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Elk Grove Pool Home with a Four-Car Garage
Selling a pool home in Elk Grove without showings is not as difficult as one might think in the Sacramento real estate market today. I’ve got a lot of agents calling me on my pending listings, for example, and asking if they can write backup offers. Of course, these are very attractive homes, too, in high demand, and not your usual run-of-the-mill listings. Mostly the agents don’t want to make those phone calls yet do so because their buyers ask.
Sort of like my husband agreeing to go with me last weekend to see the Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. He’s not a huge fan of that genre. Probably because he was in kindergarden when Roddy McDowall made his mark as Cornelius. But I have to say I understand his reluctance to see the movie because halfway through I didn’t care which side won the war. It could be the apes; it could be the humans; I didn’t give a damn. I just wanted the thing to be over and the yawning to cease.
Calling on pending listings is kinda like going to see that movie your spouse wants to see and you do not. So I have done you a favor here, believe it or not, and now you do not have to see Dawn of the Planet of the Apes until it comes out on DVD and your kids are screaming for it. Then, you can go into another room, down a six-pack and pass out.
But before you do that, call me on a new listing that you can’t see until you make an offer. That’s because the home is occupied by the seller’s ex-wife, and she gets to stay there until December. However, the seller wants to sell that home now. It’s beautiful: marble floors, granite counters in the kitchen, a single-story around 2,000 square feet in Camden Estates. This Elk Grove home also features 3 to 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, a pool with a waterfall and, a spectacular feature many will drool over is that 4-car garage with boat parking.
You can buy this home for $369,000. Just call your Elk Grove agent, Elizabeth Weintraub, at 916.233.6759 at Lyon Real Estate. I’m always ready to talk as long as we don’t have to discuss Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
Breaking Bad Sacramento Short Sales
As AMC’s ground-breaking television drama Breaking Bad has done for science, short sales have done for certain Sacramento real estate agents. Given some of us sudden respect. Short sales have made other agents want to jump on the same bandwagon, but you know, the key to success in anything is thinking things through; yet, to accomplish that directive, one needs a solid basis, a foundation to process those thoughts, and therein lies the reason as to why some agents in the real estate business tend to struggle.
I recall when Breaking Bad first came on the air some 5 years ago. My husband, who is somewhat nerdy and OK with that trait, pointed out the numbers on the elements used in the beginning of the show were incorrect. Now, that is not something I would know. I barely recall the Periodic Table from school. Science was not my strong suit — my passion was English. Back then, we had attended an About.com conference held at the New York Times which, at the time, owned the company. I write the homebuying website for About.com in my spare time, apart from selling real estate in Sacramento. Writers from all over the country attended this particular conference, and we were excited to meet a science writer with whom we could discuss Breaking Bad and the mistake in the elements.
Except this person had not watched the show. He seemed a bit embarrassed to talk about it. Lots of people have never watched this show, until Netflix made previous episodes available. Last night was the final episode of Breaking Bad. Part II of Part 1 of the end. I stayed up past my bedtime to watch it, too. We usually record the show and watch it at a time that is more convenient for us, like before my bedtime. But sure enough, if we did that, somewhere along the line we would read about the finale. So, after much discussion, we concluded it was necessary to stay up and watch it.
In case you haven’t seen it, I’m not gonna spoil the ending for you. Except to say . . .
Hey, are you interested in another short sale near Elk Grove? I have a new listing coming on the market this morning. It’s a 4- to 5-bedroom, with 3 baths and a pool. List price is $279,000. The sellers are properly positioned for smooth short sale negotiation, and I anticipate a closing before the end of the year. Call your Sacramento real estate agent, Elizabeth Weintraub, at 916 233 6759.
