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My month of June closings for this top Sacramento agent were enormous and totaled more than $5 million for the past 30 days in the Sacramento region. Lest you think I sit around sipping champagne while cabana boys dangle grapes over my lips and fan me cool in our summer heat let me explain that it only happened once in Maui last month; I actually work very hard to accomplish feats like this. I don’t sell one or two homes a month, that’s not my method of operation. I don’t focus on only one area or one type of million-dollar seller.
I’m not ashamed to admit that I sold more homes last month than a person can count on two hands and my listings outnumber all of a person’s digits. The sales prices of my June closings ranged from $131,000 for a condo in Woodside to $475,000 for a home in Curtis Park. You can see that I’m not solely specializing in the upper-end homes, but I also don’t do a lot of lower-end homes. Most of my sales are right in the middle between the two, where most of the real estate market lies in Sacramento.
Middle of the road is a good place for a Sacramento real estate agent. I am as happy as a cat with a bag of freeze-dried chicken treats.
I am available to sell a home for any seller anywhere in the Sacramento area, from Galt to Lincoln, and it would be highly unusual to run across an area in which I haven’t sold. I sell practically everywhere and over many long years have developed an expertise in a ton of neighborhoods. My pricing estimates are typically spot on. I talked with a woman in Elk Grove last week — because I am a noted as a top agent in Elk Grove — about selling her home. I sent the prospective seller a comparative market analysis showing her that she should expect to list around $465,000.
She did not believe me at first. She was blown away. She was certain her home was worth $399,000 or less. When she realized how much equity she had, she called a mortgage broker to find out how much she could extract at our still incredibly low interest rates around 4% and whether her home would appraise. Sure enough, her appraisal came in at $465K. So she decided to refinance instead. But I hope she will remember me when it does come time to sell.
My system works. I get results. I communicate. If you’re looking for a top Sacramento agent, call Elizabeth Weintraub at 916.233.6759. I always have time for you.
The X-Rays of Selling a Home in Sacramento
In between 3 real estate closings last week involving selling a home in Sacramento, I paid a visit to my dentist in Midtown, plus my specialist dentist who does implants in Elk Grove. The main problem I see with going to the dentist is their assistants tend to mess up my lip color, forcing me to carefully reapply, and sometimes they splash water on my face, resulting in splotchy blush patches. I would beg: the make-up, guys, be careful of the make-up, but in the overall scheme of things, the condition they leave my face is not as important as the stone carvings that inhabit the cavern beyond my lips.
My dentist in Midtown, I have discovered, is the same age as me. That news was a bit shocking because I’ve always figured he was much older; it’s in his demeanor, his walk, his way of clasping hands and communicating. It actually makes me feel better knowing how old he is because he probably won’t retire before me, so he’ll be around for a while. He’s the guy mentioned by the kid who wrote the book about lessons she learned (at the ripe old age of 8 or something) when she penned don’t bite the dentist.
I brought him my X-rays from the specialist dentist in Elk Grove. Explained how proud of his work that guy appeared. He told me so, said he had done a beautiful job. He also smiled when his assistant came into the room, saying: “Look at that sinus lift, who did that?” I respect and like veteran professionals who take pride in their work. It means the work still matters to them. It’s not just become routine. My Midtown dentist says I probably have a famous mouth, and that my Elk Grove dentist most likely takes those X-rays on the road to conventions and stuff.
Whenever a transaction closes, I often stop to contemplate and commiserate about the pros and cons, mostly elated that my clients are thrilled. No real estate transaction in Sacramento is routine. Each is special, unique and present their own particular set of circumstances. I feel a strong sense of duty to my clients, apart from the legal obligation, to do the best job and to exceed expectations.
I just wish I could take their X-rays of selling a home in Sacramento on the road. To show how my expertise and experience results in happier sellers who end up with more money and less stress than others, simply because they were smart enough to hire this Sacramento REALTOR.
Stunning and Affordable Pool Home in Elk Grove
Every once in a blue moon this Sacramento real estate agent receives the opportunity to list and sell an incredibly gorgeous home that spins heads and stimulates lust of homebuyers everywhere. Because I’ve been in the business for four decades, I know it when I enter the home. It’s not just a feeling — although the feeling is part of it — it’s the instant realization when my eyes fall upon the interior that this home will drive buyers crazy. All my sensors go off.
Being in love is the reason homes sell as well as the reason many people get married. I hate to stop to think how many people would never ever get married if it weren’t for falling in love. It’s that temporary state of absolute insanity, when the vision of your loved one consumes every fiber of your body and thoughts of this loveliness floats around in your mind from the time you wake up in the morning and lurks in the background throughout daily activities, that makes life worth living for some. It’s madness. It’s nuts. And many of us would not trade this euphoria for the world.
My new listing, this spectacular pool home in Elk Grove will elicit such ecstasy, I can assure you. For starters, it’s a desirable single-story, semi-custom home built in 2006. It has a ton of upgrades and gorgeous features such as stone arches, walls of layered stone, travertine floors, large and spacious rooms, and fabulous energy in the open layout. Everywhere you look there are special touches.
The kitchen is enormous and features a breakfast nook, all of which overlooks the back-yard pool. A stone fireplace sets off the family room. You’ll find a separate formal dining room. There is more than 2,700 square feet, with 4 bedrooms and 3 baths. The master suite is located toward the back of the home and sports French doors that open to the pool.
Best of all, the piece de resistance is the resplendent back yard with its huge pool as the focal point. Off to the side of the pool on this generously sized 1/4 acre lot are a couple of patios; one patio is partially covered by a pergola. There is even a play area for children. Just imagine the summer fun that can linger way into the winter months because we are lucky enough to live in the Sacramento Valley!
This treasure is located at 9328 Feickert Dr, Elk Grove, CA 95624, offered by Lyon Real Estate and your Elk Grove agent, Elizabeth Weintraub, at 916.233.6759. Open Sunday, July 13, 2014 from 2:00 to 4:00 PM. $445,000.
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Window Lengthens to Buy Again After a Sacramento Short Sale
Coinciding with the dropping rate of short sales in Sacramento, Fannie Mae has announced it will not allow a buyer with a short sale on his record to buy another home for four years, beginning August 15th, 2014. The waiting period to buy again after a short sale used to be 2 years. This means is you’re a home buyer seeking conventional financing who completed a short sale less than 4 years ago, you need to enter into a purchase contract to buy a home before August 15th. That’s only about a month from now. You’ve got to get cracking.
A few years ago, it was not unusual to see almost 3 out of 4 of the homes on the market for sale as a short sale or a foreclosure. Not so today. Today, the real estate market in Sacramento has shifted and fewer than 10% of the homes for sale are short sales. That’s a dramatic drop and shift in the marketplace.
If you are selling a home as a short sale, it means fewer buyers will want to buy your home when 90% of the other homes for sale are not a short sale and do not involve approval from one or more short sale lenders. Unless you’ve got an extraordinary home in high demand, like a 4,800 square-foot mansion in The Rivers that I just put into escrow or an entry-level home below $200,000, you might wait a while to sell your home as a short sale.
But the sellers who have already sold as a short sale and now want to buy again after a short sale could get locked out of the marketplace for a while if they don’t buy before August 15th. FHA loans still carry a 3-year waiting period, but Fannie Mae for conventional loans, without extenuating circumstances, well, you have to wait 4 years if you don’t act within the next 30 days.
If you have 20% down and want to buy a home within 2 years of your short sale closing, now is the time to buy a home in Sacramento. You can call Elizabeth Weintraub, the best Sacramento short sale agent in the Sacramento valley, at 916.233.6759 for more information.
The Magical Touch in Sacramento Real Estate
I realize this might sound a little touchy-feelie, but if you want to acquire the magical touch in Sacramento real estate, you’ve got to let things be and not give them so much negative energy. It seems like I am constantly taking my client’s temperature. Resting my hand on their foreheads to see if they feel hot or cold and then trying to make things OK. Because selling or buying real estate can be very stressful.
If my clients begin to feel stressed, I encourage them to call me. I welcome their frustrations. They can tell me exactly how they feel, and I will extract the anxiety and release it. I don’t absorb it because that would turn me into a lunatic. I think that’s part of what makes a Sacramento agent a really good real estate agent, when an agent can go out of her way to help to alleviate her client’s fears and dissolve the pain. Suffering is bad enough without suffering at will.
There is enough suffering in the world without people purposely creating more unhappiness for themselves. Contrary to popular belief, you don’t always get what you want, and sometimes you don’t even get what you need. But if you try to let go and focus on positive outcomes, things have a way of working themselves out.
I’ve seen the results of this first hand. Some new problem will crop up and immediately the people involved tend to think the worst. They create the most horrible image and play that image like a movie over and over in their heads to reinforce just how awful it really could become. But the thing is none of that might happen at all. Given the choice of believing things will work out and taking steps to make it happen or freaking out and condemning everything in your path, which will give you the result you deserve? Both of them, I guess.
So, the question is what do you deserve? I believe you deserve the magical touch in Sacramento real estate. That’s what we do.
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