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View the Video version of this Episode at: https://www.lacresta.com/2021/06/03/ what-to-do-in-hi…owntown-murrieta / Hey y'all, welcome back to La Cresta Life. Today, I took us on a field trip right down to Old Town Murrieta about 15-20 minutes down the hill from La Cresta. Our main street through Murrieta, (they call it Historic downtown Murrieta, sometimes people call it Old Town Murrieta) is the old Hwy 395 and that was the north-south route in California before the big freeways went in and it goes right through our little town. You can see it's quite a little Mayberry situation. We've got restaurants on both sides of the street and lots of activity. One of the newer things that and has been happening down here, is this two Thursday's a month in the evening, the town opens up to an evening lifestyle where the shops take their wares out on the sidewalks and the restaurants are all open and there's even food trucks and all kinds of music and and fun activities. So people are strolling. If you've ever seen Gilmore Girls, it reminds me a little bit of Stars Hollow - such a great place to be and a new development here in Murrieta. So thanks for joining me here at La Cresta life. Not in La Cresta this time but in historic Old Town, Murrieta. I enjoyed bringing this to you. It's just another little cherry on our Sunday here in Southwest Riverside County. We'll see you next time on La Cresta Life.…

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Does La Cresta have a Micro-Climate? 5:50

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View the Video version of this Episode at: https://www.lacresta.com/2021/05/03/does-la-cresta-have-a-micro-climate/ Does La Cresta have a Micro-Climate? Hey, y'all! Welcome back to La Cresta life. You know, I'm often asked about the weather up here on the Santa Rosa Plateau. So today I'm going to explain how our micro-climate works. We're up here on the Santa Rosa Plateau about 2,000 feet higher than the valley floor. The Temecula Valley includes Temecula, Murrieta, Wildomar all the cities of the Temecula Valley, including the Temecula Wine Country, which is really close by. We are in the mountains that separate Riverside County from Orange County, and this gives us our own special weather up here. We truly have our own micro-climate. You've heard me talk about the different parts of the Plateau - 5 different homeowners associations, and Tenaja, a Community Service District. Depending on where you are on this couple of thousand acres up here on the Plateau, you will get a specific breeze. On the Tenaja side of things, often times, you're going to get coastal breezes that come through Deluz from San Diego. It's a different wind direction. On the side of La Cresta where I live, we actually get a breeze from the coast about 14 miles as the crow flies from the Pacific Ocean. Coastal breezes come from that direction over there. Behind those mountains is Catalina, my landmark for where our breezes come from, and give us the reprieve. When it is super hot down below in the Valley, it is often 10 to 15 degrees cooler up here on the Santa Rosa Plateau. Because of our elevation and our proximity to the ocean, we have beautiful breezes every afternoon. They come through between 2 and 4pm every afternoon to cool us off - a welcome event during the hot days of summer. With our micro-climate, we're always cooler in the summer. In the winter, we may be a little colder, and that's okay, too. We don't get a lot of freeze - just an occasional crazy snow, that doesn't stick. But otherwise, it's very temperate here. The weather here is very accommodating to all the fruit and vegetables that we grow here on our ranch. It's a wonderful micro-climate, great for growing grapes. U.C. Davis, many years ago, called us out as a fantastic grape-growing area -- probably one of the best in Southern California. So come on up and enjoy our coastal breezes here on the mountain. If you're looking for a temperate climate, a rural vibe, the conveniences of the city, and the ability to grow your own fruits and vegetables, this is it. You can have horses. You can have all kinds of animals in this temperate climate, right up here on the Santa Rosa Plateau. Signing off today from La Cresta. Thank you for joining us on La Cresta Life!…

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What Cowboy Activities are there in La Cresta? 5:37

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View the Video version of this Episode at: https://www.lacresta.com/2021/04/09/what-cowboy-activities-are-there-in-la-cresta/ Hey y'all. Welcome back to La Cresta life. Today, we're going to talk about what cowboys and cowgirls do up here on the hill. We have a club up here called the Santa Rosa Plateau Riding Club. It's open to Residents who ride and those who don't ride. I haven't had horses up here in my whole 19 years after growing up with them in Texas, but I'm welcome. Everybody is welcome and it's a wonderful club to join because you have at least two events a month that you can attend. One as a potluck, and the other is an organized lunch, after the folks who do ride come in from the trails. So it's a great way to hang with the neighbors. One of the events is at night and one is in the day and it's a lovely way to get to know your neighbors in a different way. A couple weeks ago the Riding Club riders went on a trail ride and they came back to the organized lunch. Typically they're catered. So you just RSVP and pay your fee. The folks who ride come back in from the trails and we all sit down to lunch. At the last luncheon, the hostess and host (moves around every month) organized a sorting event. So we all finished our lunches and went up to their arena that had been partitioned off so that they could do the sorting event. We sat in their little grandstands that they had made and our local friends and neighbors who wanted to participate and sort were invited to do that. Some had never done it and some were pros, but such a fun event and makes you just feel like you are at dude ranch. It was just wonderful. I hope you enjoy the scenery of some that happening. Those are friends and neighbors. In fact, one of the clips of the sorting is the owner of the insurance company that I do all of my insurance with - Winchester Insurance in Murrieta. She and her husband are on horses, and it's just a delight to see people that you normally see in a different way, doing something completely different. So I hope you enjoy that. In summary, we neighbors have learned, and we all cultivate the idea, that we do not have to go off of our Plateau, out of our neighborhood to have fun. We do as many fun activities as we can up here, so we don't have to go elsewhere, and it has created a very tight community of people who may do some of the same things or not. But we all support each other. So it's an ideal place to live if you like to be outside and we sure do. I'll look forward to taking you along to some of the other things that we do. We don't always get dirty in a field. Sometimes we dress up . I'll keep you posted along the way of the social events that we have up here on the hill. In the meantime, it's great to see you. Come back and join us on La Cresta Life. I'll see you real soon.…

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Plateau Buying: Pre-Construction 7:47

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View the Video version of this Episode at: https://www.lacresta.com/2021/03/11/plateau-buying-pre-construction/ Hey y'all. Welcome back to La Cresta life! Today, we are doing something really different. We're here at a construction site ...and it has everything to do with real estate. So stay tuned. Wow, this real estate market is so hot in La Cresta. Jake and I have a beautiful family that's been trying to buy out here in La Cresta, and were really having a hard time finding a house that checked all the boxes . This one behind me was under construction, which we found was available to purchase pre-construction completion. So that is what is happening here. We are under contract. Our adorable family from Orange County is making lots of finish design choices. So they almost feel like they're building a custom home from scratch,. They didn't have to do any of the hard stuff and they are getting the house of their dreams. Let's go inside. We got lucky with this one happens to have aligned with this project just in the nick of time . As you can see the sticks are up. The roof is stacked. It's just before drywall. We've got electrical , plumbing, sprinklers. Windows were just installed . The distance between now and getting certificate of occupancy is pretty short. We are probably a month and a half maybe maybe two months away from this family being able to move in. They are able to consult with the builder and are able to choose things like light fixtures, colors, etc. They're going to do the pool later. I'll show you where that's going to go. The builder has committed to putting in an electronic gate and fencing the five acres. A concrete drive is being installed all the way from the road to the house. He has also made some high-end choices in the kitchen, like Viking appliances. The budget was, a nice luxury budget, but our folks were in time to be able to go in and make some of their own choices, as well. So the buyers are feeling the ownership already. They're loving coming up to La Cresta and playing homeowner while it's being done. You can see there's still a whole lot of work that needs to be done, but this process is really fun. Building like this from scratch is not everyone's cup of tea, as it can be very stressful. But if you've got the stomach for it and you have the ability to jump in midstream like these folks, it can work. In this case, it really is a perfect alignment. When you can't find the house that you want, think about something like this. Jake and I can hook you up with buying the land or having the builder buy the land and go the whole soup to nuts program. I'll sign off from here. I'm so happy to have you guys back with me on this beautiful construction project! We will see you next time on La Cresta life!…

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TIPS: Listing Photoshoot Day 6:06

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Watch the video version here: https://www.lacresta.com/2021/03/05/tips-listing-photoshoot-day/ Hey y'all. Welcome back to La Cresta life for all of you listing clients out there, this is one of the most critical things that we do. We hire a professional photographer to get drone video still shots and make your house look wonderful. Let's go inside. We got a little lucky on this one. We happen to have a homeowner who is absolutely impeccable and her design is amazing. Her aesthetic is just gorgeous and she's obviously a very neat and tidy person, so I didn't have to do a lot. But not everybody lives like this. So our services include coming in and doing a walk around if you've got some questions about what should be left how it should be staged. Are there some things we can move around and make it look a little bit more appealing to the masses and that's certainly something that we do. in this case didn't have to do it. Love this house. But I also love the challenge of being a kind of co-creating with our clients and reimagining their space that they lived in for a long time. So definitely something that we offer so don't be afraid of that part of this. How to make us look really good? We hire the best. Hey, Nick, you're the best. He is a wonderful photographer. He always makes us look good. We adore him. Notice behind me that there are pictures on the wall. Those are not family. They're not children. They're not pictures of your family that strangers shouldn't see. In my opinion strangers don't have the right to look at your family. They have to earn that right and I think when you put your house on the market if you really are serious and you're going to be moving anyway, just go ahead and pack up the pictures and if you have to know, stage it with some things that are not your family. You're trying to set up an environment where people can imagine their own family and pictures of your family only distract from there. So try to neutralize that by using photos and pictures that are not really really private to you. I know it's hard because you want your pictures on the wall, but you're going to be moving anyway. Take your time go through the house, get them all tidied up put them in a box cuz if you do it, right, you're going to sell your house. Hopefully we're going to sell your house and you're going to need those pictures at your next house anyway. I'm often asked if the homeowner should be home on the day of the photographs and I was just now reminded why if you can avoid it, avoid it. Because I just walked by a window and our photographer was outside shooting in and if I can see him, the camera can see me. So the whole day turns into a sequence of hiding from the photographer. So if you can avoid that go for a walk of her drive, it generally takes in our case usually 2 to 3 hours because we're also gonna take still shots. We're getting a video inside and outside and then we're getting drone videos of the entire property. So it does take a little while. Go for a walk and don't play this game of hiding from the photographer. The takeaway from today's experience is always have a great photographer, plan ahead, ask for help. We will help you make some choices on how to stage the house. Sometimes just using your own furniture and moving things around a little bit. And it's fun to get creative. We are not professional stagers, but if we need that will bring one in and give yourself plenty of time, that everything's tidy. We'll turn all the lights on and we'll turn all the lights off when we leave. Open the windows and all the things that we need to make the best shots, but it's a really important piece of it. So plan ahead tidy up and it's the first step in getting your house on the market. Anyway, thank you so much for joining me today and breaking up my two to three hour photo shoot. I look forward to seeing you next time on La Cresta Life.…

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Kelly's "Nickel Tour" of the Santa Rosa Plateau 7:09

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Hey y'all. Welcome back to La Cresta life ! Today, I'm going to tell you all about the way I like to show new Buyers the Santa Rosa Plateau. I call it my "Nickel Tour". The reason for my Nickel Tour is that I hear from my buyers all the time when they are looking at different properties online. They're trying to figure out...Are there elevation at this property? Where is it located within the community? Which HOA is it in? Is it far back? Is it close up? How far is it from the grocery store? And since this Plateau is so large and there are so many varying aspects of it, I really love to take them for a ride or caravan, and we go and look at the Plateau from a 30,000 foot view. We drive the whole thing, through the different HOAs, which are La Cresta, La Cresta Highlands, Santa Rosa West, Meadow Oaks, the Trails and Tenaja. They get the high-level view. If they're from out of state or from out of town, when they go back and start looking at properties online, it gives them a sense of where that property is. So I give them a kind of a guideline from a high-level perspective. I'll show you a map back at my office, which is located right here in La Cresta. Welcome to my office. I actually share the office with www.abcSAGE.com, my general contractor husband, who does renewable energy, whole-house generators, and general construction. It used to be our guest house and we use it as our office now. Here is the map of the entire Plateau. It even bleeds over into Deluz, but I'm going to focus right now just on the La Cresta area...So, you get off the 15 freeway, which is right here. And you come up Clinton Keith, then you jump on Avenida La Cresta and it winds around to all the different communities. This yellow is La Cresta, and that's what the whole Plateau tends to be called. This first one that you pass by is The Trails at Santa Rosa. Then you you go through La Cresta and you end up in La Cresta Highlands and Santa Rosa West, which is a little bit different because it's 10-acre minimums. Everything else is 5 acres minimum - we're very spread out! This is Tenaja, which is a community service district and not really an HOA. It has a few rules like an HOA but less rules. Here we have Meadow Oaks, which is in Tenaja. It's a gated community with a live guard gate. So, when I start talking to Buyers, if they've got little kids that go to school down in here in Murrieta, they might want to be in this part of La Cresta, since they may be going up and down the hill frequently. Here along Clinton Keith are all the restaurants, Rite Aid, etc. Just past the freeway, you've got one of our major hospitals - Inland Valley. If you want to take a road before you get to the freeway, you can go into Historic Old Town Murrieta - you can see It's really close. Everything is really close and convenient, with very little traffic. In my Nickel Tour, we drive all around the Santa Rosa Plateau and talk about the different aspects along the way. We discuss things like: Tenaja being the furthest area; the gated area of Meadow Oaks; how, if you more space, you might like it here; if you feel like you want a little bit more density or a little more views you might end up here or here; if you're super horsey, you might want to end up here or here or over here as well. You can see that when buying on the Plateau, it is really important to have agents that you're working with who really know the area. I like to consider myself an expert - I would think after 19 years! I really want to help you find the right home - not just on the Santa Rosa Plateau - but the right home in the right area of the Santa Rosa Plateau. Call me any time. [bark bark]...Those are my dogs. Thank you for joining me on La Cresta Life! We'll see you next time.…

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Plateau Inspections: Darn Pests 4:39

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Welcome back to La Cresta life. Today, We are opening escrow and we are doing a pest inspection at one of the cutest houses. Very established Vineyard beautiful wine comes from this place and the new owners are super excited. We're going to talk to her pest inspector and see what we can look today. Termite inspections are an important part of the inspection process when you buy a home, we've got the general home inspection up here in La Cresta. We also have a septic and well if there's a well on the property and then the termite is critical for any home buyer to know if they are buying a home that has any kind of pest situation in California. We generally have a lot of Stucco homes. Do you don't see a lot of her might like you doing other parts of the country, but here at the inspection is still very important and there may be parts of the the home that have some wood that could be easily replace. So usually date the damage is minimal and the repairs are pretty affordable, but it's part of the necessary process. So here we are doing that today. We are with Black Knight and doing a pest inspection for one of our listings and what are you looking for inside the house? I'm usually checking along the baseboard moldings and things like that. And that's where pellets fall I'm also looking for things that completed Turnpike termite infestation fix roof leaks multigrade issues on the outside any of those kind of things. We are here with Mike from Black Knight Pest Control doing a home inspection and he is got a ladder what you can do with that ladder looking for wings termite swarm every few years after they've established the colony and their wings fall off and so I'll be looking for Green's when I'm up there when they re-infest a property after they want to leave a really fine sawdust called rasps. I'm looking for that kind of stuff still looking for subterranean termites just in case he's made it all the way up from the attic and roof leaks plumbing leaks. Awesome. All right, I don't want to slow you down mic. What are you looking for now with that pole? What I'm doing is improving the exterior game and I'm poking all the rafter tail station Port starboard all the expensive wood, and I'm looking for evidence that termite or evidence of fungus damage or dry rot. Got it. Good work. Thank you. Thank you for joining us for our termite inspection here in La Cresta. Make it a great day, and we will see you next time on La Cresta life.…

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Restaurants near La Cresta 6:34

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Hey y'all. Welcome back to La Cresta life today, I'm showing you a little bit is why I don't generally go down the hill because I sure do love right here right here with a spectacular view of here in La Cresta that I'm going to take you down the hill and I'm going to introduce you to a couple of my favorite restaurant. Welcome to the first of our stop in our household, It's often asked: Do we want Italian or Mexican? I'll show you Italian in a minute at my favorite place. And then this is my favorite or Mexican. It's just across the freeway from when you go down the hill from La Cresta. So you cross right over the freeway and you stopped right in here at Los Reyes Mexican. They've got a cute little patio great margaritas and it's our home place for Mexican food sit down real service for years. We went without a whole lot of real service in this neck of the woods. So we're just thrilled to have some good food choices now cuz this is my choice for Mexican. Now we find ourselves at The Hive this is also right down the hill from La Cresta. This one is probably the closest restaurant and as you can see it's kind of a bar and grill. So you're going to have a little bit more of a just things on the menu and then across the street just across the street behind me is a place called this and it's really hard to see right now, but they've got roll up doors kind of like those garage doors and a patio and a full bar by Peter has a full bar as well. So there is that all of this is how I'm going to say Six or seven minutes from the entrance to La Cresta. You can be sitting down nice outdoor patio having a nice drink that make great cocktails in there and then across the street as well. Here we are getting a twofer we have. Sushi, beautiful sit down. Sushi and wait for it. Wait for it. Wait for it. The Crown Jewel right there best Angelo's hands down my favorite place to go Brick Oven Pizza. Angelo has been here for three years and came from Sicily. He is a wonderful wonderful man, he and his wife and it's my favorite place in the whole world give you a little shot of the inside. Hey guys, this is Angelo, Can you at least show us your face? And then look at what he brought Al. Oh my goodness homemade cannolis cannoli for her. The best place ever! Okay, we got lucky we get to come in really really quick just as the original location. You can actually get wonderful cheeses and meats from Italy fantastic and terrible timing for Angelo with this crazy year that we're having but this is the new part and it's designed for private parties and all of that. So as soon as private parties can happen again and all kinds of fun can happen again. This is where you want to be. This is the best place ever the greatest food and it's just like family. We love it here. Then if you got a sweet tooth there Baskin' Robbins and it actually is a drive-through pretty dangerous. So that's our little down the hill Venture. I hope you guys enjoyed it. And we are ending our tour with my favorite place home the best place to eat specially when you live in La Cresta. So thanks for joining us on our tour and look forward to seeing you guys next time on La Cresta Life.…

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Shopping near La Cresta 3:56

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Hey y'all, welcome back to the La Cresta Life. Today, we are showing you some of the things down the hill, specifically we're going to look at restaurants and grocery shopping today and you're going to see how close they are. So we got us a Rite Aid, we are only five minutes from down the hill and we have this adorable Shopping Center. Got lots of food coffee shop. Now, We're turning into my favorite little store. It's called Barron's. It's local there's about like 9 locations throughout the Southern California area, but it's where you go for your better. Cheese's your tire quality stuff. And then we've got a car wash in El Pollo Loco. So this particular shopping center doesn't have all those fine dining but their suit, there's a yellow basket you can eat in or drive-thru. And then there's my wonderful Barons. I have grade olive oil and all kinds of wonderful things. So now we are down at the main shopping center, which is right off of the freeway. The auto off-ramp is right behind me. You can see the marker. This is Clinton keys. This is our big shopping center. So we have to do a lot of grocery shopping. You can come down here and go to Jack In The Box Bank down here and there's Stater Brothers all the way back at the very end. We have a few other things like Pilates and pizza and gas. So what used to be very rural. We now have the conveniences of town. And right now I'm still only about 15 minutes from the entrance to La Cresta. You can jump right on the freeway and then in about a half an hour while you're at one of the big airport, so we've got it all. easy breezy Well, I don't do it very often. I came down the hill and I did it just to show you guys how easy it is to live right up those mountains right up there and scamper on down to the shopping centers and get everything you need done. Country living with the conveniences of City. Thanks for joining me on La Cresta Life I will see you next time.…

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Plateau Inspections Solar & Generator 3:28

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Hey y'all. Welcome back to La Cresta life. My partner and I just sold this beautiful home in Santa Rosa West today. I was lucky enough to get to join the inspector. We're going to go check out how the solars working. So this particular home has solar PV, which is solar photovoltaic. It also has pool solar and it also has a whole house generator. I have engaged a contractor today who knows all three of those things and has agreed to give the new buyer a report on how all of these three independent systems are operating. So a huge shout out to our friends at ABC Sage. Up here on the plateau for doing this very unusual inspection for us. Just like you want to know when you buy a house that all the systems are working including the pool equipment and all of the appliances in the home and the roof inspections are really important. It's important that everybody has peace of mind buying one of the most important things they'll ever buy in their lifetime. So in this case with this house having all these extras with a solar filter for the pool solar for the house and the generator. This was an important inspection for the buyer in addition to the other inspection said he had done which were the well because this is a 10-acre property and it's got a really nicely producing well, so that was an inspection and also septic because everything on the Santa Rosa Plateau is on septic system you want to have that inspected as well. So it's it's it's a little tricky there's a few more things extra when you buy a ranch, but if you're in the right hands, which hello I have good hands. I can help you navigate all of that. So if you ever want to shop on the Santa Rosa Plateau, make sure you're engaging somebody like myself that really knows this stuff. I'll look forward to showing you around. We'll talk more about inspections and future episodes that for now. I'll sign off and say thank you for joining me here on La Cresta life we'll see you next time.…

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Birthdays - Santa Rosa Plateau Style! 2:40

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Welcome back to La Cresta Life. We are doing birthday is right up here on the plateau. This one's the drive-by. This is what our community is all about. One of our great local residents is such a wonderful man. He's turning 80 today, and we're still not Gathering. So what is our community do? we do a parade. So this is a drive-by parade. We brought scout out. There is my hubby Steve and we drove from our Ranch over to this Ranch so that we can wish this wonderful fellow a happy birthday. Happy birthday, Bob. We got to know our neighbors in all kinds of different ways up here where they provide education for 3rd graders and I think 11 School District they come up here for a day in nature. So we're all raising money constantly for this fantastic and ever and this guy is Mr. Wonderful. He's always volunteering I'm signing off from the birthday party drive by. We'll see you next time on La Cresta Life…

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Nuts & Bolts...Buying a Fixer 4:19

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Welcome back to La Cresta life today in our nuts and bolts series. We're going to learn about buying a fixer. So the marriage between buying the perfect house, which is very very rare to find and building one from scratch is to buy a fixer by one that's got good bones and do what you want to it in the case where I'm standing now, we've got a lot of Renovations going on these Property Owners bought the house based on location and acreage and view, but it wasn't quite the house that they wanted. So my husband's company ABC Sage is tearing off basically the back side of the house and building what these folks want. So they're getting the house. They want their saving money because they bought the infrastructure already existed on the property and they're going to end up with a beautiful beautiful property. How much are things that you want to think about when you're buying a fixer-upper are the things that you can't change such as proximity to the stores and the things that you may want to attend the land itself while it can be improved. You need to really be happy about the land and the way it sort of already exists. You also need to be happy with the location within the community for those are things you can't change and you can't really change the view unless you build two stories on top of one story and create your own few. But some of the things that will save you money are thinking about buying a fixer and already looking at the infrastructure there maybe irrigation there may Utilities. In fact, there will be if your body fixer so you're going to save school fees. So if a house already exist. The original to build which include the school fees the permit fees all the time that it takes to get permits. All of that is mitigated and you can kind of get from a to z a little quicker back a lot quicker than buying and land and building from scratch. Not that that's not fun and we talked about that and future episodes. So long story short and buying a fishes you can save time you can save money got to have a master plan. You got to have a little patience, but it can be a real when especially when inventory is tight and you're not finding the exact time that you want think outside the box a little bit get creative and see if you can't put your next stamp on something that already exists. Thanks for joining us on the crystal life from the fixer on the plateau we'll see you next time.…

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Vineyards & Wine of the Santa Rosa Plateau 3:22

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Welcome back to La Cresta Life. Today, we're talking about vineyards on the Santa Rosa plateau. We're standing at a Vineyard owned by a producer called Plateau Vineyards. It's a winery here on the plateau. Remember, there's no commercial wineries. Everything is done by appointment. So this is not an area that's going to get tour buses and a lot of people driving around aimlessly and this particular Winery is everything is a state produce. So on the grounds here we have in the white family Albarino, which is what I'm drinking now. It's a Spanish grape kind of a cross between a Pinot Gris and a Chardonnay. There is also Brown is Pinot Grigio and sauvignon blanc in the red family. We've got Zinfandel Cabernet Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. I was asked to write an article a number of years ago about wine and grape growing on the Santa Rosa plateau. And I learned from an early adopter from an early grower that in 1975. He said UC Davis came to the Santa Rosa Plateau to test the condition and from what I understand, It was ballistically a yay and people have ran into as recently as today say that the Torah is most amazing place in Southern California. So if you're interested in growing grapes being a hobby grower or growing seriously, you should really take a look at the Santa Rosa Plateau. Thanks to the plateaus very own, Plateau Vineyards for having us here today and thank you for joining us. We look forward to having you being introduced to the wine of the plateau. We look forward to seeing you next time on La Cresta life. Cheers.…

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Nuts & Bolts...Buying Land on the Plateau 4:26

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Welcome back to La Cresta life this week. We're going to go nuts and bolts and start looking for land. There are several things you want to look for when you're looking for land. You want to look for Access. When you just saw the road that we came in on was not paved, doesn't mean it can't be paved just mind the associated cost with it. This is another thing to be considered. This might be a blue line stream. If you have a county ordained Blue Line stream, they're going to have you set your building set from it from a certain distance. He's got to be mindful of that as well. We're looking at this land the beautiful 10-acre parcel. I'm previewing it for a customer of mine and I'm going to give him the rundown on all of these things that I know to be true about buying land that is first lesson was access and potentially blue lines. Another thing you want to look for is water. Where is the water? We have water in the street. We have fire hydrant when you're looking at a lot, You want to know where is the nearest fire hydrant and try to measure that in your mind. So, you know how far the fire hydrant is from the house that you're planning to build. This and see everything you want to look for electricity. This was a Transformer power the lot behind me make that was pretty valuable on this lot also, but if we learn before water But this one is a sweet spot. So the moral of this story is when you're looking for land. Do you want some of these? Big babies giant oak trees. Do you want flat and usable? Are you going to do horses? Do you want a hillside? That might be great for Vineyards. You got a factor in all of the things that are nearby all of the things you're going to have to bring in and a way that you're going to use the land. So there's a formula it's not ominous, You just have to be aware of it. But thanks for joining us today on La Cresta Life.…

La Cresta Life with Kelly Smith

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