From DQ News….
See DataQuick’s results on Orange County Real Estate Home Sales
by going to seeing Orange County Realty results for February in DataQuick’s February results page.
Have you seen the new real estate web site called Trulia. Well, it’s new and coming up high on most search engines in searches for things like San Clemente real estate, Orange County Real Estate, San Juan Capistrano real estate, Capistrano Beach real estate and more.
Yes, I’m there on Trulia in cities like San Clemente, California, and I have one listing there.
So go take a look. I think you’ll like the real estate that you see there by your South Orange County Realtor, me, Debbie Ferrari.
Debbie Ferrari’s
Great Fudge Recipe:
If you are a guy, print this
out and give it to your wife:
Here is my great chocolate fudge recipe that makes the best fudge you
ever tasted, even better than Macinaw Island Fudge.
In a good heavy sauce pan (I use my Revere ware) combine 1 ½ cubes of butter or margarine, 4 ½ cups granulated sugar and 1 can of evaporated milk. Cook over medium/high heat and when it comes to a boil start timing and cook for 7 minutes. This is the important part and you don’t have to use a candy thermometer.
In a heavy duty mixing bowl combine 3, 8 oz. Hershey Bars, broken up, 12 oz. bag of Chocolate chips, 1 jar of marshmallow cream. Chop 2 cups of walnuts or pecans (I use pecans) and have them standing by. I keep my nuts in the freezer and it helps speed the cooling process. With my Kitchen Aid mixer I use the heavy paddle or dough hook, either works well, but don’t use the whip, it’s too flimsy for the fudge.
When the sugar/milk mixture has boiled for 7 minutes, remove from heat and pour it over the chocolate. Stir a little with a silicone spatula and then turn the beater on. Let it beat while you’re chopping the nuts or lining your jelly roll pan with foil. I use a jelly roll pan because it’s the perfect size for the 5 pounds of fudge.
I line the pan with foil and then butter with the butter wrapper, or spray with Pam. After the pan is prepared and the fudge is starting to cool, it should be holding it’s shape in the bowl. Add 1 teaspoon of good vanilla extract. Last add the chopped nuts. Beat until well combined. Once you turn the beaters off you need to work fast and get it into the pan, spread evenly and let set in cool place.
NEVER put chocolate in the refrigerator! This is a never fail recipe. If it doesn’t set up perfectly, you didn’t cook it long enough, or use the right size chocolate bars. When they started changing the size of the bars (they used to ALL be 8 oz., but you can still get the 8 oz. ones at some Wal-Marts) it got me a couple of times and I ended up with some great chocolate fudge sauce for ice cream!
Visit my Orange County Real Estate page in my Realtor web site for links to more recipes and area restaurants.
Want to find an especially accomplished San Clemente Realtor to handle your real estate needs, whether it is buying or selling a home? Or commercial property, or industrial, or even someone who is expert in 1031 property exchange?
Then go to AgentPreview.com and enter the city of your choice.
Find agents all over the country, for almost every middle to large sized city. This is a real estate directory in which you will find your beloved Orange County Real Estate agent, me, Debbie Ferrari.
This Web 2.0 revolution is everywhere. Trulia is yet another social networking site where you can make contacts all over the world. Moreover, it has experts in hundreds of different fields listed there as authorities. You can go to www.Trulia.com and ask a question and then get answers from one or many of the experts in that field. It also has links to my Orange County Real Estate web site.
Naturally, my field is real estate, and specifically, South Orange County California real estate.
Go to Trulia and give it a try.
Norma, Arlan and Claudia of the
San Clemente Chamber of Commerce
Our South Orange County has some great chambers of commerce, and since we LIVE in San Clemente, we are closest to our own San Clemente Chamber of Commerce.
It is a real joy to work closely with Norma, Claudia and Arlan, who are the associates there, as well as with Lynn Wood, the Executive Director.
Lynn Wood, Executive Director
We have put on several different wealth building & 1031 seminars in cooperation with the Chamber. The seminars were made successful by four months of full page ads in the Chamber printed newsletter. And of course the Chamber produces several major, major city wide events each year.
The two biggest events are the Fiesta Street Festival, this year on August 10, 2008, and the San Clemente Seafest, Sunday, October 5th, 2008.
We also advertise in the chamber site and have a big red San Clemente real estate banner at the bottom of the San Clemente Chamber of Commerce home page.
We also have a banner on the bottom of other Chamber pages. They are:
San Clemente Chamber of Commerce information
Chamber of Commerce Contact information
History of, and About, San Clemente, California
Every month, well, almost every, the Chamber puts on a mixer for chamber members and guests.
Here is the schedule for the year (subject to change):
March 20–Tri-Chamber Mixer - Weseloh Honda - 33553 Camino Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano 92675
April 3–Farmers and Merchants Bank - 501 N. El Camino Real, Suite 100, San Clemente, 92672
May 1 - Pacific Coast National Bank - 905 Calle Amanecer, Suite 100, San Clemente.
June 5 - Pacific Water Solutions - 555 N. El Camino Real, #B, San Clemente
July 3 - Distinctive Coast Properties, 209 Ave Del Mar, Suite 104, San Clemente
August - Not Available
September 18 - San Juan Capistrano and Dana Point
October 2 - San Clemente Villas by the Sea -660 Camino de los Mares, San Clemente
November - Not Available
December - Not Available
These mixers are always fun and they are a great place to meet new friends and find new business partners. I always take lots of business cards and hand them out liberally so people can go search the Orange County MLS for homes or just find realty information at my 700-page Orange County real estate web site.
Prices have come down around Orange County, but prices here in coastal cities have dropped the least of all. So if you are ready to buy (a perfect time if you have some spare cash), just contact me at 949-463-4111. Debbie Ferrari.
We have longed many years in San Clemente for a trolley like they have in San Diego that takes you all over the many parts of that city. Now, it looks like we might get one to travel through South Orange County’s key cities of San Clemente, Dana Point, San Juan Capistrano, the beach area by our pier, downtown and more.
You can get on, get off to shop, say, on Del Mar Ave, or at the new Marble Coastal shops, then get back on the next trolley to come through. This is wonderful. Tourists might even use this trolley to get a sense of the area in which they’d be buying real estate and moving to.
Naturally, being a San Clemente-based Realtor, I am all for this move. But we want to make sure that the Trolley becomes a reality. And our city fathers have to approve it.
So here, below, is a letter to our San Clemente city engineer, urging our city’s support of a trolley system.
If you would like more information, please contact the city office at Info@VillageSanClemente.com. Just copy the letter below into a Word Document page, and fill in your own info. Then send it to the city.
Thanks for participating and supporting the Trolley plan.
And if you’re thinking of buying a rental unit or a home as an investment or one in which to live, now that prices are lower in some areas, remember that I am a San Clemente Realtor serving all of South Orange County.
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M. Akram Hindiyeh
Principal Civil Engineer
City of San Clemente
910 Calle Negocio,
San Clemente, CA 92673
Subject: Tri-City Trolley
Dear Mr. Hindiyeh:
Please accept this letter on behalf of YOUR COMPANY/AGENCY as our “approval of support” for the Tri-City Trolley.
The trolley will make it easy for visitors to take Metrolink to San Clemente and explore our area’s beaches, shops, restaurants, and historic areas. (Optional: ADD A SENTENCE OR TWO ABOUT SPECIFIC BENEFITS TO YOU.
We look forward to working with the three cities, OCTA, and local businesses in support of this exciting plan, and we will continue to participate in discussions regarding local public/private funding options. The trolley will not only boost Metrolink ridership but also encourage people to visit and stay in our area. We are very pleased to support this proposal.
Sincerely,
NameBusiness Name:
Address:
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