Kensington-Open House 8/29/2010

August 25th, 2010

Price Reduced to $895,000

Come and previewing  5151 Bristol, 92116 is a must see for any buyer in the Kensington Heights neighborhood. The 3 bedroom 2.5 bath bungalow style property sits on a large south facing corner lot.

Contact Mike Mullins (858) 442-4126 or email mmullins@prusd.com with any questions.

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Mike Mullins – Conley Team

August 8th, 2010

Finding the right real estate agent to help you accomplish your goals whether it’s purchasing, selling or renting can be a daunting task in itself. We have all heard horror stories about the incompetence of some agents or agents who simply do not care about their clients wants/needs desires.  You may ask yourself who am I contacting after feeling compelled to inquire about a property that may interest you, well this is what I am all about.

I have been working with the Conley Team since entering the business in May of 2000. I live in Carmel Valley with my wife and two daughters and am very proud to be a part of such a successful real estate team. Over the past decade we have accomplished some very prestigious awards for production both nationally and locally from our broker of record, Prudential California Realty.

Specializing in a diverse range of clients as well as a variety of property types  “each transaction can expect the same level of service my goal is to be an effective communicator, educator & negotiator while simplifying the home buying or selling process.” Using a reasoned analytical approach helps clients gain perspective.

Clients recognize the unique value in an agent like myself that truly cares about their wants/needs. I specialize in negotiations and problem solving. Each transaction has a moment of uncertainty but after doing this over 10 years I know what questions to ask and how to remedy the unforeseen.

We all know there is value a true professional brings to the table in any field. Why not use the best for your real estate needs? Please feel free to call or email me should you have any specific questions I may help you with.

(858) 442-4126 

mmullins@prusd.com

Conley Team Open House for 8/1/2010 1-4pm

July 30th, 2010

Previewing our new listing at 5151 Bristol, 92116 is a must see for any buyer in the Kensington Heights neighborhood. The 3 bedroom 2.5 bath bungalow style property sits on a large south facing corner lot.

Contact Conely Team (858) 755-5224 with any questions.

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New Listing On Caravan 9:30-12:00am 7/20

July 19th, 2010

881 Thomas Ave #15, Pacific Beach

Just 1 block to the beach, completely remodeled in 2010.  It now features granite countertops and stainless steel appliances, wide planked hardwood floors, scraped ceilings, and updated bathrooms. With views of South La Jolla,  just a short walk to grocery, restaurants, nightlife, the bay, beach boardwalk, and the beach itself. This home includes much sought after Pacific Beach parking with two underground single parking spots. Rare, move in ready find by the beach! Must see!

Call for a private showing 858 755-5347

Conley Team Open House for 7/11/2010 1-4pm

July 11th, 2010

Previewing our new listing at 5151 Bristol, 92116 is a must see for any buyer in the Kensington Heights neighborhood. The 3 bedroom 2.5 bath bungalow style property sits on a large south facing corner lot.

Contact Mike Mullins (858) 442-4126 or email mmullins@prusd.com with any questions.

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Time to Buy or Sell? Mortgage Rates Say Yes!

July 7th, 2010

Mortgage applications rise 7 percent as rates fall. By Associated Press Wednesday, July 7 at 6:36 AM.

WASHINGTON — Applications for home loans rose last week as consumers raced to refinance at the lowest rates in decades.

The Mortgage Bankers Associations said Wednesday that overall applications increased nearly 7 percent from a week earlier. While they have been increasing in recent weeks, they remain below early 2009 levels.

Applications to refinance home loans were up 9 percent to the highest level since May 2009. But new mortgages taken out to purchase homes fell 2 percent.

Those applications have fallen in eight out of the last nine weeks, after government tax credits that spurred home sales ended on April 30. Applications were 35 percent below last year’s levels.

The average rate for a 30-year fixed loan sank to 4.58 percent last week, according to Freddie Mac. That was the lowest since the mortgage company began keeping records in 1971.

Mortgage rates have fallen since mid-April. Investors, nervous about Europe’s debt crisis and the global economy, have shifted money into safe Treasury bonds. That has caused the yields on those bonds to fall. Long-term fixed mortgage rates tend to track those yields.

Applications to refinance loans made up 79 percent of total applications, the highest share of refinancing activity since April 2009.

The Mortgage Bankers Association’s survey covers more than 50 percent of all applications nationwide and has been conducted since 1990.

The Associated Press

Matt Lockhart – Conley Team

June 29th, 2010

Hello I am your up agent for the week. There are 4 of us that work together so there is no confusion and nobody gets left behind. Every contact is of the utmost importance to us. I am on call everday this week from 9 am to 7 pm and will reply promptly. Well maybe not the 4th!

Try using some of our tools from our home page on the left. You may find the quick search to your liking. If thinking about selling take a look at “The Plan”, everything is nicely laid out. I look forward to meeting you today!

Matt Lockhart

858 245-8424 – mlockhart@prusd.com

Conley Team Open House for Sunday 6/27/2010 1-4pm

June 26th, 2010

Come and see this exceptional new listing!

**10639 Amberglades Lane 92130 - Open Sunday 1-4pm, Canyon Lot, Lexington Plan II**

Call  (858) 755-5224 or email mmullins@prusd.com with questions or  for property details.

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Conley Team Open House for Sunday 6/27/2010 1-3:30pm

June 25th, 2010

Come and see this exceptional new listing!

**4835 Barlows Landing Cove 92130 - Open Sunday 1-3:30pm, Biggest Lot in the Development**

Call  (858) 755-5224 or email mmullins@prusd.com with questions or  for property details.

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Happy Father’s Day 2010

June 20th, 2010

50 Quotations for Father’s Day

Here are some quotes we found referring to honoring your father on Father’s Day…”Small boy’s definition of Father’s Day: It’s just like Mother’s Day only you don’t spend so much.” — Unknown

• “Father asked us what was God’s noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.” — Louisa May Alcott

• “I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.” — Alexander the Great

• “Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do…but she’s certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.” — Anonymous
• “If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.” — Bill Cosby

• “A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he’s in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.” — Bill Cosby

• “Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young, Who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, And joined in thy innocent glee.” — Margaret Courtney
• “I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.” — Mario Cuomo

 

“A father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet where his money used to be.”

– Unknown

• “A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.” — Marlene Dietrich

• “Fifth Commandment: Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.” — Exodus 20:12

• “My father always told me, ‘Find a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.’ ” — Jim Fox

• “The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.” — Robert Frost

• “You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s. He’s more particular.” — Robert Frost

• “If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.” — Antonio Gramsci

• “When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, ‘She’s more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge.’” — Helen Hayes

• “One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.” — George Herbert

• “If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.” — Russell Hoban

• “For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.” — Homer

• “I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.” — Sigmund Freud

• “Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad.” — Anne Geddes

• “Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers – and fathering is a very important stage in their development.” — David M. Gottesman

“A father is a banker…
provided by nature.”

– French Proverb

• “My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it.” — Natasha Josefowitz

• “The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, ‘Daddy, I need to ask you something,’ he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.” — Garrison Keillor

• “My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.” — Clarence Budington Kelland

• “His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.” — Stephen King

• “When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, ‘Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?’ He answered, ‘If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.’” — Jerry Lewis

• “I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.” — Abraham Lincoln

• “Honor thy father and thy mother.” — Matthew 19:19

• “The thing to remember about fathers is, they’re men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find Someone chock full of qualms and romantic terrors, Believing change is a threat Like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle It took such months to get.” — Phyllis McGinley

• “My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.” — Abraham Lincoln

• “Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.” — Friedrich Nietzche

• “Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.” — Robert Orben

• “People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls; poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls are always coming up to me and telling me that Archie is just like their dad.” — Carroll O’Connor

• “A wise son maketh a glad father.” — Proverbs 10:1

• “None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of such a Father who has not his equal in this world – so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don’t be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal.” — Queen Victoria of England

“My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.” — Ruth E. Renkel

• “Father taught us that opportunity and responsibility go hand in hand. I think we all act on that principle; on the basic human impulse that makes a man want to make the best of what’s in him and what’s been given him.” — Laurence Rockefeller

• “That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.” — J. August Strindberg

• “A man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and the two become one flesh.” — The Holy Bible

• “It’s only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home—it’s only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love.” — Margaret Truman

• “A man’s children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season”. — Unknown

• “A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.” — Unknown

• “Small boy’s definition of Father’s Day: It’s just like Mother’s Day only you don’t spend so much.” — Unknown

• “A father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet where his money used to be.” — Unknown

• “For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile; nothing endures except the sense of difference.” — Alan Valentine

• “By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.” — Charles Wadsworth