Real Estate in the Hermosa Beach and Redondo Beach Areas

You don’t know you are dreaming

You are walking down a path to see a house. It has a pink gross curtain hanging halfway over a window.

The expectation is doubtful that the place will be habitable. The blue box is opened by the realtor as it hangs off the doorknob. Inside it has new carpet and a kitchen peeking around the corner of the living room. It is actually really nice. Its new in this old house. I open the door. The concrete is broken and so it the glass on a window of the garage. The yard has been neglected its kind of sad and overgrown. Back inside the house the rooms are nice. All the shades are drawn. you open them up and the room is newly painted now the room with the pink curtian. Its so silly who would do this. You see a deal right away and want to rescue the home. It is a short sale and there are 3 offers. The bank and the selling agent is clueless you can see right away. The pink curtian is a sign…maybe just stay away. You wake up and find yourself not asleep at all…just wondering if you should go down that road and fight a battle you may not win. Its easier to just buy one that the normal people are selling you think and you say. However you know you could do so much there. It might just be worth it the work and the care. So you write that offer and prove that you care.

WiFi sort of sounds like wife. Its someone you love…who is sort of for free.

Well in the old days anyway…free cleaning, housekeeping, caring etc. 

Tesla liked the cordless world….so does WiFi

Protect your WiFi  wife…. 

Turn off the file-sharing

Update your system on a regular basis
Password protecting your computer use https:// in the address bar)
Personal firewall good anti-virus software
Encryption software – better to be safe than sorry.
Use a Virtual Private Network (VPN) when using public WiFi areas like airports
Be careful of Neighbors- peeping Toms

Learn the hot spots

Learn technique from others….

The blog is like an invitation over to my house
Come on over, its a southern tradition to invite people over and to really mean it.
 
When you walk in you see a family style home and you feel warmly welcomed.
Let’s sit down, have some water or tea and lets start taking. There are always points of interest. Family photos, Architecture, vendors suppliers, we found to do things to our home.

It was a 60’s home built by a master. The detail and stone work is amazing. Because he was a Las Vegas hotel owner there are some touches that we didn’t think we would keep. There was work done that we just wanted to do. Wood floors and new lighting and getting rid of the accoustic ceilings.

Oh the many ways you can cover up sprayed on ceilings and local people that do it.

Plaster over, Scrape( long discussion on this and concerns) drywall over and paint over. We had a few bids and decided to plaster over. It was the cleanest and best priced overall. So that’s 4 ways to fix accoustic ceilings.

So come on over and we’ll tell you about our electrical next…Who knew how much information you wanted to know.

This Surfing, Skateboarding, Snow boarding term means right foot forward.

I have a family of goofy feet. I might even be but I won’t be finding out anytime soon. I wonder if anyone knows how it got started? It really sounds cool. And you can be cool if you know about it. Goofy I know.  So here are some links for you to know about.

http://www.goofyfootsurfschool.com/goofyframeset.html

http://www.ehow.com/how_2574_determine-regular-goofy.html

 I like it from a Spiritual standpoint. There is a pun..foot standpoint.

So put your Right foot forward

I heard about a lady who refinanced 4 times..Each time she got another Heloc.

She was just collecting some more credit cards, so she thought. Then it was time to sell that house. Escrow and Title were going along just fine.

 Somehow it came up that she had a Heloc, and it was never recorded. And guess what? Neither were all the others. And when she went to the bank in person to freeze them they said use that phone over there and call, its not our department. And, it takes about 3 weeks to get that paperwork done, and we are not sure who is even in charge over there now…so many changes lately,  you know.

So the escrow could not close because the Heloc was for 200K, but I didn’t borrow more than 19K for the upgrade to the lawn. They want to hold the whole 200K and its not even spent. Does that sound fair? And who cares anymore whole companies are gone. What is one escrow? So the moral of the story is this:

If you are selling your home. Freeze that Heloc right away as the Realtor is calling for the post in the yard. That is…if you want to close when you are ready and not wait on the time and whim of whoever is left at the bank.

Robert Pope combines clients with turn Key projects in the following Century City Palm Springs South Bay West LA Studios

Pope and Associates Interior Space Planning and Design Inc. began in 1986. Robert Pope brings Architecture Space and complete design services to the future and combines the European Craftsmanship from the past. With clients from the Motion Picture and Television Industry, Century City Corporations and now offices in the South Bay he offers the highest quality of service. Color specialist, glass fireplaces, unique uses of timeless past products, quiet strength and hyper contrast are all combined for clients grateful for the experience.

This is my husband. The best, nicest, designing surfer I have ever known.

Recently I played cash flow with 3 studio accountants and one other Realtor. What made it fun was that I was the nubie and the designated driver. There is more to that. I am more artist than math. Maybe all artist, new to liking numbers. We had the best time. If you have not played it and don’t know what it is I’ll try and explain. Remember Monopoly? Remember Life? Put them together Because you can land on a square that gets you a baby or a boat and you go around the board collecting paychecks till you get out of the “Rat race of payroll and life as many know it…by investing. You land on opportunities to buy. You can borrow, you can buy the deal another player might sell you.  Add good people, good wine and cheese and a lot of erasing -your ever growing buying and selling properties till you make it out to the second tier…of cash flow. That is where the real money is made. I know a teacher that uses this game in the inner city to teach kids what they could really be thinking about with financial freedom. I know lots of realtors that play it together each month to sharpen their claws, oops I ment paws didn’t I? The best of all is to be sure you know about it and apply it to your husband, wife, children or clients because it is a perfect game of instruction designed by the “Cash flow” King billionaire of Rich Dad Poor Dad fame, Robert T. Kiyosaki. What a contribution to the world. Hats off!

Get rich and go surf with your kids