The annual Realtors Conference and Expo will be held in my town, San Diego California. San Diego couldn’t have been a better choice for the 2009 Realtor Conference. Who wouldn’t want to come to San Diego anyway? Now Realtors in other parts of the country will truly understand why San Diego is America’s Finest City. And why real estate in San Diego is priceless. The event is being held at the San Diego Convention Center in Downtown San Diego from November 13 – 16. Some of the guest speakers are Condoleezza Rice, Sugar Ray Leonard and Reba McEntire. Our great city will be gracious to all Realtors throughout the country coming to San Diego to experience this great event and the finest city in America.
Info from Realtor.org about the San Diego Real Estate Event.
THE 2009 REALTORS® CONFERENCE & EXPO
Chart your winning course through today’s turbulent economy!
The 2009 REALTORS® Conference & Expo delivers money-making strategies to help you succeed.
Four days of intensive training from real-world speakers in top-rated sessions.
Substantive programs for everyone who makes their living in real estate – brokers, agents, commercial practitioners, property managers, international specialists, and IT professionals.
Watch this week’s tip from a 2009 Conference speaker!
Sail confidently through troubled waters!
REALTORS® Expo has new ideas, products, and services to increase your productivity.
Ask questions, compare features and strike your best deal with 500 exhibitors, all under one roof.
Learn about opportunities to expand your market working with immigrants, foreign investors, and Americans buying property abroad.
Be part of a winning crew!
Network with the most successful real estate professionals in the country.
Build your referral network and increase sales opportunities.
A boat load of fun!
First REALTORS® Conference & Expo in San Diego!
Enjoy a wide-range of Conference special events, including the REALTORS® Celebrity Concert starring Reba McEntire.
Combine business and fun — the Convention Center is right on beautiful San Diego Bay and in the center of nightlife, shopping, and dining!
Make sure you don’t miss out. See you in San Diego!
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With San Diego real estate moving in an upwardly direction over the past couple of months recent interest rates could slow home buying activity. Home buyers in San Diego have been, in some areas of the county, fighting over homes that come up for sale. Many San Diego home buyers have offers in on short sales and jump all over the bank owned REO foreclosures the day they hit the market. Unfortunately the bank owned REO’s already have offers on them the day they come up for sale and sometime even before they show up in the MLS.
This has many home buyers frustrated and wondering what they have to do to get a house or condo in today’s San Diego Real Estate Market. Another issue that has been waiting to rear its ugly head is interest rates. When interest rates rise home buyers see their purchasing power reduced. Keep in mind when interest rates go up the monthly payment for a homebuyer also goes up and sometimes more than what they are comfortable with. Many times the lender will have to reduce the purchase price of what the homebuyer can qualify for.
This scenario can also have a real negative effect on the real estate market in general. If a home buyer wanting to buy a home has had a certain purchase price and monthly payment in mind for a certain size and quality of home and then they’re told that they can’t buy the same home at the same monthly payment, many of them will decide not to buy. Some will wait for the homes that they were recently able to buy at a certain price range to come down into the loan amount of what the comfortable monthly payment is that they had already had their hearts set on. Some of them won’t be able to afford the same home they thought they could buy and won’t settle for less of a home now. These factors could show a decline in demand and then a decline in home prices. We’ll have to wait and see. Oh, and don’t forget about the foreclosures to keep the median home price in San Diego from gaining too much ground. There are a few years of that left.
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I decided to take a weekend getaway and wanted to find a nice quiet place close to San Diego. I had originally thought Palomar Mountain would be nice but they only had one place that rented cabins and they would only rent for two nights and not one. That wouldn’t work for me. I then thought what about Idyllwild. I had never been to Idyllwild but had been to Big Bear and Lake Arrowhead many times in the past. I went on-line and did some research on Idyllwild.
It was close to San Diego and a nice, easy drive up the 15 through Temecula then up into the San Jacinto Mountains. I researched several cabin, lodge and bed and breakfast places and chose one that I was very happy with. They had small cabins by Strawberry Creek and the property was very nice. So I made reservations and also dinner reservations and away we went. The drive up was about 2.5 hours partially in rush hour but was just long enough to have some nice conversation and catch up. We arrived at the cabins and checked in and had just enough time to clean up and change for dinner.
We drove into the town of Idyllwild and had some dinner and listened to some live jazz. It was a great dinner and a nice evening. The next morning squirrels were all over our back deck looking for food. From the looks of the many discarded peanut shells they were well fed from previous weekenders. I went and got some sunflower seeds from my truck and they ate like kings for an hour. We enjoyed the day in town by eating breakfast at the Red Kettle and shopping and art browsing and then drove home to San Diego which took about 2 hours.
I would recommend a getaway to Idyllwild. It is close to San Diego and is a nice California Mountain Town.
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Everybody loves the Del Mar Fair. Officially known as the San Diego County Fair it won’t let you down for fun, food, rides, games and entertainment. I went this year and found that the 2009 Fair is just as good as the years before. I stopped by Albertsons Grocery Store and got discounted tickets and then drove to the Del Mar Fair to meet my family and friends. I went on a Friday afternoon was surprised to see that there was no line for parking and a very small line to get into the Fairgrounds. The only reason there was a line was for security to check belongings.
I went to one of the stages where we had friends performing and then strait to the rides and games for the kids. Some of the Funzone rides are Carousel, Cliff Hanger, Crazy Mouse, Creep Show, Dodge’em Bumper Cars, Evolution, Experience, Fast Trax Slide, Fighter, Grand Wheel, Hard Rock, Haunted Mansion, Hi Miler, Hydroslide, Magnum, Mardi Gras, Mega Drop, MetroMaze Mirror Maze, Moscow Circus, Pharaoh’s Fury, Sky Flyer, Speed, SR-2 Simulator, Starship 3000, Storm, Surf Shack, Tango, Techno Jump, Techno Power, Tilt a Whirl, Wave, Wave Swinger, Wind Surf, Xtreme, Zero Gravity, Zipper, and Zombie.
Some of the Kiddieland Rides are Anchors Away, Baby Eli, Baby Venice, Baja Buggies, Balloon, Bees, Century Wheel, Convoy, Cuckoo Haus, Cyclone, Dive Bomber, Dizzy Dragon, Dog O Rama, Drop Zone, Flying Tigers, Ghost Pirates, Goliath Slide, Helicopter, Incredible Coaster, Jumping Jumbos, Kiddie Bumper Boats, Kiddie Swing, Kite Flyer, Little Dipper, Lolliswings, Looney Train, Mardi Gras, Monkey Maze, Mini Bumper Cars, Motorcycle Jump, Oh Chute Big Slide, Raiders, River Ride, Rockin’ Tug, Safari Train, Silver Streak, Speedway, Spider Mania, Tea Cups, Wacky Worm, and Winky the Whale.
After a few rides and a few games we were off to the awesome food at the fair. I mostly go for the Del Mar San Diego County Fair food. There are so many different kinds of food from hot dogs to fried Oreo cookies. We grabbed a table full of the good stuff and sat and watched the Navy Band play some Big Band Music. It was great. My 8 month old granddaughter came to the Fair for the very first and loved it too.
We also enjoyed the shopping and great exhibits that the fair has to offer. The 2009 Del Mar Fair or San Diego County Fair whatever you choose to call it runs from June 12 to July 5. Make sure you don’t miss it.
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Ashlon Langley Writer and Director of The Car a 1970’s film starring James Brolin was interviewed on Shameful Cinema. I write many Blog posts about San Diego and San Diego Real Estate and after reading the Ashlon interview about this 1970 movie I thought I would deviate and write about something out of the ordinary. I like the 1970’s low budget movies without all of the special effects and outspoken actors of today’s Hollywood. Ashlon responding to a question from the interviewer Andy about the car design he said;
Ashlon: The under-cranking was reminiscent of the Adams Family and The Munsters television series, making that quality silly to me. However, the design is choice! I love that one of the confusing points for the cops in the movie is that they can’t tell what make or model the beast is. And… it has no tags! If only they could get a license plate, the bungling cops could stop all the mayhem, yeah right!
I wrote about this movie and this interview because things are also reminiscent of the 1970’s even though it’s 2009. We are now like in the early 70’s in a recession and inflation is due to rise. America has taken a hit in the pride department due to the media’s constant attack on the good things America stands for and good things the United States does for so many around the world. The 70’s brought about the 80’s and the economy started gaining ground again and Americans had a lot of good things to feel good about. Watch The Car if you can and read the Ashlon interview. It’s truly entertaining.
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South Bay San Diego has been and continues to be a very hard place to buy a home. It has one of the highest amounts of REO AKA Bank Owned Foreclosures and Short Sales in San Diego County. Chula Vista Real Estate, especially homes priced $300,000 and under, is a very popular price range. I have written well over 100 offers with several clients in the South Bay and have had only 2 accepted. My clients also write good fair offers on the properties they are interested in buying.
Most of the homes in the South Bay are short sales and can stay on the market for many months and sometimes over a year. To a buyer or non savvy real estate agent, this makes it looks like there are lots of homes for sale in the MLS and on sites like Realtor.com and Trulia. The truth is that most of the homes are short sales with many offers on them and no answer in site from the bank on what they’ll accept for a sale price. Some short sales I have had offers in on have had well over 20 offers rivaling some of the REO listings with the highest I’ve seen have well over 40 offers. This market can leave many home buyers discouraged.
The rumor of the second wave of foreclosures, which is not a rumor, is on the way with the hole in the dam already gushing water and the collapse of the dam imminent. But why are the asset managers representing the banks not unloading these toxic assets faster. This is a good question and is talked about often among real estate agents and REO agents like me. The most logical and most likely among people in the know is waiting for the administration. That’s right, it’s believed by some that the banks are waiting to see if Obama will buy back the toxic assets with your tax dollars. If the banks sell the REO’s now they won’t get money from Washington. If the bank sells now they will take the loss on the home which is $100,000 or $200,000 or much more. If they wait for another bailout by Big Brother they can get the money from us “you and me” and not take a loss. Would you wait? Of course this is just talk who knows if it’s really true or going to happen.
In the mean time if you’re buying a home in South Bay San Diego be patient and don’t get discouraged. Buying a home will take time and should be considered and adventure like life itself.
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May 2009 - The Mortgage Reform and Anti Predatory Lending Act HR1728 passed on Thursday May 7, 2009. The House of Representatives passed the bill by a vote of 300 to 114 and is said to protect homeowners from questionable and predatory lending practices that were partially responsible for the record home foreclosures and financial crisis.
This Mortgage Reform and Anti Predatory Lending Act sets up rules to ensure that lenders make loans that mortgage borrowers can afford to pay back. The act also bans prepayment penalties on ARMs Adjustable Rate Mortgages that are the real culprit loans in the foreclosure mess. This bill will also hold accountable the secondary mortgage market for following the same rules. One lawmaker said, “The message is simple. Lenders can’t give loans to people who can’t afford them. And borrowers have to tell the truth about their finances when they apply for a loan.” Not to be disagreeing with the administration of hope but isn’t this just common sense?
Nancy Pelosi the Democratic House Speaker said, “The simple fact is that our laws and enforcement efforts did not keep pace with the complexities of a global economy and a financial industry where the greed of some trumped common sense. Insisting on responsible borrowing and lending and ensuring that borrowers enter into mortgages they can repay or refinance will help families protect their most valuable asset — their home — and guard against another financial and housing market meltdown.” I would have to ask Nancy why she didn’t do something about it, she was a lawmaker at the time and there were many economists warning the government about this.
Many San Diego home owners and potential home buyers know the facts about the San Diego housing market and its foreclosure mess. This act, although very important for protecting potential home buyers when getting a mortgage comes in way too late. The damage is already done. I think if anyone dropped the ball it was the U.S. Government and there lack of proper legislation to protect home buyers and the greed that’s within the system itself. Isn’t that what we elect them for? It’s very interesting to see where all of the elected officials got their campaign contributions, the banks and companies now getting all of our future tax dollars in the form of a so called bailout? What a joke.
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There are many foreclosures because of the Foreclosure Moratorium that are waiting to be put on the market for sale by banks, asset managers and REO agents. The foreclosure moratorium here in San Diego County as well as most areas of the United States has kept homeowners in their homes through the 2008 holidays and then extended into 2009. Now that we’re well into 2009 there are many wondering why hasn’t the banks released the foreclosures. Many of them are vacant and the buyers are looking for new foreclosures to buy. In fact there are so many buyers here in San Diego they are starting to get discouraged in some San Diego markets and price ranges on the lack of inventory. There are also multiple offers on many homes sometimes exceeding 30 offers.
Some say the foreclosures are being held off the market because the banks are waiting to see if the Obama administration will subsidize the banks for their toxic assets. If that’s the case one of two things will happen the government “our tax dollars and our kids and grandkids tax dollars” will bailout the banks once again and then the foreclosures will come onto the San Diego market or the administration wont bail them out and the foreclosures will come on the market. Either way if this is the hold up let’s make a decision already because my buyers are getting real tired of waiting.
The word here in San Diego is that there are buyers galore and not enough homes for sale in some areas and some price ranges. Mostly first time home buyer price ranges. The inventory is filled with REO’s that are heavily damaged and needing lots of work or short sales with many offers and slow moving negotiators at banks. I HOPE by summer the Obama administration will CHANGE what’s going on.
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iLearningGlobalTV has officially kicked off and running strong. iLearningGlobal began its journey in March of 2008 after many meeting and ideas were exchanges between the founders if the concept of the next generation of online learning. Months of ideas, concepts, and dreams turned into reality and iLearningGlobal and the concept of iLearningGlobalTV is now a reality. Tracy and his business partner new that there couldn’t be a better time for this new learning platform to be unveiled. This ground breaking technology and the teachings of the worlds leading personal development experts combined would change the way people learn forever. Brian Tracy joined the founders and original executive team of 4 as the iLearningGlobal Chief Learning Officer and dozens of the world’s top speakers, authors, and trainers followed suit to create the most respected online faculty ever. Hold on to your seats because iLearningGlobal is up and running.
iLearningGlobal immediately began to produce true High Definition 7 - 10 minute, content rich segments as the flagship product of the iLearningGlobalTV website membership. iLearningGlobal came to market with the most advanced HD streaming technology to date and today provides a viewing experience above any other online portal. Users wanting to Join iLearningGlobal can sign up 24 hours a day and start using the iLearningGlobal Features immediately.
Today iLearningGlobal boasts the largest online personal development library with multiple hundreds of copyrighted HD Videos, Classic Videos, audio programs, ebooks, and much more! After a very successful pre-launch phase, iLearningGlobal will officially launch in mid March of 2009 with their second LIVE Mega Event which was help in Las Vegas. iLearningGlobal Faculty.
This San Diego REO has a great built in pool with spa. Bank owned San Diego REO that has it all including 5 bedroom and 4 bathrooms. Tile, wood & carpet flooring thru out, tiled fireplace in family room, ceilings fans, blinds & overhead lighting. Large, open kitchen has island with vegetable sink, lots of cabinet space, and black countertops. Great loft upstairs perfect for den, office/computer room, TV room or play area. Big backyard has pool and spa with built in, covered BBQ & a fire pit.
$366,900 in South Bay San Diego. Visit our San Diego Foreclosure Search page for all San Diego REO’s for sale.
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