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20 Nov 2020

What Will Happen in 2021? 📊 – TBG Update 11/20

I’m so excited to show our new listing at 160 S Poinsettia by appointment this Sunday from 12 pm to 2 pm! The sellers’ parents each lived until almost 100 years old in this house! The air conditioning is updated but otherwise, most of the house i... Read More

14 Nov 2020

The End of the Year is Near 🏃‍♀️ -TBG Update 11/14

November and December are always our busiest time of the year. I think as the year comes to a close, people discover that their New Year's resolution of buying or selling a house didn’t happen and it’s now or never for the year that’s ending. R... Read More

06 Nov 2020

We Miss Open Houses! 💔 -TBG Update 11/6

I miss open houses so much!!!!!!!!! I love talking about real estate and meeting all the people who come to browse houses for sale just for fun! I love meeting people and discussing their house, and their plans and their dreams and their life. Inevit... Read More

30 Oct 2020

Reciprocal Kindness 🤗 -TBG Update 10/30

I’m excited for my sellers at 950 S Muirfield who received nine offers and have their house in escrow for way over asking. The most desirable popular style house in our area is authentic Spanish. There is most demand for move-in ready Spanish house... Read More

25 Oct 2020

Red Hot Property 🚨 -TBG Update 10/23

Our listing at 950 S Muirfield is a Red Hot Property on Redfin and we have over 20 showings scheduled in 15 minutes increments all day long on Sunday starting at 9:30 am. The house is super cute and charming and full of character and it’s so fun an... Read More

16 Oct 2020

Our Favorite People 🤩 – TBG Update 10/16

Leslie Whitlock, small business owner of Leslie Whitlock Staging Company, passed away this week of complications from pneumonia and our team is grieving. Leslie was a talented creative independent stager with eclectic cool taste. I enjoyed working wi... Read More

09 Oct 2020

My Favorite Dish 🍞 – TBG Update 10/9

We recently took over an expired listing that was on the market for six months with another agent. We kept the price the same but we redid the staging, the cleaning, and of course all the marketing and the overall presentation of the listing. Within ... Read More

02 Oct 2020

Real Estate Automation? 🤖 – TBG Update 10/2

This week I had a conversation with a potential seller who believes that real estate will get automated and computers/websites will make real estate agents obsolete. As a person who passionately does real estate well, there’s no way you can elimina... Read More

01 Oct 2020

Inspiring Gratitude & Appreciation 🙌🏻 – TBG Update 9/25

One of my most favorite sales of all time closed this week. The house at 106 N Vista was such an honor to represent. The owner painstakingly restored her house in 2011 to look the way it would have looked historically in 1933 when it was built. She p... Read More

18 Sep 2020

Wishing You a Sweet New Year 🍯 – TBG Update 9/18

Tonight is Rosh Hashanah and holidays make me miss my mom. At the beginning of this week, I threw together my mom’s signature simple purple plum torte. And then on Wednesday night at 2 am I made my mom’s pickled salmon and this year I pickled the... Read More

11 Sep 2020

Surprise Reunions & Hollywood Endings 🐰 – TBG Update 9/11

We closed a sale this week with the most awesome people on both sides. The day after close, the buyer called me from his new house. He went with his dad to walk through and check it all out, and on a whim before he left, he decided to go back and see... Read More

04 Sep 2020

Awesome People Rock! 🙌🏻 – TBG Update 9/4

I’m so excited to be newly working with a second family of sellers who are clients for the third time. These sellers were initially referred by a sibling, who became one of my dearest friends and favorite people. One of my favorite parts of my job ... Read More

28 Aug 2020

Always Learning 📚 – TBG Update 8/28

My travels in real estate feel like a lesson in sociology. I love to observe and to learn from the inspiring clients I get the honor to work with every day. I still remember a time so many years ago when I happened to be standing in the driveway o... Read More

21 Aug 2020

A Spectacular and Rare Jewel 💎 – TBG Update 8/21

Everything I love to believe about life and about real estate is true at our Vista listing. The house is spectacular and a rare jewel. The owner took a 1933 Spanish home and she restored it in 2011 with every beautiful historical period detail intact... Read More

17 Aug 2020

Our Most Valuable Resource – TBG Update 8/14

Time is our most valuable and important resource. At our new listing at 106 N Vista, the owner is a super meticulous detail oriented person who took so much time to restore her house to perfection. Her house is rated by the city as an A++ candidat... Read More

07 Aug 2020

We are all Caterpillars – TBG Update 8/7

It’s so much better to be outdoors than indoors because if you can figure out how to be outdoors and six feet away from any human, then maybe you don’t have to wear a mask. Maybe, as in if you’re in a private yard and no one will be moving arou... Read More

04 Aug 2020

Reconsidering Priorities – TBG Update 7/31

It was interesting this week to meet different people leaving California. There’s the exec moving to Texas because the plan is for her to move her whole company out of California because state taxes are going up for the highest tier taxpayers in Ca... Read More

24 Jul 2020

Design is King to Selling Homes – TBG Update 7/24

It’s cool to hike up the dirt trail that hugs the most northern gate into Wattles Garden. The trail is straight up a mountain that’s higher than both Runyon Trails. The trail was completely empty when I went right before sunset and the views from... Read More

22 Jul 2020

Self Storage When Downsizing and Decluttering

Storage When Downsizing and Decluttering In our recent blog post we discussed downsizing, a growing trend in property ownership occurring in areas with high property values such as Los Angeles. There are multiple benefits to downsizing your home. ... Read More

17 Jul 2020

The Best Food on Earth – TBG Update 7/17

My favorite thing about this time of year is summer fruit - large dark red nectarines that squirt juice everywhere when you take that first bite, huge pink peaches that are white and clawingly sweet inside, plums that are dark red when you cut into t... Read More

13 Jul 2020

Driving Through the Streets of LA – TBG Update 7/10

It’s interesting to drive through the streets and to see the common sites of our times today - glass companies taking down the plywood in the store fronts and installing new glass, so many FOR LEASE signs in commercial storefronts, so many stores w... Read More

03 Jul 2020

Happy 4th of July! – TBG Weekly Update 7/3/2020

I’m absolutely heartbroken and devastated that my neighbors’ 20 year old beautiful daughter’s life was cut short. The shocking news of the passing of a young beautiful girl in her prime with the loveliest parents and extended family around her ... Read More

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