When I was 21 having just moved to San Francisco, I drove down to the Monterey Peninsula for the first time and fell in love with the area. I walked the quaint streets of Carmel and motored in my little red Fiat convertible down Highway One along the Big Sur coast. Having just moved from Florida, I was awed by the breath-taking rugged coastline and the amazing beauty of the entire area. Since I was just beginning a career in San Francisco, I wasn’t free to move to Carmel at the time, but I promised myself that someday I would move here. Over the years I came to the Monterey Peninsula again and again. After my husband and I met, it became our “special place” and we came down often to play golf and walk the white sands of Carmel Beach – all the time plotting how we could eventually move here. The day came when my husband took an early retirement and we could live anywhere we wanted. By then I was a realtor and I knew I could sell real estate anywhere so we sold our homes, bought a home in Pacific Grove and have never looked back. That’s my story. What’s yours?

We had been living on a ranch in Davis, CA and have enjoyed a life with horses and wide open spaces. When it came time for us to retire, we yearned to live by the sea and were referred to Susan Clark by an agent from the Saratoga area. We explored other properties with Susan, but we really wanted to find a unit in this particular complex. Unfortunately, there were none available in our price point. Susan wrote letters to all the owners and networked with the real estate community and finally found a unit that the owners wanted to sell. Long story short, we bought the unit before it even came on the market at a great price. We are now living our dream in our dream home in Pebble Beach.

~ Diane and Rick