La Cresta Life with Kelly Smith

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Does La Cresta have a Micro-Climate?

Hey, y'all! Welcome back to La Cresta life.

You know, I'm often asked about the weather up here on the Santa Rosa Plateau. So today I'm going to explain how our micro-climate works.

We're up here on the Santa Rosa Plateau about 2,000 feet higher than the valley floor. The Temecula ...

View the Video version of this Episode at: https://www.lacresta.com/2021/04/09/what-cowboy-activities-are-there-in-la-cresta/

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Today, we're going to talk about what cowboys and cowgirls do up here on the hill.

We have a club up here called the Santa Rosa Plateau Riding Club. It's open to Residents who ride and those who don't ride. I haven't had horses up here in my whole 19...

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Today, we are doing something really different. We're here at a construction site ...and it has everything to do with real estate. So stay tuned.

Wow, this real estate market is so hot in La Cresta. Jake and I have a beautiful family that's been trying to buy out here in La Crest...

Watch the video version here: https://www.lacresta.com/2021/03/05/tips-listing-photoshoot-day/

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Welcome back to La Cresta life for all of you listing clients out there, this is one of the most critical things that we do. We hire a professional photographer to get drone video still shots and make your house look wonderful. Let's go inside.

We got a little lucky on this one. We happen to have a homeowner who is absolutely i...

Hey y'all. Welcome back to La Cresta life !  Today, I'm going to tell you all about the way

I like to show new Buyers the Santa Rosa Plateau. I call it my "Nickel Tour".

The reason for my Nickel Tour is that I hear from my buyers all the time when they are looking at different properties online. They're trying to figure out...Are there elevation at this property? Where is it located within the community? Which HOA is it in? Is...

Welcome back to La Cresta life. Today, We are opening escrow and we are doing a pest inspection at one of the cutest houses. Very established Vineyard beautiful wine comes from this place and the new owners are super excited. We're going to talk to her pest inspector and see what we can look today.

Termite inspections are an important part of the inspection process when you buy a home, we've got the general home inspection up here ...

Hey y'all. Welcome back to La Cresta life today, I'm showing you a little bit is why I don't generally go down the hill because I sure do love right here right here with a spectacular view of here in La Cresta that I'm going to take you down the hill and I'm going to introduce you to a couple of my favorite restaurant.

Welcome to the first of our stop in our household, It's often asked: Do we want Italian or Mexican? I'll show you ...

Hey y'all, welcome back to the La Cresta Life. Today, we are showing you some of the things down the hill, specifically we're going to look at restaurants and grocery shopping today and you're going to see how close they are.

So we got us a Rite Aid, we are only five minutes from down the hill and we have this adorable Shopping Center. Got lots of food coffee shop. Now, We're turning into my favorite little store. It's called Barro...

Hey y'all. Welcome back to La Cresta life. My partner and I just sold this beautiful home in Santa Rosa West today. I was lucky enough to get to join the inspector. We're going to go check out how the solars working.

So this particular home has solar PV, which is solar photovoltaic. It also has pool solar and it also has a whole house generator. I have engaged a contractor today who knows all three of those things and has agreed to...

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We are doing birthday is right up here on the plateau. This one's the drive-by.

This is what our community is all about. One of our great local residents is such a wonderful man. He's turning 80 today, and we're still not Gathering. So what is our community do? we do a parade.

So this is a drive-by parade. We brought scout out. There is my hubby Steve and we drove from our Ranch over to this Ranch so...

Welcome back to La Cresta life today in our nuts and bolts series. We're going to learn about buying a fixer. So the marriage between buying the perfect house, which is very very rare to find and building one from scratch is to buy a fixer by one that's got good bones and do what you want to it in the case where I'm standing now, we've got a lot of Renovations going on these Property Owners bought the house based on location and ac...

Welcome back to La Cresta Life. Today, we're talking about vineyards on the Santa Rosa plateau.

We're standing at a Vineyard owned by a producer called Plateau Vineyards. It's a winery here on the plateau. Remember, there's no commercial wineries. Everything is done by appointment. So this is not an area that's going to get tour buses and a lot of people driving around aimlessly and this particular Winery is everything is a state p...

Welcome back to La Cresta life this week. We're going to go nuts and bolts and start looking for land.

There are several things you want to look for when you're looking for land. You want to look for Access. When you just saw the road that we came in on was not paved, doesn't mean it can't be paved just mind the associated cost with it.

This is another thing to be considered. This might be a blue line stream. If you have a county o...

Welcome back to La Cresta life. Today, I'm going to give you the tip on the trail on the Santa Rosa plateau.

One of the most important things about the trails on the Santa Rosa Plateau is that it is for residents and invited guests only. So all the more reason to become a resident on the Santa Rosa plateau in one of the communities right now.

We're in La Cresta and we brought her own set of rules here in La Cresta, here in this par...

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This is the place you're going to learn all about La Cresta on the Santa Rosa Plateau. Stay tuned and we'll tell you all about it.

So, La Cresta and the communities of the Santa Rosa Plateau. There are 5 HOAs and 1 Community Service District. Every single parcel up here is at least 5 Acres. So we all have space we all have open Skies we act as if we're all one big community.

We have a ton ...

Hi  y'all welcome back to La Cresta Life. Today is 4th of July. EPIC! Today at the plateau. Unfortunately, Covid had a different story for us, and we didn't get our parade. So we decided to go out. I got my mama with me. We decided to go out and we're gonna make our own little parade in a minute and we'll take you with us.

Well, I'm feeling kind of lonely on his fourth of July. This is the parade route. Our community is so ama...

Hey y'all. Welcome back to La Cresta life. I just couldn't help myself today.

I was driving through an adjacent Community adjacent to La Cresta and

the Santa Rosa Plateau.

It's a beautiful area called Deluz and today. I'm just going to show you around a little bit. You're just going to love it is so green and beautiful. You're not going to believe your eyes.

Welcome to Deluz. It's next door to La Cresta and the Santa Rosa Plateau c...

Welcome back to La Cresta Life. Today, we're in Meadow Oaks.

Welcome to La Cresta life. So technically we are in Tenaja. Tenaja is not an HOA, it's a community service district. So, there's a little pocket here called Meadow Oaks they have their own gate, it's guarded with a real life person and it's a little loop, a small community that you can see the map on my website, but we're going to take a little cruise around here today an...

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We've been to the other side of Tenaja where you can see the ocean

Today, we're going back to Tenaja the horsey side.

Welcome to La Cresta life. So we're here on the horsey side, as opposed to the ocean side that we saw the other day. Then were going to take a little ride and check out the beautiful horses and the beautiful equestrian landscape.

Tenaja is known for its kind of wide-open ranches, espe...