THE GIVING IT BACK AND PAYING IT FORWARD REAL ESTATE NEWS LETTER

August 2021 Boy…it’s Hot & — Not Just Outside! RED HOT Opportunities!

You don’t have to be a weather person to predict the weather this time of year. We all know… it’s the hottest time of the year. But that’s not all that’s hot. The economy is red hot too. By all measures, it is a robust economy on the move.

This is GOOD for most reading this, but there will be some exceptions. There always are. An example could be selling a house and making out great, meaning a buyer pays a bit more than they would have not too long ago. And in some areas, the opposite happens. The Seller does not make out that great, but the buyer does. Most homeowners who do NOT have to sell, of course, know this and will hold back on buying or selling. That will, of course, impact supply and demand. Results right now?

A Real Estate Company That Gives Back!

How does this impact you? Well, it is a HOT time to invest in real estate. Single-family, multi-family, even farmland. If you didn’t get the memo, here is a particular clause from our Buyer and Seller Agreements of our VIP Client Program, enabling past clients to create additional wealth through real estate.

VIP CLIENT PROGRAM: Seller ___ does OR ___ does not wish to participate in Broker’s VIP Client Real Estate Investor Program (REIP), whereby Seller will receive notices of free real estate investor training and notices of real estate investment opportunities by mail, email or phone at times when investment opportunities arise. Seller may opt-out of The REIP at any time. Seller is never obligated to invest in real estate. So, if you or anyone you know likes the idea of making money in real estate using other people’s money, please contact The Corey Chambers Group right away. While these HOT investment opportunities are available. Making gains in assets and wealth is nice! We especially like it because it allows us the opportunity to GIVE more. How about you?

As you probably know, we donate a portion of our income to some AMAZING, worthy causes, like Children’s Healthcare of Los Angeles. It’s one of the country’s leading non-profit children’s hospitals. This year we are on a mission to raise $25,000 for CHLA. Their work in helping kids fight through and survive nasty debilitating diseases like cancer, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, leukemia, as well as their work in other life-threatening childhood diseases.

When we help someone buy or sell a Loft or Condo, like the ones found in Little Tokyo Lofts some of that goes to helping CHLA provide life saving first of it’s kind medical care like you will read about later in this news letter.

Do you have a story about getting care for yourself or someone else at CHLA? Share it here.

At CHLA, they Have performed fist of its kind surgeries to save local kids! As the leading not-for-profit hospital in LA, you probably know they need sponsorships and donations to continue their leading-edge care and keep family expenses to a minimum. We are committed to donating a portion of our income from home sales to this very worthy cause. So, YOUR REFERRALS really do HELP THE KIDS…

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Who do you know considering buying or selling a home or investing in real estate you could refer to my team? Not only will they benefit from our award-winning service, but the kids at CHLA will benefit as well. So just give me a call or pass my number on to anyone you know considering buying or selling.

My number is 213-880-9910. You and your referrals mean more than ever to my team and me. As we move forward through this red-hot summer, please know we are incredibly thankful for you and a special part of our business.

Corey Chambers

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Your referrals help us support the life changing medical work of Childrens Hospital in Los Angeles

As you know, we love making guarantees! Like our Buyer Satisfaction Guarantee: Love the home, or we’ll buy it back! Or our Seller Guarantee: Your Home Sold or We’ll Buy It! And we guarantee that a portion of our income WILL go to support Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles!

A real estate company with experience, proven results and a give-back philosophy!

Over the last two decades of helping thousands of families sell their home and/or buy another, we have met some wonderful, loving, caring people.

People like you! So your referrals can rest assured that not only will they get the award-winning service we are known for and the guarantee to back it up, but that a solid portion of the income we receive will go toward a very worthy cause.

Refer your friends, neighbors, associates or family members considering making a move

You can go to www.ReferralsHelpKids.com and enter their contact info online or forward the link to someone you know considering a move.

Of course you can always call me direct as well at 213-880-9910

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Why I support Childrenʼs Hospital Los Angeles

I grew up right here in the Greater Los Angeles Area, born in Los Angeles County at St. Francis Hospital. I remember when I first heard about a young person close to our family suffering from a nasty disease and getting treated for that at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. It was then that I began to pay closer attention to the work they do at that hospital. Since then, I have learned that it is a collection of hard-working heath care professionals, most making their home right here in the Los Angeles area, all coming together for a common cause. That cause is to help young people overcome unfortunate health issues that life sometimes throws our way. Being a Los Angeles Area California native, I take pride in supporting in a way that I can the good work these people do at Children’s. My team rallies around our annual goal or raising money and donating portions of our income to help Children’s in their quest to heal young people when they needhealing. My team and I are committed to providing outstanding results for buyers and sellers referred to us by our past clients. I have discovered that Children’s Hospital Los Angeles shares similar commitment to their patients. And since their services survive on sponsorships and donations, we are happy to contribute and proud to support them.

Sincerely,

Corey Chambers

A collaboration of 11 hospital teams carries out the lifesaving procedure, a first at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

By Jeff Weinstock

Knuckle bumps are good for casual goodbyes; hugs and kisses for airport partings. But after exchanging both with his mother, Melissa, Mark found that they weren’t enough to seal a preop farewell. Certainly not one of this magnitude. From the operating room before the day-long dual surgeries that would make him the first heart-liver transplant recipient at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, he asked one of the transplant team members to get a message to his mom. Melissa heard her phone chime when it arrived: “Mark wanted me to tell you that he loves you.”

Complications from the Fontan

She was 16 when she had Mark, and only seconds after he was born he abruptly stopped crying, indicating something wasn’t right. The doctor came in to explain what it was.

“I was very confused,” Melissa says. “Was there something I did wrong? I remember him drawing out a normal heart for me, and drawing out Mark’s heart.” The issue was hypoplastic right heart syndrome, a congenital disorder that leaves the right chamber of the heart underdeveloped and unable to pump blood. Doctors have to perform a trio of precisely sequenced surgeries in the baby’s first few years of life to reconfigure the heart so the one good ventricle can take over for the incapacitated side. Over time, the extra burden on the working ventricle can’t be sustained; usually a heart transplant is unavoidable.

Mark tolerated the first two surgeries—one at 5 days old, the other at 6 months—but had complications from the third one, called the Fontan. During the procedure the vein that carries blood back from the body, the inferior vena cava, is disconnected from the heart and attached to the pulmonary artery so blood flows straight to the lungs, sidestepping the nonfunctioning right ventricle altogether. The makeshift “Fontan circulation” produces new threats, though. Elevated blood pressure within the veins can cause blood flow to jam up in the liver, inflicting damage. “The liver and the heart are intimately involved with each other,” CHLA heart surgeon Cynthia Herrington, MD, says. “When the pressures in the Fontan circuit go up, it’s not uncommon for us to see liver failure.” After Mark underwent the procedure in December 2009 at age 3, his liver began to show abnormalities, triggering a particularly malevolent disorder called protein-losing enteropathy, or PLE. Body fluids begin leaking into the intestines, causing diarrhea, the loss of proteins and nutrients—and extreme fatigue. “I would wake him up in the morning for school,” Melissa says. “He would get ready for his day, and then by the time we got to the stoplight, he would be asleep again.”Over time, his struggles with PLE accelerated Mark’s need for a heart transplant, as his body risked becoming too malnourished to support one. In the summer of 2017, he was listed for a heart transplant. The wait for a donor would reach three years, prompting Mark’s cardiologist, Jondavid Menteer, MD, to push for him to be admitted to the hospital. With Mark as an inpatient, doctors could more forcefully treat his symptoms—and it would also raise his standing on the waiting list.“Having him in the hospital,” Dr. Menteer says, “actively giving him IV nutrition and other medications, allowed us to get his urgency up.” In October 2020, Mark, now 14, was admitted to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles with the hope of fortifying his system for a transplant—or transplants, Dr. Menteer says. “That was about the same time we also decided his liver was doomed to fail.”

A collaboration of 11 hospital teams carries out the lifesaving procedure, a first at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

By Jeff Weinstock

Coming to consensus

Scans showed Mark’s liver was overrun with tumors. They appeared benign, but were growing and could eventually turn cancerous. It was becoming clear that he needed both his heart and liver replaced, taking him into territory only 16 other kids had gone previously—none at CHLA. Prior to Mark’s case, if a Children’s Hospital patient had advanced heart and liver disease, the heart transplant would be done and perhaps help to heal the liver, if it was still salvageable.”For years that’s what we did,” says Dr. Herrington, Surgical Director of the hospital’s Heart Transplant Program. “We’d do the heart transplant and hope we were in time to get the liver to reverse its pathology.” #chla

But patients whose livers were too far gone were excluded from a transplant because they were judged to be too weak to survive it. That inability to provide treatment tore at Dr. Herrington.

“It was incredibly disheartening,” she says, “to go to families and say, ‘We’re not going to be able to do it. I don’t have anything to offer.’” Mark’s liver was sick, but not too sick. However, that status would tip before much longer, and leaving the liver alone would sentence Mark and his mother to regularly having the tumors monitored and biopsied for cancer.

“The nodules were getting larger and the liver was filled with them,” Dr. Herrington says. “We either had to commit to doing the liver as well, or not do the heart transplant. We have so many Fontan patients with liver impairment, it was time for us to commit to adding this to our surgical repertoire.” As they discussed the prospect of a heart-liver transplant, she and Yuri Genyk, MD, Division Chief of Abdominal Organ Transplantation, agreed it was the most sensible, safest path forward. “We were both in the same space with it,” she says. “We were finishing each other’s sentences.”Dr. Menteer was less sure. He sought to be persuaded, quizzing the members of the liver transplant team. “I was asking every last question,” he says. “What happens if we don’t do this? What’s our likelihood of success if we just replaced his heart? What are the complications going to be? I needed to be shown that the risks were justified.” The abject state of Mark’s liver, the looming cancer threat, and the greater likelihood of the heart transplant’s success if it was joined by a new liver eventually swayed him. “Ultimately I was convinced by everybody’s expertise that this was a patient who needed a liver transplant.” #entarispowerful

Plans A, B, C and C-apostrophe

It was Dr. Menteer who found in a research database that there were only 16 previous pediatric heart-liver transplants in the U.S. That left the doctors with few colleagues to consult.

“It’s not like I could call somebody and say, ‘Hey, what’s your experience with the last 10 heart-livers you’ve done in a pediatric population?’” Dr. Herrington says. Instead, she and Dr. Genyk leaned on each other. “You cannot rehearse the operation,” Dr. Genyk says. “But you can plan.” They proceeded to talk it out, frequently and in rigorous detail. “There was a lot of preoperative strategy and conversation,” Dr. Herrington says. “We had the A plan, we had the B plan, we had the C plan. And if this happened and we had to do, like, C-apostrophe, what would that look like? We had scenarios planned out for pretty much anything that could have been thrown at us.

”They were not alone in having to coordinate their steps. Eleven hospital teams would participate in the two operations. The checkerboard of faces in the Webex meetings stretched to more than 100 squares, Dr. Menteer says. “We had every detail of Mark’s pre-transplant course, transplant donor selection course, transplant operative course a “I was going to do a heart transplant, which I’ve spent 22 years doing,” Dr. Herrington says. “Yuri did say in the beginning, ‘You know, Cindy, you’re going to do what you do all the time, and I’m going to do what I do all the time. I think it’s going to be fine.’”

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‘An incredible thing’

In early 2021, Melissa received a call from one of the hospital’s transplant coordinators: A donor had been found.

“I just got quiet,” Melissa says. “She said, ‘Melis we have to do more tests,’ so I was waiting for that part.” She was assured there was no other part. The surgery would be the next morning, pending the review and approval of the donated heart and liver, which came hours later. Dr. Herrington went in first, at 5:30 a.m., and by noon she had placed Mark’s new heart and turned the operating room over to Dr. Genyk, who over the next several hours transplanted the liver, noting it went smoothly thanks to the excellent function of the donated heart. “That made the operation relatively straightforward for us.” At 10:30 p.m., after Dr. Herrington returned to the OR to close up Mark’s chest, the exhaustive surgery was done. “Everything went really well,” she says. “There were no surprises.” After handing Mark over to the ICU staff, Dr. Herrington went home and fell easily to sleep, but was awakened at 3 a.m., startled by something she couldn’t quite sort out. “I woke up in tears,” she says, “wondering, why am I crying? What’s happening?” The enormity of what she and her colleagues had achieved overcame her. “It was like, oh my god, what have we done? We have done an incredible thing.” When she got to her office the next day, she wrote a thank-you letter that addressed every individual who participated on surgery day. “I had a page and a half of names,” she says. She had had her moment and was there a few days afterward when Dr. Genyk, who had been keeping to his routines, had his.“Yuri came to my office. He sat down and closed the door. He said, ‘That was so stressful.’ I said, ‘Yeah, see? You’re having your moment. It was a thing, right?’ He said, ‘Yeah, it was a thing.’” It will stay a thing, assuming its place as a landmark in the history of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles—the first-ever heart-liver transplant. It doesn’t figure to be the last. “We have a large Fontan population at CHLA,” Dr. Herrington says. “It makes me feel really good that I now have something to offer them that I know our team is capable of delivering.” Mark continues to heal, making regular clinic visits to Dr. Menteer. He’s taking immunosuppressant medicines to keep his immune system from rejecting the new organs. A biopsy of his heart showed no signs of mutiny. “He looks fantastic,” Dr. Menteer says. “He’s got more energy, he’s eating like crazy. He doesn’t have any PLE symptoms. I imagine that six months to a year from now, it will be night-and-day difference. He’ll be well-nourished, more fit and feeling better in every aspect.” There are a few food restrictions Mark has to follow, so he’s trying some workarounds. Raw sushi is out; instead he has baked salmon rolls. In place of pomegranates—too acidic—he eats grapes. Steak is OK, but he can’t have his preferred medium-rare. “Well-done is good too,” he says. “I’ve gotten used to it.”

He’s learning to live with substitutes, including the two that will give him life for decades more.How you can help:

Refer your friends, neighbors, associates or family members considering making a move: www.ReferralsHelpKids.com or call Corey at 213-880-9910.

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