For Sale – 5 Income Properties – Not Yet Listed!

REAL ESTATE NEWS FLASH – This entire portfolio of properties being offered for sale, but not yet listed in the MLS. If you’ve been waiting for the opportunity to purchase income producing properties or a single family home… now is your opportunity. Here are the properties being offered

– 125 2nd Street – 4 units, (2) large 1 bedrooms, (1) 1 bed, (1) studio. Monthly income $5,465, insurance $148 monthly, water $150. Fully occupied. List price (estimated) $1.1k – $1.2k~

– 215 Ocean Avenue – Single Family, double lot, inland side of Ocean ave, second story balcony with ocean view, rear deck, expansive backyard, 2 car “off street” garage. List price (estimated) $2.2k~

-1409 Ocean Avenue – 3 units. Monthly income $4,800, insurance $144 monthly, water $150 monthly. Fully occupied. List price (estimated) $900k – $1 million.

– 313 Central Avenue – 3 units. Front house is 3 bed 1 bath, (1) 1 bed, (1) studio. Monthly income $4,425, insurance $141 monthly, water $150. Listed Price TBD.

– 238 5th Street – 3 units. Front house is 3 bed 1 bath, (1) 2 bed, (1) 3 bed apartment. Total monthly income $6,900. I believe this sits on a double lot. List price (estimated) $1.2k – $1.3k~

If you’d like more information, or to schedule a showing call Nat Ferguson directly at (562) 761-7165. These properties will not be listed for 24 hours. This is your opportunity to to beat other buyer’s to these deals.   You may also visit Nat’s website for more information.

Sierra Club Hike in Huntington Beach

The Orange County Sierra Club sponsors the “Shipley Nature Center to the Beach” Walking Tour on Saturday, April 4.
In conjunction with Centennial Earth Month. You’ll walk a moderately paced 7 mile hike with almost no gain in Huntington Beach as the city celebrates ‘Earth Month”.  Meet 9 am at the picnic shelter near the café called “Breakfast in the Park” near the lake in Huntington Central Park.  You can take the bus to the park or park your car at the corner of Lakeview Dr. and Central Park Dr.  We will hike through an urban forest to the beach and over the bridge to the new ocean inlet to a rest stop.  Bring water, lunch and sturdy shoes.  Rain cancels.  Leaders Stephanie and Ed Pacheco

Be part of the Bolsa Chica Project at www.bolsachicalandtrust.org

Grand Prix Ready to Roll in to Long Beach

The Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach is getting ready to Roll into town on April 16th-19th!  Don’t miss Championship racing with Danica Patrick, Marc Dixon, Marco Andretti and more!   If you’re looking to spot a few celebrities make sure to check out Keanu Reeves, Adrien Brodie and others in the Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race on Saturday!

Various vendors throughout the area are offering your chance to pick up Free Race tickets.  To see participating vendors visit the Toyota Grand Prix website!

A Night in San Francisco for $1

Spend a night in San Francisco for $1? Here’s spring travel special that’s hard to believe. The “world famous” Orchard Hotel at 665 Bush Street in San Francisco if offering an April Fools special rate of one dollar  a night for the entire month of April!  The normal rate is $175 a night.  http://www.theorchardhotels.com/
What’s the catch?  (There’s always a catch right? ) Well in this case its not much of a catch.  You can only book on line and it can only be booked on line beginning at 10 a.m. on April 1, 2009.  It’s a great hotel and a great town for a spring get-away.
How do you get there on the cheap?  Well Jet Blue Airliines also has a spring special and you can fly from Long Beach to San Francisco for as little as $48 each way. If you haven’t flown out of Long Beach Airport you are in for a big surprise.  Long Beach airport is the best metropolitan airport in the USA. Easy access, short lines, no long waits and plenty of parking.  You don’t have to be there an hour and a half early for a flight either.
Now no one really needs to ask what do you do when you get to San Francisco but just in case you have a visitor from outer Mongolia you can start him off with these spots-The John Muir Woods, Fisherman’s Wharf,  Scoma’s Restaurant, Tiburon Ferry (ride past Alcatraz), The Exploratorium at the Palace of Fine Arts, Old First Concerts on Sacramento St. ( Chamber music, Jazz, Classical and avant-garde), Martini’s were made famous at the Clift Hotel,  Irish Coffee was invented (so the San Franciscan’s say ) at the Buena Vista Café…just a cable-car ride from downtown), The Japanese Garden in Golden Gate Park, (circa 1900 and rebuilt after WW II) and oysters on the half-shell with the natives, not at the wharf but on top of Russian Hill.  If none of that peeks your interest drop a line and we’ll send you more sites.

USC’s Mark Sanchez getting lots of NFL looks

This week the NFL is meeting in at the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort and getting a lot of criticism for staying at such a high priced venue during tough economic times.  This reporter says leave them alone.  If staying in plush digs puts the money men (read owners) to push through rule changes that will protect their gladiators from life crippling injuries I say let them stay at the St. Regis all summer.

Some of the rules adopted include:

1. Initial force of a blindside block can’t be delivered by a helmet, a forearm or shoulder to an opponent’s head.    A blindside block will bring a 15-yard penalty. (Long overdue!)
2. First contact to the head of a defenseless receiver also will draw a 15-yard penalty.
3. No blocking wedge of more than two players on kickoffs.
4. Kicking teams can’t have more than five players crowded together to capture an onside kick.

Rodney Harrison, New England Safety, has already come out and criticized the above changes as making the game too soft.  We have to remember that Rodney’s job is to deliver such hits…not receive them. Think that might change his mind?

Two weeks ago I met with an NFL running back, who didn’t want to be identified. He retired after 12 years in the league.  We were discussing the current economic crisis and someone at the table suggested that he didn’t have to worry because of the NFL’s generous retirement plan.  He laughed. “That money won’t be available to me for another 15 years and when it is I probably won’t be around to collect it?”   The next obvious question was “why not?”  “Check it out” he said. “Very few of us are still alive.  Those of you who refer to yourself as a ‘working stiff’  have a considerably longer lifespan than an NFL player.”

Rose Bowl MVP, USC’s Mark Sanchez  is expected to be a high draft pick in the upcoming NFL draft. Sanchez had an outstanding showing at the “Combine” earlier this year and is at home in Orange County waiting for the April NFL draft.  Rumors are flying about who is ‘courting” him. Pretty good sources said that his week he was visited by represeentatives of Denver,  Redskins, 49ers, Jets and Steelers.  Two of the group of prospective employers tested him on his ability to study the playbook and he passed with colors.

Several of his USC teammates also expected to be high draft picks including linebackers Brian Cushing and Rey Maualuga. Both are on the Steelers charts as well as several other clubs.

Seal Beach 5/10k Run

Don’t miss out on your chance to get some excersise and help your local Seal Beach community at the same time.  The Annual Seal Beach 5/10k Run will be taking to the streets of Seal Beach on April 4th!    With over 4,000 participants last year and over $86,000 raised for local organizations it’s an event not to be missed.  You can register online or at the event….visit the Seal Beach Run website for more info.

Buddha

Buddha is available for adoption.

Chihuahua (mix), 2 years old, male, small, tan, altered, housetrained and current on shots.

Contact: Seal Beach Animal Care Center
Phone: (562) 430-4993
E-Mail: contact@sbacc.org

Kitten Calypso

Calypso was rescued by a workman who he heard a kitten crying in the ceiling and got him out. He was only 2 weeks old and immediately went into foster care where he thrived on lots of love and attention. He is a sweet, playful little fellow who loves other cats and people. One of his favorite play toys is a little mouse that he will bat and carry around in his mouth. He really needs the companionship of another kitty & will be a wonderful addition to any home, he has lots of love to give.

Domestic short hair – black & white (mix), 6 months old, male, altered, housetrained and current on shots.

Contact: Seal Beach Animal Care Center
Phone: (562) 430-4993
E-Mail: contact@sbacc.org

Kitten Gracie

Gracie had quite a tough start in life. She arrived at only 4 weeks old with a very serious injury to her tail. The tail couldn’t be saved and was surgically removed. Our little lady was very strong and managed to charm all of her caretakers in the process. Gracie is a little sweetheart who desperately wants a home and the companionship of another kitty. Do you have room for one more snugglebunny?

Domestic short hair – gray & white (mix), 8 months old, female, small, altered, housetrained and current on shots.

Contact: Seal Beach Animal Care Center
Phone: (562) 430-4993
E-Mail: cats@sbacc.org

And then there were (“Sweet”) Sixteen

Here are the next eight match-ups in the NCAA’s “March Madness”:

West Regional
Conn v Purdue
Memphis v (Marquette or Missouri?)

Midwest Regional
AZ v Louisville
Kansas v Mich. State

-South
No. Carolina v Gonzaga
Oklahoma v Syracuse

-East Regional
Villanova v Duke
Xavier v Pitt

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