhh, I’m doing Sunday, My Silent Sunday. No Phone, No Text, No Emails, No Meetings...Silence. The Sunday Office This Week was UCSD's Challenge TrailsA wonderful Sunday Hike with our dog Peroni.You feel like you are out in the boonies, without ever leaving the campus...
04/25/2017
 I love having Sundays off, as one of my favorite things to do is go day hiking. I don't always go to locally famous trails or big picturesque locations; in fact some times I just head out my front door and see where my "urban trails" lead me. Today, they lead me to the UCSD Challenge Course.  I ...
04/25/2017
When you passed the test and received your Real Estate License, did you think you just got a job?Not a job!Many Real Estate Agents and Realtors do not have the slightest clue that they just opened a business, the day they got licensed. And if they did, they'd realize they were grossly under-train...
04/24/2017
Hot Market Strategies- An ActiveRain Contesthosted by Debbie Reynolds    Getting Your Offer Accepted in A Multiple Offer MarketThere are no tricks, but there are definitely steps I take and some of my colleagues agree on, that many agents do not bother with. #1 Call The Listing AgentBe friendly, ...
04/21/2017
Dual Agency: the misunderstood, beneficial process for our clients to win with!  I'm an 18 year CA Realtor veteran, I'm moral, ethical and work 100% by referral currently. I'm a dual agency advocate in CA, because we've always been that way here and I wouldn't know what other states are like. But...
04/20/2017
"In CA, as a Realtor, I'm Not Your Attorney, I'm Your AgentI can be your witness and provide my file and transaction log to help you, but I can't practice any profession without a license."  That's what I have to give as my standard answer when clients ask me to do things for them during or after...
04/20/2017