OK, I am still a day late. Depending on how long this takes.....I may make a second entry for todays happenings. Yesterday was a very busy day for broker preview. I started out on Linda Isle. There are two homes that I viewed. If you not familiar with Linda Isle.....it is a guard gated community right off of Bayside and PCH. The first home I went to was very modern, 4 bedrooms, 4 baths. You would really have to like the modern look to appreciate this home. It is priced at $7.499. I would have been very happy drinking a glass of wine on the patio.....very relaxing. The next home I saw on Linda Isle was priced at $4.995. This home had 3 bedrooms and 4 baths. This home is very unique as it has a swimming pool inside. The stairs actually sit over the pool.....see picture. After leaving the Island area, we headed up to Crystal Cove to a home on Shore Walk. I had viewed the two homes next door to it recently in the last couple of months. This new listing is amazing. It is 4 bedrooms, 6 baths, listed at $11,995. Everywhere you looked there was a unique detail. As you walk in to the home there is a pathway over water....the chandeliers were amazing......the outdoor area is what got my attention. I love a good barbeque/pool area. It would be hard to top this yard. The silver balls in the pool were very eye catching.....see picture......you can actually see Catalina in the background. The pool was in a blue mosaic pattern.....unbelievable! My partner and I wanted to stay longer to soak in the view. I don't think I would ever leave that patio if I lived there. The barbeque area also had a great view for the chef. I don't think you would have a hard time trying to find someone to grill for you. After Crystal Cove we went over to Pelican Hill. There is a new listing on Horizon. This is a very large house......6 bedrooms and 8 bathrooms....priced at $8.45. I think of Pelican Hill as an established area with large custom homes. Many have golf course and or ocean views. We didn't stay long as we wanted to go to a couple more homes on preview. We also visited a listing in Cameo Shores. This area is on the ocean side of PCH, south of Corona del Mar. Most of these homes are one level with a great ocean view. This home is fairly modern, it is priced at $3.45......recently reduced by $1.2 mil It has 3 bedrooms and 3 baths. To end the tour we went to a new listing on Jasmine. It is a cute little back unit listed at $1.049. It is an updated 2 bedroom/2 bath home. I enjoyed the rooftop deck. I am going to sign off on this entry and prepare for tomorrow. I will be showing homes in Aliso Viejo and Newport Beach. I did see a great house today that I will post on tomorrows blog.

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Shady Canyon Tour Broker Preview

Sorry I am a day late on this. Yesterday I was at Broker Preview at Shady Canyon. Broker Preview is when the agent holds the house open so brokers can go in an view the home.....since most of us work on the weekends....it is difficult to view homes unless they are on preview. Anyway, there were 8 homes open. It was another hot day......95 degrees. If I would have seen a water sprinkler.....I think I would have run through it. Anyway, if you are a follower of this blog, you know I am always looking for the WOW factor. Homes in Shady Canyon range from $2.8 to $18.9 mil. I didn't see much of the WOW factor until I reached the last two homes on the list. There were some pretty awesome homes.....but my favorite were the last two.....one on Canyon Creek and the other one was on Echo Glen. The fireplaces in the Canyon Creek home were really neat. I think the highlight of the tour for me was at Echo Glen.....remember....it was hot....and felt like Palm Springs on a really hot day.........was the swim up bar in the swimming pool. Back in my 20's I would go to Cancun, Mexico for spring vacations. Generally where ever you stayed there was a swim up bar. To see that at a house was pretty cool. I really wanted to be sitting in the pool drinking a margarita. There was one house that my partner and I viewed that was not on the tour. It is a house on Cactus, built by a friend of mine, Rob Glass. This house is $8.695 mil. It has to be one of the most amazing homes I have ever been in. I would describe it as artwork. Every room had such unique detail that you would never find in any other house. My partner and I were blown away by this house. I am posting a couple of pictures.......if you want more.....I will send them to you. There are so many details in this house that you couldn't possibly see them all in one viewing. Absolutely amazing......it has more than the WOW factor. Ok, I can't take much more work tonight. I will post todays activities tomorrow. I can only post 5 pictures per post. I did see an amazing house in Crystal Cove today that I will talk about tomorrow.

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Sunday

Sunday was a little slow for me as I had plans to show homes in Corona del Mar, and we decided to look at homes today. This is off the subject of real estate, but I have to say I was very impressed with some new construction......at Mariners Church yesterday. If you read my profile on my website.....www.PropertiesInTheOC.com.....you will know I mentor foster children. I don't have any of my own so I find this fills the void of children in my life. I was very honored this past week to have both kids request to be baptized. I was very honored that they wanted to do this on their own. I talked about it at bible school....but didn't realize I was making an impact. I met the kids at church this past weekend for the class for baptism. Their grandma brought them to church with their 16 year old uncle.....who also wants to be baptized. If you are familiar with Mariners, you know it is like a compound. There is a new student center for Jr and Sr High students. I hadn't been over since it just opened a couple of weeks ago. Usually the kids sit with me in church or the cafe to watch the sermon. We went to the student center and I was very impressed. There was a basketball court......foosball tables....and various other sports kids that age like. What was really neat is that they have sermons that mirror the "adult" sermons. We sat in on the Jr high sermon upstairs and then went downstairs to listed to the Sr high sermon. I wish they would have had something like that when I was growing up. There is also a new chapel being built. Mariners church has service in a big auditorium.....so it makes it hard to host a wedding or a funeral there and to have that intimate feeling. The new chapel will be perfect for both occasions, or if you feel like you want to sit in on an "old school" kind of sermon. They are building a little pond around the chapel to give it a serene feeling. I am pretty excited to see the whole campus complete. It was a busy day. I am ready to watch something mindless on TV. Tomorrow is a big day......showing homes again in Quail Hill and Oak Creek.....and still trying to work on my new marketing piece and website.

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