There’s no better way to show your appreciation to Realtors than to sing them a love song. And that’s what our Loan Officer, Sean Aguirre did this past Friday at the San Diego METRO Realtor Caravan. Check out the video below of Mr. Smooth himself, serenading the METRO Realtor Caravan meeting this past Friday at Pita Jungle.
Downtown San Diego’s East Village is still basking in victory and picking up the pieces after yesterday’s amazing Opening Day Block Party. An estimated 8,000 plus residents, business owners/operators, fans and sponsors all celebrated and basked in the beautiful San Diego sun as we all prepared to welcome in a new season of Padres baseball downtown.
The streets were lined with food vendors, local merchants, some offering games like bowling and an American Gladiator style joust sponsored by the Army. Unfortunately none of my team members were up for the challenge against me and I wasn’t about to go up against G.I. Joe. One of the highlights by far though, was the Red Bull X-Fighters, showing off their high-flying freestyle motocross tricks.
The air was thick with excitement leading up to game time and we headed to visit our office neighbors City Consulting Group, who were kind enough to offer me two tickets to the game. Thanks Jorge!
The pregame festivities were emceed by television play-by-play announcer Dick Enberg, and also a tribute to late bullpen coach Darrel Akerfelds byTrevor Hoffman. The national anthem was sung by former Miss California, Arianna Afsar, while sailors from the USS Russell and the USS Boxer unfurled the Holiday Bowl’s giant American flag across the outfield. The first pitch was tossed by Padre veteran, Greg Vaughn, a member of the famed 1998 Padre National League Championship team.
The game was great homecoming for the Padres came off a road trip with a 1-5 record.
The Padres started the game on fire. In the bottom of the first inning, the first homerun by a Padre player in Petco this season, by Will Venable, was hit over the fence in right field, which was moved in during the offseason. Ironically, the ball would have been a homer without the renovations.
The final score was 9-3, highlighted by 4 total RBIs by Venable.
Recently I was presented with the opportunity to represent tenants of Little Italy in the Downtown Community Planning Council (formerly known as the Centre City Advisory Committee). The Council is responsible for public infrastructure needs and priorities, social issues and long range community planning goals, objectives and proposals. I decided to accept the challenge and run in this local election.
I arrived at noon on Tuesday, the minute the polls opened at the Lyceum Theater at Horton Plaza to cast my vote. There were a few current members of the Council staffing the table and a less than capacity crowd voting. There had been about four people to vote (most likely the four people staffing the table).
Fast forward to the meet the candidates hour. From 5 – 7 pm, there was an open forum where interested parties could meet the 10 candidates. Of 8 available positions, there were only two races where there were actual 2 person races – including mine. Lucky for me, my opponent was nowhere to be seen.
Each of us was given the opportunity to present ourselves and positions to those in attendance. The ironic part was there were only 2 or 3 people in the audience who were not actual candidates; rather they were spouses of candidates. And my luck, none of these people were eligible to vote for me. Nonetheless, we all gave short passionate speeches about our love for downtown San Diego and how we can work together in order to make it a better place to live and work.
After the speeches each of the candidates and I stuck around to meet each other and praise each others’ speeches and shared similar views before the polls closed. As I was leaving, I asked one of the board members how the voter turnout was for Little Italy renters. His response – “Looks like you’re the only one that has voted from Little Italy today Michael. Looks like it’s going to be a landslide!”
It was confirmed at last night’s Downtown Community Planning Council that I was indeed victorious in my first attempt at running for a public position in San Diego and plan on representing my fellow downtown residents with pride.
Don’t hesitate to contact me if you would like to voice your opinion about anything concerning downtown San Diego. I am your voice for downtown!
Are you renting in Little Italy??????
Vote For Michael S. Rosenbaum
Centre City Advisory Committee Elections
Tuesday, March 19, 2013, Noon – 7 pm
The Lyceum Theater, Westfield Horton Plaza
Download the Registration Form
Michael S. Rosenbaum is a Little Italy resident and active participant in the Downtown Residential Real Estate community.
He is the area sales manager and mortgage loan originator for First California Mortgage Company, with an office located in the heart of East Village.
Living and working downtown ensure that Michael has his hands on the pulse of what is going on from the ground up in Downtown San Diego.
Centre City Advisory Committee is responsible for:
• Public infrastructure needs
• Priorities
• Social issues
• Long- range community planning goals, objectives and proposals
Michael S. Rosenbaum
michael@caloansource.com
858.876.8330
http://www.caloansource.com/ccac
Let me be your voice to make our future in downtown GREAT!!!
Today, I will be representing Kavod Elementary Charter School as a Founding Board Member and CFO at The 20th Annual California Charter Schools Conference and Anniversary Celebration at the San Diego Convention Center.
The annual event connects charter school experts from across the country who lead sessions on balancing your budget, obtaining a new facility, creating a safe school environment, building a productive and excellent board and how to strongly advocate for you school on the local, state and federal level. It is open to teachers, board members, administrators, business managers, parents, university educators, political leaders, business partners and community stakeholders in one conference.
I, along with my fellow Kavod board members, am excited for the opportunity to learn and network with other charter schools both old and new in order to make Kavod the best school possible.
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We are pleased to introduce the newest member of our team, Sean Aguirre. Sean joins our team as a Mortgage Loan Originator. His primary responsibilities include providing pipeline management for all team loan production in addition to originating loans for clients, referrals and Realtor partners. A San Diego native, Sean entered the mortgage industry after a successful career as an educator. He has a master’s degree in education and previous experience as a corporate trainer for The Walt Disney Company. Sean strives to ensure that all of his clients are fully aware of their available home loan options.
We are very excited to grow our team with a great new addition to our already solid foundation.
If the first week of the month is any sign of things to come, 2013 is going to be a strong year for the purchase market. It felt like everyone woke up in the New Year and decided to put some deals together. Over the course of week our office originated several new purchase transactions on top of the steady refinance business continuing due to historically low rates.
Let’s hope this is a sign continued market improvement, prosperity and growth for our market.
Thank you to everyone that came out to celebrate the Grand Opening of our new office in the tr Office building, in East Village. We were blessed with a sunny day and 7 total listings on the Downtown Caravan tour, making it easy for everyone to
The On The Move section of today’s San Diego Union Tribune features Michael as a result of our recent transition to First California Mortgage Company.
This weekend, I was glad to be a contributing sponsor for the The 29th Annual Hannukah Happening at Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center benefitting Nierman Preschool. Hundreds of families joined Jake & Rapunzel for a fun filled day of jumpies, games, crafts, auctions and more. I was glad to participate with other community professionals including myself and one of our REALTOR partners, Yoni Breziner of the The Breziner Group.
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