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If you have visited my website in the last two days, you were no doubt surprised by the Youtube video on my home page.
Please allow me to explain. I contracted with a company to revise and update my website design. The name of this company and their website is www.atozwebsuccess.com.
I instructed them to create a video box that would allow me to insert my own videos. Basically creating my own video blog that could be changed and updated whenever I wanted.
The initial video this company used as an example in the re-design stage just happened to be an idiotic homemade youtube video where the two guys in the video used extreme profanity. How this company could be so unprofessional/incompetent is beyond my understanding.
I have been imploring this company to remove it for two days now. The problem is they are in India, I can only communicate with them via email, and their service and turn-around time is pathetic.
By the time I realized how bad they were, I was already too far invested in both time and money to start over with another company. Now, in hindsight, I should have pulled the plug on them.
I hope you understand the profane video was certainly not intentional on my part.
Thanks for understanding,
Ken
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Monday, June 6, 2011
Saturday, June 4, 2011
So what to make of the housing market?
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The news is abundant with reports of falling home prices. But what about locally, here in the Temecula Valley?
I've created a chart that tracks home prices in the Temecula Valley from January 2009 through April 2011. See the attachment to this email.
Basically, it shows home prices have remained steady throughout most of the Temecula Valley. Does that mean prices will remain steady over the next several months? ... Who knows. I dropped my crystal ball and broke it a long time ago.
Here's what I do know:
Local prices have fallen roughly 57% from their highs of Summer 2006.
The 'Affordability Index' is now higher (better) than ever, now over 70%, meaning over 70% of families in the Temecula Valley can afford the median priced home (in 2006, it reached a low of 17%!).
If you owned land free and clear, you couldn't build a home now for what you could buy an existing home for.
The rent -vs- buy ratio has just tipped in favor of buying throughout most of the Temecula Valley and in the few pockets where it hasn't, it's very close.
Financing - despite what you hear on the news - is abundant as long as you are a W-2 wage earner (most self employed folks have challenges to overcome in terms of proving their income through tax returns).
Down payment requirements are as low as 1% with minimum fico scores of 620-640.
I may be proved wrong but I really don't think prices can fall much more in the Temecula Valley. They're just so darn low already. So low that investors from outside California are beginning to stream into the area like the 49ers gold rush.
Just like in the 80's and 90's, the Temecula Valley has once again become ridiculously cheap compared to our San Diego and Orange County neighbors and we are a reasonable commute for both.
Also, keep in mind our housing crash started in August of 2007 so we're already four years into it while much of the rest of the country followed much later. Historically, California's economy always leads the nation out of recessions.
Let's keep our fingers crossed.
Hope you have a great weekend. Call me if I can help you with anything at all.
951-760-3833
KenAHall@gmail.com
P.S. My website is currently down while undergoing re-design and updates. Should be up by Tuesday or Wednesday of next week. NOTE: If you ever need website design work, never hire the company www.A-Zwebsuccess.com. They've been a nightmare to deal with.
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The news is abundant with reports of falling home prices. But what about locally, here in the Temecula Valley?
I've created a chart that tracks home prices in the Temecula Valley from January 2009 through April 2011. See the attachment to this email.
Basically, it shows home prices have remained steady throughout most of the Temecula Valley. Does that mean prices will remain steady over the next several months? ... Who knows. I dropped my crystal ball and broke it a long time ago.
Here's what I do know:
Local prices have fallen roughly 57% from their highs of Summer 2006.
The 'Affordability Index' is now higher (better) than ever, now over 70%, meaning over 70% of families in the Temecula Valley can afford the median priced home (in 2006, it reached a low of 17%!).
If you owned land free and clear, you couldn't build a home now for what you could buy an existing home for.
The rent -vs- buy ratio has just tipped in favor of buying throughout most of the Temecula Valley and in the few pockets where it hasn't, it's very close.
Financing - despite what you hear on the news - is abundant as long as you are a W-2 wage earner (most self employed folks have challenges to overcome in terms of proving their income through tax returns).
Down payment requirements are as low as 1% with minimum fico scores of 620-640.
I may be proved wrong but I really don't think prices can fall much more in the Temecula Valley. They're just so darn low already. So low that investors from outside California are beginning to stream into the area like the 49ers gold rush.
Just like in the 80's and 90's, the Temecula Valley has once again become ridiculously cheap compared to our San Diego and Orange County neighbors and we are a reasonable commute for both.
Also, keep in mind our housing crash started in August of 2007 so we're already four years into it while much of the rest of the country followed much later. Historically, California's economy always leads the nation out of recessions.
Let's keep our fingers crossed.
Hope you have a great weekend. Call me if I can help you with anything at all.
951-760-3833
KenAHall@gmail.com
P.S. My website is currently down while undergoing re-design and updates. Should be up by Tuesday or Wednesday of next week. NOTE: If you ever need website design work, never hire the company www.A-Zwebsuccess.com. They've been a nightmare to deal with.
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