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San Diego: Interior design pros offering $99/hour consultations now until end of June for charity

Posted on May 25, 2022 | Leave a comment

If your home’s interior could use a professional refresh, the San Diego chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) chapter has a solution.

From now through the end of June, members will conduct in-home design consultations during the ASID “Spring Spruce Up” fundraiser. The discounted fee of $99 per hour (minimum one hour/maximum two hours) is a donation to the local ASID chapter; the designer volunteers their time.

ASID can provide experts in all aspects of design, including space planning, staging, color selection, kitchen design, aging in place, art and furniture placement, outdoor rooms, historic preservation, media rooms, multigenerational living, universal design, window treatments and commercial design. Designers are chosen to meet each client’s specific needs.

Flat fee real estate listers launch in San Diego

Posted on January 9, 2018 | Leave a comment

British real estate company Monday launched a flat fee home listing service in San Diego County, charging sellers $3,200 to list a home.

The cost is likely cheaper for most sellers who are used to a 2.5 percent listing fee, so the offer could save sellers hundreds of dollars in commission costs.

Purplebricks, with its flat fee, adds to a growing number of companies that are lowering commission fees in the competitive Southern California housing market.

Eric Eckardt, CEO of Purplebricks’ U.S. operation, said the company offers as much, or more, than a traditional real estate brokerage. Low listing fees are sometimes associated with agencies that don’t do much for clients.

“The flat rate obviously is a great value,” he said. “Home sellers get 3-D virtual tours, a full-service offering, professional photography and a local real estate expert that actually shows up at the house and works with them throughout the process.”

A typical listing fee is about 2.5 percent of the sale cost, and an additional 2.5 percent for the buyer’s agent.

For a median priced home in San Diego County, $540,000 in November, a seller could save roughly $10,000 on listing commission fees.

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San Diego – Time of use rates for solar give batteries a boost

Posted on December 20, 2017 | Leave a comment

What ‘time of use’ means

At the beginning of this month, San Diego Gas & Electric instituted new TOU rates.

Approved by the California Public Utilities Commission, TOU pricing fluctuates to encourage customers to run appliances and devices that consume a lot of energy — such as air conditioners and washer/dryers — when demands on the power grid are not as high.

For example, SDG&E offers residential solar customers a couple of TOU options, dividing the hours of the day into peak, off-peak and “super” off-peak time frames

Here’s the breakdown on weekdays:

On-peak: 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Off-peak: 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 9 p.m. to midnight
Super Off-peak: Midnight to 6 a.m.

And here’s the pricing that SDG&E offers households with a solar energy system during the summer months (June through October) when the grid often gets stressed from things like higher air conditioning usage:

On-peak: 54.2 cents per kilowatt hour
Off-peak: 27.9 cents per kilowatt hour
Super Off-peak: 21.9 cents per kilowatt hour

The price differential during winter months (November through May) is much less dramatic — just two cents per kilowatt hour separating On-peak and Super Off-peak.

But clearly, during the summer months, there’s a big financial incentive for customers to use power during off-peak and super off-peak hours.

What it means for solar customers

And that has an effect on the approximately 120,000 SDG&E customers with rooftop solar systems that produce electricity during the course of the day.

“In this new world order, when you use energy is as important as how much energy you use,” said Daniel Sullivan, CEO of Sullivan Solar Power.

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San Diego: Interior design pros offering $99/hour consultations now until end of June for charity

Flat fee real estate listers launch in San Diego

San Diego – Time of use rates for solar give batteries a boost

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