Monday, August 16, 2010

Buyers, Buyers, Buyers and Multiple Offers!

Well the tidal wave has hit. The Buyers are very busy in the mid-peninsula. Just in the last week I aquired four new Buyers...all referrals. A big thank you to my past clients/friends who have referred me to thier friends!!! That is truly the best complement.

We reduced the price for the San Francisco property and as expected we have three confirmed offers and I think that we will have five when all is said and done. The Buyers in San Francisco seem to be hanging back to see if the interest rates really have hit bottom. Watch out and hide under a table if the rates tick up beacuse every Buyer in the market will jump. I think that these Buyers will think that we have hit bottom and that the rates are on the way back up.

The final outcome of this will be interesting...I will keep you posted

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

SB 1980 in the last stages..only the Senators or the Gov can stop it now

E-Mail letters!!!! Last stages for SB 1980...Our only hope now are the Senators and our Gov!!!


This is the portion of the bill that was slipped in during summer session in Sacramento when everyone was out of town by Assembly member Mary Hayashi. I am told this is standard operating procedure for her. She slips or deletes verbiage into her bills at the last minute...just FYI a small an undisclosed fact…our farriers might very well fall under this. Our Equine dentists will for sure. This will force these practitioners out of business and we get to pay the veterinarians to do these tasks for us!

The paragraph below I cut and pasted from sub-section 3 of the Bill…it was buried.


“This bill would provide that a person also practices veterinary
medicine when he or she performs physical rehabilitation or
musculoskeletal manipulation upon an animal, unless otherwise
authorized by regulation of the board. By thereby expanding the scope
of a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program”

Write letters and e-mail or send to all Senators- Boxer, Feinstien, Simitian ASAP this thing is in the final stages and the it goes to the Gov very soon. Our friends and wonderful practitioners are done for. Most of the Chiro’s, Farriers and Equine dentists don’t even know about this because it was hidden in this bill……

Reach out to EVERYONE state wide that might be effected by this….







Tuesday, August 3, 2010

FOR EQUESTRIAN CLIENTS OPPOSE SB-1980 Read This!

Assemblymember Hayashi has introduced legislation to the state senate that would make it illegal — a crime — for anyone other than a board certified veterinarian to offer chiropractic care, massage, or other bodywork to your horse or other pet. Apparently this legislation will be voted on this coming Monday, so if you can take the time to call or email your senate and assemblyperson (find them here http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/yourleg.html) to let them know that you do not support AB 1980 you will help preserve your pets access to affordable chiropractic and bodywork care. While I believe a horse (or other animal) already under veterinary care should always have veterinary approval before any other modalities are applied, I have a hard time imagining a world where our already busy vets will acquire the education and have the time to give a horse a full body massage or chiropractic adjustment of the kind we might get for ourselves as part of a wellness protocol.

Apparently the passage of this bill would make it illegal for your current chiropractor or massage therapist or other complementary care practitioner who is NOT a vet to continue to provide care to your horse or pet.



Thank you for taking the time to make your voice heard. You are your horse's (and other animals') spokesperson in this and all other matters.





Here is the language from the bill which you can check out yourself at:

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_1951-2000/ab_1980_bill_20100629_amended_sen_v96.pdf




(3) Existing law prohibits the practice of veterinary medicine without

a license and specifies that a person practices veterinary medicine when

he or she, among other things, represents himself or herself as engaged

in the practice of veterinary medicine or administers a treatment of

whatever nature for the cure or relief of a bodily injury or disease of an

animal.

This bill would provide that a person also practices veterinary

medicine when he or she performs physical rehabilitation or

musculoskeletal manipulation upon an animal, unless otherwise

authorized by regulation of the board. By thereby expanding the scope

of a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

(4) Existing law requires the board to establish the tasks that may be

performed by a registered veterinary technician and requires a person

performing those tasks to be registered by the board.





To further clarify, The CVMA task force in 2007 defined physical rehabilitation (PR) as follows:

“(a) the term animal physical rehabilitation (PR) is the art and science of physical or corrective rehabilitation of any animal by use of the physical, chemical and other properties of heat, light, water, electricity, sound, massage and active, passive, and resistive exercise and shall include physical rehabilitation evaluation, treatment planning, instruction and consultative services. PR when performed upon animals constitutes the practice of veterinary medicine.

(b) PR may only be performed by the following persons:

(1) A veterinarian who has examined the animal patient and has sufficient knowledge to make a diagnosis of the medial condition of the animal, has assumed responsibility for making clinical judgments regarding the health of the animal and the need for medical treatment, including a determination that PR will not be harmful to the animal patient, discussed with the owner of the animal or the owner’s authorized representative a course of treatment, and is readily available or has made arrangement for follow-up evaluation in the event to adverse reaction or failure of the treatment regimen.

(2) A California licensed physical therapist (“physical Therapist”) working under the direct supervision of a veterinarian.





Sarah Miles, MA EBW

Balanced Equine Body Work

831-251-9871

smiley@cruzio.com

www.balancedequinebodywork.com

Monday, August 2, 2010

In the bushes....

So last week is was chasing a dog and rescuing him from the termite man...today I crawled thru the bushes...literally... to locate a key box to show a house! Ah the determination and tenacity of the Realtor :)

Still low inventory and we have Buyers, Buyers, Buyers coupled with all time low interest rates....if you are going to be listing you should do it now!