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The Tale of Multiple Offers for a Home in Rancho Cordova
My goal is for ecstatic clients after selling a home in Rancho Cordova.
When I first inspected the home in Rancho Cordova that I was about to list, I instinctively knew I could make this the type of home that would fall into multiple-offer territory. That’s what 40-plus years in the real estate business and thousands of transactions gives you. You can explain this to sellers, but they don’t always believe you because how could this Sacramento Realtor standing in their living room be able to accurately predict how fast the home will sell and to what kind of buyer? Experience matters.
To attract multiple offers, I tend to shun bluntness because some buyers won’t make an offer if they know it will be a battle, and we generally want every interested buyer to make an offer. I don’t often advertise the fact in MLS, as general practice. Yet, I do network with agents. One of my very favorite real estate agents called when this home hit the market. She was working with a buyer and hoped to submit an offer; reiterated over and over how this home in Rancho Cordova was perfect for her buyer.
Well, it didn’t happen. My friend didn’t show the home in Rancho Cordova. During the dozen or so offers we received, my friend called to say her buyer had jumped ship. Simply abandoned her out of the blue. The buyer instead selected an agent from the Bay Area. Since the buyer was no longer working with my friend, my friend told me all about the buyer, her hopes, dreams, desires, and I now possessed an extremely accurate profile of this particular buyer. Information I could use during multiple offers.
It’s a small world in Sacramento real estate.
I advised my seller to counter only two offers. The rest were not even close to the sales price this home sold for, which was 10% over list price. How can you work in real estate in Sacramento and not know this is a seller’s market? This market reminds me of fishing for mackerel in Maine. You dangle your dropper lines with a bunch of mackerel flies over the edge of the boat, like this home in Rancho Cordova, and a half dozen mackerel will jump on the hooks. We pushed that buyer to increase her offer, to bridge an appraisal, to buy the home in its AS IS condition and to make the offer contingent on finding a replacement home.
It was open season. My fiduciary is to the seller.
As a result, the sellers bought a new home and closed concurrently with the sale of their home in Rancho Cordova. The buyer even gave these sweet people a few days to move. I had helped my sellers to make a few minor repairs and to employ my home staging tips prior to going on the market. They were amazed with the fabulous results. Even though there were outstanding repairs, our strategy came from a position of strength and experience. Because experience matters in your listing agent.
If you’d like to sell a home in Rancho Cordova or anywhere in Sacramento Valley, call Elizabeth Weintraub at 916.233.6759. You can also search for Rancho Cordova homes.
NEW LISTING: Remodeled Home for Sale in Rancho Cordova
10100 Majo Court, Rancho Cordova, CA, is for sale at $235,000.
Below are 5 good reasons to come see this remodeled home for sale in Rancho Cordova this weekend. If you’re in the market to buy a mid-Century home in a nicely established neighborhood in Rancho Cordova, one look is all it will take before you’ll be whipping out your checkbook to give us a deposit check. It is a rare occasion to discover a remodeled home for sale in Rancho Cordova at such an great price.
Five Great Reasons to View a Remodeled Home for Sale in Rancho Cordova
- Open floor plan with hardwood flooring
- Remodeled kitchen with granite counters and updated travertine / ceramic baths
- Affordable price, yes, you can afford this 3 bedroom, 2 bath
- Giant yard — my gosh, it is more than 1/3 of an acre!
- Cul-de-sac location away from freeway
Open floor plan at 10100 Majo Court, Rancho Cordova, CA
Back yard at 10100 Majo Court, Rancho Cordova, CA
Call your agent or call the Elizabeth Weintraub Team for a private appointment to see this remodeled home for sale in Rancho Cordova. Showings begin today, Friday, May 20, 2016.
Open house on Sunday, May 22, from 2:00 to 4:00 PM!
10100 Majo Court, Rancho Cordova, is offered exclusively by Elizabeth Weintraub at Lyon Real Estate at $235K. Call 916.233.6759 for more information.
New Listing: 5 Bedroom Home in Anatolia Rancho Cordova
11838 Sandy Knoll Ct, Rancho Cordova, $469K.
If your heart desires a super big, oversized and lush back-yard to go with those 5 bedrooms and 4 baths you’ve been yearning for, here is your new home in the Anatolia Village of Rancho Cordova. This home is located within a few blocks from the delightful Anatolia HOA clubhouse, which is a vacation paradise in itself. Apart from the 3 pools, one of which is adult only, you’ll find a couple of spas, a BBQ, tennis and basketball courts and, did I mention, the Anatolia HOA offers a free childcare program?
11838 Sandy Knoll Court, features open floor plan
Nestled on a culdesac in Anatolia Rancho Cordova, surrounded by neighbors who all seem to know and like each other, the seller says what they will miss most are the neighbors. I suspect the sellers will greatly miss the gorgeous back-yard to which they paid painstaking attention to detail to such matters as installing gutters with downspouts along the covered patio, putting in exterior ceiling fans, additional lighting and pouring the stamped concrete patio. The covered patio is so big it could provide space for a 10-piece band with room left over for a dance floor.
Kitchen island, granite counters and stainless appliances, 11838 Sandy Knoll Ct.
The front entrance boasts a drought friendly garden of flowers, vegetation, stepping stones and a couple of benches. It lends a lot of curb appeal, and complements the majestic stone and stucco exterior. If you have a boat, as long as the top doesn’t stick over the fence, the double gates swing open to a concrete pad on the left side of the home that you can utilize as RV storage. Or, you can use the extra space in the attached 3-car garage, which also has ceiling fans and additional receptacles.
The interior of the home is open and spacious, featuring soaring ceilings, and the seller upgraded the custom paint for durability. Of course, you’ll find granite counters in the kitchen, an island, stainless appliances, and a breakfast nook. Through the swinging door is a formal dining room, which the seller uses instead to house the pool table. The family room has a ceiling fan, upgraded carpeting and pad, plus a fireplace, in addition to a formal living room that presently houses a piano with enough space left for furniture.
West side of yard at 11838 Sandy Knoll Ct, Rancho Cordova
Walk upstairs, and you can overlook much of the first floor, providing you aren’t focused on heading to the bonus room, where the workout gym and equipment can stay with the home, if you so desire, but the dumbbells go. There is also a built-in home office on the second floor, next to additional storage cabinets.
There are 2 bedrooms, including a junior master suite, on the first floor. The other 3 bedrooms, including a large master with a sitting area, are upstairs. The baths total 4: full and a half on the first floor and 2 upstairs; and the square footage, according to the Sacramento County Assessor, exceeds 3,600 square feet.
11838 Sandy Knoll Ct, Rancho Cordova, California, is offered exclusively by Lyon Real Estate and Elizabeth Weintraub, 916.233.6759, at $469K. Open Sunday, May 3rd, from 2:00 to 4:00 PM, hosted by Barbara Dow from the Elizabeth Weintraub Team.
Photos: Elizabeth Weintraub
