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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What does a $12 million house look like?

It was another beautiful day in Newport Beach today. I started off my day by showing home in Quail Hill. This is an area over by the Irvine Spectrum.....off of the 405 and Sand Canyon. This area is very similiar to Turtle Ridge. Turtle Ridge is over by Newport Coast....on the East side of Newport Coast Drive. There is a mix of detached homes and condos. Both areas started building I believe around 2003.

After showing homes, I was excited to see what a $12 million house looks like on Kings Road. If you are not familiar with the area, Kings Road runs parallel with PCH.....right before you cross Newport Blvd as you drive North. This area is up the hill from PCH. Most of these homes have great ocean views with Balboa Island and Balboa Peninsula. This home definitely has the WOW factor. It is almost 11,000 square feet, sits on two lots....one is behind the other. There are 5 bedrooms, 7 baths, 12 seat theatre, gym, spa, pool, wine room, 6 car garage.....what else do you need? They thought of everything. I really liked the crystal door knobs. They remind me of my grandmas home in South Bend, Indiana.

I then went to Dover Shores. This area is just north on PCH as you cross the bridge to the back bay. Many of these homes are on the water on the back bay. The home I went to needed a little love. The patio on the water was really nice. It reminded me of being back home in Minnesota sitting on the deck overlooking the water. Very calming. This home is priced at $3.649.....5 bedrooms, 5 baths.

I went to a couple of places over off of 16th Street. They were both relatively newly remodeled or built. If you are looking that area....let me know, I will let you know more about them. I am rushing on this blog as I need to head over to Turtle Ridge for another showing around 6. I also need to do some additional paperwork so I will sign off for today.