midtown: The Direction Your Home Faces in Land Park Can Make a Difference to You
- 09/07/09 02:44 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)
midtown: Many Sacramento Short Sale and REO Listed Prices are Fabricated -- Not Real -- Teasers
- 05/12/09 03:45 AM
The home buyer sign calls I get in Sacramento start out like this: "I was driving by your listing and would like to find out how much the seller is asking." First, when you're an agent like me who is managing a couple dozen listings all over Sacramento, it helps to define which particular home the caller is inquiring about. Then I question whether the caller is a home buyer or an agent. Lots of agents don't identify themselves, for some reason. After describing the property, I feel it is necessary to level with callers. I tell them upfront: … (19 comments)
midtown: Sometimes Clients Can Forget You're a Real Estate Agent
- 10/14/08 03:13 AM
Yesterday, being Columbus Day, meant there was no mail, agents couldn't call the banks to follow up on short sales and many workers got the day off. But not title and escrow companies. I met clients at my office to walk them over to the title company for signing loan documents. These buyers had been looking for a long time to find their dream home in Midtown Sacramento and were finally going to closing on a home on which they battled multiple offers and won a Request for Repair. It had been a long road. We met in the lobby of … (20 comments)
midtown: Are Sellers Really Saving Any Money By Hiring a Discount Broker?
- 08/25/08 08:38 AM
This poor seller from another state just called me to ask if she could hire me to handle her contract negotiations. Seems she has received an offer directly from an out-of-area selling agent on a home she owns in Midtown Sacramento. To save on the commission, a friend who "understands real estate" advised her to hire a discount broker to list her home. Now, this friend is out of town, and the seller has nobody to advise her. It's bad enough that she's not here locally and doubly bad that the offer came from a buyer's agent who doesn't work in … (18 comments)
midtown: The Best Way to Find Homes in Land Park and East Sacramento
- 08/10/08 03:19 AM
Since it was Saturday, I thought I would have a free day to work on my new short sale book, but you know how those assumptions tend to go, right? In real estate, we are always on call. OK, not all of us are. There are lots of real estate agents who turn off their cell phone Friday evening and don't flip the phone back on until Monday morning, but I'm not one of those. Listings in the Land Park and Curtis Park neighborhoods, including Midtown and East Sacramento areas often get the most showings on the weekend. First, a … (8 comments)
midtown: Lunching with Active Rainers in Midtown Sacramento
- 07/13/08 04:19 AM
You'll never guess who came to my office last week! OK, a couple photos here will give you a hint. None other than the wonderful and talented stager from Granite Bay, Lori Polk and that serial entrepreneur, multi-faceted real estate broker from Wisconsin, Tom Braatz. When they arrived, I had an emergency offer to prepare -- you know the type, buyers were thinking about buying a home and on the way to the airport decided they must put in an offer. Since it was a Land Park home they were buying, there was another counter floating around, so we had to … (9 comments)
midtown: Staying Cool in Sacramento
- 07/10/08 04:01 AM
On Tuesday, I received a sign call on my Midtown listing. The home the buyer was calling about is a fixer Craftsman, and he wanted to know if I could show it to him at 2 PM on Wednesday. "But, it's going to be 108 on Wednesday," I pointed out. "Wouldn't you prefer to see it in the morning, say around 9 AM?" The home has no air conditioning. Nope. Well, he promised to call me by noon if he wanted to see that home, and I guess he had a change of heart. Never heard from him. Even though I … (10 comments)
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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.
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.
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