Lynne Pope is your Realtor in Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach and Redondo Beach

Hermosa Beach Living room

Turn being trim and being home into one. Look great as you walk 3 blocks to Hermosa Beach and go from VIEWS ocean and valley fight into a full swim. This absolute beauty is Private, has amazing light filling this tiered single family home. Quiet and off the beaten path. Well its not quiet if you amp up that 7000 dollar speaker system from  Bowers and Wilken – only the best will do here.  Wine cellar closet chilling to perfection, Dry Sauna, wet sauna too. Now lets talk the California and Hermosa Beach lifestyle. Its open open plan in and out. This home has rooftop deck, balcony off living room, huge patio off Kitchen,  balcony and patio off Master Bedroom ( the master closet is as big as a room) and a fantastic patio on the family room level- instead of a yard. I was told they hung out there much of the time.  Yes this beauty has some stairs, and flooring throughout in wood and stone finishes. Doesn’t it sound heavenly?  It is.

Valley and light views from Kitchen patio

What about a home with ocean view from the family room and Kitchen where you entertain and everyone can flow from the cook to the deck and see everyone as the eat, drink and mill around the lovely beach atmosphere? Yes they can go up to the rooftop deck and have a panoramic view from Malibu to Catalina. The balconies in this home let in the outside ocean waves sounds and the fountains in the courtyard or deck. 360 degree light Delights everyone. Gated backyard will make a happy safe spot for your pets.

Its a small world. Your neighbors would be people that you would love to meet. Everyone is casual here and walk the dogs around the streets stopping to chat and greet. Since I live right down the street I can easily show the homes I have listed nearby. Yes I have been blessed to represent families in houses all around the North Hermosa community.

Hermosa has so much to offer in quality of lifestyle. The home is an easy walk to downtown, the library, shops and restaurants. Best of all its a short walk to the beach about 2 blocks.

http://www.2010 Monterey Ave

It has a 1 bedroom 1 bath guest house. It is a legal duplex but because of its Main home and 650 sq ft leased out unit separate and above garage it is like a single family home. Hey the income pays the taxes!   Nice.

PARKING!  5 car parking garages with 2 car and 3 car tandem. plus a Lift now its 6 car inside with 2 outside off street pull in.

WORKSHOP- or rec room or man cave. A lovely area with French doors to the patio can be used instead of the 3rd tandem car.

WHAT A PLACE!

GREEN up to $4500. for energy efficiency improvements.  go to www.EnergyUpgradeCAlifornia.org  or call 1-877-785-2237

Its with Edison, So California Gas, County of Los Angeles.

Go to the website, get a home energy assessment, make the improvements  and receive the rebates and incentives.

They offer up to $1000. for basic sealing and insulating, as well.

Financing options from www.EnergyUpgradeCalifornia.org.

Certified contractors are licensed and ready to help you.  

A  GREEN  rated home is a start in reducing utility bills and helps

the environment. Every step counts and every bit helps.

Lynne Pope is a Build-it-Green certified realtor with GREEN the

National Association of Realtor standing.

FACEBOOK open houses

With Facebook growing pages and friends in high places maybe the open house ads need to run to FACEBOOK as fast as they have on CRAIGS LIST in the past.

Realtors are bombarded with people telling us they will give us top page for Google..only do this,,,only do that.

I do a lot of open houses. Yet the sales I have this year have not come from that. It came from people who know me. Still its a way of getting out there and meeting people.

 So open house on many listings is entered into the MLS and picked up and promoted on other sites.

216 W Franklin

or 2010 Manhattan Ave. Hermosa Beach, CA 90254

hermosa beach ca 90254

This week there will be an open house…but rain is coming.

Do you go shopping in the rain before Christmas?

When you sell a home or buy a home its like having a baby.

There is a lot of first time feeling. Inexperience. Wonder. Other people have done this, maybe I can too?

Same for when you buy or sell a home.

Wondering when it will happen?  When it ‘s due and when it comes is out of your hands!!!

Same for when it sells or when it closes

INSOMNIA

Same stuff

Awkward

Dont get funny  here its having the baby, not just making one.

Fixing it up to look good

Are you still with me?

9 ms or more is a long time

Once you start down the path its hard to back out

I hope you enjoy the endless support I can think of to convince you its like having a baby.

Perhaps you will enjoy the name statistics closing up the 2010 year!

We love GLEE at our house. Quinn and Finn and all the fun names. Both are coming up the ranks but not in the top 10 yet.

Top 10 Girls’ Names of 2010

1. Sophia
2. Isabella
3. Olivia
4. Emma
5. Chloe
6. Ava
7. Lily
8. Madison
9. Addison
10. Abigail

See the top 100 girls’ names of 2010.

Top 10 Boys’ Names of 2010

1. Aiden
2. Jacob
3. Jackson
4. Ethan
5. Jayden
6. Noah
7. Logan
8. Caden
9. Lucas
10. Liam

Summer in the Fall for LA Beaches. After a 2010 summer of cloud layers everyone wondered if the climate changes were real. The good news is that its over..and the heat wave of the summer elsewhere allowed our residents the choice of staying cool at home or taking a drive East about 3 miles and enjoying the sunshine over there. The Swimming pools in our area are a wonderful treat for our children year round. Where else is this going on?

One person told me that the Rose Bowl showing our local weather to the world caused more people to move to the beaches than any other thing.  Could be? But for me- I moved to California in 1968 and it was like coming home forever. I lived in Hollywood, N. Hollywood, Sun Valley, Handcock Park 1972 and our  first home cost 45K , Woodland Hills 1983 then Hermosa Beach 1986. You can see the economics getting better. 

Home Ownership is the single best economic thing that I have accomplished. I have 2 listings in Hermosa Beach, 2055 Circle Drive pending sale, and 2010 Manhattan Ave for sale. This N. Hermosa area is truly one of the best Beach cities to live in. Our open houses this weekend were sunny and warm but best of all, the sparking Blue Pacific was RADIANT.

Saturday – 9-18   1-4 and Sunday 9-19- 2-4

2010 Manhattan Ave Hermosa Beach   Sat. come meet Lynne

Sunday 9-19 1-4

2055 Circle Drive Hermosa Beach Sunday come meet Lynne

Sunday 9-19 2-4

216 w. Franklin El Segundo Sunday 2-4

see the photos on the website this page

2055 Circle.com

216

we are going to have this wonderful property open

maybe just maybe someone is in town that must see it. 1-4 Sunday

here are the words the owner and I came up with that describe the home;

Beauty   space   pool   view of ocean   room for guests   guest home   grace and graciousness  elements in stone with healing elements   Luxury   proximity to ocean  LAX  and LA   Privacy    design to detail   value   quality   Light a 360*experience   the best the universe had by 2009 to put into home   windows roof HVAC  security  carved glass symbols of fountain ever filling, location location location  Best in Hermosa Beach   nostalgia   historic   authentic   cared for and loved always, Fireplaces, theater, lounging space   colors  grains and veins   graduated  symmetry asymmetry logic Mystery  crowned roof and location, furniture and location…neighbors    storage communication from the house to me. wow !    Legacy  pride of ownership

satisfaction   sensuality   wellness large terraced yard and patios, legacy

The list goes on …come see us Sunday you might add to the list.

Open house today…May 8th. not tomorrow because its Mothers Day!

216 N Franklin…is unique. 2 detached large rooms and bathroom. What could that mean for your family. Peace, Work at home, a room of one’s own, TV or game room. The two car garage also has a large workspace- home gym? Workshop? what do you need extra space for?

All that and a wonderful home with entry,Wood stairs and floors, molding details on an original turn of century home that grew…into a new 2005 addition- of the rest of the house. The original was 1 Br 1 Ba and now its a large open plan kitchen with skylights next to separate laundry room. The bath and bedroom were completely remodeled, with high grade insulation . The addition was the living room, master bedroom and bath plus garage and separate rooms above. It has a side and front grassy yard plus patio for BBQ. Come see us today. Come see how many GREEN features it has. Lynne Pope is GREEN certified by the National Association of Realtors.

Why not go to Home Depot- Lowes- online- anywhere and buy the the detector? Start now..Carbon Monoxide detectors required July 2011.

That Poison-is an odorless gas that can set off your new alarm if you have one! Cost is only about 30 dollars in a single family home. Who needs it?
Do you have an attached garage?
Do you have a fossil-fuel (wood) burning fireplace? (or appliance)
There you have it.
If you have a detached garage and no fireplace… then you don’t need one.
For thirty dollars you can give your family a safer home.