Terkel Sorensen

Did you know, this weekend is the 3rd Annual Harvest Festival & Grape Stomp in Temecula, CA.

To get into wine country, simply get off the 15 at Rancho California, turn your headlights East and start driving, after a few miles you will pass Vintage hill on your right and Chardonnay hill on your left (if that gives you any clues as to where you are going), when you pass Butterfield Stage Rd, you will see the entrance to Wine Country - Keep going and the Wineries literally start popping up all over.

Most all the wineries that I know of are participating. Expect to make reservations as they tend to be packed for this opportunity to get your feet dirty (or to walk in wine if you so desire), grape stomping is a big part of the festival and this can be quite entertaining.

For more info, check out the winecountry web site here: http://www.temecula.winecountry.com/special_interest/current_events/sep.html

Enjoy, and say hello when you go by.

Terkel

Hi Folks,

As you know, I do a lot of video, and so does other people... Yesterday I had the pleasure of having lunch with Barbara Amstadter and her daugter Susi Scholl, they are a luxury agent team in Newport Beach CA. We were talking a bit about short sales, and Barbara whipped out her little video camera, so here I am on interview.

As you know I am a proponent of short sales, I believe the sellers win by not giving it all up and just tanking their credit, and this little interview tells you a few things about how the short sale can help us accomplish that.

Enjoy, and if you need additional information, please find me.

This is very exciting, in response to many requests I am preparing to offer my Elite buyer program to clients who are seriously interested in buying a property and taking advantage of the good market.

Keep in mind that this program is limited to 10 buyers at any given time, so don't wait if you want to buy now - on the other hand, if you like writing offers... Feel free to carry on.

Essentially, the elite program is reserved for very serious buyers who meet certain criteria, as part of the program, I will show you how to make an offer that will get accepted. I recently put a client into contract in his first offer, and it was not that hard, you can get your next offer accepted too.
I have written winning bids on bank owned properties in French Valley Murrieta, in West Murrieta, Temecula and many other parts of the greater Temecula Valley.

To see if you qualify, call me today for more information at (951) 805-0773

You can also sign up on the web site at http://www.terkelsorensen.com, make sure you put a note in that you want to be in the Elite Buyer Group and I will get right back to you.
As you may be aware, video is down at the moment, but once it is back, I will explain in more detail.

Ok, so I am not the greatest writer in the world - surely - that is why I am in real estate and not trying to write my first novel...

It might also be one of the reasons I have picked up so much on the use of video... So much simpler for me to record a short clip, review it - and if I don't like it, I can redo it right away (yes, there have been 20+ cuts to pick from on occasion).

So, this whole Flip camera thing got me going - so fast that I never bought one - I realized that my point & shoot had HD video built in - the quality is arguably the same or better than Flip. Not to mention that the thing already went everywhere with me.

My choice in this category ended up being the Samsung tl220, you know, the one with the extra screen in front - I love it. My son goes bonkers when you turn the clown on too.

So far so good, now, what about when someone takes the cam away from you? Yeah... That's a bummer. In my case, the touch screen broke, nice little crack. Camera is new enough that Samsung offered to repair under warranty, great, my cost - the $6 something to ship it to them - they ship it back for free.
All this is great and dandy - even when they called me to tell me to ship it to QC instead, they are swapping me a new one "Hey - I got service here", screen is not supposed to break...
The problem... Is that I have now been without a video camera for a week, talk about withdrawals, this is horrible... I am writing a blog with no video to go with it - how can you do that?

So - I just found out the hard way what my most favorite tool is, I am curious as to what tools you use that are so essential to your daily routine that having it missing really makes you bounce off walls. As I look at houses in Temecula and Murrieta, I stop at places I would want to show my clients, and now I can't.

For now, I am just going to slump here in the office and wait for my cam to show up again - that knock on the door from UPS... Is that them now? Hey - this is kinda like x-mas - except I know what I am getting and I can't wait.

Now show me some video.

Hi Everyone, 

Ok, so there are these days when I just wake up early - I know - who does that on a Sunday??? 

Well, the long story short is - I have been meaning to get a nice shot for my headers, both for the blogs and web sites and any other thing where I might want it. 
Now, I didn't want just any old image, I kinda wanted something special - and something that shows off Temecula and Murrieta in a good light. 

If you are a photographer, you know that we sometimes favor the early morning light (hence - getting up early). A while back I found this great location that overlooks my town, and thought about a nice panorama from up there. 

Alas, this morning, I did the 20 minute hike up there, camera bag and tripod in tow and set up to shoot some nice images. 

My thought is that I will run the images I got this morning through the HDR process (High Dynamic Range), you know, the kind with rich colors and piles of details...

So, I got the images, next up I have to work on them... Good luck with time for that one - but for one, I am happy that I got up at o'dark thirty and hiked. I think this falls into the category of what I will do to make myself look good... Hmm - that just sounds wrong.

Have you done anything like this? Is it crazy? Oh, yeah, as soon as I process it, I will show the results to you.