Wishing you seasons’ greetings and good wishes.  Thank you for your continued readership of our blog.

May your holidays and new year be filled with Hope, Joy, and Peace.

A special greeting at this Thanksgiving from CV Escrow to express our sincere gratitude for reading our blog and the feedback you provide.   We are thankful and would like to extend our best wishes from our family to yours.  Happy Thanksgiving!

CV Escrow continues our strong commitment to the Desert.  On behalf of everyone in the company I am pleased and proud to announce the opening of a new Palm Springs office.  This addition to our service locations enhances our ability to provide personal service to the area’s real estate community.

Our Office Manager and Escrow Officer is Julie Eckstrom.  She is a SoCal native who has lived and worked in the Coachella Valley since 1985, where she has built many outstanding relationships with area Realtors.  Working in escrow since 1976, her strong skills in project management, in team management and in the technical details of escrow put her in a great position to help Realtors with all of their escrow needs.  “Throughout my career”, Julie noted, “I’ve been fortunate to work on projects and develop expertise in many kinds of escrows including sales, commercial, Indian lease land, loan, REO and short sale transactions.”

Please feel welcome to stop by to see Julie and to share with her your thoughts on how she can help you.  She can be reached at:

CV Escrow, Palm Springs Office (map)
850 N. Palm Canyon Drive
Palm Springs, CA 92262

Phone: 760.325.7314
Fax:  760.325.7324

Email: jekstrom@coachellavalleyescrow.com

Do you have an iPhone, Blackberry, Treo, or other internet enabled cell phone?  If you do (and have a data plan through your cell phone provider), you now have the ability to view the CV Escrow website and blog right from your phone.

Last week, CV Escrow released the mobile version of our site so that you have the ability to surf our site and our blog right from your PDA.  Depending on what phone you have will determine the level of graphic sophistication you see.  So, for example, if you have an iPhone, the site will be very graphically pleasing on your phone.  If you have an older Blackberry, the site isn’t going to render as pretty, but it still will function great and get you access to the information you are looking for.   Simply go to www.CoachellaValleyEscrow.com from your PDA’s browser to view the site on your own phone.

Here are some samples of how the CV Escrow home page looks on various PDA phones:

So what can you now do on the CV Escrow website from your web-enabled phone?

• Search and view any article that has been posted on the blog.  (Are you with a client who has a question about escrow that we answered in a post?  Now you can search for the post right from your phone.)
• Get our address, phone number, and email (Trying to tell a client where the escrow office is, or need to call us with a question?)
• Get contact information for your Sales Representative, Escrow Officer, or Escrow Assistant (In the field and need a check delivered to escrow, or are you with a client and have a question about your deal?  Find the contact information for the person you need to reach)
• View our Twitter stream and follow us (CV Escrow is on Twitter – you can access our profile from the home page of our mobile website and see what we are talking about)

And, if you have an iPhone, you have this additional functionality:

• View a video introduction for each of our escrow officers (show your client who they are dealing with by watching a video of their escrow officer and team members.
• Google Map directions to our office from your current location

So, check out our site on your PDA.  Our goal is to give you the information you want, where you are, and when you need it.  Let us know what you think!  We’d love to hear stories about how you use this new functionality in the field.

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From her first job out of high school in an escrow office, to owning and operating Dixie Escrow here in the Coachella Valley since the 1980s, Joyce has been helping buyers and sellers fulfill their real estate dreams for over 40 years. She believes, as all of us do here at CV Escrow, that the key to successful transactions is the knowledgeable, warm people who give everything a personal touch.

During her time in the industry, Joyce has helped perpetuate the high standards of our field as a Certified Senior Escrow Officer, a Director for the CEA (California Escrow Association), a three-time president of the Desert Escrow Association and an escrow instructor at both the College of the Desert and the Desert Cities Real Estate School.

Joyce’s sweet demeanor and drive to help people extends beyond her work in escrow and into the greater Coachella Valley community where she’s active in her church and the Soroptomists. We’re proud to have Joyce and Lois’s expertise and years of experience here at CV Escrow and ask that you please join me in welcoming them to our team!

Joyce Cooper
Escrow Officer
Phone:  760.568.2521
Email:  jcooper@coachellavalleyescrow.com

At CV Escrow we’ve recruited the best and brightest in escrow professionals and Julie is no exception. With a long and respected history in the Coachella Valley, an established relationship with many of the best agents in the area, and more than 30 years experience in escrow, Julie’s focus on exceeding customer expectations has paid off.  A true professional with not only escrow, but also branch management experience, her outstanding escrow knowledge and skills are complimented by her soothing and calm demeanor.  She is a problem solver under pressure and has a history of making closings happen.  That is the kind of escrow officer we look for at CV Escrow and we’re excited to have her.

Please join me in welcoming Julie to CV Escrow.

Julie Ekstrom
Escrow Officer
Direct:  760.332.9183
Email: Julie Ekstrom