If you use a credit card or Newport Beach bank checking account’s online system, you may have noticed the appearance of a free service: FICO score tracking. You find it as a clickable area with a link title like “Your FICO® score” or just “FICO®.”

For many years, each of the major credit reporting agencies was mandated by law to honor any consumer’s request for a copy of their credit scores—but it was a once-a-year deal. For access to regular updates, you had to pay for a subscription. Particularly for consumers working to improve their credit scores, the paid services became a prudent monthly expense. The arrival of anytime free FICO score reporting eliminated much of that need.

Of course, tracking your FICO score is only useful if you know how…

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Saturday -  November 25th, 2017

1748 Iowa Street, Costa Mesa 1-4

 

Sunday - November 19th26th, 2017

1748 Iowa Street, Costa Mesa 1-4

 

 

 

We are built on a philosophy of Heritage & Hustle L3 is a full service real estate agency with a regional office located in the heart of#CostaMesaoffering a wide-array of custom services to meet their clients’ needs with roots in the community since 1976. It’s L3 mission to provide trusted, convenient, responsive service to ensure clients enjoy their real estate experience. L3 was originally formed to offer personal, concierge-level service as an alternative to the large, nationally based real estate companies. From its small beginnings of only two employees, L3 has grown to a full…

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Saturday -  November 18th, 2017

1231 Abelia, Irvine 1-4

1748 Iowa Street, Costa Mesa 1-4

312 36th St, Newport Beach 1-4

 

Sunday - November 19th, 2017

1231 Abelia, Irvine 1-4

8222 Kingfisher Dr, Huntington Beach 1-4

1748 Iowa Street, Costa Mesa 1-4

2844 E Hempstead Rd, Anaheim 1-4

312 36th St, Newport Beach 1-4

 

 

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

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Friday - November 10th, 2017

8222 Kingfisher Dr, Huntington Beach 11-2

 

Saturday -  November 11th, 2017

8222 Kingfisher Dr, Huntington Beach 1-4

1141 Salinas Ave, Costa Mesa 1-4

 

Sunday - November 12th, 2017

8222 Kingfisher Dr, Huntington Beach 1-4

1141 Salinas Ave, Costa Mesa 1-4

2370 Elden Ave A, Costa Mesa 1-4 

 

 

 

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

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  When it comes to appraising and developing appropriate responses to offers on your Huntington Beach home, I’m there to offer counsel and guidance. Even so, you are the ultimate decision maker. Especially for Huntington Beach homeowners without previous selling experience, becoming familiar with some practical pointers for home selling negotiations is well worth doing. Huntington Beach sellers can find one rich source at the National Association of Realtors® web site. This month’s World Series finale undoubtedly inspired the title for a list of home selling negotiation pitfalls. Published the morning of Houston’s Game 7 victory, it dealt with errors in home selling negotiations. It was subtitled “Negotiation Hardball Fouls.”

  Although the…

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More than half of U.S. homeowners expect their home’s value to rise in the coming year. For Costa Mesa real estate watchers who track public sentiment as a market indicator, the news comes as a welcome addition to other reports of rising consumer optimism regarding the economy as a whole.

  The finding comes from a national telephone and online survey conducted earlier this month by the Rasmussen Reports organization. It signals an acceleration in a year-long trend of rising expectations among U.S. homeowners. A year earlier, fewer than 40% had predicted that their own home values would rise in the coming year. In this latest report, that number has increased to 53%—a leap of 12% over the March finding. According to Rasmussen summary, this…

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   Ask a typical Newport Beach consumer to name the two most important purchases people make, and you’ll almost always hear “new house” and “new car.” They’re often lumped together, but they shouldn’t be. They aren’t all that similar.

  The rationale for buying a new car is clear: automotive technology advances nearly every model year, improving fuel economy and safety. Add in that intoxicating new car smell, and the preference is all but automatic. Used cars may be economical, but as for the thrill factor: nyah!

  Similarly, when the question is put to a cross-section of typical Americans, new homes get the nod over existing ones. The percentage of those who “strongly” or “somewhat” prefer buying a newly built home weighs in at 41%. That’s a…

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Last weekend’s regular California news should have been promoting all the usual upbeat feature stories about the onset of football season, the start of a brand new school year, the finals of tennis’ last grand slam tournament and the like—but Fountain Valley readers would have gotten eye strain trying to find any of them. Instead, the dark clouds brought by Hurricanes Irma and Harvey cast dense shadows across the region and the nation’s news. It was certain, too, that even after the terror of their actual passages had subsided, the fallout would continue to reverberate—expensively—for a very long time.

What was covered was how the prayers of millions not directly affected were being answered by many thousands of Good Samaritan volunteers.…

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September Events

 Orange County Farmers Markets Ongoing List of Farmers Markets in Orange County www.orangecounty.net/html/farmersmarkets.html

Orange Street Fair 2017 Sept 1-3 International foods, crafts, folk dancing and music. Many different ethnic foods and costume. The Street Fair has become known for the variety of food reflecting cuisine from around the world. They provide food, drink, entertainment and crafts to the visitors. http://www.orangestreetfair.org/

Sails 'n Ales Tall Ships Festival Kickoff Party 2017 Sept 8 Help us celebrate the start of 33rd Annual Ocean Institute Tall Ships Festival presented by Toshiba with our Sails 'n Ales Party! Featuring beer and cider tastings from Sierra Nevada, Mother Earth Brew Company,…

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L3 Real Estate Orange County, CA Featured Open House for

 

Saturday - August 26th, 2017

956 Paularino Ave, Costa Mesa 1-4

2844 E. Hempstead Rd, Anaheim 1-4

2370 Elden Ave #A, Costa Mesa 1-4

1748 Iowa Street, Costa Mesa 1-4

 

Sunday - August 27th, 2017

956 Paularino Ave, Costa Mesa 1-4

1748 Iowa Street, Costa Mesa 1-4

 

 

We are built on a philosophy of Heritage & Hustle L3 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 L3mission to provide trusted, convenient, responsive service to ensure clients enjoy their real estate experience. L3 was…

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