preparing a home for sale: My 15-Second Tip for Preparing to Sell a Home - 07/28/18 08:28 AM
When preparing a home for the market, I often spend hours and hours with my sellers, making sure their home is the picture-perfect dream home when we go live in MLS. I agonize over words I use to describe as much as the sellers obsess over each nail hole they forgot to fill.
Even the directions are important. Especially when I compare an older listing.
For example, a Sacramento Realtor does not want to send traffic down a busy street past sketchy intersections when a more beautiful route is readily available. But sellers also have a job to do. And one … (7 comments)

preparing a home for sale: One Small Home Improvement That Makes a Big Difference - 12/07/16 01:24 PM
My Hawaii house was built in 1991 and because of that has had much stuff replaced. I'm doing even more improvements as we speak. My husband would just unpack and not change a thing. But houses don't speak to him like they do to me. I develop likes and dislikes easily of certain home features, and my kitchen faucet was a big dislike from the moment I laid eyes on it last week.
My old faucet is pictured here. Look at how it hangs its sorry face into the sink and does not latch onto its connection. It's discolored. Past its … (8 comments)

preparing a home for sale: Seller Repairs When Home Selling - 05/26/16 01:26 AM
The fact is most sellers do not have any idea what kind of repairs they should do before selling a home. They draw from their own limited experience about what they might like to see if they were buying a home, which often has no bearing whatsoever on the present real estate market.
I mean, what could be worse than a seller who goes out and replaces all of the kitchen appliances with white appliances? That kiss of death in today's real estate market. Yet, they felt they were doing the right thing and, in some ways, new appliances are better than … (6 comments)

preparing a home for sale: Get Advice on Preparing a Home for Sale From Your Own Agent - 05/03/14 01:52 AM
Much as I want to help everybody, I have decided that I will stop handing out expert advice to home sellers who don't hire me to sell their home, because it doesn't make sense to go on a listing presentation, get asked a bazillion questions, and then find out the seller days ago hired her brother-in-law with no experience to sell the home. Sellers do this because relatives might discount the commission, and they think that all real estate agents are the same when agents are very different from each other, especially those with decades of experience.
Besides, after an agent … (26 comments)

preparing a home for sale: Don't Let FHA Repair Requirements Blindside Home Sellers in Sacramento - 02/01/14 12:44 AM
For the most part, FHA repair requirements are nowhere nearly as restrictive and problematic as they were years ago, especially if you're selling a fairly newer home in Sacramento. But those older homes that will probably be purchased by first-time home buyers, well, you've got a high chance that the buyer will use FHA financing, making the sale subject to FHA repair requirements.
FHA has weird guidelines. You don't need to have a refrigerator or a dishwasher but there better be a stove in the kitchen. The windows can contain cracks, but there better not be any peeling paint anywhere in … (6 comments)

preparing a home for sale: Don't Be Hard on the People Who Can't Read Email - 05/22/12 11:13 PM
Part of what makes a person a successful real estate agent is learning how to read other people and adapt to their needs. Not everybody is the same. For example, yesterday I had to drive over to Mercy Hospital in East Sacramento to get an offer signed. The seller had just finished performing a C-Section but he can't do email. I had tried to fax the offer electronically to his main office fax at the hospital but the machine could only accept 12 pages at a time. Which I did not figure out until I had sent 10 faxes.
I have … (7 comments)

 
Elizabeth Weintraub Sacramento Broker, Put 40 years of experience to work for you (Elizabeth Anne Weintraub, Broker)

Elizabeth Weintraub Sacramento Broker

Put 40 years of experience to work for you

Sacramento, CA

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Elizabeth Anne Weintraub, Broker

Address: 3620 Fair Oaks Blvd, Sacramento, CA, 95864

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Broker-Associate at RE/MAX Gold, Midtown and Sierra Oaks Sacramento office. Co-partner Weintraub & Wallace Realtors. Selling since 1974. Homebuying expert at The Balance. Weintraub & Wallace sells homes from Galt to Lincoln.
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Author Bio: Elizabeth Weintraub is a Sacramento real estate broker, author, home buying expert for The Balance, a Land Park resident, who specializes not only in older, classic homes in Land Park, Curtis Park, Midtown and East Sacramento but sells extensively from Elk Grove to Lincoln. Weintraub is prominently known as the #1 Sacramento Short Sale agent throughout the Sacramento four-county area. Call Elizabeth Weintraub at 916.233.6759. Put 40+ years of real estate experience to work for you.



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