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January 2017

Found 10 blog entries for January 2017.

 

 

 

To end the suspense, the answer to the title question about when is the optimal time to buy a home in Costa Mesa has been officially answered. The answer is, more or less, “now.” All right, there’s an alternate answer, “as soon as practical”—but that is a less dramatic-sounding version of the same thing.

The official nature of that answer is due to its source, generally considered to be the apex of the residential real estate industry: the National Association of Realtors®. The “®” is there after “Realtor” because the group literally owns the word “Realtor”—that’s how much of an industry leader the NAR is!

I’m a member because of all the resources it makes available for the benefit of my Costa Mesa clients. Among the raft of those

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L3 / Weichman Realtors Orange County, CA Featured Open House for January 28th and 29th!


Saturday - January 28th, 2017

1079 Cheyenne St, Costa Mesa 1-4

17230 Newhope St, Founatin Valley 1-4

2106 Greenwood Ct, Fullerton 1-4

 

Sunday- January 29th, 2017

1079 Cheyenne St, Costa Mesa 1-4

17230 Newhope St, Fountain Valley 1-4

2106 Greenwood Ct, Fullerton 1-4

 

We are built on a philosophy of Heritage & Hustle L3/Weichman Realtors is a full service real estate agency with a regional office located in the heart of #CostaMesa offering a wide-array of custom services to meet their clients’ needs with roots in the community since 1976. It’s L3/Weichman’s mission to provide trusted, convenient, responsive service to ensure

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 One reason why Costa Mesa real estate commentators like to offer quizzes is to make readers feel good about how much they know. Being that Costa Mesa homeowners probably do more than an average amount of reading about Costa Mesa real estate matters, you would expect that any real estate-themed quiz would succeed in creating that kind of warm, positive experience.

This is not that kind of quiz.

I put it together because it’s a quick way to present some of the more unlikely survey results. They are culled from recent National Association of Realtors® informational articles. The quiz may not foster warm feelings of knowledgeability, but to compensate, it’s shorter than most of those web quizzes (who has time to answer 25 questions?).

Ready?

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 If this is going to be a year of upsets, the rules for when Costa Mesa listings are best initiated might be primed to fly out the window. There’s no guarantee that 2017’s Costa Mesa listing performance will bend the rules, but if the National Association of Realtor’s® news site is right, it’s a definite possibility.

The history has long demonstrated that the most opportune time of year to add your home to the Costa Mesa listings is during the peak spring and summer seasons. When you look at the volume of home sales through most years, those months do look inviting. There are exceptions, but for the most part, spring and summer regularly excel in sales volume.

Last week, the Realtor® website ran an article in their Trends area headlining

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L3 / Weichman Realtors Orange County, CA Featured Open House for January 14th and 15th!


Saturday - January 21st, 2016

1079 Cheyenne Street, Costa Mesa 1-4

 

Sunday- January 22nd, 2016!

1079 Cheyenne Street, Costa Mesa 1-4

 

We are built on a philosophy of Heritage & Hustle L3/Weichman Realtors is a full service real estate agency with a regional office located in the heart of #CostaMesa offering a wide-array of custom services to meet their clients’ needs with roots in the community since 1976. It’s L3/Weichman’s mission to provide trusted, convenient, responsive service to ensure clients enjoy their real estate experience. L3/Weichman Realtors was originally formed to offer personal, concierge-level service as an alternative

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  Showing a home in bad weather might seem to be a blueprint for disappointment, but sometimes that’s not what happens. Of course, prospective buyers do find that house hunting in Costa Mesa is easiest when the sun is shining, but homes continue to be bought and sold in every season, and sometimes bad weather can even prove to be advantageous.

  Now, it’s true that when you stick the word “bad” in front of anything, you can bet it will stifle enthusiasm. If you’re trying to promote something, it’s hardly the go-to adjective. “Let’s try out that new Chinese restaurant—I hear it’s bad” isn’t a quorum-builder. That’s why “let’s schedule some serious house hunting; it looks like the weather will be really bad,” isn’t likely to spur a lot of

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Weichman Realtors Orange County, CA Featured Open House for January 14th and 15th!


Saturday - January 14th, 2016

1079 Cheyenne Street, Costa Mesa 1-4

 

Sunday- January 15th, 2016!

1079 Cheyenne Street, Costa Mesa 1-4

 

We are built on a philosophy of Heritage & Hustle L3/Weichman Realtors is a full service real estate agency with a regional office located in the heart of #CostaMesa offering a wide-array of custom services to meet their clients’ needs with roots in the community since 1976. It’s L3/Weichman’s mission to provide trusted, convenient, responsive service to ensure clients enjoy their real estate experience. L3/Weichman Realtors was originally formed to offer personal, concierge-level service as an alternative to

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   In Spanish-speaking countries, a bribe is known as mordida. In Italy, spintarella; in parts of Asia, baksheesh. Baksheesh can also mean a tip, which is perfectly legal and ethical in a restaurant, but not so much in a bank or government office.

   Here in Costa Mesa, CA, we have a pretty inflexible attitude about bribery: we don’t like it. When we discover it, we go further than that—we fine, jail, and otherwise make its practitioners wish they had turned bribes down. More than one mayor (Chicago comes to mind) has learned or is currently learning that the hard way.

   But when it comes to negotiating with Costa Mesa mortgage lenders, there is a perfectly legal way to bribe them into seeing things a little more your way. As the Greeks

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Weichman Realtors Orange County, CA Featured Open House for January 7th and 8th!


Saturday - January 7th, 2016

1079 Cheyenne Street, Costa Mesa 1-4

 

Sunday- January 8th, 2016!

1079 Cheyenne Street, Costa Mesa 1-4

 1670 Iowa Street, Costa Mesa 1-4

 

We are built on a philosophy of Heritage & Hustle L3/Weichman Realtors is a full service real estate agency with a regional office located in the heart of #CostaMesa offering a wide-array of custom services to meet their clients’ needs with roots in the community since 1976. It’s L3/Weichman’s mission to provide trusted, convenient, responsive service to ensure clients enjoy their real estate experience. L3/Weichman Realtors was originally formed to offer personal,

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      It’s that time again: the annual look at whether there is a convincing consensus among real estate experts for what to expect in the coming year. Costa Mesa homeowners and potential homeowners found generally welcoming conditions throughout 2016, as steadily improving property values and low mortgage interest rates echoed the national picture. With lending rates beginning to rise, there could be reason to question whether an equally agreeable Costa Mesa real estate climate will prevail in 2017.

     Apparently, there is not much to worry about. Despite the usual qualification that the nation’s real estate experts are no more clairvoyant than are experts in any field, when you look over this batch of New Year’s predictions, you can’t

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