Ventura County Real Estate Journal

I have trust issues.  My therapist and I have been working on them and I thought I had made progress.  But, as I sat listening to a presentation on the City of Oxnard’s proposed half-percent sales tax increase, I had a relapse.  It happened last Thursday when seven top Oxnard officials came to the Ventura County Association of [...]

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Somewhere, far, far way…on a parallel Earth there will be a huge celebration next month in a parallel Oxnard.  This parallel (and more enlightened) Oxnard will be celebrating the 30th anniversary of the grand opening of Fisherman’s Wharf to the public back in May of 1978.  There they cherished (or at least performed basic maintenance) on [...]

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I hate traffic!  Actually, everyone does.  That’s what is so appealing about the title of a new initiative circulating in Oxnard named “The Oxnard Traffic Initiative.”  Unfortunately, this initiative is really a no growth measure and offers nothing to improve traffic.  Last Thursday, Penny Boehm and Nancy Lindholm, both representing “Citizens for a Safe and Prosperous [...]

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The first time I listened to someone give a presentation on the benefits of home staging my eyes rolled so far back in my head I saw the Realtor sitting behind me. I mean really, the furniture and decorations don’t come with the house—so who cares? And some of the claims for home staging seemed [...]

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