This year is not so hot.
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 the weather is the only thing that’s hot. The economy is not. While last year was, by some measures, the best economy in 20 years or so, this year is the opposite. It’s the Greater Depression of 2020. This feels BAD for most reading this, as the average urban home sold for $48,500 less in June, compared to the previous June. That can be good news for some. For example, someone will sell a house for less than expected, meaning a buyer pays a bit less than they would have not too long ago. And in some areas, the opposite happens. 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?
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How does this impact you? Well, it is NOT a hot time to invest in real estate. Single-family, multi-family, even loft condos. If you didn’t get the memo, here is a special clause from our Buyer and Seller Agreements of our VIP Client Program enabling past clients of ours 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 us right away… while these HOT investment opportunities are available. Making gains in assets and wealth are nice! I especially like it because it allows me the opportunity to GIVE more. How about you?
Your Referrals Help Kids!
As you probably know, we donate a portion of our income to some AMAZING, worthy causes! Like Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, one of the country’s leading non-profit children’s hospitals. 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 early diagnosis of autism and spinal cord injuries is second to none! And as the leading not for profit hospital in our area, you probably know they need sponsorships and donations to continue their leading-edge care and keep family’s 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… 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. 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. As we move forward through this not-so-hot summer, please know we are extremely thankful for you and you being a special part of our business.
Corey Chambers
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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 enter their contact info on-line 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.
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 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 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 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 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
Macey and Mackenzie—once conjoined twins, now 17 years old
Life on a hobby farm in the suburban outskirts of Des Moines, Iowa, for 17-year-old triplets Madeline, Mackenzie and Macey is pretty much like an extra helping of Americana with a healthy side of sweet corn and a milkshake filled to the brim. Their days are filled with schoolwork, planning for college and afterschool activities and jobs. Madeline runs track and is in show choir. Mackenzie has found her calling via Future Farmers of America. And Macey spends every spare hour she can working the counter at the Dairy Queen with her best friend.
“I take the orders because nobody likes to take orders, because if we’re busy you’re the person who has to deal with people. So I’ll take the people’s money and hand out their Blizzards, and Liberty makes the ice cream,” says Macey.
Naturally, there are chores—this is the Midwest and a farm, after all, and there are animals to tend to. (Madeline’s in charge of the trash, too.)
“We have two dogs, three cats and, like, 10 horses,” Macey says.
“My pony is Nancy—Midnight Nancy—and Macey’s horse is Smoke and Madeline’s is Lulu,” Mackenzie adds, going into more detail. “Nancy had a pig disease when we found her, and my mom has a thing where if she sees a sick animal she can’t leave it alone.”
And, of course, there’s the hanging out with the friends and going out for rides in cars in a small Midwestern town.
“We either drive around or watch movies, or we usually go eat together, because it’s the only thing to do in town,” Macey says.
“My driveway looks like a used car lot,” the girls’ mother, Darla, says, laughing and noting that each of her daughters has her own car and hectic schedule. “There are five automobiles at any given time.”
All in all, it’s a life that many American teenagers would recognize and understand immediately—except when strangers come up to them in public and begin peppering them with questions they’ve had to answer their entire lives.
“I don’t really like to be known as the girl that was conjoined to her sister,” Macey said. “At school, we want everybody to know us as normal kids.”
America’s miracle babies
Mackenzie and Macey made national news as infants. Though they and Madeline were born as triplets, Mackenzie and Macey were conjoined, sharing a pelvis and a third leg—a set of circumstances that is incredibly rare. In September 2003, the pair were separated at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles in a bogglingly complex, 24-hour surgery that required an army of specialists and support staff and that followed intense planning at seemingly endless levels.
Mackenzie and Macey made national news as infants. Though they and Madeline were born as triplets, Mackenzie and Macey were conjoined, sharing a pelvis and a third leg—a set of circumstances that is incredibly rare. In September 2003, the pair were separated at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles in a bogglingly complex, 24-hour surgery that required an army of specialists and support staff and that followed intense planning at seemingly endless levels.
“It was in the vicinity of 100 people once you count the various shifts of nurses, radiology technicians, surgeons—just for the O.R. portion—and then the countless other people involved in post-op,” says James Stein, Chief Medical Officer at CHLA, and Ford Theodore Miller Murphy Chair of Surgical Oncology. He was the lead doctor on the babies’ separation surgery.
They needed so many of the CHLA staff because the decision to separate Mackenzie and Macey affected seemingly almost every aspect of the tiny children’s bodies.
“It was making sure we could safely separate the liver and the intestine where it joined together and separate the pelvis and still get the pelvis closed into a ring and then close the abdominal wall,” Dr. Stein says. “Because they shared a lot of skin and muscle, we had to get that closed as well. From the anesthesia standpoint, there was the whole piece of having two babies asleep at the same time and then in separate rooms for a period of 24 hours, and then beyond that, it came down to the post-op care and taking care of them in the neonatal ICU, and rehab getting them ready to head home.”
Darla, who had just adopted the triplets at that point, remembered the constant shuttling back and forth to the hospital from what was then their home in Riverside, California.
“It was a lot of driving to L.A.,” she says. “A lot of paperwork. But on the day of the surgery, I would say there was just a sense of peace. I was never worried. I just had a sense that everything would be OK because I had immense confidence in the team. They were just above and beyond to make sure everything was in order and safe, and that gave us a lot of comfort.”
Dr. Stein credited the deep bench CHLA fielded as a reason why everything from planning to post-op went so smoothly.
“On so many levels, it’s something a major children’s hospital is able to pull off, and I think we were uniquely positioned with the expertise in the various subspecialties—general pediatrics, neurology, orthopaedics, plastic surgery—to be able to take care of this,” says Dr. Stein. “Even leading up to it, our radiologist had to come up with ways for the types of visualization we needed to make those critical decisions we needed to plan for the surgery. We had a core of nurses who were so dedicated to figuring out how this could work. It really covered this whole organization.”
Neither Macey nor Mackenzie remember anything about the surgery, but Madeline said she still has fuzzy memories of visiting her sisters before and after at CHLA.
“I remember a scary elevator with doors that opened both ways,” she said. “I remember Dr. Stein a lot. He was just a super nice guy and always really fun to interact with him and be around him.”
Lasting memories, inspiration and psychic powers
But though their memories of CHLA are vague at best, the triplets, now juniors in high school, credit the hospital and the people who took care of them for giving them inspiration for what to do with their own lives. Mackenzie intends to become a lawyer who fights on behalf of farmers. Madeline wants to become a nurse anesthesiologist. And Macey, who had a longer post-operation recovery than Mackenzie, is going to be an ultrasound technician.
But though their memories of CHLA are vague at best, the triplets, now juniors in high school, credit the hospital and the people who took care of them for giving them inspiration for what to do with their own lives. Mackenzie intends to become a lawyer who fights on behalf of farmers. Madeline wants to become a nurse anesthesiologist. And Macey, who had a longer post-operation recovery than Mackenzie, is going to be an ultrasound technician.
“I was sick for a while and had to have all my ultrasounds done a lot, and I found it fascinating how they figured out what was wrong with people,” Macey said.
Back in Los Angeles, Dr. Stein said the family left a lasting impact on CHLA, too.
“We continue to talk about this story as a big event for us in that it really elevated us and, internally, our ability to work together and take on the most complex problems,” he says. “One of the really enjoyable parts of being at a place like Children’s Hospital is being able to take in the most complex cases out there and have both the personnel and infrastructure, as well as the approach to teamwork to make that all successful.”
There are still lingering issues, of course. Mackenzie just had surgery to treat worsening scoliosis. And both use crutches again, shedding the prosthetic legs that they used to wear when they were younger. Because standard prosthetic legs hang some of the weight on the hipbone, the girls, with their reconstructed pelvises, had to instead resort to using bulkier, less mobile devices that weighed 25 pounds.
And then there are the questions.
“I’m glad it’s not an every month thing where people come up and say, ‘Hey, I want to know what’s going on with you,’ because it’d be boring,” Macey says.
“I’d rather have people ask questions than stare,” says Mackenzie. “I don’t mind people asking questions.” She’d probably rather talk about her new position as an officer with Future Farmers of America, though.
“We’ve been told time and again that we’re really good at explaining it, especially to little children,” Madeline said. “I tutor first graders, and we brought Mackenzie in once and explained what happened and what the surgery was. One asked her, ‘Can you read your sister’s mind?’ We explained that they were stuck together at the pelvis and showed them were the bone was, and no, they can’t read each other’s minds—” Madeline couldn’t help but chuckle. “—though sometimes we do consider telling them that they can,” she admitted. “But we don’t want them to be confused.”
But beyond the occasional surgery—and the maybe annual check-in from a newspaper or magazine—these girls are your normal, everyday teenagers.
“They’re just texting and Facebooking and whatever, hanging out with their friends,” Darla said. “They’re just normal kids. It’s normal life for us. I know sometimes people say, “Oh, that’s so amazing, I couldn’t do that. But you know what? You could do it. The girls are well-rounded, and they make it really easy to parent them.”
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