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Dealing With Unusual Bay Area Buyers in Sacramento

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Real Estate Agent with Elizabeth Anne Weintraub, Broker DRE #00697006

 

What we may see as unreasonable behavior in Sacramento real estate from Bay Area buyers could also be viewed another way. An unreasonable buyer could instead be an unusual buyer with specific criteria to which we Sacramento listing agents are unaccustomed. Communications we might find stark and antagonistic could alternately be viewed as direct and to the point.

But most important, just because an offer contains mistakes and seems wrong to us does not mean we should not work with it. Yup, after writing these words, I can clearly see we have arrived at the tail-end of our strong seller's market in Sacramento. You can read more in my personal blog today at this link: Fixing Bay Area Offers Involves Finesse While Closing Sacramento Sales.

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Elizabeth Weintraub is co-partner of Weintraub & Wallace Team of Top Producing Realtors, an author, home buying expert at The Balance, a Land Park resident, and a veteran real estate agent who specializes in older, classic homes in Land Park, Curtis Park, Midtown, Carmichael and East Sacramento, as well as tract homes in Elk Grove, Natomas, Roseville and Lincoln. Call Elizabeth Weintraub at 916.233.6759. Put our combined 80 years of real estate experience to work for you. Broker-Associate at RE/MAX Gold. DRE License # 00697006.

Photo: Unless otherwise noted in this blog, the photo is copyrighted by Big Stock Photo and used with permission.The views expressed herein are Weintraub's personal views and do not reflect the views of RE/MAX Gold. Disclaimer: If this post contains a listing, information is deemed reliable as of the date it was written. After that date, the listing may be sold, listed by another brokerage, canceled, pending or taken temporarily off the market, and the price could change without notice; it could blow up, explode or vanish. To find out the present status of any listing, please go to elizabethweintraub.com.

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Chris Ann Cleland
Long and Foster Real Estate - Gainesville, VA
Associate Broker, Bristow, VA

Another fantastic job on behalf of your sellers.  You did what you needed to do to get to terms your seller could accept, despite the Bay Area nonsense present on the other side.

Jul 24, 2018 09:52 AM
Nina Hollander, Broker
Coldwell Banker Realty - Charlotte, NC
Your Greater Charlotte Realtor

Hi Elizabeth... I get where you are coming from... sometimes I get offers for a South Carolina listing from a North Carolina agent who rarely sells a home in SC and vice versa. But as my duty is to my seller, I just take a deep breath and call the other agent and offer to help them do it "right." I've never had one take offense. Sometimes, I've even had agents call me to say they want to write an offer but have so little experience in the other state and ask if I can help them write the offer correctly upfront.

Jul 24, 2018 11:12 AM
Debb Janes
Nature As Neighbors - Camas, WA
Put My Love of Nature At Work for You

We get it all the time from Portland agents. Real estate really is local and we need to truly know the market well if we expect to submit offers that get accepted. With that said, well done in walking the fine line of getting it done without emotion conflicts. Sounds smooth, and easy, but in practice it takes skills and discipline. D 

Jul 24, 2018 01:47 PM
Elizabeth Weintraub Sacramento Broker
Elizabeth Anne Weintraub, Broker - Sacramento, CA
Put 40 years of experience to work for you

Chris Ann Cleland There was a certain amount of lip biting. It's difficult because sellers often want to blame their agent if something goes sideways. Whatever that other agent does reflects on us.

Jul 24, 2018 03:36 PM
Elizabeth Weintraub Sacramento Broker
Elizabeth Anne Weintraub, Broker - Sacramento, CA
Put 40 years of experience to work for you

Nina Hollander This transaction started out very antagonistic from the other side, quite hostile. I had to continually assure I was not trying to cause waves but rather smooth over things that should be changed.

Jul 24, 2018 03:44 PM
Elizabeth Weintraub Sacramento Broker
Elizabeth Anne Weintraub, Broker - Sacramento, CA
Put 40 years of experience to work for you

Debb Janes EcoBroker and Bernie Stea JD I wonder if out-of-area agents even realize that all real estate is local? Or if they are too caught up in their own worlds to know that even though we may use the same contracts, how the whole situation works can be dramtically different from one locale to the next?

Jul 24, 2018 03:46 PM
Kathy Streib
Cypress, TX
Home Stager/Redesign

Elizabeth- what I do know is that if I were selling a home in your area, I'd want you doing it for me. 

Jul 24, 2018 05:33 PM
Nina Hollander, Broker
Coldwell Banker Realty - Charlotte, NC
Your Greater Charlotte Realtor

Hi Elizabeth... I never got the antagonism issue when someone is trying to help you help your client.

Jul 25, 2018 03:54 AM
Joan Cox
House to Home, Inc. - Denver Real Estate - 720-231-6373 - Denver, CO
Denver Real Estate - Selling One Home at a Time

Elizabeth, it can be frustrating working with an agent that is incompetent, but congratulations on "making it work".

Jul 25, 2018 06:03 AM
Debbie Reynolds, C21 Platinum Properties
Platinum Properties- (931)771-9070 - Clarksville, TN
The Dedicated Clarksville TN Realtor-(931)320-6730

I am seeing it too and sellers will be flexing to make sales happen. They had it all their way for so long.

Jul 25, 2018 07:08 PM
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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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