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Updated Elk Grove Ranch Home on Private Court Just Listed
9034 El Measa Ct, Elk Grove, CA 95624 just listed by Elizabeth Weintraub, Lyon RE.
This Elk Grove ranch home is a darling home, painted a cheery yellow, and it features a red tile roof. How pretty! There is a fenced private courtyard to keep children and pets from running into the street. Although the street is a private cul-de-sac with very little cars except for 11 neighbors coming home from work. It’s located in Emerald Park subdivision, just southeast from the Elk Grove-Florin and Elk Grove Blvd. intersection. Not that far from the freeway, either, but far enough away you don’t hear the noise. It’s close to a lot of shopping and restaurants.
The sellers have been busy updating this home for the past 7 years. That’s how long ago I had this listed. But that was back during the downturn of the market, and the market has turned around, and there is plenty of equity in this home now. These sellers hung in there and kept making tasteful improvements. For example, the kitchen floor is oversized ceramic, there is a new backsplash, granite counters and newer fixtures. New baseboards have been installed, and all the floors are wood laminate except for the baths. No carpet in sight.
You’ll get a family room with a beautiful fireplace, and a formal dining area. Plus, there is space in the kitchen for a table. The home has 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, and both of the baths are remodeled with planked ceramic tile. There is a covered patio in the back yard in addition to a newly constructed raised deck, plus a cute garden shed. If you need RV, look no further, as the side yard accommodates an oversized motor home or a boat.
The lot is huge for Elk Grove, .1928 acres, according to the County Assessor. The square footage, also noted in the tax rolls, is shown as 1,752. It’s a very spacious and roomy home, perfect for a first-time home buyer or family.
Check out 9034 El Measa Court, Elk Grove, CA 95624, which is offered exclusively by Elizabeth Weintraub at Lyon Real Estate at $395,000. Call Elizabeth at 916.233.6759 for more information. See the virtual tour.
The Downside to Buying Homes Near Dairy Farms in Elk Grove
Dairy farms in Elk Grove are scattered in the countryside.
Dairy farms have convinced me. Much as I appreciate the countryside, I am an urban girl at heart. It’s not often that I get out to the country. Living in Sacramento, the country is actually very close at hand. There are lots of places you can drive to from downtown Sacramento and be in the country in 20 to 30 minutes. Which is where we went yesterday afternoon to bring our adopted cat Horatio back to the Sisters Animal Sanctuary on Fogg Road. We drove past a bunch of dairy farms. I’ve never seen so many cows that close up. I asked my husband to stop the car so I could shoot a photo, which you see above.
Holy cow, pardon the pun, but it was a bad thing to do. To lower the car windows. I almost said “rolled down” before I realized nobody rolls down their windows anymore, which certainly shows my age. Lowering the windows instantly filled the interior of our car with the odor of a dairy farm and cow manure. I could still smell it when we raised the windows. We had to turn on the air conditioning and lower all the windows to get that smell out of the car. That’s how I know I am an urban girl. Like Eva Gabor in Green Acres.
Well, I should have known when I was in first grade, now that I stop to think about this. Yes, my first-grade class went on a field trip to a dairy farm. All of us kids got off the bus. As soon as my feet hit the ground and I got whiff of the farm, I vomited all over my beautiful new saddle shoes. I’m not really a vomiting kind of person. It takes a lot for me to vomit. Like after drinking tainted water in the middle of a jungle in Ecuador. Been there and done that.
The bus driver put me back on the bus. I didn’t get to visit the dairy farm. I had to sit in my bus seat and wait for everybody else to come back. Seemed like eons. I sang to myself, Old MacDonald Had a Farm, which a few years later I thought was the same guy who opened a McDonald’s in Dinkytown, Minneapolis. It made sense. Cows. Hamburger. One of the teachers brought me a small plastic cow as a souvenir, but dairy farms remain a mystery to me to this day.
Horatio sits in the window at night.
Sometimes, buyers who purchase homes near the countryside, especially in Elk Grove or Anatolia, complain about the smell. Or, they don’t like listening to pigs squealing or donkeys braying. I say before you buy a home in Elk Grove, it makes sense to drive around the neighborhood and look at the location of your new home in Google maps. Zoom out to see the landscaping around it.
Horatio is at the no-kill shelter again looking for a new family, hopefully a person or persons who don’t have another cat. I bet he can smell the dairy farms from his outdoor enclosure. It will take a few months, I imagine, for our original two cats to de-stress from this 6-month situation. There wasn’t any other choice, and I feel guilty that it took me so long to determine we had a problem. I wanted this to work so bad. Wanting it doesn’t make it so. Sometimes doing what is best is painful. This is best for our Ragdoll Jackson and Ocicat Tessa. I have to keep reassuring myself of this so I don’t cry.
Happy solar eclipse day. Don’t stare at the sun.
New Listing Mirabela at Medeira in Elk Grove Features 5 Bedrooms
8109 Suarez Way is located in Mirabela at Medeira in Elk Grove
My whole team is excited to present this new listing in the Mirabela at Medeira subdivision built by Taylor Morrison in Elk Grove. It’s south of Elk Grove Blvd and West of Big Horn, close to several parks: Horseshoe Park and Constellation Park. This home is simply incredible. It’s the type of home that you wish the seller would leave all of her furniture, wall hangings and accessories, because it’s decorated so beautifully. The decor is modern, yet inviting with clean lines, soothing colors and all of the furnishings are so well coordinated.
If you’re looking for space and lots of bedrooms, this corner lot home is probably perfect for you. Plus, you get a special treat with this home. How does free electricity sound to you? There is no glitch or gimmick. The thing is the seller recently paid around $30,000 to install a microinverter solar panel system, and her loss is the buyer’s gain. The seller says during the summer, she runs the multiunit AC on the second floor at night, and pays no electric bill whatsoever. If she has company staying on the first floor, then her electric bill is around $20 a month (not verified by the agent).
Stunning flooring throughout the first level and stairs
And, OMG, the floors in this home at Mirabela at Medeira. Wait until you see the floors. Absolutely gorgeous, and they continue up the stairs. There is that sought-after first-floor bedroom and a full bath. Also a den at the front of the home, and a formal dining room area, and the open floor plan includes the spacious kitchen and adjoining family room. All together, the home features 5 bedrooms and 3 full baths, plus the den. It’s almost 2,500 square feet, per the Sacramento County Assessor. For some reason, the Assessor’s office assigned the wrong house number and street to this APN, but I caught the discrepancy, informed the seller how to change it, and it’s all corrected now.
Kitchen with Beech cabinetry at 8109 Suarez Way
Soft grays mostly throughout, with a bit of color in the master and a 5th bedroom. The kitchen has granite counters, an island, dark beech cabinetry, and plenty of storage. The appliances are stainless and newer, including a gas range, dishwasher and microwave. Upgraded and oversized ceramic on the kitchen floor, make a nice transition to the family room. All of the upgrades and improvements made by the seller lend an air of graciousness to this home in Mirabela at Medeira.
Professionally landscaped yard at 8109 Suarez Way, Elk Grove.
You’ll also find an assortment of fruit trees in the back yard: tangerine, pomegranate, peach and orange trees. There is a pergola over a sandy beach. Stone knee walls separate the stamped concrete patio from the lawn. Plus, you can’t see it in this photo, but the side yard features an enclosed dog run and kennel.
We would love to see you at our open house on Sunday, July 23rd, from 2:00 to 4:00 PM. 8109 Suarez Way, Elk Grove, CA 95757, is offered exclusively by your Elk Grove Realtor, Elizabeth Weintraub and Lyon Real Estate, at $499,000. Check out the virtual tour.
Newer Elk Grove Home in Franklin Crossing For Sale
10544 Buckland Way, Elk Grove, CA 95757 is a newer home in Franklin Crossing
Although, the Bilby / Willard Parkway area in Elk Grove is one of the hottest neighborhoods in 95757, I’d like to introduce you to something even newer, a home in Franklin Crossing for sale. Unlike the other homes nearby that were built during the boom years of 2003 to 2005, this home in Franklin Crossing was built in 2014. That makes it three years new.
When you think about major components having a life span of 15 to 20 years, it means buying a home that was built in 2003 could need repairs shortly, but that’s unlikely with a 3-year-new home. You’ve got a long ways to go before you’ll have to think about replacing the HVAC or buying a new range.
Great room concept includes the kitchen at home in Franklin Crossing
This home in Franklin Crossing for sale makes excellent use of space. The Sacramento County Assessor’s office shows the unverified square footage at 1,657. If you look beyond the refrigerator in the kitchen, you’ll see another space. You can use that area for a breakfast nook, a home office or a children’s play area, whatever your imagination desires. And look at the gloss on that white tile and the brilliant white grout without a spot on it. Rich chocolate cabinets finish the look.
You will find 3 bedrooms and two full baths. The master bedroom is oversized and very spacious. There are organizers in the closets, too. All of the bedrooms enjoy a cherrywood ceiling fan with a light fixture. So many newer homes have no light fixtures in the bedrooms but this is not the case with this particular home in Franklin Crossing for sale. Look at that luxurious plush carpeting.
Master suite bath features glass backsplash and tiled flooring.
Check out the multi-colored pieces of glass that make up the backsplash in this stunning master suite bath. Of course, you get dual sinks in the vanity with extra storage, but look at the irregular-shaped ceramic flooring. There is a walk-in shower, too, and a window, plus his-and-hers medicine cabinets.
The back yard features a covered patio and a lush lawn. The perimeter contains black bark, ready for your gardening talents.
Come to our open house on Sunday, June 25th, from 2:00 to 4:00 PM, and give yourself a chance to fall in love with this home in Franklin Crossing for sale. 10544 Buckland Way, Elk Grove, CA 95757, is offered exclusively by Elizabeth Weintraub and Lyon Real Estate at $380K. Call Elizabeth for more information at 916.233.6759.
Selling a Home in Elk Grove Over Appraised Value
9916 Montedoro Ct, Elk Grove, CA 95757
In the middle of selling a home in Elk Grove, an agent called me to say her buyer had gone rogue by engaging in a lengthy conversation with the seller. We had 3 offers already for this home in Elk Grove, and this buyer knew it. He told the seller that he would use the extra concrete pad toward the side of the house to park his boat that he planned to buy. Oh, and he offered $31,000 over list price. This buyer is not buying a boat, I told the seller. He is giving that boat money to you.
There will be no boat in the immediate future for this particular buyer, I warned, he just doesn’t realize that little fact yet.
When the seller first called me to list his home, I had gathered all of the comparable sales and spent a good period of time covering those sales, discussing them with the seller. I adjusted up for the larger lot, for his culdesac location; otherwise, the home would have been worth under $400K. But I felt we could get $425K for the home. The best way to get that price was to underprice it ever so slightly. We agreed upon a sales price of $419,000. It seemed so much “softer.” I warned the seller that given the way appraisals have been going, it might not appraise at $425,000. We don’t have a lot of control over appraisals.
But I wanted to get the seller top dollar, and the seller wanted every dime as well. Selling a home in Elk Grove is an art. Each is unique. With this home, there were no spectacular upgrades. Oh, a few new pendants but no granite counters nor stainless appliances. In fact, the appliances were white, which buyers dislike, and the cabinets were cherry (also a no-no) and the counters were tiled (argh). Fortunately, the other features overshadowed the drawbacks in the kitchen, and I played them all to the hilt.
We countered the buyers extraordinary offer, which we both felt would never appraise, by asking the buyer to release his appraisal contingency. The buyer’s agent put her broker on the phone to me. He said they were releasing the appraisal contingency, but the buyer would not pay more than $15,000 over appraised value. I tried to explain to the broker that although he was using words, those words did not make any sense. He was saying they would release the appraisal contingency unless they didn’t and by the way, they are not. Wha?
I explained to the seller that if we accepted that kind of verbiage, the home could appraise for $400,000 and he would be forced to sell it for $415,000. We changed the verbiage. Now it read the buyer would pay $15,000 over an appraisal up to $450K. This meant if it appraised for less than $435,000, the seller would not be obligated to sell to the buyer.
Wouldn’t you know it? Three appraisals later, we finally got an appraised value of $435,500. The buyer paid $14,500 over that amount and this sale closed at $450,000. I know the seller’s neighbors will be staring at this sale and asking how we managed the process of selling a home in Elk Grove at that price. You hire a top Elk Grove Realtor, that’s how. This home closed escrow yesterday. Eureka! The seller was amazed at how quickly everything happened.
And btw, I should point out: Would a discount agent do that for a seller? Hardly. They’re not paid enough to care. You want a top Elk Grove Realtor? Then call Elizabeth Weintraub at 916.233.6759.
