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The perfect home in an imperfect neighborhood may still leave a lot to be desired. When you buy a house, you’re essentially buying a stake in the community in which it is located. If you dislike important elements of that community, you’re unlikely to enjoy living there.

Unfortunately, a lot of first-time homebuyers overlook neighborhoods when visiting homes for sale. Many purchase their “dream houses” only to become miserable down the road. With this in mind, we’ll provide a quick guide for deciding whether a community offers the features you and your family consider important. One side note: the following discussion does not address community developments that might make a home a good investment. Instead, we’ll focus on whether the neighborhood poses a good fit. More »

If you have kids then you’d probably have heard of classic Charlotte Diamond songs like “Slippery Fish” and “I am a Pizza”.

Charlotte Diamond will be visiting the Southbay Botanical Gardens in Torrance/Palos Verdes on Sunday, August 28!

Picnic starts at 4:30pm and the concert will go from 5:30pm to 6:30pm. Tickets are $10 adults $8 children 2-12 advance / $12 adults $10 children at the door.

At Third Street Promenade today I was finally overcome by the delicious smells of soaps and bath products at the Lush USA store!

I stopped in and bought 2 types of solid shampoo bars and also their solid conditioner bar: the squeaky green shampoo bar (pictured right) with rosemary and the soak and float bar with the “antimicrobial” effects. This one’s got tar in it, so the lavender helps with the strong odor. This smells much better than the Jason brand anti-dandruff shampoo with sulfur (that one is super pungent I feel as if green vapors were coming up from the bottle) sold at Whole Foods.

The person who rang up my order was super nice, and he even remembered that I should get a free container tin for my shampoo bar because I bought 2. Then he threw in a sample of the ocean salt facial scrub.

I can’t wait to try these out!