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Submitting Home Buying Offers in Sacramento 2020
Submitting home buying offers in Sacramento 2020 should be well-thought out with a strategic plan. The market is very competitive as inventory is down by a third in many areas. What does this mean for homebuyers? Perseverance is the answer. Understand your priorities. Be willing to compromise and invest in sweat equity. When buyers cling to very stringent criteria, it is a challenging journey. To have “it all,” you will pay dearly and may have to build a custom home, which is not inexpensive. However, when you buy a resale home, you are not paying top dollar for upgrades.
My niece has a 20% down payment, is preapproved and wrote a brilliant letter about her family. We are in back up offer status on 2 offers. A back up is a second-place offer; if the current offer falls out for any reason, we are ready, willing and able to buy this house.
Even with a 20% large down payment and offering $10,000 over the list price, our offers were still not chosen. The seller’s response will generally tell you why you were rejected. Submitting home buying offers in Sacramento 2020 is taking assertive measures to win. Best advice, listen to a competent Realtor.
To submit clean Sacramento offers on your behalf, which will give you the best ability to win, call Weintraub & Wallace with RE/MAX Gold today! We can be reached at 916-233-6759.
–JaCi Wallace
Dangers of Home Buying Sight Unseen
A seller just had his escrow cancel due to dangers of home buying sight unseen. All because the buyer’s agent had not disclosed to the seller the fact that both of the decision makers had not viewed the home prior to submitting the offer. Which tends to happen when there are unscrupulous or ignorant agents (hard to say which description applies) who believe it is OK to deceive the seller and the listing agent.
Deceiving a seller is unethical and could be considered against the law due to possible breach of contract elements.
Of course, I asked her directly after receipt of the escrow cancellation form why the buyers cancelled as she had provided no reason to accompany the cancellation. She said she had “shown the home only to the husband. The wife had never seen the home until the home inspection.” The wife thought the master bedroom was too small, which was the reason they cancelled, the buyer’s agent explained.
Now, we all know that buying a home is one of our largest assets as well as it can be an emotional purchase. We often equate our home with family, tradition, comfort, safety and security, just to name a few. To show the property to only one of the buyers instead of both was a huge disservice to the seller as well as to the buyers. Buyers paid for a home inspection, which cost $400.00 plus for a home of this size. Not to mention, the buyers were from the Bay Area and had to drive that distance back and forth for nothing. They also put a $5,000 deposit check into escrow.
The problem is the seller had taken the property off the market when we put it pending in MLS. The first week is the high cycle to sell a home while the listing is fresh. Buyers in the home shopping market are hunting for a home and looking specifically for new listings. Now, the seller’s home has to go back on the market and resell all over. Such a huge disappointment and disadvantage for the seller, and very unfair to both sides of this cancelled escrow. Buyers should choose a buyer’s agent very carefully, someone who can explain the dangers of home buying sight unseen.
If you want to save time, and avoid both disappointments and unnecessary costs in your home buying process, call Weintraub & Wallace Realtors at RE/MAX Gold at 916-233-6759. We will make sure you see the home before you buy it. The good news is it is only a 90-minute drive from San Francisco to buy Sacramento real estate .
— JaCi Wallace
The Hobbit and Sacramento Real Estate
One of the requirements to be a writer — what they call an “expert”– at About.com, is to be passionate about your topic. You have to be able to write, of course, and have something to say, naturally, but that passion (expressed through dedication, intense commitment) is completely necessary. Passion is also the necessary ingredient to being immensely happy and content in your job. If you find yourself consumed, driven, and almost half nuts about a particular topic, that might qualify you to write for About.com.
My topic is home buying and home selling. I can’t help it, I love real estate. I love everything about real estate. The people, the homes, the financing, the excitement, the challenges, the battles, the history, the future. It’s given me independence and extreme satisfaction in my chosen career. I started in real estate when I was in my 22, and I’ve been happily married to it in some form or fashion ever since. This year, I will sell over $30 million as a Sacramento real estate agent.
Real estate has become my Hobbit, the foundation for some of the other stories in my life. We saw the movie The Hobbit yesterday, and my husband shot a photo of me with Gandalf. The Hobbit is being shown in theaters all over Sacramento, but if you want to see it in 3D and high-speed (48 frames per sec), you need to see it at Century Stadium. It’s been more than 45 years since the nuns at The Home of the Good Shepherd in St. Paul first read that book to me, but I do not recall much of that movie in the book. Oh, how us poor souls who read expect screenplays to faithfully follow the book, and film entertainment often crushes those silly expectations.
Here are a few highlights without spoilers: I had to laugh when Thorin knocked on the door. It was why, hello, yes, here I am, the hunk of the movie. And he swaggered into Bilbo Baggin’s home. I thought Cate Blanchard was going to throw Gandalf to the ground with her mind and molest him right then and there. I kept waiting for it, but it didn’t happen. There were many battles. One after the other. We were in the theater for days. Some people went to sleep and snored. Oh, wait, that was on the screen. And then, at the end, there was no end. Because we have 2 more movies. And there you have it. The complete description of The Hobbit.
Don’t get me wrong, I was entertained. But last night while I was thinking about The Hobbit, I suddenly realized I have two more reasons to buy a home to add to my article of 8 reasons to buy a home. I finally have 10 reasons. I had tried to come up with 10 reasons when I originally wrote the piece in 2006, but 8 was all that popped into my brain, so that’s what I ran with. But now I have 10. And it’s because of The Hobbit that I thought of them.
Reason #9 is Security. Because nobody can kick you out of your home, as long as you make your payments. Your landlady can’t come along one day and tell you she’s decided to rent to her son. Or remodel. Or sell the home. Because it’s your home.
Reason #10 is Stability. With today’s widely used amortized loans, your mortgage payments, the principal and interest, stay the same over the term of your loan. They don’t go up when interest rates go up, and they don’t fluctuate. The state of the economy has no affect on your mortgage payments. Nobody will raise your rent.
