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homes in east sacramento: Buying or Selling a Home in East Sacramento is a Little Bit Quirky Today - 07/12/11 10:13 AM
I met with an East Sacramento seller yesterday who has a home he wants to sell. It's a 2 bedroom he bought a long time ago, and there is plenty of equity. I will put this on the market in a couple of weeks. Whenever I meet with sellers to talk about selling a home, especially a rarity such as a home with equity in Sacramento, I show them how others will look at their price.
Because it doesn't really matter what I think or what the sellers think or even what other agents think. Only 2 things matter. How the … (8 comments)
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homes in east sacramento: Not Every Distressed Sale in East Sacramento Needs to be a Short Sale - 04/28/11 10:44 AM
Early February a seller called to ask if I would mind stopping by her home after hours. It was dark when I arrived. She lived in the back unit of a duplex in East Sacramento. Most entry-level homes in East Sacramento are selling briskly these days as prices have softened a little bit and financing is extremely cheap. It's a good time to buy a home in Sacramento.
This seller bought the duplex several years ago from Fannie Mae. It was a foreclosure home. She had been reading the headlines in the Sacramento Bee about all the foreclosures and short sales … (4 comments)
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homes in east sacramento: Confidence is in the Mind of the Beholder - 10/13/10 10:09 AM
I make people afraid of me. Yup, I frighten people. For the most part, they find me intimidating. I'm not saying this in a boastful manner; it's more of an insight -- a confession, because I'm aware of it. How am I aware of it? People tell me. They say that I'm straight forward and to the point and, let's face it, I have an assertive Type A personality. That scares people. Probably because they're not. But then people say that after they get to know me, they are astonished at how friendly and down-to-the-earth I am. Because that was not … (26 comments)
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homes in east sacramento: Didn't Your Mother Ever Tell You If You Can't Say Something Nice, Don't Say Anything At All? - 09/19/10 10:03 AM
A while back an agent in my office asked if I would be willing to spend some time with her. She asked me to explain how to do a daily real estate blog and show her what I do online. While it may seem to some that everybody is online these days, I know that they aren't. Especially older real estate agents, which tend to make up most of the population of any given real estate office. But I like to help people when I can, so I agreed to talk with this agent.
We went into the conference room and … (50 comments)
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homes in east sacramento: Do You Believe in East Sacramento Short Sales? - 08/08/10 10:42 AM
A short sale or no short sales, when buyers don't conform to the marketplace, many agents will dump those buyers because they view those people as a waste of time. Conforming to the market means the buyer is looking in the price range the buyer can afford to pay, and the buyer is willing to buy one of those available homes. Now, I don't work with insane people, if I can help it, but I will work with buyers I like -- even if they don't fit the mold -- as long as they are serious about buying a home.
See, … (8 comments)
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homes in east sacramento: Eight Units in North Oak Park Offered as Short Sale at $304,000 - 05/13/10 09:38 AM
After listing yesterday the following 8-unit apartment complex in North Oak Park, a buyer called me out of the blue. Apparently, he had been shopping for a home in the Curtis Park / Land Park neighborhoods for a while without hiring an agent. A former Land Park buyer referred him to me. He asked if I could show him a home in Curtis Park within the hour. Sure, I'll do that for a referral client. After walking through the home with his wife, the buyer announced they would like to write an offer.
The wife laughed, "I bet this is the … (5 comments)
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homes in east sacramento: Get Your Car Washed at Your Home in Land Park From This Mobile Car Wash Service - 05/02/10 09:42 AM
One of my Land Park home buyers is in escrow right now, buying a bank-owned home with a view of William Land Park. We were at the home inspection yesterday, plucking mushrooms out of the carpeting, when the home inspector drew my attention to the window. I thought he was looking at the joggers. But, no. He was pointing at the guys from Precision Mobile Detail.
The guys across the way were washing a neighbor's car in a driveway. Lest passersby assume the car belonged to them, they very wisely propped a sign in the street that read: Car Wash Today. … (1 comments)
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homes in east sacramento: DocuSign is a Key Tool for a Busy Real Estate Agent - 04/25/10 09:02 AM
I managed to sell 4 homes in the Sacramento area yesterday, show homes in Land Park and East Sacramento, plus, list another short sale in Elk Grove. Let me tell you, it's not every day that kind of activity happens, but the month of April has been especially brutal. Probably because so many buyers are trying to get into contract to qualify for that home buyer tax credit. While I ordinarily stop working at 7 PM, except for answering emails (hey, I start at 5 AM, gimme a break), last Friday I was up way past my bedtime catching up on … (10 comments)
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homes in east sacramento: If You're Gonna Remodel a Home, Don't Destroy the Character - 04/18/10 09:34 AM
The thing about being a Land Park agent is I never know how my days will go. Heck, that's true for any real estate agent. We might think we have organized our day but anything can happen. I believe it was John Lennon who said, "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." It's almost impossible to accurately predict what will happen in real estate.
Take today, for example. This afternoon, I am taking out a lawyer to look at homes in Land Park. We'll also tour a couple of homes in Midtown and East Sacramento, but … (7 comments)
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homes in east sacramento: A River Park Short Sale Home With Plank Hardwood Flooring is Offered at $285,000 - 03/27/10 08:57 AM
Before I tell you about this new Sacramento short sale listing in River Park, I'd like to say that getting older isn't as bad as some people make it out to be. Sure, you've got your typical weathered skin that one day just shrivels up and turns into crepe paper before your very eyes, but you can always wear a long-sleeved shirt. You might find that your nouns begin to disappear, but verbs are a lot more fun anyway. And when you're writing, you generally have the luxury of just sitting there and waiting for the noun to magically appear. It … (10 comments)
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homes in east sacramento: Do Sacramento Home Buyers and Sellers Want a Real Estate Agent Who Has Confidence? - 02/06/10 09:10 AM
For as long as I can remember, people have said that I intimidate them when meeting me for the first time. That kind of reaction is a bit puzzling to me. I mean, I'm no Darth Vader. I'm not a particularly threatening type of person in stature or appearance. People at the post office don't cross their forefingers and fall to the ground when they see me coming. Yet, I hear over and over that when people get to know me, their initial impression of me changes. I go from being threatening to gregarious, friendly and caring.
A Sacramento home buyer … (14 comments)
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homes in east sacramento: Some People Would Say if New Furniture Won't Fit in Your House, Why Not Buy a New Home - 02/01/10 09:20 AM
What I probably need is a personal shopper. See, I no longer clean my house, do laundry, grocery shop, prepare meals, mow the lawn, weed or water the gardens, run to Target, pay the bills -- those chores are done for me. And, it's actually a bit inconvenient that I have to put gas in my car myself. I wish we would go back to the concept of full-service gas stations.
I utilize almost every waking moment of my day focused on my hobby, er, occupation. I specialize in selling older, classic homes in Land Park, East Sacramento, Curtis Park and … (13 comments)
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homes in east sacramento: How About an East Sacramento Listing That is NOT a Short Sale, REO or Flipper? - 10/18/09 09:23 AM
The file folder for my new listing in East Sacramento is decorated with artwork. I had left it on the coffee table while I walked through this darling 2-bedroom bungalow to do my agent visual inspection. One of the tenant's children used this opportunity to draw on my folder. The tenant was very apologetic, but actually, I think it adds a lot of appeal and character to an otherwise drab file folder.
This very pretty home was built in 1940 and oozes much of the original charm of that period -- scalloped trim work, hardwood floors, contrasting tiled kitchen counters and … (10 comments)
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homes in east sacramento: The Direction Your Home Faces in Land Park Can Make a Difference to You - 09/07/09 09:44 AM
When I counsel home buyers for Land Park, I typically ask them which direction they prefer their home to face. Much of the time, they look at me like I'm looney. Then it hits them, yes, the direction a home faces is a preference.
In the northern hemisphere, southern exposure gets the most sun, even though the sun moves from east to west. But the way the streets are laid out in Sacramento, especially in the core areas close to downtown such as Midtown, Land Park and Curtis Park, many streets run east and west. This means most of the homes … (9 comments)
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homes in east sacramento: Link to Elizabeth Weintraub's Appearance on KCRA-TV Sacramento Property Tax Story - 05/15/09 08:55 AM
The reporter for this KCRA Sacramento property tax story promised to tell me when it would air, but he didn't. Maybe he figured that I watch NBC and would catch the promos, but I'm hard pressed to think of a show I like on that station. We probably watch more shows on HBO. So, I was a little surprised when I walked into my office meeting on Wednesday to find out that it had aired.
My husband says I should write to the reporter and request a tape, since the guy never called or emailed me. Fortunately, my office assistant, Andy, … (7 comments)
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homes in east sacramento: Punch Brothers Play to Full House at Mondavi Center and I Fell Asleep - 02/15/09 10:51 AM
OK, I didn't really fall asleep, I just felt like I was sleeping or perhaps wished I was sleeping, all snug and warm in the comforts of my own multi-cat infested bed instead of sitting at Mondavi Center in Davis to see the Punch Brothers. That's not to say the Punch Brothers are awful, because they have tons of talent, mountains of talent, Grammy-awarded talent bigger than the state of California, but they don't put on a spectacular show.
The musicians are Chris Thile (from Nickel Creek) who plays mandolin; Gabe Witcher, fiddle; Chris Eldridge, guitar; Noam Pikelny, banjo; and Paul … (11 comments)
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homes in east sacramento: A Home Can Be on the Market for a Year and Get Two Offers on the Same Day - 01/27/09 09:00 AM
A reader from my homebuying forum on About.com asked me why there isn't more transparency in real estate. This buyer was in escrow on a short sale when the seller received another offer from an all-cash buyer. That second buyer offered to sell the home to the first set of buyers at a higher price. The reader put the blame of the housing bubble on agents pushing multiple offers that drove up prices, and implied that listing and selling agents are working together behind the scenes, devising secret plans to get higher prices so the agents can earn more money.
In … (16 comments)
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Elizabeth Weintraub, Sacramento Short Sale Agent, Land Park, East Sac, Lyon RE
Sacramento,
CA
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Address: 2801 J Street, Sacramento, CA, 95816
Office Phone: (916) 233-6759
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Broker-Associate at Lyon Real Estate, midtown Sacramento. Selling since 1974. Home Buying Columnist at About.com. Sacramento short sale agent.
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