Cambria, CA

California Coast & Country Homes, Inc. earned the official Green Office Certification because we meet certain environmentally-friendly criteria. Our company uses energy wisely, recycles, uses recycled and energy efficient products, and we are environmentally savvy. We are honored to be a designated GREEN company!

By making the commitment to be paperless, together we can share these benefits:

• Reduce business cost associated with paper, printers, copiers, fax machines, ink and toner cartridges
• Eliminate filing cabinets and reduce office space
• Conduct business in a mobile environment resulting in faster responses to customers
• Increase efficiency of your staff by removing the time spent searching for and sending documents
• Present a professional image to your customers with mobile computing solutions
• Create faster business work flow by eliminating the time wasted on getting paper signatures on contracts and forms that need to be hand delivered
• Secure backup of all documents
• Real time updates and delivery of documents
• Conduct business environmentally friendly and brag about it

California Coast & Country Homes, Inc. partnered with other companies that share our commitment to be environmentally conscious.

For example, our partnership with www.GoPaperless.com allows us to offer paperless transactions for our clients. From an online "dashboard" office, to an e-fax service, to electronic document signing, GoPaperless is a preferred vendor that strives to save paper and conserve precious resources.

DocuSign Free Version

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• Sign documents anytime, anywhere on any device
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• Eliminate printing, faxing and paper cuts!

DocuSign for REALTORS®, Free Edition-Exclusively for members of NAR

• 5 Free DocuSign envelopes per month, with unlimited attachments and no credit card required!
• Unlimited signers
• Unlimited file storage
• The REALTOR® branded edition - only available with DocuSign
• Plus, the full suite of DocuSign tools needed most by real estate professionals including negotiation, markup, in-person signing, watermark and agent roles!
  (Must have a valid NRDS ID)

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All DocuSign for REALTORS® plans are available only to members of NAR. Membership is validated using your NRDS ID. View plans.

NOTE; For myself personally, I cannot use the free version because I send out waaaaay more than 5 envelopes per month. In fact, I have upgraded to the more expensive version because I use lots of templates. They save me hours and hours of time, so it's worth the extra for the upgraded DocuSign service for me.

Fellow Realtors: What is your experience with DocuSign?

Enjoy,

Regina P. Brown
California Coast & Country Homes
Broker

Like the rest of San Luis Obispo County, home sale prices in Cambria has been declining steadily since 2006. The median sale price dropped from $705,000 in 2006 to a low level of $515,000 last year. Sellers were impacted as the sales prices also decreased in proportion to their asking prices. The result is sellers receiving less money on each sale.

On a brighter note, while the number of homes sold during this period also declined, we saw a jump of 24% in home sales in 2009. At the same time, the number of days needed to sell a home averaged 137 days in 2009. That reflected an improvement of 12% or 19 shorter days when compared to a year ago.

Does this mean that home sales are on the mend in Cambria? Will we see higher home sales and improvement in prices? Another review will be made following the close of 2010.

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Notes:
The above data is based on sales of all single-family residences, including mobile homes, condos, stick-built single family homes, etc., in Cambria, CA for the period from 2005 to 2009. Data is culled from the Central Coast Multiple Listing Service, and deemed accurate at time of report but not guaranteed.

**DOM refers to Days on Market
**SP v. LP refers to Sale Price vs. List Price

If I can provide more information about Cambria real estate and surrounding areas, the housing market, or assist you, friends or family in a home search or sale, please phone or text me at (805) 234-4315 or email me at Sherry@SherrySim.com or visit www.SherrySim.com and www.ShortSalesAndREOs.com.

Serving Cayucos, Cambria, Morro Bay, Los Osos, San Luis Obispo, Pismo Beach, Avila Beach, Shell Beach, Arroyo Grande, Atascadero.

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Where Does Passion Come From?

By Sean Carpenter

I've been on a big kick lately about people bringing passion to their jobs. I don't care if they are an artist, a banker, a teacher, a waiter or whatever. We need to realize that everyone benefits when people are excited about what they do and how they deliver it to their customers, clients, neighbors and even strangers.

Martin Luther King, Jr. once gave a speech at a junior high school in Philadelphia in October, 1967 (the month I was born) where he said the following:
"...When you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. Don't just set out to do a good job. Set out to do such a good job that the living, the dead or the unborn couldn't do it any better. If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Leontyne Price sings before the Metropolitan Opera. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well. If you can't be a pine at the top of the hill, be a shrub in the valley. Be the best little shrub on the side of the hill.
Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are."

I've been thinking what the ingredients are to create passion. See if you agree with these:

• P is for Pride. You should have pride in your product, company, team, city, neighborhood, service and most importantly in yourself.

• A is for Attitude. You can't fake passion so you better start with a great attitude.

• S is for Skills. Are you knowledgeable, competent and confident it whatever it is that you do? Do you constantly seek to be better, taking classes, reading book or blog and talking to those in your field who are better than you?

• S is for Sincerity. Can people see that you mean what you say, believe in what you do and who you surround yourself with and most importantly care about people? If they do, you're passion will be visible.

• I is for Internally Motivated. I've always felt that inspiration comes from the outside but motivation must come from within. Do you have a fire burning inside you that makes you want to be the best you can be. If you fail, are you worried about those you may have let down or are you more concerned with letting yourself down? What does that "man in the mirror" say to you each day? Does it make you want to go back to bed or could you run to work on energy and enthusiasm?

• O is for "Oh My" That is what I want people to leave my classes saying. "Oh my, that was sooooo fun," or "Oh my, he gave me so many ideas to build my business." How many times have you experienced "Oh my!" service? Isn't it fun? Isn't it memorable? You can't wait to share your experience with a friend or family member.

• N is for "Next." - Passionate people are always looking ahead to their next opportunity, their next challenge, their next chance to have fun. If you are good at what you do and enjoy it, why would you want to wait to do it again?

P-A-S-S-I-O-N

See more of Sean Carpenter's great tips here: http://therealtorstoolbox.blogspot.com/

~Regina Brown