I tried to think of a way I could write a blog this morning about a home I sold on Winding Way in Auburn at a price that was against the advice of agents from my Auburn office, because I don't want to make them look bad in order for me to look good, but I couldn't come up with a different angle.
...
11/11/2015
Gone are the good ol' days when a prospective tenant could pick up a daily newspaper and look for homes to rent in Sacramento. Even more odd are the people from out of state wanting to move to Sacramento who call to ask if a Sacramento Realtor will help them find a home to rent. They don't realiz
...
11/10/2015
The Crest Theatre changed hands a while back, and for a short period of time, it was unclear as to whether this remarkable historic landmark would disappear from downtown Sacramento. According to public records, the Crest opened in 1912 as another theater. A few years after the marquee fell on to
...
11/09/2015
When I was sitting in a legal update presentation by Lyon a few weeks back, the lawyer who was providing the updates made a joke about how agents can calculate the amount of commission they will earn in their heads, right on the fly, as though that's one number we can always do, and I was laughin
...
11/08/2015
A few days ago, a guy called out of the blue to say his 90-year-old grandmother wanted to hire a cheap Sacramento Realtor. He was upfront. She wanted to pay 3% and he asked if I would work for that amount. My jaw hit the ground. At first blush, I thought maybe he was from the federal government,
...
11/07/2015
It dawned on me yesterday that we are in such a new type of real estate market in Sacramento that many agents probably don't know how to deal with it. The reason is we have a lot of new home construction happening everywhere. They are building new homes in Natomas and new homes in Elk Grove, alon
...
11/06/2015
One of the things I try to do as a Realtor when walking through new homes in Sacramento -- the model homes that are already built and ready for sale to the new homes presently under construction -- is to imagine what they will look like 10 years from now. Because the home a buyer is buying today
...
11/05/2015
When I started my home hunting experience in Sacramento, I was adament, like many of the buyers we work with today, about only considering homes with more than one bath. It didn't have to be a full two-bath home but it needed at least a half bath in addition to a main bath.In retrospect, I passed
...
11/03/2015
There are very few people who don't develop some type of emotional connection to a home. Even my husband was in love with our old home and we only lived there for 5 years. But it was his first home that he ever bought. He planted the gardens and mowed the lawn. He cleaned the gutters. He and I bu
...
11/03/2015
On a cold rainy day like yesterday in Sacramento, little warms the heart as much as a steaming bowl of congee at New Canton. Dealing with the fall-back time change on Sunday meant I could probably go back to bed after breakfast and take a nap to catch up. Yes, I know we got an extra hour, but the
...
11/02/2015
