North Park Fixer Property – Day 2 Renovations One week into our North Park unit renovation. We have a dumpster to fill as we tear apart the kitchens and bathrooms. We found some squatters living in our 2 bedroom unit. Turns out they are opposums! __ Missed a post? The entire series here:…
North Park Fixer Property – Day 1 Renovations We own our first San Diego units! Dave my fabulous contractor husband and our amazing son Logan are beginning the North Park area renovation. We figure it will be at least 4 months before we can rent them to fantastic San Diego tenants that want…
939 Strawberry Hill Lane boasts a spacious floor plan with new carpet in bedrooms and living room. The kitchen has stainless steel appliances with granite island and counter tops and tile flooring.
Buying Real Estate can be Stressful Read 6 Wills, Won’ts and Worries of 2013 Home Buyers My dog, Maggie and I run/walk 3 miles 4 times per week near our home in San Diego. It never fails, at the beginning of the running part, my body feels as if it is saying “what ARE you…
How NOT to Sell a House – The Importance of Curb Appeal in San Diego Pull up to a San Diego house, and what is the first thing that catches the eye? The yard, right? I came across this photo while perusing the Sandicor Multiple Listing Service today. I showed it to my team telling…
My wise friend George Kahn has a blog titled “Passion Party.” Blog #485 is a simple concept of how to really help others when in business. George’s blog … We get caught up in all the latest technology the newest software the various tricks and techniques to build our business. But people don’t want tricks…
7760 Ropalt Street is a real fixer property in La Mesa ready for a cash buyer who can make it beautiful! The house with a culdesac location.
Dave, our daughter Ashlie and I viewed the vacant one bedroom unit in San Diego on Sunday. Ashlie lives around the corner from our North Park units on Polk Avenue. Our main reason for being in North Park was to have lunch we her to make a list of guests for Ashlie and her fiancé…
5603 Winchester Street is a charming home with newly painted interior, kitchen cabinet hardware and beautiful refinished hardwood floors.
Ann is no longer a San Diego Home Buyer; she has “graduated” to the status of San Diego Home OWNER! In such a competitive market, how did she do it? Ann chose an experienced Real Estate Consultant to help her become educated on what it takes in the current marketplace to successfully buy a San…
We are a bit in a holding pattern to begin our renovations of the investment property that we purchased in North Park, a suburb of San Diego. Three units, means three groups of tenants and these families have lived there for years. We chose to keep the current property manager in place until the properties…
The Adventure of North Park Fixer Units in San Diego Part 2 We’ve owned the North Park units in San Diego for less than a week. And we are already losing money. I just found out that the property management company has not collected the June rent from one of the tenants. The…