Archive for September, 2009

Sep 29 2009

Numerous Homes in Malibu Where the Owner Will Carry

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There are currently 18 homes within the Malibu Real Estate Market  where the owner has stated on the MLS that they would be wiling to carry. Homes range from $1.1m for a mo-bi-yal home in Paradise Cove to a $10m hillside mansion with jetliner views. There is even a newly remodeled home on Point Dume with tennis court, pool, and beach rights whose owner will carry. www.6574dumedrive.com Email me to request the list of homes, best buys, or beach houses in Malibu. Or get “tech” ad subscribe to this blog  310 699 8428

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Sep 26 2009

Real Estate Tech Tools You Should Be Using

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Let’s face it, technology has drastically changed the way buyers search for real estate. Information is power. The serious buyer will use a multiple of tools to find a home, research value, and monitor price reductions. Used correctly, these tools will enable the buyer to be efficient, educated, and ready to buy when the time is right. Here are a few tech tools you should know about.

  • Listing Book- This is what we call an automated “Drip” program that will send morning  MLS updates to a clients email. It also give clients full access to our MLS so you really can search like an agent would. If you are a computer/info junkie like me you likely wake up in the morning and get a quick dose of info for the day. My routine is to check email, look at any changes to all Malibu listings, read the Drudge report, and check weather and surf reports. People interested in real estate need to have a morning update that includes seeing all new listings and price reductions within the market they are interested in. The smart buyer these days targets a house, does the research, then sits back and waits for that morning update that says “$500,000 price drop” then goes after the property. This program enables the buyer to become aware of new listings or price changes within  minutes of the change . Email me if you’d like to sign up for this info. Click the contact tab above and tell me price  range ,type of home you need, and email and you’ll be signed up. You can even search for Malibu REO, bank owned, short pays, or probate sales.
  • Blogs like this!-The point of this blog is to convey information to people that want to know about Malibu Malibu Real Estate. Real estate agents for the most part  area addicted to gossip and usually know important background information about a home. I may post an article about a great deal or best buy because I know that the owners are getting a divorce and have already purchased separate homes.  When I’m out on caravan this is the type of recon and info I gather  to make articles for the blog.
  • RSS FEED-Instead of checking the blog randomly, why not get notified when there is a new post? That’s what an RSS feed is all about. I write a post about a huge price reduction, publish it, then you get an email alert about the new post. Again, using technology to quickly get info. subscribe to my RSS feed! If you have no clue what an RSS feed is click here for a quick video.
  • Twittter- I’m using this tool to send out live updates about the Malibu Real Estate scene. If I get word of a price reduction or smoking deal on the beach I’ll send out a “Tweat” about it. Those that  follow me on  Twitter get the updates within seconds of them happening. See the little blue box to the right? That’s my Twitter Feed and where you can click to follow.

Bottom line…..use technology to get ahead of the curve instead of behind it.

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Sep 18 2009

Flurry Of Activity Hits Point Dume Real Estate Market

The inventory of Point Dume homes for sale shrank dramatically in the last few weeks with 5 homes going in to escrow and 2 selling. Signs of recovery? I think so! The team at the Malibu Real Estate Blog gets 6- 12 calls a month looking for deals, leases, unlisted, or soon to be listed Point homes . Aside from “beach bargains”, Point Dume is Malibu’s hottest real estate market at the moment. Call for an update on Point Dume 1 310 699 8428 or asked to be emailed the comps of the below mentioned homes.
From the MLS today….
6908 Dume Drive Looking For Back Ups
6769 Dume Drive Looking For Back Ups
6722 Fernhill Drive Pending
6805 Dume Looking for Back Ups
7022 Grasswood Pending
a home on Wildlife just closed escrow and so did a $20m home on Zumirez.

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Sep 11 2009

Malibu Beach Duplex For Sale

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Investors looking for long term income know that rental properties are a great way to produce cash. New to the Malibu Real Estate  market this week is this beachfront duplex on the water in Malibu. There is a 3 bedroom unit and a 1 bedroom unit, both of which could make easy rentals, or stay in one and rent out the other . At $1,996,000 it may be time to get  into your Mr. Furley leasure suit and become a landlord in Malibu.  Call for a showing 310 699 8428.

From the MLS ” BEACHFRONT DUPLEX IN MALIBU… ENJOY THE SOUND OF THE SURF AND WALKS ON THE BEACH FROM THIS UPDATED, COMFORTABLE DUPLEX ON THE BEACH IN MALIBU. THE UPSTAIRS UNIT HAS 3 BEDROOMS AND THE LOWER UNIT 1 BEDROOM WITH A 2 CAR GARAGE. OCEANFRONT MASTER BEDROOM ALLOWS FOR ENDLESS OCEAN VISTAS. LIVE IN ONE UNIT AND GET EXTRA INCOME FROM THE OTHER OR RENT THEM BOTH OUT FOR A GREAT INCOME PROPERTY. DUPLEX HAS A NEW SEPTIC SYSTEM WITH CITY OPERATING PERMIT. PERFECT STARTER BEACH PROPERTY IN MALIBU.”

Malibu Beach House

Malibu Beach House

Malibu Beach House For Sale

Malibu Beach house for sale

Listed with Brian Merrick/ Coldwell Banker

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Sep 07 2009

Malibu MLPA / MPA Facts You Should Know.

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I normally don’t get in to politics but this one I can’t ignore.

I  am a fisherman and spear-fish in the local waters of Malibu an average of 5 times per month for the last 25 years. I enjoy bringing fresh seafood home from the ocean and look forward to the day I can teach my son how to fish. I love the fact that I know exactly where my fish comes from and that I don’t buy it from a market. I may not be an expert with a degree in Marine Biology but I do spend enough time underwater that I can tell you  that our local fish populations are healthy. One of my favorite fish is the White Sea Bass, which many years ago was a depleted fishery. Thanks to minimum size restrictions, limited take (only one fish per day most of the year), AND a hatchery program (run mainly by fisherman), the WSB has made an incredible recovery. I see massive schools of fish on most dives that I make and the world record  fish was taken in Malibu this year! This recovery happened because those who care most about the fishery  got involved and made sure that the resource would be there for them to enjoy. This was done with science and management. Those two things are what I most want to used to manage the local fisheries. The complete shut down of an area, which the MLPA crowd wants,  makes no sense to me at all.

As I was leaving the Chili Cook Off on Friday night a woman with an MLPA shirt asked me to sign a petition. I told her I would not sign it because it takes away my ability to fish in certain areas of Malibu. She then asked if I’d be ok with an exclusion of no take from motorized craft. I responded by saying, ” What about the grandpa who takes his grandson out once per year?  What good would it do to excluded him? Surely there are kayakers who spend 50 days on the water each year. How is that fair.” She didn’t respond but got upset and threw out this emotional, fear-laden statement…”You know shark populations are a ten percent!” “Oh yeah?” I say. ” Where are they ten percent? The whole world? Malibu? Which Species? Great Whites? All?” She got frustrated when I demanded facts she stormed off. Give me real data, not alarmist headlines. For example, if scientist were able to demonstrate that the halibut fishery was in danger from over fishing and not other environmental factors like acidifcation or pollution, than I’d be the first to pay a few extra bucks on a license that I knew went to a hatchery program, dropped the bag limit from 3 to 1, or raised the minimum size from 22 inches to 26 but not larger than 38 (slot size). .

The Marine Life Protection Act sounds really nice and I’m sure it makes people feel good that they are “protecting life” but let’s not ignore facts and lets use science, not emotion, to figure out what needs to be managed, not closed. Please take a moment to read the facts below and click the peer review article below to read.

Peer Review of Ecotrust MLPA Initiative Products
by Bonnie J. McCay, Ph.D. Caroline Pomeroy, PhD Kevin St. Martin, PhD
Coordinated by Barbara L. E. Walker, PhD

MLPA FACT SHEET

There are currently no depleted or endangered fish species in the area: When pressed, the  California Department of Fish and Game could not name one fish species that was depleted.

There is only one peer-reviewed scientific study produced by the MLPA science team: This study by Dr. Ray Hilborn shows that California’s fisheries are the second least exploited in the World, behind new Zealand. California and New Zealand are the only two that have substantially healthy fish stocks. The study recognizes that the fish stocks are recovering beautifully on their own through well managed size and count limits, and MPA’s are expensive, unproductive and unnecessary.

The plan ignores fisheries management as an effective tool for preventing overfishing: The array of reserves should not be a surrogate for fisheries management. If there is over-fishing, then the Department of Fish and Game is not doing its job.

The cost is unsustainable at the current estimate of $30-40 million: The State is essentially bankrupt. The Department of Fish and Game admits is currently does not have the resources to manage the huge array of closures. The net effect is that honest fishermen will stay out of reserves, but poachers will not.

Recreational fishermen that pay state license fees to fish for consumption should have the right to consume the best quality fish available to them: These closures appear to be designed to completely shut down fishing activities based on ideology instead of reasonable protection in view of social/economic impact to the public.

These closures, which occur underwater, will not increase tourism to the area since most tourists do not go on the water or in it to recreate except to fish: Swimmers, surfers, and boaters will never see any effects of these reserves, only fishermen and divers.

We as fishermen should not be expected to pay for the management of waters we have no access to: We will not pay for this alone, we expect that the funding must come from the general fund and the public as a whole.

None of the other contributors to habitat and fish declines besides fishing are addressed. Would it not make sense to investigate a few of these?

Water Pollution, Water Temperature Changes, Boat Anchoring, Resurgence of marine mammals, sea lions and sea otters, Ocean Acidification, Pollution from coastal streams, Pollution from Electrical plants and Desalination plants

By closing large areas to fishing, those areas that are not closed will receive more pressure thus causing the type of damage the act seeks to prevent. The proposed closures are the majority of excellent fishing areas. The same amount of fishermen will be crowded into areas with minimal habitat and fewer fish, damaging the already extremely fragile areas. This is counteractive to the goals of the MLPA. “When fishery management includes quotas, the use of MPAs will not reduce the volume of fish taken; it will only change the geographical distribution of the take. It does not require a complicated population model to know that the increase in biomass inside of MPAs will be roughly balanced by the decrease in biomass outside.”

This one is the graph from Dr Ray Hilborn’s co-authored study. This is from the only peer reviewed study in the entire MLPA process, and as you can see it says that CA has an extremely low exploitation rate. The exploitation rate in California is second only to New Zealand. Published in ScienceMag.Org

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Sep 05 2009

The Malibu Chili Cook Off. This Weekend Only!

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Don’t miss the Malibu Chili Cook Off this year!  This is the last year it will be held in the Civic Center area. I went last night for what is commonly knows as “locals night” where the community turns out in force. There were hundreds of teenagers going nuts, loaded up on sugar from cotton candy, churros,  and coke. There was the wine crew hanging in the tasting tent listening to live music, sampling the local vineyards latest offerings, and getting their “buzz on”. The rides were great, I think I counted 6 types of Ferris Wheels, and several Hammer Head, stomach turing, type thrill rides, and a few haunted house rides. I personally sampled some of the fine cuisine offered, chili cheese fries! Cheap canned chili, with little meat found, “pumped” cheese sauce heated to barely warm, and greasy fries cooked in oil that should have been changed at the carnival last week in another state. Yes it was good. Bring the kids, come hungry, and don’t forget to win a goldfish.

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