How the World Baseball Classic and the 2025 L.A. Dodgers are a major league win in your business

For me, stories about communities or individuals facing insurmountable obstacles, yet still rising to greatness through faith and determination are deeply moving. As I was enjoying a casual read through the history of James Garfield, America’s 20th President, I found parallels to the history of the city I love, Temecula, CA, that reminded me of what faith, hard work, and perseverance can accomplish.

The headlines about the real estate market are sensational to say the least. It’s been going on for years. In 1897, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) had to write a letter to the New York Journal to say “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated". And so it is with the doom and gloom headlines about the housing market. Here’s the truth in this month's real estate market update.

Properties are moving! That rise in closed transactions completely counters the pervasive fear of the market seizing up. It proves that this market, while slower and requiring more patience from sellers, is definitely not frozen.

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I love Jesus. I love my wife. I love history. And I love sports (especially football). A week or so ago I was reading about a discovery of some ancient history at the Dinosaur National Monument in Utah. Apparently a parking lot was being replaced when the workers stumbled on approximately 3000 pounds of fossils.  Apparently most of them belonged to a species named the Diplodocus. I wondered to myself, how do they know that? I mean how does all of that dirt and soot get remove

I’ve been in the business world for over 40 years. I’ve seen markets rise, fall, and do backflips. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that "predictors" are often spectacularly wrong. Before I jump in the fray with my secret sauce signs for the 2026 housing market, the Top 5 unconventional indicators, take a look at some of the past perilous prognosticators! History is full of it and so were some of the people. The Rocket Fail:  In 1936, The New York Times  said rockets c