Real Estate in the Hermosa Beach and Redondo Beach Areas

Redondo Beach real estate, homes for sale have more open houses this summer than ever! There is a reason. I was at a conference and I heard that Agents are looking for Buyers!  With listings staying on the market longer, the expense of the listing really adds up. The buyer market is slim now as mortgage loans are for the few with 1099 stubs. The days of the stated income are rare right now.

When the news says the rates have come down. It doesn’t mean the consumer rates will fall. Call the mortgage lender of your choice today and check out the true interest rates. Then you will be ready to buy a home. It is the first time that interest rates and home prices have both been low. The prices will remain low for another year but will interest rates?

I like writing and sometimes post to Active Rain (where I started blogging) it’s like going to my old home town. I really feel like I know so many people there. I write to speak to people- Realtors, lenders, designers are the main authors. I get the feeling right away of speaking in a group. In wordpress I am speaking to a group but it takes a little longer before I hear the responses of people reading. I should say…..I could say what do you want to hear?

People want to know when they should buy. They want the truth. There is a time to buy and a time not to buy for each person. It is individual, so unique that it is an experience that you can best understand by looking into the mirror of your own past. When did you buy?Why did you do it? Were all the key factors there that people ask about? Best price, best interest rate?  In my experience NO, NO, NO. My first home. We were wanta-have a home people. I had stopped into a real estate office and said to a Realtor-mother of a boy in my daughters class. We went over our numbers very briefly and the price of home we could afford was so low that nothing in the area would work. Homes were selling for 60K and we were in the 40 K range. It was 1976 for those either laughing or in awe. A few weeks later I got a call. There was a lady selling her home for 45K this one weekend only. If she didn’t get it then she was giving it over to a group that paints carpets and jacks up the price. We bought it that day. Our parents each kicked in 5K and we became homeowners. We had a Cal Vet loan around 8.2 % Our monthly payments went from renting at 175. to 325.  It was so much money to us that we were careful about not spending for anything other than essential. And in a few months it started to feel like normal. In 1984 we bought again. The only time we bought a home we didn’t love. We felt rushed, and as a realtor I never want anyone to make those 2 big mistakes. 3 years later it was hard to sell. It was bought and sold in the 350 range. 1986 we bought at the beach. Ocean view and 550K. I don’t remember the interest rates of either of the homes. Finally I have to say we made all the really big money we ever made in buying homes and keeping them. We did sell the first 2 and I wish we had kept the first one. Thats why I really ask deeply, can you keep this home and rent it out? It is our new social security. We can retire and have a passive income. I don’t own apartments, just homes. We are really careful and caring of the properties. The time to buy was when our family needed to buy. We had a good reason. We were led to the right house after we learned to wait and listen. That skill I take with me to help others over the hurtle of home purchase. Right time is always relative.

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Workmen’s fumes set off a fire alarm in the hotel in the early am hours. The warning system continued as people exited the stairs peacefully.  “Hey lady, your back pack zippers are all open” A kind German tourist told me. I closed them up and joined in conversation with the group of 3 women on the street at 4:30 am.

 We talked about the things we felt important enough to exit with during the fire exit. Camera’s were number 1 cell phones number 2. nothing else mattered. I exited the stairwell along with my Inman roommate, Mara Hawks of Auburn, Alabama.  She is a blogger on http://activerain.com/blogs/mhawks. We all set out to find a coffee shop  open that early. Sure enough the kind lady in the Starabucks that opened at 5 am told us about the 24 hour one open 2 blocks away. Our Tea party began.  Two were coffee but I don’t care. The words don’t work “coffee party” We had a wonderful conversation with the  German and American versions of the world. We laughed, we cried, and we talked of Hillary Clinton who we all wanted to win. (You cried? someone might say) Yes, after meeting strangers in less than one hour we talked of a story that brought us to tears: the death of a bird and the 4th grader who rode her bike to find her peace over the loss-”Mom, I just wanted to feel the wind in my face the way he did as he flew to heaven.” We left the area

I wrote a blog yesterday and it seems to be lost. I sometimes hit publish and get the navigate away from the page warning when I want to publish and voila…its gone. Does anyone out there have a suggestion?

I have a suggestion for you to try the following areas of protection. Write it in google docs. or word( that can be a problem in coding I was told. Then go to the tab above that says HTML and it will fix that. Still if you are like me you just want to grab any tool and start writing on the wall of the cave….Buffalo coming…

I am that person…scout of Wagon Train…I ride ahead in the wilderness and try to find meaning in the adventure. Oh the tracks that those before me have left…Thank you Laurie Manny, Daniel real estate Zebra, Jeff Turner, Kevin Boer, Pat Kitano, so many leaders and I’m meeting them at Inman. I bloggged today on active rain. These people know things. They are expert trackers and can ride ahead like the wind. Being at Inman is like the stagecoach Inn. I am the voyer, the kid on the ship, I’m all eyes, ears and sometimes…mouth.

going to find the  bloggers for 7-22-08  310-863-7582

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For the last year I have been blogging. I closed 2 transactions as a result of blogging. I simple wrote what I wanted to about my area and one day got the phone call to come list their house. I thought it was a joke, at first. The family was being relocated to Washington DC and if they got it sold through a realtor it would save them money over the service that takes a fee from the realtor. They had looked up my number and several others and called. After listening to our voices they hired me on my level of enthusiasm.

I sold their home, I sold another home from an open house on that home. So blogging was now a reliable resource that does what we have always heard….Do what you love and rewards will follow. Remember “What Color is your Parachute?” I read that book over and over hoping that it was true. Long story short I found Real Estate and it used all the talents that I was not willing to part time with. Writing, Photography, healing, reading, spending time helping people, Architecture, Historic homes, Film, Design, Music and Art. It’s amazing but I actually use all that in my work.

There are several  homes for sale in Torrance in this area. So my client and I went on a tour of his competition. What an adventure.

1112 sq foot.   built 1954

Pre-existing patio room with 3 skylights currently with a Spa- could be something else. (there is an exit plan avail for the spa if the new owner wanted to do something else – ask and it will be revealed)

Electrical- amp upgrade 200! not 60 or 100 amps

Plumbing is copper including main line to meter

Water heater relocated to garage

Roof 30 year warranty – year 2000 installed

3 window Air Conditioning units

Back up generator

Things other places had that we didn’t

original showers and shower pans

one put a bathroom in a closet without visable venting

access screens with holes

asphalt driveways

original windows

This is a Pocket listing- it’s being painted

I will put this property on the MLS by the 27th of July. This is what happens when the seller is painting and will be finished by then and we will have an open house that Sunday and brokers open on the 31st. I usually do this the other way around but this is a schedule of paint completion.

515Broadway.com and 4508 Toucan.com just joined the internet world of online marketing. You easily link to realtor.com and trulia.com and craigs list. I have to say thanks to Elaine Carlson for sharing her love of this company. This is the way newspapers can not ever be the same. Each listing has a sign with a link to your listing and its very own home website.

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Robert W. Pope is the CEO of Pope And Associates Interior Space Planning and Design, Inc. The company started in 1986, after 10 years of experience as Vice President of Designers Adcock and Stock. His work in Century City continues to this day. The first offices were in Santa Monica and later Century City 2020 Avenue of the Stars. His lifetime service award in Rotary included Presidency and a strong affiliation with the Japanese Student exchange area.

Century City continues to grow and develop with the experience of Robert Pope and his company working to renovate, relocate and reward his longtime clients. His clients locations range from Los Angeles, Century City, Palos Verdes, Hermosa Beach and across the country. His client list includes Banks (Union), Real Estate, restaurants, homes, and Offices in many industries.

Robert’s father William “Jack” Pope was a leader in the American Automobile Club encouraging them to purchase the land for the company AAA offices. His Maternal Grandfather Clarence LeMunyon was a builder in the Long Beach area. Robert moved to Hermosa Beach in 1960 and became an avid surfer. He graduated from Mira Costa High school in Manhattan Beach. His degrees are from the USC School of Business and Woodbury School of Interior Design.
Robert W. Pope may be reached at 310-937-6120 His company is located in Hermosa Beach, Ca. 90504
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emailed at http:// www.popeassocinc@yahoo.com