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Affordable and Updated Del Paso Manor Home For Sale
2416 Avalon Dr, Sacramento, Ca 95864 is offered by Elizabeth Weintraub at Lyon Real Estate.
The seller of this Del Paso Manor home has lived there for 22 years. This is a 1950 Lusk home, and you can see the small detailing that builders no longer do. Things like an angled corner in the hallway to make it easier to navigate mattresses around the corner, and slightly angled walls near the entrances to the bedrooms.
There is great pride of ownership evident. This is not a flipper. When a person loves his Del Paso Manor home, it shows. Sellers like this tend to take impeccable care and stick to maintenance schedules like clockwork.
Dining room and formal living room with fireplace at 2416 Avalon Dr.
You’ll find hardwood floors in the living and dining room, all of the juke boxes, btw, have been removed. A beautiful mantle graces the fireplace. Note the original shelving near the pass-through to the kitchen, with built-in glass cabinets below.
Beautifully remodeled gray and white kitchen at 2416 Avalon Dr.
The kitchen has been redone. New cabinets with brushed nickel hardware, gorgeous flooring, granite counters, tiled backsplash, pre-rinse faucet, even a dining bar, and all of the stainless appliances are new, never been used: dishwasher, microwave, gas range and refrigerator.
Updated bath at 2416 Avalon Drive with a tile tub surround.
You’ll find 3 bedrooms, plus a family room featuring French doors that lead to the huge back yard. The bath has been updated with tile, a newer vanity, mirror, light fixtures and cabinet.
Family room addition brings additional square footage to 2416 Avalon Dr.
This Del Paso Manor home is situated on a large lot, almost .20 acres, completely fenced. In addition to the garage, there is a workshop / house with windows and a storage shed. The El Camino does not stay but the seller is interested in selling it.
Huge yard with a workshop house and a storage shed at 2416 Avalon Dr.
Come to our open house on Sunday, May 21, from 2:00 to 4:00 PM. Or call Elizabeth Weintraub at 916.233.6759 for a private showing.
2416 Avalon Dr, Sacramento, CA 95864 is offered exclusively by Elizabeth Weintraub at Lyon Real Estate at $329,000. See the virtual tour here.
Sacramento Home Buyers and the Light Fixer
What is too much work for a first-time home buyer in Sacramento? I always follow up on my listings by emailing buyer’s agents after a showing. I thank them for showing my listing because I am grateful for their efforts. Also, I realize it’s tough being a buyer’s agent today. Buyer’s agents have to write a lot of offers and face a lot of rejection. When I ask buyer’s agents to tell me what their buyers thought of the home, sometimes they say their buyers felt the home required too much work. It makes me wonder how a buyer who has never owned a home before knows how much work it needs. Or, is the work required merely an overblown perception?
It’s no secret that most home buyers want a turn-key home. They don’t want to do anything but move into it, like it is a rental. They also want a good price, sometimes an unreasonable price, which is why some buyers gravitate toward short sales and foreclosures. But the days of those below-market values are gone. Poof. Over. Short sales and foreclosures, like any other home in Sacramento, are selling at market value and, in many cases, way over market value.
That’s if you can buy a home. Some buyers can’t. There are not enough homes for sale for every aspiring home buyer in Sacramento today. So, if a home needs a little bit of work, why not find out how much work it needs? Maybe it’s not as expensive as you might think. For example, maybe it needs paint. High quality paint costs about $25 a can, cheap paint is $10 a can. You need 2 cans of paint to paint an average bedroom. Maybe it needs a $50 light fixture? That involves connecting the black wire to the black wire, and the white wire to the white wire, and the ground to the neutral. It’s not that difficult. But don’t take my word for it. And don’t touch electrical without turning off the power.
Why not buy yourself a home improvement book and learn how to maintain your home? Take care of the smaller projects yourself. If you’re in the market to buy your first home, believe me, something eventually will break or go wrong, and you’ll find great relief in knowing how to fix it.
I have written a series of articles about Buy, Fix and Sell, involving my own personal experiences of home buying.
