La Jolla Real Estate: La Jolla Luxury Homes

Smoke and Mirrors

Staging your oceanfront La Jolla homes is about illusions. It's how David Copperfield would sell oceanfront La Jolla homes. It's beyond decorating and cleaning. It's about perfecting the art of creating moods. Home Staging makes your oceanfront La Jolla homes makes them look bigger, brighter, cleaner, warmer, more loving and, best of all, it makes buyers want to buy it.

Contrary to what you might think, it's about more than preparing the house for sale. Staging is what you do after you've cleaned, decluttered, painted, made minor repairs; it's all about dressing the house for sale. It's about adding the small details: the lipstick, mascara and, for simplicity, a stunning, single strand of Tahitian pearls.

What is a Professional Home Stager?

Professional stagers are highly skilled artists. They can take a blank canvas and paint a sensuous portrait without ever lifting a paint brush. Stagers possess the skills of a top-level designer and they create dramatic scenery that appeals to all five senses. Here are some of their secrets:

• Arrange sparse pieces of furniture in an appealing grouping known as a vignette
• Showcase a generous usage of soft fabrics such as silk, lambswool, satin
• Display unusual knickknacks in units of 1, 3 or 5
• Drape window coverings with simple lines Add unique elements to shelving, bookcases and fireplace mantels, which draw attention to predetermined areas

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How To Prepare For an Earthquake

I'm sure most of you in La Jolla communities have all heard of these before, but a little emphasis never hurts. These tips come via FEMA, and will help you keep you and your La Jolla home safe.

La Jolla earthquakes strike suddenly, violently and without warning. Identifying potential hazards ahead of time and advance planning can reduce the dangers of serious injury or loss of life from an earthquake. Repairing deep plaster cracks in ceilings and foundations, anchoring overhead lighting fixtures to the ceiling, and following local seismic building standards, will help reduce the impact of earthquakes on your La Jolla communities home. Here are six ways to plan ahead.

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Price It Right! 

A mispriced La Jolla home sits on the market longer, and eventually sells for less than a similar, correctly priced La Jolla communities home. So found John R. Knight, a professor at University of the Pacific. In his 2002 study, "Listing Price, Time on Market, and Ultimate Selling Price," he examined 3,490 La Jolla, Calif., homes and found that sellers who didn't reduce their prices sold for 97% of the initial list price. La Jolla homes with a price reduction sold for 88% of initial list price.

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Though Stockton isn't rife with multimillion-dollar homes, the same theory holds for trophy properties. Slightly lowballing a listing price upfront often results in a higher sales price, because it generates greater interest and more offers. It is also less likely to languish; when this happens, buyers wait, hoping its price will go further south.

"In a down market, that's a good way to go for houses that, in an up market, would have multiple offers," says Courtney Charney, a broker with Alain Pinel Realtors in Atherton, Calif. "But I would not advise that on houses that you know will sit, whether because of location, or something odd about the floor plan or some other set of issues."

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Bird Rock Renovations of La Jolla CA

Construction began on the first two roundabouts being added to Bird Rock as part of the Barratt American Seahaus development project in November, 2007. Using developer fees from La Jolla, bicycle grants and a $2 million "Smart Growth" competitive grant we won from the San Diego Association of Governments, the construction project was fully funded.

The specified goals for the renovation include replacement of sewer main and laterals replacement on the 5600 and 5700 blocks of the boulevard and sewer main replacement in Forward Street, from La Jolla Hermosa to Beaumont and in La Jolla Mesa near Linda Rosa and Colima, the La Jolla Hermosa/Forward traffic circle is also in this package, and sewer main replacement on La Jolla Mesa, just south of Colima to just north of Linda Rosa, and on Colima, from Taft to La Jolla Mesa.

The recent construction of three additional roundabouts and other improvements along La Jolla Boulevard and surrounding surface streets has been perhaps the most intrusive component of the construction process as a whole with its disrupting of traffic along La Jolla Boulevard throughout recent months.

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