Corey Chambers Real Estate Newsletter September 2022 The SoCal Home

The SoCal Home — More Than Real Estate News

Labor Day is All Wrong!

I always thought the powers that be in the U.S. got the name wrong – Labor Day. Since it’s a Holiday intended to be just that, a Holiday – I think the proper name would be Relax Day, Lazy Day, Off Day, or Sleep-in Day, something other than Labor Day. But, unfortunately, most celebrate Labor Day by doing just that – Laboring. Government employees and banks typically close on Labor Day, but according to recent studies, most Americans are labor on Labor Day. So to celebrate the month of September and the affection for Laboring, I have a special announcement to make: I will be Laboring, but for an extraordinary reason. Many would-be homeowners and home sellers are caught in a catch-22. They are nervous about moving or the opposite, desperate to make a move. This is why we have developed a unique program for those you know who are considering a move.

Just like the weather seasons come and seasons go, so do the seasons of life. I’m sure you have noticed, as I have, that the older I get, the faster the seasons move by. These “seasons of life” go by so fast. I hope you enjoy each one or at least grow from each one. Yes. Some of life’s seasons will be HOT, and others will be COLD, some high and some low. The lows we want to move by quickly, the highs we want to stay in forever sometimes. #coreychambers

This is where you come in…

For September, if you or anyone you know is considering making a move to a new home, we will GUARANTEE a minimum of $10,000 Savings for every $200,000 in sales price on the home purchase, or I will pay the difference*. You read it correctly – my labor saves you, and those you know considering making a move, a nice chunk of change. The reason why I can make such a special offer is simply that our long track record of selling homes and specialized knowledge allow us to negotiate the best deal on the best home for our best clients. #realestate #newsletter

IN THIS ISSUE:

HAPPY LABOR DAY
How Your Referrals Help Kids
And Much More #realestate #newsletter

Even if YOU are not moving, you can still benefit

Each month in my special SoCal Home Newsletter, I ask, “Who do you know that may be considering a move?”

This is because YOUR referrals help the kids…

Anyone you know considering making a move or wanting to buy or sell their home, please refer them to me without hesitation. They will receive the guarantee I detailed above, and you can rest assured your referrals will help the kids at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

With a guarantee like this, you, your friends, neighbors, work associates, and family members who may be considering a move can now do so and avoid the uncertainties in the marketplace.

If you missed last month’s SoCal Home Newsletter, we are on a mission to raise $25,000 for the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Helping Hands Fund, so we are donating a good portion of our income from home sales to them. As you know, Children’s does a tremendous job of helping kids fight through and survive nasty life-threatening diseases like Cancers, Leukemia, and non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma: stuff that often robs young people’s lives.

Kids under their care are 300% more likely to enter into remission IF they can get into the recovery center. But the Recovery Center 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 substantial portion of our income on every home sale to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Helping Hands Fund.

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.

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

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Over the last two decades of helping thousands of families sell their homes and/or buy another, we have met some wonderful, loving, caring people. People like you! So your referrals, those you know considering a move, that we help – you 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 from the transaction will go toward a very worthy cause.

It’s easy to refer your friends, neighbors, associates, or family members considering making a move. Simply go to www.ReferralsHelpKids.com, or, of course, you can always call me directly at 213-880-9910.

I hope you and your family are well and this Independence Day brings you much joy and happiness. With all my appreciation.

Corey Chambers, Broker Associate, Realty Source Inc 213-880-9910

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

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It’s easy to refer those you know considering buying or selling a home. You can go to www.ReferralsHelpKids.com and enter their contact info online or forward the link to who you know considering a move. You can also call me direct or pass my number on 213-880-9910.

Why I Support Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles

I grew up right here in Los Angeles. Born right nearby at St. Francis Hospital. I remember hearing about a young person close to our family suffering from a nasty disease and getting treated for that at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Then, 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 homes 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 any way that I can 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 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 its patients. And since their services survive sponsorships and donations, we are happy to contribute and proud to support them.

Sincerely,

Corey Chambers 213-880-9910

Below is the story of a patient whose life was turned around by Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Take a brief moment to consider what it must have been like to walk a mile in her shoes.

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MIBG Therapy Gives Delilah Renewed Hope

By Sara Jones

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is the only hospital in Southern California where patients can receive MIBG therapy, specialized targeted radiation therapy for neuroblastoma.

Delilah has been fighting for her life since she was 4. The 7-year-old from Bakersfield has high-risk neuro-blastoma, a relatively rare and difficult-to-treat pediatric cancer affecting about 700 kids in the U.S. yearly.

Delilah’s disease is refractory, meaning her neuro-blastoma did not respond to traditional treatments—until a few months ago, when she decided to try something else.

In March, Delilah became the first child to receive MIBG therapy at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, the only hospital in Southern California—and one of only a few in the Western United States—with the infrastructure and expertise to deliver this specialized targeted radiation therapy to children with high-risk neuroblastoma. Previously, the closest locations where patients like Delilah could receive MIBG therapy were San Francisco, Denver, and Houston.

“Delivering MIBG therapy at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles fills a huge need for kids in Southern California and beyond,” says Araz Marachelian, MD, MS, Medical Director of the Neuroblastoma MIBG Program in the Cancer and Blood Disease Institute. “For years, we have focused on other aspects of MIBG clinical care and research, particularly through our leadership in the New Approaches to Neuroblastoma Therapy (NANT) consortium, but patients had to go to other institutions for the actual therapy. Now CHLA is a ‘one-stop shop,’ and families in the neuroblastoma community are really, really excited.”

Delilah’s mom, Samantha, agrees. “To not have to travel so far and to be at our home hospital where Delilah knows everybody—people she has developed a strong bond with—that extra comfort is such a blessing.”

An unexpected diagnosis

Looking back, Samantha can see the early signs: It was Christmas 2018, and Delilah complained about a tummy ache. Too many cupcakes, Samantha figured. Or, in typical toddler fashion, her daughter was just being picky and didn’t want to eat her food. The tummy aches seemed to come and go for the next couple of weeks, but Delilah didn’t have any other complaints—until Jan. 5, 2019, when she took a nasty fall off her bike.

“She said her leg hurt really bad,” says Samantha, “so her dad and I thought maybe she hurt it from the fall. No parent would know these things were because of cancer.”

That night, they took Delilah to the local emergency room. “They told us it was probably just growing pains and not to worry about it,” Samantha recalls. Two days later, they returned to the ER for X-rays, and still, there was no explanation for her leg pain.

Next, they tried to get answers from Delilah’s pediatrician. “We went back and forth for a couple of months before her doctor agreed to do blood work,” says Samantha. “When compared to old samples, Delilah’s blood counts were way off. The pediatrician told us it was probably leukemia.”

Delilah was admitted to a hospital just down the street from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles within days. “We were there for two or three weeks before they figured out that our daughter had stage 4 neuroblastoma. It was in 95% of her bone marrow, and they said she would have to fight for her life.”

‘Our whole lives changed’

It was a year before Delilah and her family would return to Bakersfield. “When they told us she had cancer, our whole lives changed,” Samantha says.

Delilah immediately started chemotherapy. Although not yet a patient at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Delilah got to know Dr. Marachelian, with whom her oncologist regularly consulted. Dr. Marachelian is world-renowned for her expertise in neuroblastoma.

Despite a very poor prognosis, Delilah underwent four rounds of chemo before her family decided to stop treatment and try homeopathic medicine instead. Samantha had just given birth to her third child—at the same hospital where her oldest was getting chemo—and it was time for a break.

“We have family in Texas, so we decided to go there to try to get away from cancer for a little while,” she says. “Delilah wasn’t in remission, but the stuff we gave her kept cancer at bay.”

For about 10 months, Delilah was stable. Then things took a turn for the worse.

“When she started limping,” Samantha says, “we knew it was cancer. We hopped on a plane and returned to California, where we knew Delilah would get the best treatment for her neuroblastoma.”

Going ‘full force with treatment’

In January 2020, the family returned to Bakersfield. No longer tied to their old insurance, they made sure their new plan would allow Delilah “to see Dr. Marachelian and do every-thing at CHLA. And then we went full force with treatment.”

“Neuroblastoma is tough cancer,” says Dr. Marachelian. “We need to treat it in all different ways to be successful, so we have long-term survivors. For most cancers, one type of therapy will never be the cure because cancers are very smart. But combining treatments and using multimodality therapy can increase the chance of a cure.”

Dr. Marachelian started Delilah on immunotherapy and chemotherapy. Although she improved, she did not get into remission, so she combined immunotherapy with different chemotherapy. Delilah went through 25 rounds of combination therapy, effectively killing many of the neuroblastoma that hadn’t responded before. But after two years, Delilah’s tumor was showing its stubborn side. It seemed that the treatment was working less and less, and the few new spots of the disease that started popping up on her scans were more discouraging.

“As time goes on, neuroblastoma tumors get smarter and smarter, and they get more resistant to attack by certain therapies,” Dr. Marachelian points out.

Despite multiple setbacks, Delilah still had a lot of fights left in her.

Taking aim with MIBG therapy

“The plan was to do MIBG therapy here at CHLA,” Samantha says, “but if for some reason the room wasn’t ready, we would go to San Francisco.”

Unlike traditional radiation treatments, which focus on one or two tumor sites, MIBG therapy is given by IV infusion and can target tumor cells anywhere in the body. The radioactive compound 131I-metaiodobenzylguanidine, or MIBG, is taken up by the neuroblastoma cells and in high enough doses, kills them. After infusion, the patient has to stay in isolation in a specialized MIBG room until the radiation in the body reaches a safe level.

“One of the things that’s really important is that we can keep parents in the room with their child,” Dr. Marachelian says. “Some places that do MIBG can’t allow that because of radiation risk. But we got a big room with a lot of space and enough lead shielding to be very safe, and the child and parent can always see each other.”

Delilah received her first infusion on March 9 in a procedure that lasted less than two hours. After less than three days in isolation, she could go home.

Samantha says the MIBG therapy worked really well and “got almost everything. Just one little light spot kept popping up, so Dr. Marachelian wanted her to return to get the rest.”

On May 10, Delilah had a second MIBG treatment, and she feels better than she has in a long time. If things continue to go well, Dr. Marachelian hopes to start her on the maintenance phase of treatment soon.

“It’s exciting that Delilah had a great response to MIBG,” says Dr. Marachelian. “At one point, she was thought to have zero chance of survival because her tumor had not responded at all. She and her family are on a very different journey now, and it’s really exciting.”

Making big plans

Delilah already has big plans for when she is cancer-free, including an overnight camping trip and a “No More Cancer Party” for family and friends. “And we will go to the salon!” she exclaims.

Samantha admits life with three kids under 8 is a bit crazy, especially since she homeschools Delilah and her 5-year-old sister, Summer. Throw cancer and a global pandemic into the mix, which can be difficult to cope with, especially for a young girl fighting cancer.

“She just got a kitten, Honey, because we wanted her to have something to lean on,” her mom says. “All the treatment really messes with [kids’] emotions. She doesn’t like to feel angry, but sometimes she does. We are just trying to help her be OK again.”

— Story and photos courtesy Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

How you can help:

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

www.ReferralsHelpKids.com or call Corey at 213-880-9910

Copyright © This free information is provided courtesy of L.A. Loft Blog and LAcondoInfo.com with the information provided by Corey Chambers, Broker, BRE#01889449. We are not associated with the homeowner’s association or developer. For more information, contact (213) 880-9910 or visit CoreyChambers.com, Licensed in California. All information provided is deemed reliable but is not guaranteed and should be independently verified. Properties are subject to prior sale or rental. This is not a solicitation if the buyer or seller is already under contract with another broker.

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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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Copyright © This free information provided courtesy L.A. Loft Blog with the information provided by Corey Chambers, Realty Source Inc, DRE 01889449; MPR Funding Inc NMLS 2000513. We are not associated with the seller, homeowner’s association, or developer. For more information, contact 213-880-9910 or visit LALoftBlog.com, Licensed in California. All information provided is deemed reliable but is not guaranteed and should be independently verified. Properties are subject to prior sale or rental. This is not a solicitation if the buyer or seller is already under contract with another broker.

Why I Support Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles

MIBG Therapy Gives Delilah Renewed Hope

An unexpected diagnosis

‘Our whole lives changed’

Going ‘full force with treatment’

Taking aim with MIBG therapy

Making big plans

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