Brandy Hart

Capital Pacific Homes is pround to announce the release of 7 new homesites at the beautiful community of Calder Ranch! 2009 has been a year of re grouping and re organizing for many Southern California home builders and CPH is no exception. With the shortage of available homesin the Inland Empire, we have been working hard to get back to what we do best, building great new homes!!

Our Calder Ranch community features 1 acre homesites with a 5 floorplans ranging from 2,600- 4,200 sq feet and anywhere from 3 to 6 bedrooms! Right now is the perfect time to come on down and check out what Calder ranch has to offer! Our sales office is open by appointment only, so please call or email today to schedule your showing, homes will be available for move in as soon as February!!

Brandy Hart

sales agent

(909) 230 2590

Frank Augustus Miller Middle School

Frank Augustus Miller Middle School | Riverside Homes for Sale

Riverside's newest Middle school is nearly complete and is open this fall to it's very first group of students. Miller is the 7th middle school in RUSD and is situated right here in the community of Woodcrest. Our new school will serve students from Mark Twain, Woodcrest and Lake Mathews Elementary schools. It will also relieve overcrowding at the nearby Earhart Middle school. As the mother of three students here in Woodcrest I couldn't be happier to welcome this new state of the art campus to our community! We already boast the best schools Riverside has to offer and it the beautiful campus at Miller is sure to be a wonderful addition.

As your local Riverside Realtor and neighbor, I am happy to answer any questions about the area or helping to find the perfect home for your family in this great community. Feel free to use my website at www.brandyleon.listingbook.com to browse through available homes in the neighborhood as well. If you do not currently live in the Woodcrest/Orangecrest area the time has never been better to become one of our neighbors! Hope to see you all at back to school night in September!

Here in southern California, the word has spread that NOW is the time to buy. The number of residential sales is up drastically month over month and public opinion has shifted, those who have been waiting and waiting for this bottoming out of the market to occur are now jumping at the opportunity to purchase their first home, upgrade to a larger home, or pick up that investment property they've been talking about. this buying frenzy is great for our market and is certainly helping to reduce available inventory, BUT...

It is creating a whole new dilemma for those looking to buy. Each day our inventory of homes is shrinking and each day when we as Realtors run our property searches for new listings we are coming up with less and less options for our clients. Many potential buyers are putting in offers on multiple properties only to be out bid each and every time. After weeks or even months (ouch) of doing this, the clients get discouraged and their Realtor gets frustrated. The end result of this in many cases is that the buyers either give up all together or they settle for something very different from what they actually want. Either way you end up with an unhappy/dissatisfied client.

This does not have to be the case, there is an ART to writing offers in a way that makes them more attractive to the banks and there are often ways to overcome bank objections to VA or FHA financing. If you are considering purchasing in Southern California this year, you will need to select a Realtor that is ready to do the extra work involved in getting your offer in front of the people who make the decisions. It is not uncommon for new listings to receive ten or twenty offers within days of being listed on the MLS. How will your offer compare? Will it stand out above the rest? Unfortunately not all offers are created equally, the little details, the presentation, and the submission of a completed packet are crucial in an offer making the cut. If you are looking for Realtor who has the experience and dedication needed to help you into your new home contact me today for more information.

HUD announced last Friday that first time buyers may now use their $8,000 tax credit instantly to pay closing costs or additional down payment on their home purchase! This means you no longer have to wait until tax time to take advantage of this free money. HUD is hopeful that this new program will allow many more families to qualify for a home purchase this year. With signs of a housing recovery on the horizon act now to take advantage of this amazing opportunity before prices go up!

On March 1st the state of California launched it's $100,000,000 stimulus tax credit to give residential construction push in the right direction. Although many Realtors consider new construction to be a threat to their business, it is an integral part of our local economy and provides countless employment opportunities. It goes without saying that without jobs, people cannot purchase any type of home, be it new or used. I was employed in the home building industry for four years and watched, as our economy turned, hundreds of my fellow colleagues lose their positions. With my background in building I may be more passionate than most on the subject, but regardless of that, we should all be watching the building industry very closely for signs of improvement. When construction spending is down, the rest of our economy goes with it, and vice verse.

The good news is that Californians are responding to this tax credit with much excitement and as shown below, in only 5 weeks over 3,000 new homes have been purchased in the state! A third of the allotted funds have been claimed much faster than the state anticipated! If you have buyers in the area that are considering new construction, encourage them to act quickly before the funds are depleted!

The inventory of available homes is quickly depleting here in Southern California, and we are down to a three month supply rather than the 9 month supply we ended 2008 with! Hopefully this trend will spread throughout the country and we can begin to stabilize the market a bit going into next year!