Ideas to Make your Holiday Green Get Ready for Plug-In Vehicles Fish and Game Commission MPA Adoption Hearing Ocean acidification
To our fabulous family, friends, clients and colleagues, Happy Holidays!
We are all very blessed and we appreciate all of your support! May your New Year be bright, full of happiness and abundance.
Your Friends,
DeAnn & Elizabeth
LATEST & GREATEST...
SANTA BARBARA REAL ESTATE SNAPSHOT:
November 28 - December 12, 2010* Shorter time than usual...
New listings: 52
Price Improvements: 71
Pending: 41
Closed: 53
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Sub $1 million: 32
$1-2M: 16
$2-4M: 5
$4-8M: 0
$8M+: 1
Off Market: 74
Back On Market: 23
This is a look at statistics provided through the Santa Barbara Multiple Listing Service over the past month. They include single family residences and condos, from Carpinteria to Goleta.
Ideas to Make your Holiday Green Here are a few ideas from your friends at EcoBroker to help make your holiday season a lot more green!
Give Green Gifts
- For kids, think science kits, solar power gadgets such as radios and flashlights, books about ecology, or tickets for a trip to a local nature reserve, museum, or zoo to see conservation in action.
- For the green thumb on your list, purchasing gardening materials such as seeds, seedlings, plants, planter pots, soil, etc., are great eco-friendly gift choices.
- Reusable grocery and shopping bags are always handy.
Spend Time With Your Loved Ones - Making your own gifts is an excellent way of ensuring they're eco-friendly, well within budget, and a great way to enjoy the company and fellowship of others.
Make food. Giving homemade food beautifully presented in eco-friendly packaging is a delightful gift, part love and part delicious! How about homemade jam or bread? - Keep in mind the interests of each recipient and the need to reduce waste by using eco-considerate products when making the gifts. Make use of empty containers to package homemade treats for gifts. For example, decorate an empty Pringles can to package chocolate covered pretzel sticks!
Be Eco-friendly With Your Tree - If you celebrate Christmas, consider purchasing a living Christmas tree. This option has the benefit of not removing a tree for a temporary use and allows you to plant the tree in the garden or in another suitable place after use.
- Be sure to compost a cut tree after use. If you don't have a garden or you're not able to hire or borrow a wood-chipper machine, check with your local council to see if it has a scheme for chipping or composting trees.
- Turn off the tree lights after you go to bed and while you're out. Try putting your indoor and outdoor lights on timers if you can't remember to do this manually. Doing this will also prevent fires.
For more ideas on how to make your holiday green click here.
Get Ready for Plug-In Vehicles A dozen models of all-electric and electric/gas plug-in hybrids will be available by 2012, and Santa Barbara is expected to be one of the top sales markets. Are our homes, fueling stations and electrical grid ready for plug-in cars?
FRIENDS & OCEAN LOVERS: We hope you will consider attending this HISTORIC meeting on Wednesday, December 15 at Hotel Mar Monte and showing your SUPPORT FOR MARINE PROTECTED AREAS. The Fish and Game Commission has a once in a lifetime opportunity to safeguard Southern California's ocean for future generations. The package most likely to be adopted by Fish and Game.
PLEASE ATTEND THE MEETING!
WHAT: Fish and Game Commission MPA Adoption Hearing
WHEN: Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Meeting will begin at 9:00am. Early arrival is helpful to secure seats and submit speaker cards for public comment; however attendance at any time between 8:00am – 5:00pm is welcome and encouraged.
PLEASE WEAR BLUE TO SYMBOLIZE YOUR SUPPORT FOR MPAs.
WHERE: Hotel Mar Monte
1111 East Cabrillo Blvd.
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
Santa Barbara County Recycling Resource Guide:
|  | December Green Drinks Tuesday December 14 6-8pm Arch Rock Fish 608 Anacapa Street www.greendrinks.org/CA/Santa Barbara to join email:
NEW LISTING:
748 Dos Hermanos
Santa Barbara, CA 93117
Offered at $699,000 Spacious detached home in Villa San Marcos. This 3br 2.5 ba cul de sac home boasts a outdoor patio area, vaulted ceilings, fireplace, french doors off dining area and attached two car garage. affordable HOA dues. Priced below the 2 smaller units that sold this year, great deal!
NEW LISTING: 1521 Olive St Santa Barbara, CA 93103
Offered at: $1,575,000 Beautiful downtown townhouse. Low energy use home includes radiant floor heating, dual paned windows & quality insulation. Watch the fireworks from the oceanview deck. Ideal upper East location. This spacious home is newly built in 2003, quality throughout, 3br/3ba, gourmet kitchen, 2 car gar + guest spot.
Contact DeAnn for a private showing.
 FOR SALE:
3952 Foothill Road Santa Barbara, CA 93110
Offered at $589,000 Located down a private lane off the main road, this is a great opportunity to buy in the HOPE School district. Approximately 1/5 of an acre in the County of Santa Barbara, the property includes a dozen varieties of fruit trees, a towering redwood, a shaded flagstone patio, a shed/workshop, raised garden beds, chicken coop, and a sense of privacy while just minutes from all that Santa Barbara has to offer. The bright and airy home, built in 1954, has a 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom layout that allows for an extended family or rental income, with a wood burning stove, vaulted ceilings, dual-paned windows, and gorgeous hardwood floors.
Contact Elizabeth for appointments
 SOLD
917 Paseo Ferrelo
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
Sold for $965,000
At the end of a cul-de-sac and bordering a peaceful canyon, this Riviera retreat offers ultimate privacy, lush tropical landscaping and irresistible city and ocean views. The stylish single level home features an open floor plan with oak floors, wood beam ceilings, gourmet kitchen and walls of glass to showcase the views. A four bedroom, four bathroom home also has a Gourmet Kitchen with custom cabinets, and granite counters. All of this and just a few blocks from downtown.
 PENDING: Short Sale...nothing short about it!
328 Loma Vista
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
Listed at $609,000
This three bedroom Bungalow home is located on a one block long street in the Historical District. Very close to Alice Keck Park, Kids World and downtown. French doors from back bedroom open to deck and backyard. Craftsman fireplace flanked by bookcases and classic built-in China buffet in dining room. Updated plumbing, electrical, central A/C, heating and newer oak floors. |
