Redding Living & Real Estate

Stay cool, be safe, and have a great 4th 🎆🎇

This local family is going through a lot...please help if you can...

Donate to Beth Grobstein's Breast Cancer Treatment, organized by Jill Rumph Beth Grobstein and her family of 5 are devastated with a diagnosis of Triple Negat… Jill Rumph needs your support for Beth Grobstein's Breast Cancer Treatment

How to Add Value and Beauty to Your Front Yard Landscape Discover how updating your front yard landscaping can boost your home's value and create a beautiful outdoor retreat.

We had dinner at Whiskeytown BBQ CO tonight. It was fantastic!! If you haven’t eaten there, you need to check it out.

Check out these Budget-Friendly upgrades for your home, even if you aren't thinking of selling in the near future.
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Lauri Gibson, REALTOR--DRE #01746374
Josh Domke Broker

Thinking of selling your house? This is a good article about what you need to know about potential offers besides the offered purchase price!

Lauri Gibson, REALTOR--DRE #01746374
Josh Domke Broker

What You Need to Know Before Accepting — or Rejecting — an Offer Offers on a house involve more than the home price. Learn how to evaluate offers and choose the right one for you.

Good info on scam prevention. You can sign up for scam alerts to keep up with the latest scams.

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This hits home this year...early detection caught mine at Stage 1a and saved my life! Please ladies get your mammogram and ultra sound if recommended!

Good info

There are ways you can conserve water AND help protect your home from wildfires during California’s climate extremes. That is why CAL FIRE, DWR, and Save Our Water teamed up to share with Californians how to create fire smart and water smart landscapes.
Get tips at ➡️ https://www.readyforwildfire.org/prepare-for-wildfire/get-ready/fire-smart-landscaping/

We’re mad to give our children smartphones.
(story: The Times linked in our Instagram Stories)

We all know one: an inquisitive, bright-eyed ten-year-old who used to love stickers or novels and was always zooming around on her scooter. But she’s changed in the last few years. It started some time after the now-ubiquitous rite of passage, the iPhone unwrapped on her 11th birthday. Yes, with parental controls, but still stuffed with the most addictive, toxic, disturbing and pointless media known to man.

She became glued to her phone, obsessed with selfies, always browsing, “liking”, judging, fingers twitching with the tap-tap-tap of constant messages. The associated behaviour — the anxiety, stress, mood swings, perfectionism, depression — became part of everyday life. She had friends for whom it developed into an eating disorder, “gender dysphoria”, panic attacks and self-harm.

Now I’m sure that puberty has been ghastly in most times and places. But look what modern life has added into the mix: a device that never stops, not for sleep, food, work or play, which replaces normal social development with a compulsive stream of judgment by our peers, blended with any little thought or image or fantasy someone had, mediated by sparkling unicorns, gunfire, anatomy and confessions.

You don’t have to be a venerated psychologist to sense that adolescence has changed — worsened — since we unthinkingly unleashed smartphones, the o***m of the modern age, upon the juvenile brain and then claimed, pathetically and disingenuously, that we are helpless to do anything about it. But since so many of us are ourselves enslaved to phone addictions and therefore resistant to the truth, I will lay it out.

Teen mental health is deteriorating across the developed world. The US Centers for Disease Control recently reported that 22 per cent of high school students have “seriously considered suicide”, up from 16 per cent in 2011. The trend is particularly bad for girls. In the same dataset, more than half reported feeling persistently sad or hopeless, versus about a third in 2011. This is global. Su***de rates for teenage girls in 17 developed countries, collated by The Economist, are up 40 per cent since 2014, a trend accelerated by Covid lockdowns. Forget teen va**ng. This is the real youth epidemic of our times.

The data isn’t perfect yet, but it’s compelling enough that leading researchers, such as the American psychologists Jean Twenge and Jonathan Haidt, are sounding the alarm. Haidt points to studies suggesting the effect of social media on girls’ mental health is twice as bad as the effect of lead poisoning on IQ. Haidt, Twenge and others believe evidence of the causal link between teen smartphone use, especially social media, and mental health decline is now impossible to dismiss.

We know this from everyday experience. The apps on our smartphones trigger addictive dopamine brain patterns visible in imaging studies. They render us distracted, anxious and depressed. With overuse, they make it impossible for our brains to enter states that enable us to learn, have meaningful experiences and feed the human spirit, like concentration, flow, self-sufficiency, living in the moment and appreciation of what is before us, whether it’s a friend, Radiohead on stage or the sight of a horse chestnut blossom nodding in the breeze. For a developing brain pumped full of emotionally intensifying hormones, this rewiring is particularly powerful, perhaps even permanent.

Keep reading the full article linked in our Instagram stories.

Parents,

✅ Delay the smartphone until at least 8th grade with the Wait Until 8th pledge. Do you need to get in touch before then? Start with a basic phone. We have some options in our Instagram Story and on our website.

✅ When you do permit a phone, keep it simple. Make it less of a toy and more of a communication device by removing the internet browser, App Store, games and social media.

✅ Delay social media until 16+.

✅ Keep devices in shared spaces and out of bedrooms especially at night!

You've got this parents 🙌

🌩It's raining and thundering...

⛈️Do you know how to calculate how close the lighting thunder is?

👉Here's how ...

➗️/5️⃣If you count the number of seconds between the flash of lightning and the sound of thunder, and then divide by 5, you'll get the distance in miles to the lightning: 5 seconds = 1 mile, 15 seconds = 3 miles, 0 seconds = very close.

🏠 New Listing in the Knolls, a gated community in West Redding. 3 🛏 2 🛁🚿 open floor plan, dream kitchen, & great views! And you can cool off this 💥 summer in the community pool. DM me for the full listing link or if you have questions❓or would like to 👀 see it.

Lauri Gibson, Realtor
DRE #01746374👀
Weichert Realtors-Domke & Assoc.

Looking 👀for something to do this weekend? Check ☑️out the Open 🏘Houses happening in the Redding Area. Even if you aren't thinking of making a move, you can get some good ideas for decorating!
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Click the photo for a link to the area open houses!

Lauri Gibson, Realtor
CalDRE #01746374
Weichert Realtors-Domke Associates

Redding Area Open House List Fill in your email for a link to Redding Area Open Houses!

Thinking about building your dream home? Check out this great lot in Sunset West!
https://explorereddingliving.com/3781-Sumlight-Ct

Lauri Gibson, Realtor
CalDRE #01746374
Weichert Realtors-Domke & Assoc.

Lots/Land for sale in Redding, California, 23-1596 Build your dream home on a CARR Fire lot in the Sunset West Subdivision. This lot is at the end of a cul-de-sac with open space behind it and a nice view of the mountains. The original home was about 2200 square feet, check with the City of Redding for any available fee credits.

Anyone thinking of moving to SoCal?? I have the house for you 🤩🤩🤩

Lauri Gibson, Realtor
CalDRE #01746374
Weichert Realtors-Domke & Assoc.

Jennifer Lopez Asks $42.5 Million for 8-Acre Los Angeles Estate The roughly 14,000-square-foot Bel-Air home includes a theater with movie posters of films in which the performer and husband Ben Affleck have starred

Sometimes the 🏡 home 🔎inspector finds something that makes us 🤣 laugh instead of cringe 😬. Have a great week!!

Happy spring, happy planting...