Welcome! Don and Leslie have been full time Realtors in Ventura County for over 30 years. It's been fun watching as "little" Victoria Avenue (and many other streets) have morphed into what they are today.
Just as our local communities have evolved, we've seriously considered for the past several years how we could someday "give back" and "finish well" - expressions that can mean a lot of things to different people.
As part of our research into opportunities for service, in early 2013 we contacted a Peace Corps recruiter who helped us start our journey. But our new path wasn't going to be as straight and easy as we thought! And so we began a transition into something completely different from the routines we've known for the past 30 years - and have begun a path that's leading into the exciting unknown. This will be our story!
By Don | January 30, 2009
In a meeting for Association brokers yesterday afternoon that Don attended, it was announced that the California Association of Realtors (CAR) formally voted last week to create a new statewide MLS. Read the rest of this article »
By Leslie | January 20, 2009
Here are the pending sales for December. Pending sales are homes that have gone into escrow and are a leading indicator of market activity. Oxnard is still the sales leader with sales over 3 times the volumn of last year. The majority of those sales are distressed sales – foreclosures and short sales.
By Leslie | January 20, 2009
Here are the December sold statistics.
By Don | January 7, 2009
I was able to spend some “quality time” on the Tiger Moth over the Christmas holiday season. Work on the airplane generally comes in spurts, in increments of an hour or two – as you’ll see why. Read the rest of this article »
By Don | January 3, 2009
Or stay on the sidelines?
No doubt about it. For real estate, the skies are dark with news of high foreclosures from the sub-prime mess, sales are down, credit standards are being raised, there’s high inventory, uncertainty about the economy – you name it, it’s big news in the media today. Read the rest of this article »