Every Man Must Thank his Faults

March 10, 2010  |  1 Comments  |  by Gary Krieger  |  Encino, Sherman Oaks, Studio City, Tarzana, Woodland Hills

Words from Emerson

By: Gary Kriegerralph waldo emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “As every man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him…Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.”  Likewise, the faults of the market offer opportunities to those who pay attention.  And, we must thank those faults and pay attention to what they offer us.

Today on the radio I heard an economist say by 2012 we’ll be back to normal.  Recovery will have taken hold and the stock market will thrive.  Now, we all know that economists are notorious for digging themselves into holes and then explaining how they get out of the holes, but more and more economists are predicting recovery in the not-so-distant future.  That leaves opportunity for savvy people to buy real estate now, before the market heats up again.  And, those who do will likely reap the profits from those purchases.  2012?  2013?  2014?  We really don’t know.  But we do know that historically, in Studio City, Sherman Oaks, Encino, Tarzana and Woodland Hills, for example, the markets have always rebounded and have always gone higher than the previous highs.  I hope this is helpful…

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Malibu Rocks that Roll

January 8, 2010  |  No Comments  |  by Ewing & Associates  |  Malibu
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Sold for $3,750,000

John Wayne Rocks!

By: Gracee Arthur

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I recently came across a terrific story in the LA Times by Steve Harvey about sculptor Brett-Livingston Strong. The story was about 116 ton boulder which was teetering over Pacific Coast Highway in a threatening manner.  Some years later, 2005 to be exact, another large boulder was threatening to roll onto PCH between Big Rock and Las Tunas forcing Cal Trans to shut down that segment of the highway (to the consternation of many local residents) including me! For more on this Malibu Times story, click here.

It was the first week of March 2005 and I was just recovering from the flu when I was driving to a home inspection on a house I had put in escrow the week before, just across from street from the hanging rock. I had to beg the sheriff to let me park my car and walk

John Wayne Sculptor

John Wayne Rock Sculpture

the 2 miles down the muddy post rainstorm highway to my listing, hoping all the way that this “minor inconvenience” was not going to cause a case of buyer’s remorse. I walked quickly past the large boulder being worked on by Cal Trans praying I had not walked this far for naught!  Luckily the buyers were a hardy pair and the boulder was a great topic of conversation. When I finally walked back to my car at the end of the day there it sat with a totally flat tire but the house was still in escrow, the rock still suspended. The house closed escrow, the rock was blown up into smaller pieces for removal whereabouts unknown.

Back to 1979 where the exciting drama to remove the 116 ton boulder culminated in sculptor Livingstone Strong purchasing a 12.5 ton chunk of the rock which he carved into the image of actor John Wayne!

The Wayne bust was donated to Lubbock Christian University where in 2010 it still sits in the university library. Click here to view more information about the photo to the right.

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