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Just listed! 982 Briarcrest Way, Sacramento, CA 95831 by South Land Park real estate agent Allan Sanchez.

Very cute home with 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, and 1,510 square feet. Newer dual pane windows, .16 acre lot, and covered patio. Great location and GREAT price, $199,000.

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South Land Park Real Estate Agent

There is a new program that the Sacramento Association of Realtors just released. Buyers can now receive a $2,000 grant to help with energy efficiency upgrades. There are some qualifications:

• Houses built in 1978 or earlier and must be owner occupied
• The homebuyer must do an Energy Efficient Mortgage (EEM)
• The homebuyer must be represented by a SAR Member Realtor and the loan officer must be a SAR Afiiliate Member
• There must be a $4,000 minimum in energy efficiency upgrades (or max. allowed based on purchase price)
• The work must be done by SMUD approved contractors
• ECO Grant funds may be used for additional energy upgrades over the $4,000 min. or applied to the buyer's closing costs

What is an Energy Efficient Mortgage? It is a FHA financing program (VA financing can work too) designed to help a new home buyer upgrade their new home with energy efficient upgrades. The best part is that you can finance the complete cost of these qualifying upgrades with your purchase loan so there is only one loan and you can do all the upgrades after the close of escrow. Of course, there are qualifications to this program as well. Ask your lender for a more complete explanation of these two programs. You are also welcome to send me an email or give me a call and I would be happy to send you a copy of the flyers for the programs or refer you to one of the loan specialist that I know.

Great programs and great interest rates. What a great time to purchase a home! This program would work well for this South Land Park listing of mine http://107935thAve.RaymondHenson.com. It is a very well maintained home, in a great location, that needs some upgrades. It may be a more difficult process to get a loan in this market, but there are still plenty of lender programs to investigate. Again, check with a loan specialist and then make your home buying decisions.

I will be hosting an open house for this South Land Park home Thursday and Friday. This home is a very short walk to the Sacramento River. It has been maintained very well. In fact, it is move in ready. The interior features newly refinished hardwood floors, a new wood laminate floor in the family room and it has a new, custom paint job. Take a look at http://107935thAve.RaymondHenson.com.

The weather looked like we were getting a break from the rain yesterday so I started out today walking Pozo on one of our routes cutting across South Land Park Drive. This morning we crossed paths with a white terrier, 2 champagne standard poodles and our neighbor's irish setter. The 2 poodles were pulling their person on her rocket scooter - I've never seen that before - not even on Ceasar's show! The dog park at the corner of Seamas and Fruitridge looks like alot of fun but it is not one of Po's favorite spots.... he's shy. He'd rather chase tennis balls at the school field or in the backyard while the squirrels run down the utility lines. We're thankful that Spring is finally coming our way!

Right in the middle of my buyers' home inspection in South Land Park last month, I had received a text message that another client's offer was accepted. We had but a mere hour to return the signed counter offer. So, I rushed back to my Land Park home office to pull the offer off the FAX (why can't agents email them?) and send the counter offer to the agent. Then I hopped back in my car to return to the home inspection.

Zipped up to the curb. Crunch. I heard a noise. Jumped out of the car and looked around near the curb but I couldn't find anything. We finished up the home inspection 90 minutes later, and I returned to my car. On my windshield was a note with a name, address and phone number. It said: "Dear Realtor, you broke my sprinkler head; I replaced it. Please be more careful."

I felt awful. I had damaged someone else's property.

I immediately called the owner and left an apologetic voice mail message. Then I asked my husband how much sprinkler heads cost, but he didn't know. So I Googled sprinkler heads. Looked like they cost under $10. Still, it's the principle of the thing; it's not the money. It's my Midwestern upbringing. When you do something wrong, you've got to make it right.

So, I wrote a handwritten note to the owner, apologizing as best I could for breaking his sprinkler head, inserted a $20 bill and mailed it. A few days later, I received an email from the owner, thanking me for taking responsibility. Turns out he works at the same law firm as another client to whom I sold a home in East Sacramento.

Yesterday, my South Land Park buyers signed loan documents. We were waiting for the completion letter from the sewer company confirming that the sewer line had been replaced. Without the completion letter, closing would be delayed. I checked with the sewer company.

The sewer company said the sewer line took an unexpected turn in the front yard and actually connects to the next-door neighbor's sewer line. They could not complete the work without receiving permission from the neighbor to dig in the neighbor's yard. One of their workers put a note on the neighbor's door, but the neighbor did not respond. The sewer company asked if I knew how to get in touch with that neighbor.

Guess which neighbor that turned out to be?

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Elizabeth Weintraub is an author, home buying columnist for The New York Times-owned About.com, a Land Park resident, and a Land Park real estate agent who specializes in older, classic homes in Land Park, Curtis Park, Midtown and East Sacramento. Weintraub is also a Sacramento Short Sale agent who lists and successfully sells short sales throughout Sacramento. Call Elizabeth Weintraub at 916.233.6759. Put 35 years of real estate experience to work for you.

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