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Editorial Note: The following election results have been reported by the San Diego County Registrar of Voters (does not include statewide returns). Governor - Vote Pct. Gavin Newsom (D) 301,867 53.96% Brian Dahle (R) 257,526 46.04% Lieutenant Governor - Vote Pct. Eleni Kounalakis (D) 299,989 54.14% Angela E. Underwood Jacobs (R) 254,089 45.86% Secretary Of State - Vote Pct. Shirley N. Weber (D) 302,289 54.79% Rob Bernosky (R) 249,461 45.21% Controller - Vote Pct. Malia M. Cohen (D) 275,211 50.15% Lanhee J. Chen (R) 273,602...
As most of you know, Chris and I have retired and are now living in Tennessee. We still care about our sweet town of Fallbrook, so wanted to pass this along to you. Eileen Delaney is the current chair of the Fallbrook Planning Group. She has lived in Fallbrook for over 30 years. She has been elected to the planning group for approximately 20 years. She is an involved and passionate member of our town. She is running this year. I urge you to vote for her. She is involved in many other committees that impact Fallbrook. She...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter The Fallbrook Community Planning Group recommended a list of road segments and intersections, in some cases emphasizing specific times, for speed limit and other traffic law enforcement by the California Highway Patrol. A 14-0 planning group vote July 18, with Kim Murphy absent, approved the recommendation of the list to the CHP. “We’re thankful for any extra patrols that they can provide us,” said planning group chair Eileen Delaney. “We’re very concerned about the speeding.” In many cases...
Murphy & Murphy bid farewell to their beloved Fallbrook. Their real estate brokerage has been sold to Tim Kirk, who will continue to run the business from the 130 N. Main Ave office location. Kirk, a 9-year Fallbrook resident and retired U.S. Marine, was with Pacific Sotheby's International Realty for the past 7.5 years. Kirk said he was interested in buying Murphy & Murphy because he believes they have the same values and run in some of the same circles. He shares the...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter The May 16 meeting of the Fallbrook Community Planning Group included a presentation with updated information about a potential pathway or trail along Stage Coach Lane and a planning group vote restating the community priority for such a pathway or trail. An 11-0 vote with four members absent approved a motion requesting that the county’s Department of Public Works continue to work on the preliminary engineering report, continue to identify potential funding including Park Land Dedication O...
Come gather ‘round people, wherever you roam And admit that the waters around you have grown And accept it that soon you’ll be drenched to the bone It your time to you is worth saving Then you better start swimming’ or you’ll sink like a stone For the times, they are a-changin’ Bob Dylan, 1964 Over the past two years we have repeatedly been asked, how long will this boom last? How high will prices go? Well, there are many indications that we are starting to see the end of th...
Imagine a 25% tax to sell your home? Assemblymember Christopher M. Ward of California’s 78th District, which is from Solana Beach to Imperial Beach, is the author of Assembly Bill 1771. It was co-authored by Assemblymember Kevin Mullin of California’s 22nd District, which is South San Francisco and South San Francisco Bay. They state that the focus of the bill is on investors/flippers. The only problem is it targets the capital gains from the sale or exchange of any qua...
I hear titles or cliches in my head, often when I think about the real estate marketplace. Titles like “The Fast and the Furious” or phrases like “the devil is in the details.” Sometimes it feels like we’re spinning plates on sticks, praying that none of the plates crash to the ground. Take your eye off the ball and “you’re out!” Sorry about that, I can’t help myself. The fact of the matter is that all those phrases apply to today’s real estate market and the importance of t...
I’m a very logical thinker. As a real estate professional that is mostly good because it keeps me focused on what is measurable and true. Real estate, however, for the consumer is a very emotional process. When the market is spinning as fast as it currently is, the emotion of real estate can get in the way of what is logical, measurable, and true. Back to the simple math of real estate; $1,000,000 less 4% is $960,000; $1,200,000 less 6% is $1,128,000. Those four numbers are t...
Politics and real estate are not mutually exclusive. Most everything that happens in politics which becomes governance, impacts property. I am reminded of the Realtor Code of Ethics Preamble that begins: “Under all is the land. Upon its wise utilization and widely allocated ownership depend the survival and growth of free institutions and of our civilization.” Much of what I grew up believing is being challenged today, and if I am completely honest, has been challenged as far...
Strike that. From my perspective, in a town like Fallbrook, Vehicle Miles Traveled is only bad or ugly. The idea of VMT originated in Sacramento to combat “global warming.” The proposal focused on the “stick” approach to decreasing the number of vehicles on the road each day. Rather than entice employers to increase consistent remote workers through tax incentive, the powers in Sacramento chose to punish the workers and the communities from which they come, by adding a fee,...
Realtors who never answer their phone but will respond immediately to a text Personal contact is in short supply these days. Customer service has become a phone tree with more limbs than I care to count. You can get lost in that tangle of limbs. In real estate, however, buying a home or selling a home is a very personal experience. So, when a listing agent does not answer their phone, but will immediately respond to a text, that just rubs me the wrong way. The simple courtesy...
An experienced, professional Realtor is all the above. The problem is that most Realtors don't know how to own those roles. They may have a cursory understanding of the contracts, and if they don’t, they have a broker (hopefully) to help them with the documents. But the details of a successful transaction rests with the ability of the Realtor to be effective in all three of the above roles. The fourth quarter has shown me how crucial proficiency in these roles is to c...
A Dec. 1 special meeting of the Fallbrook Community Planning Group directed planning group chair Eleen Delaney to compose letters to the state redistricting commission and the county redistricting commission. An 11-0 vote directed Delaney to write a letter in support of a proposed State Assembly map which unites Fallbrook with other communities along the Interstate 15 corridor. Anna Strahan had another meeting and was unable to participate in the 10-0 vote recommending Map 13A for the Board of Supervisors redistricting and...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter A recommendation to limit hours of cannabis facilities to between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. received the necessary eight votes to be an official recommendation of the Fallbrook Community Planning Group. A majority of the full board, or eight votes, is necessary for a motion to pass. Eight members of the planning group voted in favor of the recommendation Nov. 15, five were opposed, and two members could not participate in the meeting. A 4-1 San Diego County Board of Supervisors vote Jan. 27, with Jim...
This is the time of year that everyone talks about gratitude. It’s as if there’s an obligation to bring it up because, after all, we have a holiday named after it, Thanksgiving. My first thought is, what a shame that we don’t talk about gratitude more regularly. It can’t possibly be that we as a people are only grateful from November to December each year, and the rest of the time, we’re just _ _ _ – fill in the blank. Thanksgiving does remind us to be grateful. I’m thankfu...
The week after I wrote my column on zestimates, Zillow, the creator of the zestimate, discontinued their i-buyer program because they owned 9,790 homes at a value of $3.75 billion, with two-thirds of them underwater. Zillow is trying to unload 7,000 homes with a value of approximately $1.8 billion. Their CEO, Richard Barton, cited price forecasting volatility as the main reason that Zillow had been overpaying for homes. Turns out that their very own zestimate program was not...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter The Fallbrook Community Planning Group and its Ad Hoc Cannabis Ordinance Committee are reviewing various elements of the proposed revision of the county's cannabis ordinance, and on Oct. 18 the planning group voted to support limitations on parcels used for cannabis cultivation. Tom Harrington was not able to participate in the Oct. 18 meeting, but the other 14 planning group members supported the motion which would require cultivation to occur on property with A70 agricultural zoning,...
A zestimate by any other name is really a guess-timate. Algorithms provide a “value” on a property based on data. The data measures, in the case of real estate, the size of the building, the age of the building, the size of the parcel it’s located on, and the location of the parcel. It takes this data and compares it to other properties within a specific geographic area. The zestimate can be fairly accurate when it is applied to a home in a planned unit development, where...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter When Jack Wood moved out of the Fallbrook Community Planning Area and resigned from the Fallbrook Community Planning Group, first vice-chair Eileen Delaney replaced Wood as the chair of the planning group. On Oct. 18, second vice-chair Roy Moosa became the new first vice-chair while Kim Murphy became the second vice-chair. "I think it will be a great team. We are all on the same page. We want what's best for Fallbrook," Delaney said. The planning group bylaws state that if the chair dies, resi...
Wouldn’t it be great if “yes” really meant “yes”? Many times, “yes” seems to mean “yes” only if it isn’t inconvenient or doesn’t make things more difficult. But “yes” should mean “yes” and “no” should mean “no.” Simple, no discussion, it’s either “yes” or “no.” In real estate, the lines are no less blurred on the “yes” meaning “yes” than in any other part of our lives. I can hear you now, saying, well, when I say “yes” it really means “yes.” Let me share some stories...
Never in our 25 years selling real estate have we experienced more homeowners who are selling and leaving California. Easily 8 out of every 10 of the sellers we work with are leaving California to find more affordable housing, lower taxes, and a different political culture. Retirees are leaving California. They want to stretch their retirement funds out as far as possible, so giving up great weather in exchange for a lower cost of living and lower taxes, are worth the move....
Wouldn’t it be great if there was a warranty on everything in life? I for one, would love a warranty on health, or relationships. I suppose one could say that generally we all have a warranty on health. The warranty just runs out at different times for every individual. The warranty on health could be deemed to be invalid if an individual intentionally does things to undermine their health. A warranty on relationships would be awesome if it meant that a service could be p...
In the last 15 years, the State of California has adopted key legislative bills that address the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Specifically, Assembly Bill 32 (AB 32, 2006) sets a statewide GHG reduction target to return to the 1990 emissions level by the year 2020. In addition, in 2008, California adopted SB 375 which specifically addresses emissions from transportation. SB 375 directs California's Metropolitan Planning Organizations to meet GHG emission reduction...
In real estate, we try to anticipate everything that could impact a transaction. The best way to stave off any unexpected discovery is through full disclosure by the seller of everything they know about the property that could affect the value and desirability of the property. As I’ve mentioned recently, disclosure by the seller is one key to a smooth transaction. There are also reports that sellers provide to the buyers which provide information from third parties that add a...
