Preservation Pays!

Preservation Pays

Thursday is the biggest day of the week for Pasadena area Realtors. We meet for our weekly MLS meeting and then we pour out all over the city and adjoining communities to preview homes for our clients! Some of the homes we preview are for our buyers and some are for us to be able to properly price our comparable listings.

In an area with such significant architectural specimen properties - designed by some of the worlds greatest and best known architects, it falls upon me to be able to distinguish the artis/architect and the significance of their creation. In other words, it isn't just about square footage and a pool, it is about the aesthetic, the line, the use of light and nature and placement and materials and much more than this. It means a higher value for the homeowner.

I belong to the Pasadena Foothills Association of Realtors - along with so many other world-class Realtors. I take it upon myself to go the extra mile. I belong to the Cultural Heritage Committee and educate the public as well as my colleagues on the property that they have been blessed to inhabit or are making an effort to market.

We are the elite in our profession and we are the most knowledgeable as to the significance of the region that we live in and the magnificent historical and architectural homes that gave me impetus to name my blog "The Chocolate Box of Real Estate - Pasadena."

For anybody contemplating changing a significant and/or architecturally designed structure in any way, I would like to direct you to an outstanding resource that is FREE to the public. The Cultural Heritage Committee painstakingly created a booklet to give to our clients, customers and affiliate members interested in preservation. Please go to: http://www.pfar.org/members/cultural.asp where you should be directed to the booklet, "Preservation Pays." If you have any problems accessing this site - do not hesitate to contact me and I will mail you the hard copy of the booklet. Open your eyes to your fantastic environment and understand what it is exactly - that makes it so special and worth preserving!

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