Where We Are Now: March 30, 2020

Work From Home — Day 15 Emotions Run High — Calm is Required 5:04 AM PST A very emotional weekend digesting the various announcements from Homeland Security, C.A.R., several counties and local governments. Please know one important value: we will not sacrifice the health or safety of our team or our clients. Any and all activities we perform will be from SIP ordinance first. It’s...

Where We Are Now: March 27, 2020

Work From Home — Day 12 Good to Great 5:05AM PST Team – I am done watching the Futures and predicting the equity markets. Yesterday at 5AM DOW Futures were down 700 and opened up. I need to re-subscribe, pay the fees in arrears and reconnect with my crystal ball! My comments today about good to great are my own. Many of them come from my passion...

Where We Are Now: March 26, 2020

Work From Home — Day 11 Requesting 14 Minutes of Your Undivided Attention 5:15AM PST Team –  I pushed my good to great email to tomorrow.  Today will be filled with tough news. The markets will open down. Unemployment figures will be released and shock people. I thought about how to overcome this news with words of encouragement, and then Ed Lynch sent me some perspective last...

Where We Are Now: March 25, 2020

Work From Home — Day 10 — Flashback to Feelings of Our Last Crisis — 5:07AM Team –  5:07 AM Good morning – Futures are up 111 points. Could today be a consecutive day of positive results?  As I reflect on our recent challenges I continue to be reminded of the great recession. In concert with my reflections, I received calls yesterday from Patrick Barber, President former...

Where We Are Now: March 24, 2020

Where We Are Now: March 24, 2020

Work From Home Day 9 — Real People — Real Feelings! — 5:50AM Team –  Good morning on another inspiring day! If you think about it, every day is an inspiring day! Our days are what we make of them, how we act, behave, compete and inspire others. In the past two weeks, I have become closer and closer to all of you as we are...

Where We Are Now: March 23, 2020

  WFH Day 8 — People, GDP & The Mortgage Business — 5:10AM Team –  I joined the residential brokerage business in 2006. At social events (back when we used to have them), I always answered the question “what do you do?” with a simple response, “I run a real estate brokerage company.” That said, I am not in the real estate business, I am in...

What's Happening This Week: March 23, 2020

LA Greater Area Who’s added takeout/delivery dining More restaurants are going this route every day, but here are a few of the more delicious highlights right now. Get the details on how to enjoy great restaurant fare at home — and support the great LA places that make it. View this post on Instagram Today’s community sandwich by our awesome new kitchen manager, @erindetroitvesey! Lamb...

Where We Are Now: March 20, 2020

Work From Home — Day 5 — $1 Trillion Coming Our Way — 5:45AM Team –  Here comes the initial wave of Federal stimulus. As of 5 AM today, the DOW Futures were up 552. As I release this writing, we have dialed back to DOW Futures up 250. Time period, less than 45 minutes. Seems the pending 10 AM ET announcement will include $1...