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land park homes: Here is an Affordable Land Park Starter Home for $299,000 - 04/27/10 09:03 AM
On a side note, I hear the Federal Aviation Administration is urging airlines to adopt a no-distraction policy in their cockpits. They used the case of those Northwest pilots who flew past the Minneapolis / St. Paul airport because they were distracted by playing on their laptops. The FAA says pilots are increasingly using electronic devices in the cockpit such as cellphones and computers, which might cause pilots to take their eyes off of the clouds.
I can see it now. A pilot Tweets: "Dude, did you know the polar ice caps are melting? Ten polar bears are sharing a block … (4 comments)
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land park homes: Neighborhoood of Land Park Chosen for Yard Waste Collection Program - 02/18/10 09:29 AM
The City of Sacramento Department of Utilities has announced that Land Park residents are now eligible for the voluntary Containerized Yard Waste program. The way the City of Sacramento has set up the program, all the homes in Land Park are automatically enrolled in the program, unless you decide to opt out. Personally, I'm all for it, and I'll tell you why.
How many times have you been shaken awake by the annoying sound of that giant claw scraping the street? Do you admire the piles of dead leaves, tree branches and yard waste dumped in front of our Land Park … (6 comments)
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land park homes: The Worst Thing That Could Happen to a Real Estate Agent - 01/21/10 09:01 AM
What's the worst thing that could happen to an East Sacramento agent? Or to any real estate agent, for that matter? Well, apart from rolling over a guard rail in the rain. Over the last week, 2 vehicles at different locations slid off the freeway while going around a curve and landed on the road below. They survived, thank goodness.
We've had so much rain and wind in Sacramento; it's like an obstacle course driving through East Sacramento and Land Park -- swerving to avoid downed tree branches, blown over trash cans and unemployed real estate agents angrily stomping in rain … (19 comments)
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land park homes: Representing More Than One Buyer for the Same Home is a Lousy Idea - 01/18/10 08:52 AM
Because today is a holiday for most people, I booked back-to-back appointments this morning to show homes in Land Park, Midtown and East Sacramento. Which means my email in-box and voice mail will most likely be full by the time I return to my home office. If I never stepped foot out of my office, I'd always be caught up but, unfortunately, that's not how the world of real estate works. I generally don't answer my phone nor reply to emails when I'm with clients. I try to focus on them.
As I began putting together the tours for these buyers, … (12 comments)
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land park homes: If Your Sacramento Short Sale Involves a Fannie Mae Loan in Default, It Might Not Close - 12/18/09 08:43 AM
A Fannie Mae short sale is no picnic, just ask any Sacramento short sale agent how adding an extra layer to the transaction can delay approval. Now, Fannie Mae is beginning to enforce another guideline. Fannie Mae says if a California short sale is in default -- meaning a Notice of Default has been filed and an auction date is set -- it will NOT allow a postponement of a trustee's sale. This means short sale sellers and their agents had get better those transactions approved and closed prior to that sale date or they're out of luck.
Sometimes sellers call … (9 comments)
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land park homes: Nothing to Wear and Nothing to Buy Except This East Sacramento Home That is Not Upside Down - 11/09/09 09:00 AM
Few guys understand what a woman means when she opens her closet and declares: I have nothing to wear. Guys look in the closet and they see clothes jammed in so tightly that one might break a hanger yanking something out. Wall-to-wall clothes. They scratch their heads and wonder how can a woman say she has nothing to wear when it's obvious that she has 6 times more clothing than them. In fact, it looks like the entire fall collection from Macy's in that closet.
See, here's the thing. When a woman says: "I have nothing to wear," it means she … (16 comments)
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land park homes: House Hunters in Sacramento Day 2: Room Tone, Music to My Ears - 08/07/09 08:35 AM
The order in which we film the show for House Hunters is not necessarily the order in which the homes are viewed on TV. In fact, I have no idea how each of the homes we are filming will appear, whether you'll see home #1 as home #3 or vice versa. But I do believe that viewers will have a difficult time figuring out which home these Natomas buyers actually purchased.
I opened the home in Natomas early yesterday because I am supposed to meet with the producers about an hour before the buyers get there. That's to give them time … (10 comments)
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land park homes: More Photos of William Land Park WPA Rock Garden in Land Park, Sacramento - Part 3 - 06/04/09 09:57 AM
If you haven't met Myrl Jeffcoat, a busy agent in Sacramento, you're in for a treat. She's simply delightful and filled with interesting stories about what it was like to grow up in the Land Park area. I try to get together with Myrl at least every couple months or so for lunch. We ferret out interesting restaurants in Sacramento to explore.
One of my favorite lunch-time spots is Ricksha on 10th Street, just north of W Street. Their box lunches are $5.99, and I guarantee you'll wobble out of that place satiated and happy. Myrl and I had lunch at … (9 comments)
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land park homes: GIANT CACTUS BLOSSOMS FROM MY LAND PARK CACTUS GARDEN - 05/06/09 09:30 AM
Many people don't know that most cactus flowers bloom only for one day. Most of them bloom in the spring. Here is a photo of an original cactus planted in my Land Park garden that did not have any flowers at all last year, but this year exploded in color. There were a bazillion flowers that opened on April 22:
And here is another. This is a round cactus. With all those thorns, it's hard to pick out debris, too, without getting poked or punctured. I recently planted this cactus to replace one that died in the frost last winter.
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land park homes: Spring has Sprung in Land Park, Sacramento: Daffodils, Hyacinth, and More - 03/01/09 09:56 AM
When I was a little kid growing up in Minnesota, the thing that piqued my excitement at the end of the winter -- more so than whether some groundhog in Pennsylvania saw his shadow, and second only to my first sighting of a robin -- was watching tender flowers stretch and yawn and push their fragile bodies through packed snow. A sparkle of color and life. A reason for hope. Spring was just around the corner.
Now that I live in Sacramento, I still yearn for signs that winter is nearly over. That the rains will ease up. It's not the … (18 comments)
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land park homes: Ever Wonder About Priorities in a Real Estate Agent's Life? - 11/11/08 09:51 AM
I don't know about you, but I can get by without electricity and heat; but for goodness sake, please don't let my cellphone tower go down.
During the rainstorms last winter, many trees landed on homes in Land Park; and we're hunkering down now for another winter season. You never know what will happen in Land Park or how many more trees will fall. An electrical line fell on a neighbor's car, and the car burst into flames right there in the street. We were without power for four days. But we got by because I still had my cellphone, … (23 comments)
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land park homes: Forging a Path and Putting Things Into Perspective - 10/20/08 10:13 AM
I studied my young cactus garden in Land Park for months, walking through the sand and drawing circles with a long stick, figuring some day I'd have the time to go to the nursery and buy stepping stones, and those circles left embedded in the sand were where the stones would lie.The cactus garden came into being when my 40-foot birch tree fell on the house last January. Mostly because I had removed half the deck, chopped up the tree stump and pondered putting in a grassy area. The lawn idea hit a wall when I found out I could … (20 comments)
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land park homes: My Land Park Deck Gets a New Paint Job - 10/12/08 09:38 AM
My husband headed out of town last Thursday. As I watched his car pull away, it dawned on me. Shoot. I have been so busy working that I forgot to line up a home improvement project. He never knows when he leaves what he'll find when he comes back to our Land Park home except that I will have undertaken something new and different. I do this to spare him the inconvenience. That's because all home improvement projects involve some type of lifestyle compromise, even if it's something as simple as, "Hey, I can't use the back … (14 comments)
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land park homes: You Could Win an Ice Cream Shop in Land Park - 10/04/08 10:41 AM
If you've always wanted to run your own business in Land Park, here's a chance to land your very own ice cream and coffee shop for $150. The catch? You have to write up to a 300-word story about why you are qualified to run this business and pay your $150 entry fee.
The shop, "Here's the Scoop," is located at 3051 Freeport Boulevard, between Weller and Bidwell. Ron and Melinda Rucker have owned the ice cream store for 7 years. The Ruckers are hoping to receive enough entries to cover the cost of the contest and market value of the … (9 comments)
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land park homes: Who Are You and Why Do You Want To Be My Friend? - 09/27/08 10:41 AM
Most of my friends would say I am a social butterfly. Probably because I regularly talk to a lot of people I don't know while pumping gas, dining out, or in the dressing room at Macy's, but those conversations fall short of what constitutes an actual friendship. I am friends with my clients, people I grew up with, neighbors, agents I work with, and yes, people I meet online. But I am not friends with the guys standing next to me at the popcorn counter at Tower Theatre in Land Park. Unless they want to buy or sell homes in Land … (22 comments)
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land park homes: Newest Driveway in Land Park, Check It Out! Here's an Ocicat, Too. - 09/25/08 10:00 AM
Day three, and the driveway is finished. What do you think about that chain-link gate? I'm thinking ornamental ironwork, an electronic gate that swings open, might be a good solution. It's not that I really need a gate, because we don't have a dog, but without it, I can't really enclose the back yard and keep out the wildlife -- all those wild moose and donkeys in Land Park, you know.
My neighbor seemed disgruntled that he was required to turn off his sprinklers for a day. His sprinklers should not be spraying my property anyway, but I never complain … (7 comments)
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land park homes: My New Land Park Driveway - Part 2 - 09/24/08 01:39 PM
The cement crew finished up half the driveway last night. The tool you see this guy using is called a joiner. It has a slot in the center that grooves the cement while the top of the tool smooths the joint. We discovered a clean-out for the sewer line below the former brick patio, which is why you see a hole. They placed a bucket shaped object over the clean-out to protect it and will put a grate on top when it is finished. It's a good thing I asked them to investigate what I thought was a French drain.
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land park homes: How Many Times Can Land Park Agents Set Off Alarms? - 08/12/08 01:26 PM
I think I am the worst when it comes to turning off alarms. If my sellers are agreeable, I generally ask them to program their alarms to be off during lockbox access hours. That's because I know there are plenty of other agents out there like me who, regardless of good intentions, can't seem to handle turning alarms off and on again without setting them off. It's a deficiency I have, and I'm not sure how to solve the problem. If your listing has an alarm set and I enter, you've got a 50/50 chance that I'm going to set it … (12 comments)
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land park homes: Traffic Jam in Land Park From I-5 - 08/02/08 04:53 PM
Warning. There are orange cones blocking lanes and work is still in progress on the ramp from southbound I-5 at the Biz 80 / Highway 50 interchange. When I headed out to Natomas from my home in Land Park this morning, I saw the cars lined up going in the opposite direction. I thought it would be cleared up by the time I returned four hours later, but it was still severely backed up.
If you're trying to get into Land Park from southbound I-5, I suggest you stay in the left lanes right after the J Street exit. The three … (10 comments)
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land park homes: Land Park Home to be Featured on H&G TV's HOUSE HUNTERS - 07/20/08 12:47 PM
I know I said in the past that I would never go on the cable TV show House Hunters, but a few weeks ago I found myself eating those words. Hey, sometimes it happens that we change our minds -- it's a woman's prerogative. After all, I reasoned, I've done a few TV shows, and they are actually kind of fun. Besides, I am certain I will most likely bring a warped sense of humor to the show. Mark my words, I will NOT walk into the kitchen waving my arms to pronounce that "This is the kitchen." Besides, the kitchen … (23 comments)
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Elizabeth Weintraub, Sacramento Short Sale Agent, Land Park, East Sac, Lyon RE
Sacramento,
CA
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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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