#005 - Monterey: Living in Marina while PCSing to NPS Monterey with Dishan Romine

This episode features a conversation with Dishan Romine, a former Navy football player and Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) student, on the Naval Academy Property Network podcast. Dyson shares his military career journey, from his time as a running back at the Naval Academy to his current studies in operations research at NPS. He discusses his initial military role in surface warfare and subsequent transition into the human resources community.

Dyson also dives into the challenges and strategies of finding housing in Monterey, his experience living in the Dunes community of Marina versus downtown Monterey, and the unique aspects of buying a home as a military member.

Additionally, he provides insights into the rigorous academic schedule at NPS, the competitive housing market in Monterey, and the benefits of living in Marina, including community amenities and proximity to various attractions. The episode concludes with personal recommendations for those moving to the area, emphasizing the importance of preparedness for Monterey's unique climate and lifestyle.

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Transcript

USNA Property Network Podcast - Marina Episode with Dishan

Grant Vermeer: [00:00:00] Welcome to the USNA Property Network podcast powered by the Vermeer Group. The USNA Property Network podcast educates military officers on the neighborhoods surrounding the military bases in which they could PCS. Our mission is to provide genuine, authentic, informal conversation that's going to help Navy and Marine Corps officers start their research into their new home.

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In the last episode, you heard about Pacific Grove. Now we're [00:01:00] shifting to something a little bit different. You go from the renter in Pacific Grove to someone who bought in the city of Marina. So today we're joined by Daishin. Dyson's a good friend of mine, part of the NTF Brotherhood, class of 17 from the Naval Academy, and went up to NPS, bought a home up there in Marina, and loves it.

So, I hope this will give you a little bit of insight into the city of Marina, what surrounds it, some of the different options, and just helps you start your research into the Monterey area. So, take a listen, let me know if you have any questions, feel free to reach out at any point, and I'd love to help.

Otherwise, enjoy the episode. Thanks. Hey everyone and welcome to the Naval Academy Property Network podcast. Today I'm joined by my guy Daishin, class of 17, grad from the Naval Academy, part of the Brotherhood, a big time Navy football player, and so I'm currently at MPS. So he's getting his master's degree out in Monterey, so I just asked him to come on to talk about his experience in Monterey.

Daishin, first of all, I appreciate you coming on, uh, two, if you don't mind just giving people listening just a quick background about you in terms of your, especially like your military career [00:02:00] and how you ended up at MPS. 

Dishan Romine: Yeah, for sure. Yeah, Grant, thanks for having me here, man. I always have looked up to you as a leader and as a friend, so happy to hear and happy to help.

But yeah, my name is Dyson Romine. I went to the academy. I went and studied economics. I played football there. I was a running back on the football team. Graduated in 2017, service selected surface warfare. So I was a SWO upon graduation. I spent my first tour in Sasebo, Japan on a Amphib, the USS Green Bay.

I was the electro on that ship. After getting my SWO pin, I lat transferred into the human resources community and Upon entering the HR community, my detailer asked me what my career aspirations were. I said, I want to do a career in the Navy. I've enjoyed leadership. I think it's a, something I learned from being a student athlete and having like those small group interactions.

You take a team, figure out what your strengths and weaknesses [00:03:00] are and figure out how to mesh the different personalities to align to the mission and win games. And that's what you do as an officer in the military. So tell me, I want to stay in long term. Set myself up best to be competitive longterm.

And she sent me to NPS. So came to Naval postgraduate school first on staff. I was the deputy director of programs and a command fitness leader. Yeah. And then I did that for two years. And after that, I switched over to being a full time student and now I'm currently a full time student. 

Grant Vermeer: Yo. So you just pulled the greatest, I didn't even realize this before we started.

You played the greatest hookup of all time. Yeah, for sure. Like you, what? You're gonna do what, four, four and a half years in Monterey? Straight? 

Dishan Romine: Yeah. So by the time I leave here, it will be just under 36 months. It'll be like 33 months by the time I leave here. All right. 

Grant Vermeer: Oh, so your program was only like a year then actual like N PS program?

Dishan Romine: Take that back. Take that back. It'll be just under [00:04:00] four years. So I got here, 

Grant Vermeer: yeah. Okay. The 

Dishan Romine: beginning of 2020. And I will leave at, in the fall of 2024. Okay. Yeah. So, yeah, so four and a half, four and a half years, actually. Yeah. Wow. I didn't even notice that. Yeah. Two back to back tours here in Monterey. The first tour, full two years, and the second tour, like, back two and a half years.

Grant Vermeer: That's awesome. And what, what do you, what program are you actually in now as a student? 

Dishan Romine: So I'm in operations research. It's one of the programs that the human resources community values. It's basically It would be the civilian equivalent to learning data analysis. Okay. Within the application of the military, I'll be someone who analyzes budgets, analyzes personnel decisions, and make recommendations to senior officers about how to distribute and uh, and lead programs within the Navy.

Grant Vermeer: [00:05:00] Yeah. And are there other designators in that program as well, or is it like basically only HR officers? 

Dishan Romine: So there are other designators. There are some supply officers in this program. There's also a lot of Marines and Army personnel. I believe the Marine, I believe the Marine Corps and the Army are specific.

MOSs operations, research specific MOSs within the Navy. It's kind of embedded within the line of efforts of the supplied HR community. And there's also a few surface warfare people who take operations research as well. 

Grant Vermeer: What's your schedule like in this program? Cause I talked to some people, like there was a guy who did the international affairs program and he was saying like, Oh man, I go to class like two to three days a week.

What's your schedule like in terms of actually being the student there? 

Dishan Romine: Yeah. So my schedule is pretty rigorous, man. Yeah. I usually wake up early. I try to hit the gym before school begins. So [00:06:00] class starts either at 8 AM or 9 AM, depending on how your schedule is for any particular quarter. I'm in class from 8 or 9 AM all the way until about 4 PM upon class.

Finishing. Me and the study group will stay on campus till about six, do homework, do group projects, study, and then when I get home, I do quick dinner, catch up. They have you studying. Oh, yeah man, every weekend I study. But it's not like that for all programs at NPS. Sure. Uh, I'd say that NPS overall, It is definitely structured to allow people who've been in operational environments to come catch a breather, you know, and enjoy not being at sea or not being operational, be with their families, have it be a short tour, have it be a short tour, but there are a few programs that are really tough and, uh, Operations research is the, one of the hardest, [00:07:00] if not the hardest program at NPS.

Grant Vermeer: Okay. No, I appreciate that. Cause that's going to lead some, some conversations a little bit later on, just what you do with free time and all these different things. But before we even get there, how much did you know about Monterey before you moved out here the first time? And like, where did you start your research?

Like when you were moving to Monterey, how much did you know? And then what was your process to figure out where you're going to live? 

Dishan Romine: Prior to coming here, I knew nothing about Monterey, never heard of it whatsoever. I had heard of Naval Postgraduate School just from being an academy grad, but where it was.

So after my detailer told me I would come to Monterey and do two back to back tours essentially, I figured out that It made sense to me to try to purchase a home because it's, it's rare in a military person's career that you have guaranteed establishment in any place for four years straight. Um, so upon knowing that I was coming here, [00:08:00] I began to just ask people that I knew went to NPS previously, what the neighborhoods were like, what are the different cities, what is there to do?

They buy a house. If so, how much did it cost? How far was it into work? So I began to ask those questions, and 

Grant Vermeer: And which and like, where'd that lead you to? What were, like, when you got down to a final spot where you're trying to decide, was it down between Seaside, Marina, Salinas? Or like, where did you narrow down as like, your top spots that you were considering?

Dishan Romine: So before I physically stepped foot in the city, I had I was all over the place. I didn't know. And the one thing about Having friends and connections as you are able to ask those questions, but at least when it comes to buying property and living in an area, everyone's personality is different. And the way someone likes to spend time is different.

Someone could have lived out in Salinas, and they could have been Been a person who stays in the house a lot and they really enjoyed it. Or they could have been a person who [00:09:00] lived in downtown Monterey and they like to go to bars and restaurants and to concerts as much as possible. And they love proximity.

I was kind of all over the place where I wanted to potentially search to buy a home. And I wasn't able to narrow that down until I physically moved here. 

Grant Vermeer: And so, so you rented first when you got here? Did you do base housing or what was your like living situation when you came? 

Dishan Romine: Yeah. So when I first got here, I stayed with a friend who was also an academy graduate who was out here.

He actually lived in a part of Marina as well. So that was my first introduction to what Marina was like. Sure. Yeah. Cool. I really enjoy my own space. So when I was living with him, it was already just a temporary situation before either I purchased somewhere, found somewhere to rent. It was taking me a while to find somewhere to buy.

And it was also the very beginning of COVID. So I ended up settling on [00:10:00] finding a place to rent and I ended up renting a townhouse in downtown Monterey. And it was literally like, three blocks over from NPS. Yeah. 

Grant Vermeer: Yeah. Yeah. And that was nice. How was that experience living there? Did you really like it? Was it convenient and fun or things you didn't like about it?

Dishan Romine: So super convenient. I could walk to school if I wanted to. It wasn't modern with upgrades, but nothing was horribly broken. So things that I had high priority for what I wanted when I moved here. If I was going to rent a place, I wanted to have in unit. Washing and drying, which is not the most common thing for rental situations out here.

So I was fortunate, like I was looking for a place to rent for like five weeks before I like found something that met everything that I wanted. It was within my price range, but yeah, it was a two bed, one and a half bath [00:11:00] townhouse. It had two levels. I think it was about. 1, 500 square feet, had an attached garage, quiet area, and I liked it.

I liked it. 

Grant Vermeer: That's tight. And now you're in Marina. We'll get to the fact that you bought a home and live in Marina. What were the biggest differences in, or what are the biggest differences between living in like right downtown Monterey and living in Marina? What are some of the trade offs that you've seen?

Dishan Romine: Yeah, so if you live in downtown Monterey, you're going to, so I say you have the, imagine like a triangle, right? This triangle is like your preferences and the corner of each triangle, you have one of three things, either space, proximity, or amenities. And you pick what you want, but the more of those three things you pick, the more you're going to pay.

So if you're in downtown Monterey, you're going to have proximity guaranteed. You may not have [00:12:00] space and you may not have a place to upgrade it. Um, you have proximity, you start to pay a lot more for. Space size of the home in downtown Monterey and even more if you wanted to have space and amenities But you're close to everything right?

So in Marina a little different. Um, not as close to Monterey, but still within Understandable driving distance with I can get to downtown Monterey in eight minutes. It's yeah, maybe four exits on the expressway and Marina is the area within the Monterey Peninsula where there's been the most new homes built within the last 10 years.

Grant Vermeer: Yeah. You're living in the Dunes, right? 

Dishan Romine: Yeah, so I live in a neighborhood called the Dunes. It's built by a company called Shea Homes. And then there's another community up the road called Sea Haven. Sea Haven. Um, I don't know, I don't think they're built by Shea Homes, but um, [00:13:00] We have 

Grant Vermeer: two different builders out there.

Okay, but sorry, sorry to cut you off. You're good. 

Dishan Romine: You're good, man. Yeah, within the last 10 to 12 years these neighborhoods popped up. And these neighborhoods are the size of base housing, if not a little bigger. They're brand new. So you get space at a price that's not as much as you would pay for in downtown Monterey.

All the amenities are really nice and proximity is pretty, pretty good. Not as far of a drive as Salinas, but it's nice. And now that they're building up a shopping area here, you're very close to, you know, if you want to go get groceries or if you want to go to Best Buy, you want to go to a Hobby Lobby or Michaels or see a movie, you're a two minute drive from the shopping center.

Grant Vermeer: Yeah. And with that shopping center, because part of that's the new construction on homes, but it's also Cal State University, Monterey Bay. How big of an influence do you see from the university? [00:14:00] Like, For anyone who would be like moving there, would you say it's like a college town? You see college students all the time, or is it a more low key thing where the college students don't really, I would say you don't see them all that often.

Dishan Romine: It's not a college town at all. 

Grant Vermeer: Okay. 

Dishan Romine: Oh, so all the colleges here are being very small. I think. CSUMB has 4, 000 people total, um, so yeah, unless you're, unless you drive a stroll on campus, you're not gonna be college students out in town, and most of them live on campus. Um, but it's very, very nice out here.

College kids, if they want to go out and explore, they can come to the shopping center, go to the movie, Uh, there's a pizza in my heart here. There's a Chipotle. Yes. That's great. 

Grant Vermeer: And you mentioned earlier about eight minutes to get to downtown Monterey on a normal, on a normal work, work day on a normal day, going to school, kind of showing up in the morning.

What's base check? What's like [00:15:00] road traffic like, and what's a normal day to get to work? 

Dishan Romine: All right. Yeah. So depending on the time you leave, but let's say, let's say I had class at eight. Yeah. I think zero 800 is a route about the time that people that are going to school, high school, middle school was also catching buses or parents to drop them off.

And so about the same time that other people are going to work. So if I have classes, zero 800, I try to show up to school at zero seven 50. I'll leave the house no later than zero seven 20. It'll take me anywhere from 20 to 25 minutes to Sitting traffic on the expressway, but once you get to base, there's really not much traffic at all.

The line moves pretty fast. There's two gates and NPS is also not a big institution. So if you're at, NPS, it's pretty. And lots of parking on base? Yeah, there's lots of parking. You may have to walk, but if you walk, it's maybe five or six minutes. 

Grant Vermeer: And now we're talking about the [00:16:00] dunes specifically where you did buy a home and move in.

What's the environment like there? Is it mainly single individuals? Is it a lot of couples? At the time you bought the house, were you single? Were you in a relationship? Did that play an aspect into it? Kind of what's the dynamics from a, uh, like a family perspective versus being a single? 

Dishan Romine: Yeah, for sure. Uh, the dynamic here in this community is a lot of family.

So most people, um, live with the spouse or significant other with children. It was just Halloween, not too long ago. And we were sitting outside on our porch, um, handing out candy to the kids. So it honestly feels like military housing almost with how many family members live in the neighborhoods and kids.

so much. Riding their bicycles or riding their scooters up and down the street and people walking their dogs. There's actually 

Grant Vermeer: yeah, 

Dishan Romine: three Parks within the dunes so small parks that have playgrounds and grasslands So you take your dog to the park to play in the grass? You can take [00:17:00] your kid to climb on the monkey bars or enjoy the swings.

So that's a big attraction to the dunes When I first began the home buying process, I was single. So I'll go into a little bit how I found out about the Dunes and my journey to buying a home here. So now I get to Monterey as a Lt. JG 

Grant Vermeer: O2. 

Dishan Romine: And I know that I'm going to be here for at least four years. So I immediately thinking, Hey, I should buy.

Um, couldn't find a house. So I ended up deciding on renting a time period and then the whole time I'm renting. I'm just I'm hating it man because It's I think I was paying 2250 which was definitely within reason for this area But I was like sure if I'm gonna be here for four years That's upwards of 80 grand over four years in someone else's pocket.

So as an o2 I get out here And I just didn't have the money to compete with other [00:18:00] homebuyers. So it was also COVID and that's when the housing like inflation happened big time. So I was having a hard time just finding like something that I like. I didn't want to get a house that I had to put a lot of work into as my home.

So I stayed patient. So, put on all three. I've been saving some money. I'm making a little more money now. And, um, still working with my realtor, looking at homes. So, there was a house in the dunes that I really liked. And, it was a three bed, two and a half bed house. And, I believe, it may have been around, 1700 square feet, maybe a hundred, and it was listed for 750,000.

Yep. So I had already been outbid three times already. Um, yeah. So I come into this offer, I, I'm make an offer for 780,000 and I think Good. Right? I'm [00:19:00] like, oh, yes sir. This is the best I can do. I'm doing really good. I'm gonna get it. And someone made an all cash offer for 810, 000. Yeah. And. Didn't get it.

And I was crushed, man, because it was like the first, it was like the, one of the first times where I was able to get everything in my own triangle between space amenities and proximity that I liked and that I could afford. So there he's 

Grant Vermeer: got this, this timeframe. Sorry. Just to put this in perspective, is this after COVID had started or is this still before COVID?

It started 

Dishan Romine: after COVID had started. So I made this offer on this. I made the offer on that home. And, uh,

beginning of 2021. 

Grant Vermeer: Okay. Yeah. Beginning of 2021. And just for everyone listening. So this was a big thing that happened in Monterey exactly around that [00:20:00] time is because of COVID and all the big tech companies that were starting to go to remote work. There were a ton of people moving from the Silicon Valley out to Monterey.

So it was just like, it was this really tough situation, especially for people trying to buy homes because your people making your Santa Clara salary, your San Francisco salary, who don't have to work in the city anymore, wanted to come close to the coast, be on the peninsula, have a little bit more space, right.

And come in and make these all cash offers. Right. The market in 2021 to 2022 out in Monterey was. Crazy competitive, like crazy competitive. Like it was, you were having to waive all contingencies, make these offers like fricking 40 to 50, 000 over asking price, right? Like. It was wild. It was a wild time. So, sorry for the interjection, but I, like, just to put that whole in the, in the context, time wise.

Dishan Romine: Great context. There's, I have four neighbors who are exactly what you described, employees within the Silicon Valley area, or retirees from the Silicon Valley area, and it's like, hey, let's pick up some property [00:21:00] in Monterey, right? The offer I made on that house was, At the beginning of 2021 and it was in the dunes and at the time the dunes had like this, it was a shack, but it was like their sales office.

And I was like, I see. The dirt that they've leveled out in this neighborhood, which indicates to me that they're building newer homes. Let me just go ask the office. So I went, I talked to the office representative and I said, hey, you all sold a home about a week ago. I really loved it. And I see that you're all continuing to build.

Do you have any homes That are going to be finished within the next year. And she said, we actually do. All right. Tell me about the process of buying a new built home. So I started that process, man. And, um, it just continued from there. So what's fortunate for me was that was really, that was my way [00:22:00] in, that was my foot in the door to the Monterey market where not a lot of people knew about the dunes as a new development.

Grant Vermeer: Yep. 

Dishan Romine: And because not a lot of people knew about it. I was able to basically pay up front and not have to compete with other offers. It was like, Hey, if no one has already signed a contract on this home to be built in the next year, like it's up and that's what I did. 

Grant Vermeer: Oh, good for you. And I think that's a really interesting thing because there's still a lot of new construction going on in Marina.

Had a conversation on the previous episode, um, with This woman, Jan, who's been a property manager out there for a long time. And part of the thing about Monterey in general, like when you go down to Pacific Grove in Monterey and these areas, there's not a lot of development, but it's all built out, but up in Marina, there is, and there's still some new construction going on, like you're saying in Seahaven.

There's still a lot of new construction going on. The dunes is slowed down, but like, we're like, still options. [00:23:00] And then even in the East Garrison, like in East Marina, right, there's still some, there are new phases coming in on that. You know, it's one of those interesting things where in California, it can be tough just because the environment and the market's so competitive that the new construction route sometimes can be in, you know, Easier pathway to home ownership.

Yeah, for sure. Questions about just living in Marina in general. I know you've touched on it a lot. There's like the dunes, which is the living area, but there's also the dunes, the commercial center with the restaurants, movie theater, all this stuff, sporting goods stores. Yeah. What has been your favorite part of living in Marina?

What are some of the top pros? If you're telling someone come and consider and live in a Marina, what are you telling them like, Hey, this place is really great for X, Y, and Z. 

Dishan Romine: Yeah. So again, it satisfied my three things within my triangle that I could afford. So it's very close to Naval Postgraduate School.

Get there again in about eight minutes without traffic. With traffic, maybe 20 [00:24:00] compared to, you know, certain parts of Salinas, you're looking at maybe 35 plus minutes, which is, which is fine. Traffic and other major naval bases. Eagle that, but for me and what I like to do in my circle of friends, which lived in downtown Monterey, I didn't care to drive that much.

Um, there's great food, food in my area is great in Marina as well. Uh, there's some great Thai, Mexican and Polynesian places here in Marina that I love to check out. Um, and then there's great Italian seafood here. A hundred percent. 

Grant Vermeer: Though my favorite, the Clam Chowder Bowl down at the Monterey Plaza Hotel, big time.

The Taquerias down there, big time, especially in the Seaside Marina area, Taquerias. Yeah. 

Dishan Romine: I will say another, another thing that's great about the Dunes, downtown Monterey as well. If you like to bike, run, walk, jog, there's a bike path that goes [00:25:00] from Pacific Grove through downtown Monterey, all the way up to Marina and crosses over in the dunes.

So yeah, there's some really nice bike paths. I like to be active exercise. So either going for a run on the bike path or taking the bike path to hop over to the beach, to watch the sunset. I actually live if, if I put my address up in Google maps. From a far distance, it'll look like I live in the ocean, but if you zoom, if you zoom in, it's about a two minute drive to the nearest parking spot to access the beach.

If I wanted to walk, it'll take me about 10 minutes. 

Grant Vermeer: Yeah, man. Yeah, it's, it really is. It's great. It's great. Um, but we'll try and start to wrap this thing up. Just keep it under a half an hour for everyone, but just to cap it off, two things, [00:26:00] one. In your time here, because you've actually been there a while.

You're like, now you were at Northern California. I've been living there for a while. Yeah. Do you have any like hidden gems that you found that you'd recommend? Hey, you're coming out, you're taking a look or you're taking house hunting leave, whatever it is, you got to check out this place. And then two, the final thing is, do you have any recommendations or final thoughts for someone who may be PCSing coming out here about what they should consider or think about in terms of like living and housing before moving to Monterey?

Dishan Romine: Yeah, for sure. Uh, definitely check out Big Sur, which is along Highway 1 to the south. You'll get to Big Sur. There's some phenomenal hikes and restaurants down there. Um, you have Garrapata, which is a hike touristy exploration spot. You have Pfeiffer Beach. Pfeiffer Beach. They have like purple sand was like this little cove, little nook.

You take off highway one, you drive down into this very, very small park. A lot parking lot is limited parking. So unless you get [00:27:00] there early, you probably won't get it. Beautiful. Beach scenery at Pfeiffer Beach. There's Pfeiffer State Park, which has more hikes. Um, Yosemite is within driving proximity. So three day weekend, you can go to Yosemite.

You can go to Lake Tahoe, Kenneco's National Park. If you like to shop, you can go to Palo Alto when they have some great shopping. Great food as well. Um, I've been to three or four Stanford football games, so I love sporting events. There's a, there's a semi professional soccer team, a 10 minute walk from my house, their stadium is right next door to where I live at.

We go over there, the tickets to the game are like 15, anywhere from 15 to 35 bucks, depending on who they're playing. Yeah. It's a great atmosphere. 

Grant Vermeer: Yeah. And you're about, you're less than an hour away from Santa Clara, right? So if you're a 49ers fan home games, I'm about an hour away from you there. You got the Santa Cruz warriors.

Now, I don't know how many people watch the NBA [00:28:00] G league besides me, cause I'm a basketball junkie, but that. Hey, the Santa Cruz warriors are actually pretty decent level of G league basketball. Um, and then you have the MLS team to San Jose earthquakes, right? Tons of fun events and sporting things to do in the area.

So definitely cool stuff. And then, um, yeah, no, thank you so much, man, for taking the time to come and just and talk and share your experience and hopefully. It just helps one person at least start their search and maybe consider Marina as a good opportunity for them. Or like you're saying, maybe downtown Monterey and renting is the right opportunity for someone, especially if they're going to spend a ton of time out in Cantery Row or just like going out, eating, going to bars, whatever the case is.

Yeah. I do have one last recommendation. If 

Dishan Romine: you come into Monterey, California, bring pants and a jacket. It's not like, It's not like Southern California, Oakland. Um, you can get pretty cool here. Breezy. So I say the temperature ranges from upper forties to low seventies all year round. So [00:29:00] tons of fall there.

Yeah. 

Grant Vermeer: Yeah. Tons of fog. The coastal breeze. Yeah. 

Dishan Romine: Yeah. In Marina, they call it Fog Town. There's a lot of overcast in Marina. As soon as you get to Monterey, for some reason, it brightens up. It's sunny. I have a friend who's an oceanographer out here and he said that Monterey actually has one of the strangest weather phenomena occasion in the U.

S. because of just, I guess the topography causes, you Cloud and winds to vary so much that you can drive six minutes in a direction and the temperature and the weather be completely different. Wild, 

Grant Vermeer: that's good advice because I feel like that'll happen to be like, Oh, no, I'm going to California shorts and a t shirt.

Be careful. Yeah, I want to bring a sweatshirt and bring sweatshirts and pants. Cool. All right, man. Thank you. Thank you for doing this. Honestly, I really appreciate it. And thanks for sharing your time and come and talk to me on this Sunday. 

Dishan Romine: Yes, sir. 

Grant Vermeer: Very good. All right, everyone, have a good day. [00:30:00] Thanks for listening.

I hope this provided another different perspective of another option of living, uh, in the Monterey Peninsula. If you have any questions about the Monterey Peninsula, about MPS or anything above, please feel free to reach out to me, grant@thevermeergroup.com. 

Love to learn about your situation and see how I can help.

Appreciate it and have a good one.