Whats up San Diego

[La Jolla Real Estate]

Hello all. I'm Cleve from the Ginn & Shirley Real Estate Group. Just came across the forum...good participants, knowledgable...I look foward to networking with everyone.

Cleve

[Phoenix Realtor]

Hi G&S,

I used to have a Gordon and Smith skateboard (G&S) when I was a teen!

Welcome to the forums!

[La Jolla Real Estate]

Nice! My first surfboard was a G&S.

Thanks Matt.

[Phoenix Realtor]

After riding it for better than a year, I stripped it down, and re-painted it bright red except for the wheel wells which I left natural wood. Then I stuck a new G&S sticker on it and clear coated it. Man... I was the **** at the pool's for the next month after un-veiling my "new board". BTW, for you younger kids, we used to skate pools at vacant homes after cleaning them up and stealing the real estate sign to cover the drain.

Talk about Karma. I've had three signs stolen and two sign posts in the past 11 years!
"I was just a kid, please let up on me Karma".

[STVP]

Matt,

' I didnt know you were one of the Dog Town Z boys. I have been in a pool or two in my day.

STVP

[sarahk]

Talk about Karma. I've had three signs stolen and two sign posts in the past 11 years!
Sheesh, one every 2 years, that Karma comes down hard doesn't it :rolleyes:

[La Jolla Real Estate]

Ah yes, Karma. That explains what has been happening to my yellow signs...

[Phoenix Realtor]

Not a Z boy, but a zonie for sure. Pools rock don't they STVP?

Ah, the karma... that is just what I can relate directly. Who knows, maybe I should've made my first million by now...
Anyways, I can surely afford a few new signs. Actually, I get new ones all the time and recycle the old ones. I am either changing something, or buying because the others are getting faded. I have to laugh at my competitors who use old faded signs, some here even have little stickers on them for hte new area codes. We used to be 602 for the whole state, so no one had the area code on any of their local advertising stuff. They are so cheap, why not get new ones? I pay like $12.95 per metal sign!

Here is a good guy, who used to be in my office until a few months ago, who uses old signs...
http://filelibrary.myaasite.com/Content/13/13829/3682561.jpg

And, it is featured on his home page about half way down! www 4realestatephoenix com Too funny, but it makes it easier on me to win over more business. :D

[Phoenix Realtor]

I was looking for a picture of my signs to show that I have my URL on the metal part (and my area code, LOL), when I came across these pictures I shot from my house of a fire about 18-20 miles North of me in Carefree.

http://www.phoenixhomes.com/PageManager/Default.aspx/PageID=656947&NF=1 Anyways, couldn't find the pic of my yard signs, no biggie!

So, G&S...

You took a few liberty's when growing up too? :D

[JoePesci]

That,s Great!
I like the Gordon and Smith Board.
Our local police chief while growing up was named Gordon Smith and he used to kick the boarders out of the pools.

[sarahk]

Just out of interest, who pays for your signs?

I'll take a piccie of how we do it down here because they're 100% different from the example above. Ours still promote the realtor heavily, and their brand but they also include info about the property.

And the vendor pays upfront.

Sarah

[STVP]

Yeah I used to live in the pools when I lived in Oregon, there is a city called Donald and it has a pool that people visit from all over between that and burnside downtown we were in heaven. Then We got more into surfing and enjoyed falling on water more than cement. :D

Sarah that avatar is ridiculous where did you find it.

STVP

[sarahk]

It's second hand :) apparantly picked up from tropical fish forum - as you'd expect.

[Phoenix Realtor]

Just out of interest, who pays for your signs?

I'll take a piccie of how we do it down here because they're 100% different from the example above. Ours still promote the realtor heavily, and their brand but they also include info about the property.

And the vendor pays upfront.

Sarah

At Realty Executives we are independent contractors, so we pay for anything we wish to have. I buy 12 at a time, so really it's no big deal at $155 every year or two.

[sarahk]

At Realty Executives we are independent contractors, so we pay for anything we wish to have. I buy 12 at a time, so really it's no big deal at $155 every year or two.
That's amazing. We pay about US$700 per sign, per house!

This is what you get for free, but only the cheapest properties would have a standard sign. Agents hate using them because it costs them and not the vendor.

[Phoenix Realtor]

Show me a $700 sign.

I am putting one up at a site where three new custom homes are going to be built priced from $620K to $810K. That sign is going to cost me around $400, it will be four feet high by eight feet wide, full color, and mounted about 3 feet above the ground with three 4X4 inch posts holding it.

Mybe I should be exporting real estate signs instead of selling real estate?

[Las Vegas Real Estate]

Yo, Cleve... greetings from Las Vegas and welcome to the forum!

[STVP]

I tell ya what guys, Instead of spending 400 bones on a Sign how about you spend it on a surf board and when you have no listings I can ride it. :D Sound like a good idea... :cool:

STVP

[Jade456]

Welcome to the forum. For 700 bucks, I'd make you a sign :D Matt, who would have figured you for a slacker in your youth! :p

[Phoenix Realtor]

Charles, I know you are just poking fun at me, so htis is not directed at you buddy!

Skating is not slacking! Well, partying a little, but it is a sport and you sweat, build skills and build muscle, etc. It just got a bad rap from the few who used drugs, and vandalized things, etc.

Anyways, I am not and never was a slacker. Even back them I owned a bicycel maintenance shop that I ran out of my parents shed. I even made a carved wood sign for the shed door and sent out flyers to all our neighbors with a price list on it. IE, $3 to patch a flat, $4 to change an innertube, $7 for a tune-up (tighten spokes, grease bearings, oil chain and sealed bearings, air up tires to proper pressure, etc.). I made quite a lot of money doing that from 8th grade into 10th or so. After that, I threw five keg parties at other peoples houses when their parnets were out of town. We would sell them on it by asking them if they wanted to be popular... they always said yes, so I had at least three a month. Talk about making money... at $5 per person and a fight almost always breaking up the party (with police coming, etc.) before I'd have to buy the 3rd, 4th, or 5th keg. I usually walked with well over $300 a night. Which was good money in the early 80's. Kept gas and tires on my '69 Camaro RS. :D