IB Pet in Imperial Beach San Diego is the only place I go to for pet supplies including dog and cat food, dog and cat toys, dog beds and everything else for all of my pet needs. I recommend IB Pet because I’m a big fan of customer service and that’s what I get at IB Pet. They’re located right off of Palm Avenue in Imperial Beach and easy to get to from anywhere in South Bay San Diego including Chula Vista and Coronado Island. I would even drive to IB Pet if I lived in Escondido or Oceanside. It’s worth it.
Lori and Russell Blauert are the owners of this Imperial Beach Pet Store and I want you to check them out next time you need pet supplies or just some great advice.
This is their goal off of the IB Pet Web Site:
Our goal is to help educate our customers in proper nutrition, care and an overall healthy lifestyle for their pets. Through our carefully selected canine and feline diets, your companion can enjoy meals like those nature intended. In addition, we carry a full line of innovative pet care products - leashes, collars, toys, beds, grooming supplies and more!
I know Lori and Russ personally and I think you will like what they have to offer. Check out IB Pet. Mike Lewis.
CHULA VISTA - This Otay Ranch charming home is located at the end of a cul-de-sac. Walking distance to Neighborhood Park and located close to shopping. Built in 2003 this home has 3 bedrooms and 2 and a half bathrooms. Some of the features of this Otay Ranch short sale are tile and wood flooring with carpeting in the bedrooms, big upstairs loft, custom window coverings, custom television niche, upstairs laundry closet, and tiled fireplace in living room to name a few.
If you are looking for a home in Chula Vista this Otay Ranch home could be the one for you. Make sure you contact us to see it before it’s sold.
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I just got finished watching an excellent report on Channel 10 News and I wanted to share it on my Blog because I think it’s worth watching. The show was a half hour and this is only one of the segments. It was very informative about San Diego real estate, auctions, loan modifications, and investment properties.
This story is called:
Builders Default On Land, Able To Buy It Back Cheaper At Auction
CHULA VISTA, CA BANK OWNED HOME: This bank owned home is located in Otay Ranch and is in excellent condition. The home was built in 2001 and is 3,465 square feet and has 5 bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms. If you’re looking for a home with a bedroom and a full bathroom downstairs, look no further. This bank owned beauty boasts a large kitchen with a huge island for this holiday parties. There are 2 fireplaces one of them in the master bedroom. This is one of those bank owned homes that is move in ready and ready for your offer.
We have helped many buyers get into the home they are looking for in San Diego County. Many times we have Bank Owned Properties and Short Sales that need to sell fast. Make sure you let us know what type of home and in what location of San Diego you are looking at. We will keep you posted with any new homes or condos we have for sale.
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The San Diego Real Estate Market has seen better days. It’s not that there aren’t buyers seeking that perfect place to call home sweet home it’s the little inventory they have to choose from. Inventory is low especially in some areas of San Diego County in the first time homebuyer price ranges. So low that many VA and FHA buyers are taking their chances on short sales, which may or may not ever close escrow, and waiting it out.
I can’t tell you how many questions I answer on Trulia about buyers and short sales. Buyers are always asking, what takes so long, how come the banks won’t approve my offer, what’s going on, why did they take another offer, why did the bank foreclose on the home when I had an offer on it for 8 months, why is the seller declaring bankruptcy, and on and on. It’s like writing an offer on a home and putting it into a black hole and hoping something good comes out on the other end. It usually doesn’t.
Keep in mind if you’re a buyer who wrote an offer on a short sale you probably are in competition with 5 to 50 other buyers. Only 1 of those offers will get accepted and many times the home will go to foreclosure and no one gets it. It’s frustrating for everyone involved including all agents, the negotiators at the banks, sellers and all the other buyers trying to buy the home. Just think how the seller feels….. they are losing their home, their dreams, their investment, they and their family – kids, dogs, cats now need to find another place to live, most likely a rental or in with family, and their life is being turned upside down. Kind of puts things in a different perspective when you look at it from the side of the one who is losing the home.
San Diego Home Buyers using a VA or FHA Loan to buy a home or condo are often in third and fourth place when writing offers on foreclosed properties. They have that going for them too. The problem is with so many investors in the market buying foreclosures for cash or large sums of money down in conventional loans the VA and FHA loans aren’t usually the best way to go for an asset manager looking at offers on the REO asset they are managing. On cash offers they don’t have to worry about appraisal issues or finding out a buyer really doesn’t qualify for the loan to buy the foreclosure. It’s an unfortunate situation that people who want to buy the home to live in and be part of the community are being put in the back seat to investors looking to make a buck. But it is what it is and for now it’s bad news for some VA and FHA buyers. Hang in there. Times will change.
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Chula Vista California defeated Chinese Taipei AKA Taiwan today to win the Little League World Series. As a Chula Vista resident since 1998 this is one of the most exciting things to happen in Chula Vista located in South Bay San Diego California. The day before Chula Vista defeated San Antonia Texas 12-2 in only 4 inning of play to advance to the final. The Chula Vista Little League Team had an amazing 9 run first inning which carried them to a seemingly easy victory over the Texans. Chinese Taipei smashed Mexico 9-4 to advance to the final against the Chula Vista baseball team. The series is being held in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania. All of Chula Vista were watching the games and the excitement in town was unbelievable.
Chula Vista vs. Chinese Taipei August 30 2009. The game was scoreless until the top of the 3rd inning with a runner on first and number 19 Sung hit a home run for Chinese Taipei. Then the next batter number 18 hits another homerun to give the Chinese a 3 run lead. Chula Vista changes their pitcher to number 19 Garcia after the second home run. He gets the out and retires the side. In the bottom of the third after one out Chula Vista has runners on second and third and Taipei walks Chula Vista’s Luke Ramirez for bases loaded with one out. Bulla Graft number 20 strikes out on a full count with bases loaded. Bradley Roberto number 16 comes to bat and gets to a 3 and 0 count and then a 3 and 2 count and then hits a grounder to the second basemen who commits an error and scoring 1 run for Chula Vista. The next batter strikes out with bases loaded.
Top of the 4th was a 123 inning and Chula Vista quickly retired the side. In the bottom of the 4th after another Taipei error Chula Vista’s Jenson Peterson reaches first base. Then Nick Conlin hits a smashing double and moves the runner on first to third with no outs. Chinese Taipei changes pitchers. Seth Godfrey hits a sacrifice fly to score Peterson. Still only one out and a runner on second. The next batter gets a base hit advancing the runner to third. Kiko Garcia comes up to bat and a wild pitch advances the runner on third to score and tie up the game. The runner on first moves to second base. Chinese Taipei brings in a new pitcher. Kiko strikes out for out 2 and Luke Ramirez comes to the plate and is walked for a second time. Runners on first and second and Bulla Graft at the plate and another wild pitch advances the runners. Bulla Graft gets a base hit advancing the runners and scoring one rune for Chula Vista to take the lead 4-3. The next batter strikes out.
Top of the 5h Chinese Taipei get a runner on first and second both hit by pitches. The pitcher walks the batter and brings up to the plate Chin Ou number 18 with bases loaded. Ou hits into a double play lead by Andy Rios – what a play! Bottom of the 5th Oscar Castor gets a base hit. Daniel Porras Jr. fly’s out. Isaiah Armenta comes to bat and with a wild pitch the runner goes to second. Armenta stikes out. Seth Godfrey comes up to bat and hits a double knocking in a run. Andy Rios knocks in Godfrey with a base hit. Chula Vista up by 3. Kiko Garcia up at the plate and gets a base hit, runners at first and second. Luke Ramirez up at the bag and a loose pitch advances the runners. Luke fly’s out at the wall.
Top of the 6th inning 3 outs to go for Chula Vista to win. One runner reaches first. But thats all. CHULA VISTA WINS 6-3!!!!
The Chula Vista 2009 World Series Little League Team
Bradley Roberto Andy Rios Markus Melin Nick Conlin Seth Godfrey Bulla Graft Daniel Porras Jr.Jensen Peterson Kiko Garcia Luke Ramirez Isaiah Armenta Oscar Castro Coach Ric Ramirez Manager Oscar Castro
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Otay Ranch Real Estate Market Report Summer 2009 – Otay Ranch 91913 and 91915 in Chula Vista like the rest of San Diego County is still valuing down. This report will combine zip codes 91913 and 91915 although the majority of Otay Ranch is 91913 areas like Windingwalk are 91915. 91915 also include parts of EastLake. The combined home sales for June 2009 for 91913 and 91915 are 99 homes. The median home price in June is $375,000 with a decrease from last year of 4% for 91913 and 11% for 91915. The combine condo sales for the two Chula Vista Zips are 45 condos. There was a decrease in condo values from last year of 24% in 91913 and 17% in 91915. The median condo price is $203,000. If you’re buying or selling in Otay Ranch or anywhere in Chula Vista call me, Dawn Lewis.
San Diego Real Estate Market Conditions – The San Diego MLS is filled with short sales and foreclosures and out of the two the short sales stay on the market a very long time making it look like the San Diego Market is saturated with homes for sale but the reality is there is very little to actually write offers on. The conventional listings as well as REO’s sell fast when in good condition and priced correctly. Multiple offers on many of the lower end price ranges of San Diego homes and condos.
Buyers are actually getting discouraged with the lack of inventory in the San Diego Market. I have personally seen over 50 offers on a single property for sale that was priced correctly. This is not uncommon. Also keep in mind if you’re a buyer that 49 out of the 50 offers won’t get accepted. This is causing many buyers to be disillusioned by the market and home buying and has them second guessing any agent that they hire. The upper end still has room to drop and should be looked at with caution. Use a good Realtor like me to help you with all of your Real Estate needs in San Diego.
June 2009 Sales and Median Prices
Central San Diego Existing Home Sales – 565 Median Price $365,000 Down in value -10% from last year. Existing Condo Sales – 475 Median Condo Price $263,000 Down in value -10% from last year.
East County Existing Home Sales – 340 Median Price $295,000 Down in value -15% from last year. Existing Condo Sales – 139 Median Condo Price $131,000 Down in value -22% from last year.
North County Inland Existing Home Sales – 629 Median Price $364,000 Down in value -13% from last year. Existing Condo Sales – 189 Median Condo Price $216,000 Down in value -15% from last year.
North County Coastal Existing Home Sales – 386 Median Price $455,000 Down in value -17% from last year. Existing Condo Sales – 128 Median Condo Price $323,000 Down in value -23% from last year.
South County Existing Home Sales – 376 Median Price $320,000 Down in value -15% from last year. Existing Condo Sales – 169 Median Condo Price $151,000 Down in value -28% from last year.
When you need help with San Diego Real Estate please call me and my team. I have over 20 years experience as a licensed agent in San Diego and have sold well over 2,500 homes. Put my experience to work for you.
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I think “Making Home Affordable” the title and the name of the web site have it all wrong, it’s supposed to be “Buy a Home You Can Afford” but most things right now in the world are either upside down or just plain wrong.
I checked out the Obama led web site “Making Home Affordable”. The standard Homeowner’s HOPE Hotline mantra with the HOMES of HOPE 888-995-HOPE number in red to get you to call for urgent help. This government has hijacked the word HOPE from day one and probably won’t stop until they’ve moved on. Which is HOPEfully soon. Not that the next elected group of thugs and profiteers will do much better … I’d settle for doing nothing than the direction we’re heading now.
It was the HOPE of homeownership for many who should never have qualified for the loan that drew them into this burden that now is destroying their lives …. THE MORTGAGE PAYMENT. A HOPE fueled by GREED that lent money to anyone with a faint heartbeat with little regulation and little to no verification of the homeowner’s real ability to pay it back after the ARM would readjust. Lenders were making money hand over fist and could sell the note quickly on Wall Street to a sea of buyers, so why should they care to verify or tighten up on their lending practices. Now the banks and mortgage holders are losing money hand over fist as taxpayer’s bailout them out as well as our government and their buddies…… hand over fist.
The printing presses ($100 machines) are rolling at the Department of Treasury and the money going in every direction imaginable except to where it needs to go. The cost “PAYBACK” is left to our children and their children and so on….. while the baby boomers will have their nest eggs refilled with government pork, $4,500 car buying credit and free healthcare. WHOOOOPI. One of the saddest parts of this whole mess is putting the burden of this generation’s foul-ups on the children and their children. Well I guess they’re doing what they like to do, borrow and spend and expect someone else to pay or somehow get out of it. Their best answer is to pin it on the kids because they don’t have a voice, YET!
HOPE. I used to think HOPE was something like a wish, a dream that you wanted one day to be fulfilled, something in your life or in another’s life that would happen to bring joy into it. Now HOPE is a slogan, a word used by agenda pushers to play on people’s emotions and to get them to go in a specific direction. After all, who doesn’t want HOPE? Right?
Back to the web site …….
On the home page of this web site it asks
Are You Eligible? Please use the self-assessment tools provided on this websiteto see if you are among the 7 to 9 million homeowners who maybe able to benefit from Making Home Affordable.
Right below this is a “Find out if you are eligible” button.
The next web page will ask you to choose if you want to see if you are eligible for “Home Affordable Financing” or “Home Affordable Modification”. Select the one that best fits your desire.
Under “Home Affordable Financing” you have to answer YES to every question to be eligible. That means that you own a 1 -4 unit home, your loan is with Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, your current on your mortgage payments and “the kicker”- you believe that the amount you owe on your first mortgage is about the same or less than the current value of your house. Remember that last question asked about first mortgage only, not first and second. If you answered yes to all of these cross your fingers and toes and HOPE.
Under “Home Affordable Modification” you also have to answer YES to every question to be eligible. That means your home is your primary residence, the amount you owe on your first mortgage is equal to or less than $729,750, you’re having trouble paying your mortgage, you got your current mortgage before January 1, 2009, and your payment on your first mortgage (including principal, interest, taxes, insurance and homeowner’s association dues, if applicable) more than 31% of your current gross income? HOPEfully you can answer YES to all of the questions and then there’s HOPE.
I don’t want to give a sense of false HOPE to troubled homeowners so I want to be clear about this. Please try and use this web site to see if they can help you. From what I have seen in the San Diego area including Chula Vista is that most homeowners that purchased a home in the past 1-4 years can’t truly answer YES to all of the questions in either category. The ones that can are still only eligible for the Making Home Affordable program.
Most of the homes in many neighborhoods in San Diego County are short sales. This means that there was no loan refinancing or loan modification for the homeowner that allowed them to successfully stay in their home. If there was they would not be short selling the home, and many are short selling their homes and condos. Some truly just didn’t try, shame on them. Most are just way upside down in property value and can’t make the monthly payments since the ARM readjustment or loss of job.
Its simple math, let me show you;
Paid $800,000 for home … worth $500,000 – why do I want this home?
or
Monthly income $5,000…. house payment jumped to $4,900 – need to eat!
These short sale listings will either be sold short or be taken back by the bank through a foreclosure and end up on the market as a Bank Owned REO. I have spoken with many homeowners who just want to get out their homes or condos and just move on. They want to close that door in their lives and open the next one. The choice of keeping a home that has decreased in value 40% in 3 years and a monthly mortgage payment that is just not possible to pay is destroying families.
I have met many that have said “enough, I’ll take the credit hit and short sell my home or let the bank foreclose on it” and they have. I will always ask them if they contacted an attorney and a CPA to go over all of the ramifications of both. This is essential if the path of short sale or foreclosure is in any ones future.
I HOPE this review of the Making Home Affordable web site helps you.
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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