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

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.

www.activerain.com/lynnepope

introduce yourself at inman-

 film yourself- name, Real Estate,Redondo beach- upload to youtube then email to.daniel.rothamel@inman.com This is his example.

This is a twitter that was sent out to my group. I have the flip phone and have been a fan of daniel…the real estate zebra for some time. So thanks to active rain where I got my blogging start I learned from Mara Hawks about her flip phone. She is a freind living in Auburn Alabama.  Active rain is a social real estate network that everyone can learn and grow in . I hope you will give it a try and check out my blog http://activerain.com/lynnepope

Blogging and social networks give you the reader an opportunity to see what we have in common. Our interests do attract like a magnet and we send out radio wave frequencies of energy even over the internet. I look forward to meeting the other bloggers at inman

Sydney Pollack was not only noble but large. The performances, the director, the husband, the family. Robert Pope was the designer that he worked with in New York. Pope and Associates Interior Space Planning and Design, Inc. is a Century City Design Firm seen on ActiveRain.com

Tip of all time is to buy or rent a treasure of a dvd- the Frank Gehry contribution to Architecture and film with Sydeny Pollack.

When we learn from blogs over Yahoo news that is a good thing. It’s proof of love. The editorial is usually neutral in emotion- sometimes a bias but still cold over warm.This blog has the warm respect for another life in just a few words.

The movie with Frank Gehry was a simple final complete gift. We have so many places to see the noble, the funny and the gifted film person on any side of the camera.

  This is how a blog told me todays news…

Friend of Heartland Sydney Pollack Passes

http://heartlandtmp.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 05/ 28/ friend-of-heartland-sydney-pollack-…

I was wrapping up a pleasantly quiet Memorial Day weekend on Monday when I clicked over to Yahoo! News and read of the passing of Sydney Pollack.

USA news and world report has a complete article, well written, and researched.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2008-05-26-pollack-obit_N.htm?csp=34   By Mike Clark, USA TODAY

Sydney Pollack began his career as an actor, then often continued as one, even after winning directing and producing Academy Awards for 1985′s Out of Africa

 Further search can be found on the internet movie data base. http://www.imdb.com/