Comments on: How To Attract Buyers….Offer a 7.5% commission on a $10,495,000 house!Update…Just Reduced to $9,995,000 http://themaliburealestateblog.com/one-motivated-seller-agents-sell-this-house-in-malibu-and-pocket-250000-for-yourself/ A Malibu Real Estate Blog Giving You The Low Down On The High End---Mike Gardner 1 310 699 8428 Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:50:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: downtown Toronto condo http://themaliburealestateblog.com/one-motivated-seller-agents-sell-this-house-in-malibu-and-pocket-250000-for-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-815 downtown Toronto condo Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:47:05 +0000 http://themaliburealestateblog.com/?p=130#comment-815 attracting buyers is one of the hardest thing to do for first timer agents and those new ones, but if an agent presents the item very good is not a bad start , its like presenting what you have in order for the buyers to like the house. Well presentation and quality of the house makes an agent a way to attract buyers attracting buyers is one of the hardest thing to do for first timer agents and those new ones, but if an agent presents the item very good is not a bad start , its like presenting what you have in order for the buyers to like the house. Well presentation and quality of the house makes an agent a way to attract buyers

]]> By: Local http://themaliburealestateblog.com/one-motivated-seller-agents-sell-this-house-in-malibu-and-pocket-250000-for-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-326 Local Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:15:18 +0000 http://themaliburealestateblog.com/?p=130#comment-326 While away last month I came home to hear “Malibu Surfers Attack Paparazzi at Point Dume”. Online was the drumbeat of spoiled, rich white kids attacking hardworking photographers. I then realized I’d had enough. I also read where recently “transitioned” city council, now planning, member Jeff Jennings, voted in favor for an additional medical marijuana clinic in Malibu. I wondered why we need an “additional” clinic. I was distressed to know that we even had one. Do we really need multiple places to go get high? Did Jeff hear Daniel Stern’s impassioned, accurate assessment and plea for youth activities in Malibu? That we’re in a crisis with drug and alcohol abuse? How can the clinic pay rent in this economic climate of ours? Oh yes, that’s right, they’re DRUG DEALERS. Speaking of rent. As I sit here, I am informed that our beloved dance studio in the Malibu Plaza could be going away. Anyone who has attended their showcases up at Pepperdine gets to see the heart and soul of Malibu in the most moving of ways. Apparently, the principals of the business see the writing on the wall, or should I say the new rents and NNN on the wall. Is it any wonder that we are left with little in the way of services (see Hardware) and local businesses? That what remains are corporate showcase stores (see “loss leader”) plying multiple versions of the $200 tee shirt. With little in the way of new development (see “no growth”) and owners of the entrenched businesses being honored with Dolphin Awards all the while making sure that their commercial developments have no new competition…….…Well I think you get the point. Malibu Presbyterian Church burned almost a year ago. They firstly occupied the former Vineyard Church and now are using the cafeteria at Webster Elementary. Apparently, the church has had an application for a “sprung structure” or what I would call a first class tent, with the City Building Department for sometime. Serving Malibu for 60 years they have chosen to keep their mouths shut in the face of little cooperation with the City staff. Meanwhile I see Scientology has found enough rich people to start a recruitment center along PCH. Speaking of rich people, once a year one of our local papers trots out the names of resident billionaires as a “personal interest” story. As if circus freaks, those that have reached a level of affluence and accomplishment are now gawked at as if they had five arms and three heads. The paper has shown little regard for the privacy of extended family members that share the same name and whose children and grandchildren go to public schools, participate in neighborhood groups and serve on local charities. I then realized the surfers are the ones that have it right. With the Coastal Commission making sure Malibu is accessible to every visitor from here to Missouri, creating Title IX like parking lots in the heart of local neighborhoods because our visitors “need your help”, with Sara Wan planting her ample girth on broad beach residents front yards for an ambush press op and finally, when local families are being trampled on by a bunch of bounty hunters with Nikons something had to give. I only hope the rest of us find a new level of conviction that causes us to act on behalf of our home. B. Mel Malibu, CA While away last month I came home to hear “Malibu Surfers Attack Paparazzi at Point Dume”. Online was the drumbeat of spoiled, rich white kids attacking hardworking photographers. I then realized I’d had enough.

I also read where recently “transitioned” city council, now planning, member Jeff Jennings, voted in favor for an additional medical marijuana clinic in Malibu. I wondered why we need an “additional” clinic. I was distressed to know that we even had one. Do we really need multiple places to go get high? Did Jeff hear Daniel Stern’s impassioned, accurate assessment and plea for youth activities in Malibu? That we’re in a crisis with drug and alcohol abuse? How can the clinic pay rent in this economic climate of ours? Oh yes, that’s right, they’re DRUG DEALERS.

Speaking of rent. As I sit here, I am informed that our beloved dance studio in the Malibu Plaza could be going away. Anyone who has attended their showcases up at Pepperdine gets to see the heart and soul of Malibu in the most moving of ways. Apparently, the principals of the business see the writing on the wall, or should I say the new rents and NNN on the wall. Is it any wonder that we are left with little in the way of services (see Hardware) and local businesses? That what remains are corporate showcase stores (see “loss leader”) plying multiple versions of the $200 tee shirt. With little in the way of new development (see “no growth”) and owners of the entrenched businesses being honored with Dolphin Awards all the while making sure that their commercial developments have no new competition…….…Well I think you get the point.

Malibu Presbyterian Church burned almost a year ago. They firstly occupied the former Vineyard Church and now are using the cafeteria at Webster Elementary. Apparently, the church has had an application for a “sprung structure” or what I would call a first class tent, with the City Building Department for sometime. Serving Malibu for 60 years they have chosen to keep their mouths shut in the face of little cooperation with the City staff. Meanwhile I see Scientology has found enough rich people to start a recruitment center along PCH.

Speaking of rich people, once a year one of our local papers trots out the names of resident billionaires as a “personal interest” story. As if circus freaks, those that have reached a level of affluence and accomplishment are now gawked at as if they had five arms and three heads. The paper has shown little regard for the privacy of extended family members that share the same name and whose children and grandchildren go to public schools, participate in neighborhood groups and serve on local charities.

I then realized the surfers are the ones that have it right. With the Coastal Commission making sure Malibu is accessible to every visitor from here to Missouri, creating Title IX like parking lots in the heart of local neighborhoods because our visitors “need your help”, with Sara Wan planting her ample girth on broad beach residents front yards for an ambush press op and finally, when local families are being trampled on by a bunch of bounty hunters with Nikons something had to give. I only hope the rest of us find a new level of conviction that causes us to act on behalf of our home.

B. Mel
Malibu, CA

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