We have known Jim & Donna Klinge for over a dozen years, having met them in Carlsbad where our children went to the same school. As long time North County residents, it was a no- brainer for us to have the Klinges be our eyes and ears for San Diego real estate in general and North County in particular. As my military career caused our family to move all over the country and overseas to Asia, Europe and the Pacific, we trusted Jim and Donna to help keep our house in Carlsbad rented with reliable and respectful tenants for over 10 years.
Naturally, when the time came to sell our beloved Carlsbad home to pursue a rural lifestyle in retirement out of California, we could think of no better team to represent us than Jim and Donna. They immediately went to work to update our house built in 2004 to current-day standards and trends — in 2 short months they transformed it into a literal modern-day masterpiece. We trusted their judgement implicitly and followed 100% of their recommended changes. When our house finally came on the market, there was a blizzard of serious interest, we had multiple offers by the third day and it sold in just 5 days after a frenzied bidding war for 20% above our asking price! The investment we made in upgrades recommended by Jim and Donna yielded a 4-fold return, in the process setting a new high water mark for a house sold in our community.
In our view, there are no better real estate professionals in all of San Diego than Jim and Donna Klinge. Buying or selling, you must run and beg Jim and Donna Klinge to represent you! Our family will never forget Jim, Donna, and their whole team at Compass — we are forever grateful to them.
The U-T also had Roger’s dose of reality too:
For San Diego, the sales count was 3,070, down 21 percent from June’s 3,885 — the biggest June-July dropoff since 1995.
June is typically the highest-selling month of the year, according to DataQuick and July is typically about 6 percent lower. Since 2000 July has only ranked first once in most sales in any given year.
Between the time I published this post, and now, the HW changed the headline to take out the quotation of ‘Standstill’.
Are you HW guys reading this?
“People hate me, I think…the neighbors–but I’m doing everyone a favor. Just putting it all out in the open so people know what’s happening around them.”(JtR)
*Grin* Jim, you need to do your Jack Nicholson impression as you drive by: “The truth? You can’t handle the truth!”…
Your reports on how frustrating it is for buyers have saved me a lot of frustration. Sending in the rent check has never been so gratifying.
We stopped looking over a month ago. Yesterday I popped up zip to see if any new houses popped up where we’re looking. Nothing has changed. No new listings and no drops in price. Nothing has sold either…
Fortunately rent is cheap. (although not paying your mortgage and living for free is probably cheaper)
With interest rates as low as they are and all the free money floating around I doubt things are going to change anytime soon. Banks need to raise interest rates and constrain the money supply so deadbeats get evicted and savers can afford properties again.
Hey Jim, if we wrote you in for Mayor of SD, would you accept the position?
No, I’d have to move!
Classic JTR delivery.
“Probably not going to miss that eh … tank!”