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Is A Credit Score Really Important? - Nov 09 07:58 PM
A Sacramento Real Estate Home Buyer recently emailed and asked for an explanation about credit scores and what the numbers mean. The home buyer wanted to know if those numbers really mattered and if anyone really looked at them. Since we have a new generation of home buyers coming up, it's important for you to know that your credit is VERY important and it follows you forever.
When you want to:
buy a car, the car dealer looks at ...

Dress the Inside of Your House for Success - Apr 01 09:57 AM
Home Sellers, here are a few home selling tips for dressing the inside of your home to sell.
For home selling tips on the outside, be sure to read, Dress Your Home to Sell-Outside Home Seller Tips.
In today's real estate market it is important for your home or condo to "shine."
It doesn't matter if your house or condo is for sale in Sacramento, Elk Grove, Fair Oaks, Carmichael, Folsom, Wilton, Rancho Cordova, Rancho Murieta, Orangevale, Natomas, Greenhaven, Roseville, Rocklin, ...

Elk Grove California Moves in the Right Direction - Jul 15 10:19 AM
The Elk Grove, CA Promenade Shopping Mall was approved by the City Council of Elk Grove on Wednesday night. The Promenade Mall, an open air mall is set to open October 2008 and provide within the first year of opening 2,500 new jobs for Elk Grove citizens along with a sales tax revenue expected of $4 million.
Now, doesn't that make more sense than building yet more homes? It's time to bring some jobs into Elk Grove. This is ...

Relocating to Sacramento? - May 19 10:30 PM
Home Buyer Resource Guide   Home Buyers, welcome to our great State of California. The map pictured to the left is of the Sacramento and surrounding areas and when clicked, the map can be enlarged.  
  It is awesome when thinking about where you want to live, just in the Sacramento area. Sacramento is very large and has many great Cities to choose from. I have provided a map for you to become familiar with the four Counties, ...

Home Buyers are Crawling the Internet: Are They Finding You? - Apr 28 05:42 PM
Sunday was crazy. First, I met early with two new first-time home buyers. We talked about their needs and wants, and I counseled them to draw out how I can best help them.
I truly love working with first-time home buyers. Lots of agents don't. They don't feel there is enough money in it for them and way too much work, but money is not my motivating factor in this business. Otherwise, I would have retired ...

SOLD in only 4 days! $1.495 Million House - in our "down" market- - how great is that! - Apr 10 09:37 AM
Check out this latest We Stage Sacramento Staging SUCCESS Story! 
We were contacted to Stage a very dated 1970's house in the area, that was full of wood - flooring, paneling, huge wood bar, etc.  The sellers had done some updating and remodeling through the years - mostly in the Master bath.  The house had a great floorplan for entertaining, and a wonderful location with a golf course and cul-de-sac location.  We worked our magic - ...

Why You Should Purchase Your Next Home In Elk Grove, CA... - Sep 21 04:42 PM
David,
Let me start off by congratulating you on your honorable discharge.  As a Marine, I know how you feel about getting out and looking for your first home outside of military housing.  It can be intimidating.  Believe me, I felt the same way when my wife and I bought our first home.  But what I found was due to the current market, you are in a much better position to utilize your VA benefits than I ...

Luxury Homes in and Around Sacramento California - Aug 12 11:16 AM
Ever wondered what the top priced homes look like in Sacramento?
In the Sacramento County area, Elk Grove, CA comes up with the highest priced Real Estate and what a beauty she is for $5,950,000. Want to helicopter in...not a problem, here. This 10,000 square foot home, listed by Lyon RE has the makings for a secluded well presented palatial estate on 61 acres. Need a helicopter pad? Not a problem...want to view the pool under water from ...

Sacramento 7th in the Nation for Foreclosures - Oct 06 10:48 AM
The Sacramento Bee, highlighted a family who lost their home recently to an adjustable rate mortgage. This is common place with many home owners today all over the country and especially here in and around Sacramento County. Sacramento County ranks 7th in the Nation for Foreclosures.
Many of the adjustable rates are resetting to 7, 8 and 9 percent interest. Hello....something needs to be done, here!
As an example, a family whose house payment was $950 per month, now struggles ...

Technology, Is It A Good Thing or a Bad Thing? - Jun 28 11:54 AM
Sacramento saw a Realtor and several unlicensed mortgage lenders picked up by the FBI this week for fraud.
Don't let your guard down, there's plenty more out there.
Real Estate fraud is alive and well gathering more victims each day.
Just this past week, as I had my ears to the ground, I learned that fraud had occurred right here in Sacramento again.  Not just once but three times with REO properties.  Renters were the easy ...

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Staging for the right buyer- know your competition - Sep 24 06:13 PM
Staging is not one size fits all. I was hired by a Realtor to stage a vacant home in Lincoln Hills CA retirement community. We were competing with another fully staged home on the same block that happened to be the same model.
What home would a buyer buy first?- What things should we consider when we prepare a property for sale?
Consider your competition. Is your home priced within the sold range? Are the models similar? Are ...

Are We There Yet? - Is There A Bottom To This Real Estate Market - Nov 29 12:34 AM
Have you been wondering, when are we going to hit the bottom of this real estate cycle?
I know I have been.  Although I do not believe in fortune telling, I wish there was a crystal ball to tell us when things will change.  I have always been told that you can not tell the future of the real estate market.  However, we do know that a full real estate cycle is usually around 6-7 year.  It is like a ...

SACRAMENTO SHORT SALE MARKET - Jun 22 08:34 PM

I am having a blast making charts lately. You don't need to type a lot of words when you have a chart that so succinctly tells the story about short sales that you want to convey. In case anybody is wondering, no, I did not pull those numbers off of MLS. I pulled them out of my butt. :)

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Sacramento Home Sales Report for June 2008 - Jul 02 04:25 PM
Sacramento Real Estate is continuing to increase in home sales each month as evidenced by the numbers reflected in the chart to the left.
There has been a steady slow increase in home sales each month from January through June 2008.
The numbers are include single family homes only. Condos, investment property such as duplexes etc. and land are not included within the figures.
For specific numbers for each of the Cities and Communities within the ...

Sacramento Real Estate Market -- Bulls, Bears, and Shapeshifters - Aug 19 02:44 PM
Back in the early stages of the nationwide and Sacramento real estate market correction (or, depending on your point of view:  "downturn", "collapse", or "debacle"), a few of the folks who read the bubble blogs chided me for being too bullish on the market.  At the time I argued with some success that I wasn't being bullish, I just wasn't joining them in the bubble-bear's picnic (much as I enjoyed the song of a similar name).
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To Know Where the Sacramento Market is Moving -- Look at Where the Market Has Been - Jul 02 08:10 AM
Over the past 30 days, I've closed a bunch of transactions. Generally I wait until the end of the year to analyze the stats from those transactions, but with the craziness and wild swings of our Sacramento real estate market, I thought it would be a good idea to examine my last few escrows where I represented the buyers (not the sellers -- my listings are another picture) to try to figure out if there is ...

I've been quoted in an Associated Press article about Foreclosures!! - Jun 06 04:21 PM
Last week I was interviewed by a journalist with the Associated Press. I get interviewed about once a week because of my high search engine rankings, but this is the first time I have actually been quoted in an article...at least that I actually know of! The journalist mis-quoted me a little bit (he says "market price" in the quote instead of "listing price"), but I suppose that is bound to happen with any interview. Perhaps ...

Sacramento Home Sales Report for July 2007 - Aug 12 04:44 PM
Home Sales for Sacramento Real Estate are ready to view. When you click on the flag it will take you to a report by month and County for each City and Community as well as Zip Code. This is a great place for current homeowners, home buyers and those relocating to the Sacramento area to find out what the Real Estate market trends are for each area.
Each month these Real Estate market numbers (stats) area available ...

Not Everybody Should Buy a Home: The Buy or Rent Dilemma - Nov 28 08:06 PM
I am a firm believer that for some people buying a home is not the best course of action. I realize that many agents will find that statement blasphemous, but it's true. Not everybody is cut out for home ownership. Some people are much better off renting. They don't want to be tied down to a home, much less take care of repairing and maintaining a home, nor are many prepared for paying all those other ...

Are You A Real Estate Contrarian Investor? - Sep 28 03:47 PM
Are you a real estate contrarian Investor?
What is a CONTRARIAN? 
The definition of a Contrarian by:
www.webster.com
Main Entry: con·trar·i·an Pronunciation: k&n-'trer-E-&n, kän-Function: noun: a person who takes a contrary position or attitude; specifically : an investor who buys shares of stock when most others are selling and sells when others are buying - contrarian adjective - con·trar·i·an·ism  /-&-"niz-&m/ noun
I believe this concept is the same for real estate.
When people are getting out, it is great to get ...

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Happy California Cows Make Electricity - Apr 18 12:11 PM
YES, The California Cow is a Happy Cow! And now, the dairy farmers are happy, too! It seems that we can now call our "happy California Cows", "happy California Green Cows." PG & E as well as SMUD due to Government regulations have been mandated to reduce their toxic admissions into the California environment and have come up with a marvelous plan that some ranchers have been accomplishing for awhile now. That is that these companies ...

Staged, Showed, SOLD! Staging sells in Sacramento!UPDATE! - Jun 12 03:55 AM
  
I was in a Home Show in January and a Realtor/Investor came by, we chatted and off he went like many of the others I talked to.  Well he remembered me because two weeks ago he called and asked if I would come see a home that he had in downtown Sacramento.  This Tudor Style home was in an older established neighborhood with many adorable homes nearby. I pulled up to the house, which was under a ...

Paper or Plastic? - Jan 18 11:15 PM
Paper or Plastic, Sacramento? That will be the 15 cents, please if you chose plastic. Our Legislators will be working on passing a bill to charge 15 cents for each plastic bag that your groceries are bagged in.
The reason is that damage is being caused to our ocean by these bags as well as the generational time that it takes for the plastic to break down at the dump.
The E-Friendly thing to do is use a cloth bags. ...

A GREAT Time at the California State Fair in Sacramento - Aug 24 01:49 PM
Sacramento Real Estate took the afternoon and evening off and went to the CA State Fair in Sacramento.
What a time I had ... the theme is Fun Never Grows Old . It was a day to laugh, enjoy the company I was with, eat good and bad things and do a lot of laughing. I felt like a kid reminiscing about rides in amazement parks that I had a life-time ago ridden and felt the thrills.
Pictured to ...

Elk Grove CA Celebrates Earth Day - Apr 20 09:28 PM
We are celebrating Earth Day, and we need to celebrate Earth Day everyday. This will help each of us and each of our children and their children. The children in Elk Grove Unified School District have been learning about recycling for several years.  It not such a hard thing to do. Start small just like you did when you were younger and add something new to your vocabulary of good earth things to do each month. Many ...

HACKER Shuts Down Selective Tomato Blogs - Apr 15 12:42 PM

It seems that Sunday night SOMEONE hacked into the database server of the Real Estate Tomato and hand picked  several Tomato blogger blog sites.
This hacker apparently knew what they were doing and selectively chose who they wanted to delete.
The boys over at Tomato have been working through the night since our blog sites have been down since the wee hours of the morning on Monday. This is a tedious procedure but certainly needed in ...

Dual Agency is Illegal and It Should not be Practiced! - Nov 18 01:19 AM
SOME STATE DO NOT ALLOW DUAL AGENCY, BUT WHAT IS THE PRACTICE?
We have been having a discussion on my blog on  Right or Wrong? Dual Agency  and it has been discussed that it is illegal to practice "Dual Agency" in some states.  I would like to open up this blog to the discussion on how the practice of real estate is performed in the states that do not allow "Dual Agency".  I am from California and we have "Agency" ...

Discrimination in Real Estate? - Mar 30 11:07 PM
Hello Sacramento Real Estate! Take a look at the map to the left.
What do you see that might indicate a tad bit of discrimination?
Do you happen to see all the RED in California?
It seems that the companies who insure loans are doing a bit of what I call REDLINING!
This happens to be a practice that is not acceptable in Real Estate. In fact, a Reactor's license can be removed for redlining and be subjected to fair ...

Clean Up Sacramento County - Oct 03 01:39 PM
Have Homeowners left their houses and their homes are bringing the value of your neighborhood down?
Have you figured out that the home with brown grass is a Foreclosure or Bank Owned?
Have you noticed that no one seems to be taking care of that house next door or down the street?
Is there a For Sale sign that says Bank Owned and the grass is brown and weeds are growing?
There is finally some help coming! Sacramento County has finally ...

Sacramento Surprise - Mar 21 10:18 PM
A couple of very important surprises have been uncovered this week. Sacramento Real Estate Voice will reveal this GREAT surprise!  Read on. Can't believe how fast Easter has come this year... Happy Easter!
Sacramento has so many new blessings to be thankful for.
As many of you know, my Sacramento home buyers and home sellers become my friends and circle of family.
Real Estate is not just about the commission, it's about helping people find just the right place ...

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9076 Summit Street, Elk Grove, CA - Jun 27 09:40 AM
Unique Opportunity...Beautiful custom home located in Old Town Elk Grove on dead end street...Don't Miss this one!



This beautiful New England style "Salt Box" home has so many custom features and has been recently updated!  It features a unique entry and foyer, It's 3 bedrooms, 3 full bathrooms and approximately 2200 square feet.  It is situated on over a 1/3 acre lot in Old Town Elk Grove. 
The spacious formal living room ...

9996 Rhone River Drive, Elk Grove, CA - Jun 26 09:47 AM
Just Listed!  Beautiful almost new Bank Owned home is an incredible buy at just over $100 a square foot!
Located in the East Elk Grove area of Sonoma Creek, this home was built in 2006
and features 5 bedrooms, 3 full bathrooms, over 3300 square feet
and is full of upgrades!  Upgraded tile floors in formal living and dining rooms, kitchen and family room, upgraded tile counters in kitchen, upgraded cabinets and stainless steel appliances, butler's ...

8466 Sheldon North Drive, Elk Grove, CA - New Bank Owned Listing - Jun 21 10:23 AM
Just Listed!  And this one won't last long!  Bank Owned but in great condition and with many upgrades!
Open House, Saturday, June 22nd from 12:00 - 3:00. 
Great Backyard for entertaining with beautiful built in pool & spa...    
Spacious 5 bedrooms, almost 2800 square feet!
Formal living room & dining room

      
Large family room with gas fireplace, neutral carpet & slider to back yard patio, built in entertainment center, custom paint and ceiling ...

Just LISTED in Elk Grove!! - Jun 15 12:18 PM
Move-in Ready! It may take some work to get this short sale complete but there will be very little for the successful buyer because this 3 bedroom, 2 bath home is clean and ready for your family. The 1, 639 square foot of living space includes a den/study/home office that can be easily converted to a 4th bedroom. The centerpiece of this nice home is the fully equipped kitchen with stone counter tops, an island, plenty ...

Great Home For First Time Home Buyer - Jun 08 10:11 AM
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LARGE, Newer REO In a Quiet Neighborhood - Jun 03 05:52 PM
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4406 Palm Avenue, Sacramento - Diamond In The Rough - Jun 02 11:02 AM
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Just Listed! - May 29 12:58 PM
This nice two bedroom home has a great deal of potential. Excellent for investor or first time home buyer. Just remodeled last year with all new kitchen, bathroom, windows and appliances. New paint inside and upgraded hard wood flooring throughout. The fenced backyard includes patio and patio cover, and plenty of room for a pool and the kids to play. Close to schools, parks, services and Consumnes River College.

 
Contact Tina to learn ...

8673 Territorial Way, Elk Grove, CA 95624 - May 24 10:53 PM
Bank Owned - Great Buy
 
Located in great Elk Grove neighborhood near neighborhood park, elementary school, middle school and high school.
 
 
 
 
 
Over 2500 square feet includes 3 spacious bedrooms plus upstairs loft area, formal living and dining areas, large family room with fireplace, spacious kitchen with island and breakfast nook plus huge pantry area!  Backyard includes large patio, deck and shed. 
                                                      
This Bank Owned/REO home is ...

Open House This Sunday, June 1st! - May 20 08:24 PM

Located in North Sacramento and an established neighborhood.  This home is perfect for a family looking to take a piece of California Real Estate. It is a stone throw away from an elementary school.  The kitchen is completely remodeled with granite counter top and stainless steel appliances ( REFRIGERATOR excluded).  Or if you are into investment this is perfect for you.

Please join me on Open House, Sunday June 1st:
1:00 PM - 3:30 ...

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