{"id":8721,"date":"2009-06-02T07:21:19","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T14:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=8721"},"modified":"2009-06-02T07:21:19","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T14:21:19","slug":"open-during-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/8721\/open-during-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Open During Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had the opportunity to drive up from beautiful San Diego to Orange County today.  One of the great things about Southern California is that driving 50 or 60 miles to do something or see someone (which would have driven my mom and dad nutso) is rather routine.  I just cranked up some tunes, and this morning because it was misting a bit I chose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aLaPtQuZaos\">Gordon Lightfoot<\/a> and all that kind of folksy stuff, and away I went.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebrickranch.com\/\">Teri Lussier<\/a> always talks about her beloved Dayton, and it delights me that she takes the time to share something that suspends the day to day real estate chatter for some homespun fireside chatter.  So while driving up past Camp Pendleton today I wondered aloud how many people have been so blessed to live in a place so steeped in natural beauty, just within miles reach of the whirling world of business.<\/p>\n<p>Mountains to the east, Catalina silhouetted in the overcast Pacific to the west, (yeah, really 26 miles across the sea) lying low on the horizon, and no traffic to speak of.  <strong>I was filled with actual joy.<\/strong>  Now there&#8217;s a word you don&#8217;t read much of on a real estate posting these days.  But there it was, palpable and real, and filling me up as I drifted up Interstate 5 at 70 miles an hour, singing along to the music.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8724\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/broadview.jpg\" alt=\"Broadview Mortgage\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/broadview.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/broadview-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiateachersandemployeeshomeloanprograms.com\">Scott Schang<\/a> is a mortgage broker, and really a remarkable guy on top of that.  I already mentioned to you in a previous posting that I was able and blessed to meet Scott at the Unchained conference a couple of months ago in Phoenix.  We&#8217;ve continued our relationship, and today I was driving up to solidify some of the ideas he had for helping me market my database of potential homebuyers.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine my surprise, then, when I pulled into the parking lot of his business to find it amuck with &#8220;Open During Construction&#8221; signs, jackhammers, compressors, painters, welders, yellow tape, plastic and sandbags all around the whole business complex.  I took out my trusty video camera and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/8721\/open-during-construction\/#more-8721\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had the opportunity to drive up from beautiful San Diego to Orange County today. One of the great things about Southern California is that driving 50 or 60 miles to do something or see someone (which would have driven my mom and dad nutso) is rather routine. I just cranked up some tunes, and this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-group-therapy","7":"category-real-estate","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1320,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1320\/idle-chatter-of-idle-neighbors-to-be-outlawed-in-arizona-appraisers-job-protection-act-passes-arizona-state-senate\/","url_meta":{"origin":8721,"position":0},"title":"Idle chatter of idle neighbors to be outlawed in Arizona: Appraiser&#8217;s job protection act passes Arizona State Senate","author":"Greg Swann","date":"April 18, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Little Pink Houses dug up the smoking gun: The State of Arizona is trying to make it illegal for anyone without a state-issued license to express opinions of value about real property. 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