Temecula Wine County Custom View Home Listed at $797,550 Are you seeking a refuge from the stress of urban living? Are you looking for a retirement home or vacation home in a tranquil rural setting but still close to urban amenities? Are you looking for a true custom home on a large, but easily
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04/30/2010
CitiMortgage Mounts Shock and Awe Campaign against Baffled Home Owner I bank by Internet and on my last mortgage payment to CitiMortgage made an entry mistake- I placed a zero where a one should have been, underpaying the mortgage payment by $100. I did not notice the mistake and by bank notifi
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04/28/2010
I have just attended the activerain class on Basic Blogging and one of the subjects discussed under the keys to success was Key 4 - Be Hyper-Local. The top item in this Key was "Share on Local Businesses". I use this technique on my off site blog at TemeculaWineCountyCustomHomes.com. On this site
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04/22/2010
Young and naive, I once critiqued a floor plan to a top executive at a national homebuilding company, my employer. He put me down, handed me a pen and some flimsy (tracing paper) and told me to make the changes.Ever since then I have worked closely with architects and often drafted suggested ch
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04/22/2010
The Roman architect Vitruvius is famous for asserting in his book De architectura that a structure must exhibit the three qualities of firmitas, utilitas, venustas. More than 2000 years later, his words still hold true. Firmitas has to do with the quality of the work and how it is built. Utilita
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04/22/2010
The resale home market is being drawn down by bank owned and short sale properties in all price ranges. Appraisers should only base their appraisals on a “sale between a willing buyer and willing seller” but that rule is largely being ignored. Sight unseen appraisals and computer generated estim
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04/22/2010
Last weekend I went to an open house to look at a custom home that is competitive to my listing. It was virtually the same square footage and lot size, had a view and was completed last year with travertine flooring, granite counter tops - all the buyer's check list of "have to have". On paper it
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04/21/2010
Photographs are becoming increasingly important in marketing homes. Some Agencies are now saying you should post a minimum of 15-photographs, and I agree. However, the time of day you shoot is critical. What the great photographers call the "magic moment" comes at dawn and just before dusk. In
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04/21/2010
The Irvine Company recently opened the Village of Woodbury and the homebuilding industry is saying it is both an indication the housing market is beginning to rebound and a predictor of future housing design. On January 30 more than 10.000 people attended the grand opening of Woodbury, includin
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04/21/2010
"Value Engineered Homes" have four, a true custom home can have 20- or more. Each corner a builder adds to a home adds to cost. The foundation becomes more complex and roof line above as well. In recent years "Value Engineered" construction has dominated construction -it was created by the buil
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04/21/2010
