THE WORLD AROUND US IS CHANGING.

Here in Ojai, it's no secret that our community is far from what it was 15 years ago, 10 years ago, even a few years ago. As home prices rise, locals who’ve lived here for generations find themselves without a way to return home, and many who have held on find it more and more difficult to pay the increased cost of living.

How can we approach the buying and selling of properties in a way that is in accordance with our values, and cares for the community around us as we witness it change?

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There are several ways we seek to do this, but the first is by donating directly to our incredible local Public High School, Nordhoff High. At Bandura Home we donate a small portion of each sale in the Ojai Valley to support the music program at Nordhoff High School. We also offer a 10% of our net earnings back, on any local sale, to clients who have been in the Ojai Valley 20 years or longer. Lastly, we seek to educate newcomers in ways they can be thoughtful about their approach to both living and owning property, here in this community we’re blessed to call home.

This may not be enough to reverse engineer the changing tides, but if we can represent a way to move with those tides more mindfully, that’s a start we’re happy to make.

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