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Corey Chambers SoCal Home Real Estate Newsletter December 2021

Corey Chambers Team Giving Back to Our Los Angeles Community

Happy Holidays!!!

December rings in as the most joyful time of the year. The current year is coming to a close, the Holiday Celebrations all mean different things to different people, but most always represent happiness and good wishes. You will notice that a giving spirit exists, unlike other times of the year, if you look around. | VIDEO

Unfortunately, many homeowners feel the bind of being ready to enjoy the holiday but trapped with a big task. They are desperate to exit their current home and give themselves a big Christmas Gift – a NEW place to call home.

Here’s how you and I can help. As a result of my team’s work with over 5,000 families over 20 years and three recessions, we have developed a unique program to quickly get an acceptable “cash” offer on any home for market value. So we are giving Home Owners wanting to make a move an extraordinary gift this holiday season. For December, we will guarantee, in writing, the sale of an area home in 30 days at a price acceptable to the homeowner. In the event there is no sale, we’ll pay the homeowner $3,500.* *The homeowner and I need to agree on the price. We do that starting with a simple, FREE consultation.

Here is what you can do to help!

If anyone you know, including yourself, is considering making a move, we would like to offer them a FREE, No Obligation to Sell for Top Dollar Consultation. On this call, we’ll discuss just how they can make their move, get what they want, and do it with the least hassle.

AND while we are on the phone, I will instantly send over a FREE Special Report titled “Costly Home Seller Mistakes to Avoid When Selling During the Holiday Season.” Just like we are thankful for you and your business, I am confident your referrals will be thanking you for steering them in the right direction on getting their home sold!!!

*A GREAT Guarantee: Sold in 30 Days, or I pay a $3,500.00 Cash Penalty!

*A FREE Consultation to Discuss What Price Can Be Expected.

*A FREE Special Report that details Mistakes to Avoid When Selling in Today’s Market.

AND remember, YOUR referrals help the Kids!

We are still on a mission to raise $25,000 for Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles CHLA, so we donate a good portion of our income from home sales. As you know, CHLA does a tremendous job of helping kids fight through and survive heart transplants: stuff that many times rob the life right out of young people.

Attached is a story of one young girl’s eyesight being saved. CHLA survives on Sponsorships and Donations.

So YOUR REFERRALS REALLY DO HELP THE KIDS!

Who do you know considering buying or selling a home you could refer to my real estate sales team?

Not only will they benefit from our award-winning service, but we donate a portion of our income on every home sale to Children’s Hospital right here in Los Angeles. Your Referrals Really Do Help the Kids…

I want to make it easy to refer your friends, neighbors, associates, or family members considering making a move, so here are your options:

1. You can go to www.ReferralsHelpKids.com and enter their contact info on line or forward the link to who you know considering a move.

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

#Entarispowerful #referralshelpkids

Who do you know considering buying or selling a home you could refer to my real estate sales team? Not only will they benefit from our award-winning service, but you can rest assured a very worthy group of children will benefit as well!

To refer your friends, neighbors, associates, or family members considering making a move, just give me a call or pass on my number to them!

In my career of helping families sell their homes and/or buy another, we have met some wonderful, loving, caring friends. People like you! So for those you know that are considering a move, you have my word that we will do our very best in helping them buy or sell the place they call home.

I hope this special month of Showing Thanks brings you much joy and happiness. With all my appreciation,

Your Home Sold Guaranteed!

P.S. We love honoring our past clients like you. Read all about that at: www.ReferralsHelpKids.com .

P.P.S. “You have really changed our daughter’s life for the better. You have our deepest appreciation.”

I have attached an article that demonstrates the great work done by CHLA and how your referrals really do help the kids right here in Los Angeles. Keep em coming!

Corey

Why I Support Children’s Hospital Los Angeles:

I grew up right here in the Los Angeles area. Born at St. Francis Hospital. 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 more immediate attention to their work at that hospital. Since then, I have learned that it is a collection of hard-working health 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 in the Los Angeles area, a California native, I take pride in supporting so that I can do the good work these people do at Children’s. My team rally’s around our annual goal of raising money and donating portions of our income to help Children’s in their quest to heal young people when they need healing. 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 commitments to their patients. And since their services survive on sponsorships and donations, we are happy to contribute and proud to support them.

Over the years our team has helped our friends, family, clients to buy, sell or lease a home, we have met some wonderful, loving, caring people.

People like you!

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

The hospital’s ‘game-changer’ technology kept the 3-year-old alive long enough for a heart transplant. By Michael Y. Park
Britney and Chris knew something was seriously wrong when their littlest girl, Emme, lost all the energy that she was known for. “It was kind of a four-day process,” Britney said of the events that started in June 2020. “She was breathing funny, then sleeping the next day, and threw up right after she ate. The next day, she was really tired and her chest was really heaving, and that’s when we took her in. It was a chain of events that just weren’t right.”Their parental instincts were proven right in the worst possible way: Emme’s heart was failing. When the bundle of energy that was Emme just couldn’t make it out of bed during that four-day period, her parents knew it meant trouble. They rushed her to her regular pediatrician. “They told us they were transferring her to CHLA because CHLA,

CHLA’s Emergency Transport team rushed Emme and Britney to the hospital. There, specialists at the Heart Institute performed an echocardiogram, an electrocardiogram and a chest X-ray. It was nighttime when they shared the results with Britney: Her daughter was in complete heart failure. The CHLA heart team explained that Emme was going to need a heart transplant. “The thing about dilated cardiomyopathy is that it can stay hidden for a while until the kids get really sick,” says Cynthia Herrington, MD, Surgical Director of the Heart Transplant Program and the Ryan Winston Family Chair in Transplant Cardiology. “But when they fall off the cliff, they really fall off.” Britney appreciated the straightforward tack they took. “They kept asking us, ‘Are you OK with that?’” she recalled. “And at a certain point, we had to say, ‘Is there any other way we’re going to walk out of here with her?’ And they said, ‘No.’ And we said, ‘Then we’re OK with it.’”

Emme Got a New Heart—and Made New Friends—at CHLA

At home at CHLA

For the next few months, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles was Emme’s new home as she waited for a match with a donor’s heart. The family settled into a routine: Britney was at CHLA with Emme from Sunday through Thursday, and Chris stayed with her on weekends. Back at home in Acton, Britney’s parents took care of Lucy—because of COVID-19 protocols, Lucy could only talk to her sister through FaceTime. But the staff did what they could to keep Emme’s spirits up.

Emme Got a New Heart—and Made New Friends—at CHLA

About two months after the successful Berlin Heart implantation, the family got the call for which they’d been hoping against hope. Emme had been matched with a donor’s heart. “It’s bittersweet because you know someone else had to lose their baby to save yours,” Britney says. “They just came and saw her for rounds and we were going to go for a walk, but then they came back in and needed to take a measurement to see how tall she was. And then they said, ‘You have a heart. Those are the right measurements.’”

“It was actually Emme who called me on the phone,” Chris says, who recalls the confusion—and then relief and elation—he felt when he got the call. “I was at work, and she said, ‘Guess what! I get a new heart!’” “After four months, when a heart became available, Emme’s organs were strong and healthy thanks to the VAD support, which relieved the stress on her body caused by her failing heart,” says Dr. Herrington.

Emme got her new heart on Nov. 19. She went home on Dec. 9. “We get the new heart,” says Chris, “and I was like, ‘What is the recovery time for something that drastic?’ And they’re like, ‘Usually two to three weeks.’ So it was actually fairly easy.” “She wanted to leave, but she didn’t want to leave because she didn’t want to say goodbye to everyone at the hospital,” says Britney.

“It was funny, bringing her home. That was the first time she had been out of the hospital—off her floor—in six months,” Chris says. “So it was her first ride on the elevator. When it started to go down, she almost sat down because she didn’t know what it was doing. She was like, ‘Oh my gosh!’ on the car ride home for all the bumps. She hadn’t been in a car in six months.” At first, Emme had to relearn how to run and go up and downstairs. But within two or three days, she was already playing with her sister in the way she had before she got sick. Nowadays, she’s riding the horses that the family keeps at their new home in New Mexico. But once a month, Emme goes back to CHLA for her follow-up and to see the friends she made there.

“She was recently back here for a visit,” Dr. Herrington says. “She looks great. She’s doing well with her new heart.” “She gets all excited when she knows she’s going to see Dr. Weisert or the others because they’re always so soothing, and they were with her from the beginning,” Britney says. “She knew everyone’s names. She really made connections with everyone.” Patient Story and photos courtesy CHLA

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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Corey Chambers SoCal Home Real Estate Newsletter November 2021

Happy Thanksgiving from the Corey Chambers Real Estate Team

The month of November brings about an extra opportunity to say Thank You for being a valuable part of our business. As most begin to prepare for the Holiday season, plan Thanksgiving get-togethers and the like, it’s easy to become wrapped up in all that we have to do to ensure a fun, joyful time for all we are responsible for — while overlooking all that we have to be thankful for. Gratitude, though, is a contagious attitude! | VIDEO

Unfortunately, many homeowners are desperate to exit their current homes. Actually, loathing this time of year adds to the frustration of not being settled for the Holidays. You may know someone or a family that fits this description.

Here is where you and I can HELP!

AND remember… YOUR referrals help the kids.

Therefore, our Mission is to Go Serve Big!!! Serve you, serve those you refer to us and of course, serve a great cause.
As a result of working with many families over the years, we have developed a unique program to help the homeowners wanting to make a move and Sell Fast, For Top Dollar, and with the Least Hassle!
For November, we will guarantee, in writing, the sale of an area home for 100% of Market Value, or I will Pay the Difference.
I know there is some risk on my part to make such an incredible guarantee like that. Still, we sell just about every home we list for the market value price, sometimes even more. So there is no reason for area homeowners, your friends, and your family to fret about selling right now.

This is where you can help!

If you or anyone you know is considering making a move, we offer them a FREE Consultation. We will show them in this No Obligation to Move Consultation how they can make their move. Thus, allowing them to get what they want and do it with the least hassle.

Just like we are thankful for you and your business, I am confident your referrals will be thanking you for steering them in the right direction on getting their home sold!!!

AND remember… Your referrals help the kids.

#CHLA #www.referralshelpkids.com

Your Referrals Help the Kids. For every referral I receive, I donate a portion to the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. With your referrals, you are helping Children’s Hospital ensure that critical life-saving care is available to every child they treat. http://www.ReferralsHelpKids.com

We are still boldly on a mission to raise $25,000 for Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles this year, and we are getting close! We do this by donating to them a portion of our income from homes we sell. As you know, CHLA does AMAZING work in helping kids fight through and survive nasty diseases like cancer, Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, leukemia, and others. They also lead the way in many other fields.

They can provide this care and keep patient costs to a minimum due in large part to and Donations and Sponsorships. We are proud to be an official sponsor of Children’s!

Why I support Childrenʼs Hospital, Los Angeles

I grew up in the Greater Los Angeles Area, born in Los Angeles County at St. Francis Hospital. 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 health 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 do the good work these people do at Children’s. My team rallies around our annual goal of raising money and donating portions of our income to help Children’s in their quest to heal young people when they need healing. 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 a 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

*seller and Corey must agree on price and time of possession. Realty Source Inc BRE#01889449

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

Over the years of helping many families sell their homes 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 helping the kids.

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

**A breakthrough surgery performed at only 10 hospitals in the country significantly improves a 5-year-old’s vision.** *By Stephanie Cajigal*

No Longer Night-Blind, Natalia Isn’t Afraid of the Dark

Natalia loves animals—especially the goats, horses, and ponies that live on a ranch near her family’s home in Palmdale, California. She and her seven brothers and sisters go to the ranch all the time to walk the animals, brush the pony’s hair or just play in the dirt. But for 5-year-old Natalia and two of her siblings, the fun ends when the sun starts to go down. That’s because they have a rare genetic disorder that makes it nearly impossible for them to see in dim light.

“Once it gets dark, Natalia begins to say, ‘My belly hurts, I want to go home.’ And I say, ‘Why, because you can’t see?,’ and she says, ‘Yes,'” says her grandmother Juana, who explains the darkness gives Natalia anxiety.

As darkness descends on the ranch, Natalia and her 9-year-old brother and 12-year-old sister climb into their grandparents’ pickup truck for the 10-minute ride home. Juana uses the light from her cell phone to help them out of the truck and into the house.

For years, Juana knew three of her grandchildren had something wrong with their sight, and repeatedly asked their pediatrician about it.

“When I take them to school, we walk, and when we go outside, I have to sit them down for 10 to 20 minutes so that their eyes adjust from being in the bright inside light to the darker light outside,” she says.

Photos and story courtesy Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

A diagnosis and potential cure

Juana was eventually referred to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, where she finally got the answers she was looking for. Aaron Nagiel, MD, Ph.D., Attending Surgeon at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, ordered a genetic test and learned that Natalia has two mutated versions of a gene called RPE65. The defective genes prevent cells within the retina, the part of the eye that detects light and color, from functioning properly. This can make it difficult for people to see things in their periphery and in low lighting. The mutations can also cause vision to decline over time and ultimately cause blindness.

Approximately 1,000 to 2,000 people in the U.S. have this retinal dystrophy caused by inheriting a mutated RPE65 gene from each parent, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Natalia, for example, received two defective copies of the gene, one from her mother and one from her father. People who are born with only one defective copy do not get the disease.

“It’s pretty devastating,” Dr. Nagiel says. “Some parents will notice shortly after birth that their kids don’t really make eye contact or they are constantly staring at lights. And they have a lot of trouble in the dark—they just cannot navigate anything, or identify their toys, or identify objects or obstacles on the ground in poor lighting.”

Symptoms can sometimes appear subtle, however, especially when children are young. “In a brightly lit office setting, a doctor may think the vision is fine or that the child has some kind of motor or social delay,” says Dr. Nagiel.

A gene therapy approved by the FDA in 2017 has brought hope for the condition, which previously had no other treatment. To deliver it, surgeons inject an inactivated virus whose job is to deliver a normal copy of the RPE65 gene to the cells in the retina. Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is one of 10 countries that performs this therapy and the only one in California. Since the therapy was approved in 2017, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has performed the procedure on 17 children and 10 adults.

Persistence pays off

Natalia underwent surgery in July. Following the standard practice for the procedure, she had the surgery in one eye first and in the other eye a week later. Dr. Nagiel uses very fine instruments to make tiny holes in the white part of the eye to access the retina. He removes the vitreous, the gel-like fluid that fills the middle of the eye, and then injects the gene therapy drug using a tiny cannula. Each procedure lasts about an hour, after which he covers the eye with a patch. Patients lie flat on their backs for the first day and night to allow the medication to be absorbed.

“We take the eye patch off and usually their eye feels uncomfortable or like there is sand in it. But we start eye drops and ointment and within days the eye is feeling almost back to normal,” Dr. Nagiel says.

In the first few days after surgery, patients tend to remark that things appear very bright, he says. About a week after surgery, they might start seeing things that once appeared too dim to see.

“We’ve had kids within the first week see a cloud in the sky for the first time, or notice animals at the zoo for the first time,” Dr. Nagiel says.

Treated children end up being able to see much better in dark lighting.

“I have a picture of one of my patients biking at night, which she never could have done otherwise,” Dr. Nagiel says.

As for Natalia, the first hint that her eyesight had improved came a few days after both surgeries, when Juana noticed she woke up in the night to use the bathroom and was able to walk in the dark without holding on to the walls. Now at home, Natalia can see better and is less scared of the dark. Her brother Mariano and sister Daniela are scheduled to have their surgeries in October.

Dr. Nagiel says all the credit for the kids’ diagnoses goes to their grandmother, who navigated the medical system even though she spoke very little English, and whose careful monitoring and descriptions prompted Dr. Nagiel to order genetic testing.

“If she hadn’t been persistent and gotten these kids to me, it could have been—who knows—not until their teens or 20s when they got treated,” he says.
Dr Nagiel

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*