Our wonderful South Bay community is filled with interesting residents and I’m very lucky to get the chance to meet some of them along the way. It looks like the higher end home sales are starting to heat up a bit in Southern California. Last year, 2010, California homes priced at $1,000,000 or more experienced a 21% increase in sales versus 2009 — the first increase in five years.

Jimi Hendrix, one of my favorite guitarists, and arguably the best of all time, asked the question in his song “Are you Experienced” in 1967 from the album of the same name. In the song, Hendrix invites the listener to go beyond “your measly little world” and go on a journey of self-discovery.