There’s a story rolling around the internet these days about a High School teacher who started a class 
project of telling each student how they had impacted her life. She then gave each of them 4 blue ribbons with gold letters reading “Who I Am Makes A Difference.” The students were instructed to keep one of the ribbons and to tell one other person how they had impacted their life and to give them the remaining ribbons with the instructions to pay it forward (do the same for someone else.)
One student gave his extra three ribbons to a junior executive in a nearby company who had helped him with his career planning. The executive in turn gave his two extra ribbons to his boss, who was a very difficult man to work for, but the executive recognized his intelligence as a businessman and told him of the positive influence he’d had, calling him a “creative genius.
The business owner was moved by the experience and decided, since he had’t had much time with his teenage son recently, to give his extra ribbon to his son. He told his son that he realizes how busy he’s been and that he’s been treating his son like an employee, never seeming to be satisfied with his performance. He said he just wanted to take a moment to honor his son and tell him how much he matters.
The son broke down and wept. 
The father, not understanding, asked what was the problem and the son told him he didn’t think anyone cared about him. He then went to his bedroom and brought out a suicide note and a gun. He handed them to his father and said he had planned to use the gun that night “…but now I don’t think I’ll be needing them.”
Now it was the father’s turn to break down.
The business owner was never the same again. He began treating everyone with respect and made it a point to honor his employees and his family, and to let them know how much they matter to him.
Now, we’re passing these blue ribbons on to you.
Have an awesome day, Temecula…and if you are in any kind of housing distress, just be aware that it doesn’t say anything about you. You are awesome no matter what.
Now, when I look around, we are living in the most incredible of times, with 3D films, HDTV, even 3DTV, home-ownership available to virtually everyone, and conveniences we only dreamed about in the Sixties and Seventies. In so many ways, we’ve enjoyed forty years of ever-increasing prosperity, especially here in California. Nonetheless, if anything, what I hear from folks is an incipient hopelessness.
Not only have the homes become affordable but the use of creative financing strategies has reached a new pinnacle of sophistication and ease. Yeah…we all know the banks are in trouble and are not lending (even it seems to people with the best credit) but that doesn’t mean a thing. In fact, we may find that the kind of financing strategies we’re using today will be much better for the economy in general than the bank-dominated economy of the past several decades.
People have probably told you that renting is cheaper than owning a home. The cost of owning a home is actually more affordable. More than half of all renters spend 30% or more of their income on housing. That is considered unaffordable housing. There has been a recent increase in the number of renters that have trouble affording their housing, and now over a quarter of renters spend 50% or more on their housing.
We decided it would be fun and informative for us to share our top five reasons why you should consider buying a home here in Temecula, CA. Honestly, there are a whole lot more ideas we came up with than are shared here.
There are majestic views of mountains and lakes from all parts of town. Temecula offers a truly beautiful countryside to enjoy.
Temecula hosts a balloon and wine festival, a film festival, concerts, gift shows and fairs. There is always something to do in and around town.
