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Incredible Land Park Home for Sale
Every Land Park agent likes to think of her new listing in Land Park as a truly incredible Land Park home for sale, but this particular home features all of your hot buttons. Privacy, space, luxurious updates, tasteful colors, modern blends with Old World, it’s all here. Coupled with energy-saving devices such as a tankless water heater for endless hot water, you will find all newer flooring, light fixtures, interior and exterior doors, copper plumbing, updated electrical and dual pane windows. Life-time transferrable warranty on roof.
Stats include 2-3 bedrooms, two full baths, a family room with home office space, a separate sun room, constructed in 1948 and a little under 2,000 square feet on a .23 acre lot.
The home is located in Upper Land Park on a winding tree-canopied street with little through traffic. It is situated on a curve in the street, which makes the lot size enormous, almost 1/4 acre. Two maple trees adorn the front yard, including blooming azaleas, a white camellia and 18-year fuchsias.
Look at this beautifully designed kitchen. The number one-rated dishwasher in America, KitchenAid. An imported 14-gauge German sink, extra deep, sports a pull-out pre-rinse faucet; above, hand-painted Italian pendants provide extra light. Recessed lighting. Distressed cabinets with pewter hardware. Zepher range hood and exhaust, GE Profile gas and convection range and oven. Quartz counters. Ribbed glass in a few upper cabinets. Pull-out spice drawer. Pull-out recycling and trash. Newer GE refrigerator with ice dispenser. There are two pantry cabinets, including a breakfast nook that seats 5 comfortably.
Most of this Land Park home for sale features oak hardwood floors, which have been refinished. A recessed ceiling in the dining room offers the perfect spot for a Hubbardton Forge chandelier. The rounded glass block wall to the right and its corresponding glass block wall radiate light. It creates a private space yet remains part of an open floor plan.
Enormous living room provides a beautiful view of the greenery seemingly in abundance on this block-long street. Look at the gorgeous plaster ceiling. They don’t build houses like this anymore, not from redwood, which lasts practically forever, nor plaster. What you don’t see here are the rounded walls and intricate ceiling entry.
The only remaining items prior to the guest bathroom remodel are the glass block knee-wall and the 1948 tub with matching toilet. The walls and floor are Carrera marble. All of the light fixtures in the house are LED. But when you walk into this bathroom, the lights automatically come on. Auto exhaust fan. Extra storage, too.
Painted cedar walls, with a diagonal design on the ceiling, makes the space in the step-down family room appear much larger. Floor-to-ceiling windows do not need coverings for privacy. At the end of the room is a brick wood-burning fireplace that opens on the exterior into a BBQ. Not pictured is also a home office area with two more windows.
If you’re always desired a spacious master bedroom suite, this is your chance. Two big walk-in closets with pull-out drawers under. Four big windows. That gorgeous oak floor, and a modern ceiling fan to keep things cool at night. Sellers believe it is very quiet at night.
Sellers spared no expense with this master bath design in such a compact space. Walk-in shower with block glass wall (no shower door), copper-tone glass vessel sink, quartz counter and Thomasville cabinets, complement the all stone-pebble floor. Including an incredibly quiet, one-flush Toto toilet. Tile is Italian porcelain cut on the diagonal and features 3 different sizes in a complicated pattern.
Bonus room is presently used a sunroom / laundry with two pantry closets (not pictured) and built-in cabinets shown here, including a door to the back porch and raised deck. It could be a third bedroom. Entrance to the attic is from the pantry closet with built-in shelving.
Best of all is the enormous yard, almost 1/4 of an acre. Sellers replaced the lawn and sprinklers. You will also find a small green-house with gardening supplies, and a handful of cedar raised-garden beds with their own drip system. Plumbing for a Jacuzzi has been preserved. Separate two-car garage with its own sub-panel, garage door opener, and plenty of storage, too.
This incredible Land Park home for sale is offered exclusively by JaCi Wallace and the Weintraub & Wallace Team at RE/MAX for $695,000. Furnishing are negotiable, but washer, dryer, refrigerator will stay. Newer patio furniture can remain, too.
620 Dudley Way, Sacramento, CA 95818. For a private tour, please call JaCi Wallace at 916.216.5224.
Freshly Painted Deck at Our House in Land Park
A newly painted deck at our house in Land Park.
Now that we’re not likely to see any more rain in Sacramento until Trick-or-Treating time, it seemed a good idea to paint the deck at our house in Land Park. Not that I would do it myself, mind you. Although, I thoroughly enjoy painting and doing home improvement projects. It’s such a sense of personal satisfaction. Just do not have the time available to allocate to such projects these days. My time is better spent listing and selling homes in Sacramento.
The thing I find interesante is by viewing that history in my rear-view mirror, I understand the processes behind most improvement projects, which can make me highly critical of anybody else’s work. It is why I don’t put a lot of faith in reviews by average homeowners that are submitted to Angie’s List. What do they know if they’ve never done it and don’t know what’s involved? How can they tell if the job was completed correctly? They can’t. Probably not when it comes to painting, either. I doubt their noses are stuck at the seams checking for messy brush strokes or they are running their hands over the walls to check for sanding between coats, like some people obsessed with quality I know. Not saying who.
The guy who painted the deck at our house in Land Park did a marvelous job, I’m thrilled to report. He was referred to me by another fellow Land Park agent in my office at Lyon. This fellow takes pride in his work, and it shows. First, he spent half a day prepping. About 80 percent of any job is the preparation. If you do that part right, your chances of an excellent result skyrocket. He scraped the high spots off. Ran beads of caulk over cracks in the cement to seal them. Scrubbed the old deck within an inch of its life.
You can see the before photo below of when the deck was blue. Who picked that color blue? I’m not saying who that idiot was. The new color is a rusty brick red. I pulled a thread from the umbrella for my handyman to use for comparison purposes. He said he asked two people at Home Depot whether the paint matched, and both of those people, he made a point of mentioning, were women. As though women can spot color variations better than men, I guess. Or, maybe because then he could blame my gender and be closer to getting off the hook if I didn’t like the color.
Really perks up the yard at our house in Land Park. Lends a warm glow to our interior rooms at the back of the house, too. If it wasn’t so danged hot, I’d probably sit out there.
Former blue deck at our house in Land Park.
Newly painted rusty brick red deck at our house in Land Park.
Selecting a Land Park Agent as a Dual Agent
When a Sacramento home buyer says she wants only to talk to the listing agent, that is generally not good news. I often ask: Why? Is the house on fire? Because I’m telling you, if the house is not on fire, telling the listing agent that one wants to deal only with her is absolutely insulting. It’s insulting, it’s irritating and it’s idiotic. There, you have three I-words to describe that kind of thinking. It’s implying that the listing agent is unethical at best and establishes an adversarial relationship at worst.
True story — some years ago, my neighbor decided to buy a home in Land Park. Because I am a Land Park agent who lives in Land Park, she asked me to show her homes in Land Park. We worked together for several months. She said her reason for selecting me was due to the fact that Lyon Real Estate is the market leader in Land Park. She figured our buyers hear about new listings first, they get an edge, and they do. Then, all of a sudden, her enthusiasm vanished. She said she no longer wanted to buy a new home. I guess she figured I would never find out what she did, but there are no secrets in real estate. Certainly not in Land Park real estate.
Despite the fact that she had signed a buyer’s broker agreement with me, she went directly to the listing agent at a competing brokerage and bought a home. When I asked her why, she became very sheepish and apologetic. She said she asked that Land Park agent to represent her because she believed if she did not, she would not have been the lucky buyer to buy the home. There were multiple offers at that time. She truly felt that she had to make sure the listing agent would be paid both the listing commission and the selling commission in order for her to have a shot at home ownership. In other words, she wanted an agent who would throw her grandmother under the bus. She evidently found one of those.
There are Land Park agents in Sacramento and elsewhere who will give priority to their own buyers with their own listings, I’m sorry to say. That kind of practice is unethical, but they do it anyway. Who’s to prove it? That’s the nasty underbelly side of real estate. Everybody suspects it exists but nobody talks about it.
The implication when home buyers want to buy only from a listing agent is that the listing agent will do whatever it takes to put the deal together. It’s saying we agents are motivated solely by greed. It’s saying maybe we will push the seller and persuade the seller to take a buyer’s lowball offer because we’ll get paid more money for a lowball offer than we would to suggest the seller take a higher offer from a buyer represented by a different agent. I know very few agents like that. But buyers seem to think these kinds of agents are a dime a dozen. A few bad apples give all of us a bad name.
This particular buyer called me again many years later. She noted that I am a prominent listing agent now, having worked my way up the ranks. I am a top producer. I list more than a 100 homes a year. She asked me to work with her. She is still working with a Land Park agent but asked for first shot at my listings, too. Now, she wants to buy investments.
I don’t throw my sellers under the bus. I don’t play favorites. I don’t give priority to anybody but to the seller whom I directly represent. That investor is barking up the wrong tree. If I personally represent a home buyer, my agency and duty is to that buyer. If I personally represent a home seller, my agency and duty is to that seller. I don’t want to mix the two through direct dual representation. It makes people uncomfortable, and it makes me uncomfortable. That’s not to say if a Team Member represents a buyer it won’t show up as dual agency at closing, but I prefer a little more arm’s length.
I never want to feel conflicted about fiduciary. Without saying, ethics is important. That’s one of the secrets to my longevity in real estate and why I’ve lasted more than 35 years in this business.
