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Story of Closing at 4909 Laguna Woods Drive in Elk Grove
Last month I featured an updated pool home in Elk Grove for sale and yesterday this turnkey home on Laguna Woods Drive closed escrow at list price. Once everything comes together and the home enters MLS, activity happens fast. But it was a fairly slow beginning. For example, I started working on this listing the first week of January, in the middle of my 9-week winter vacation in Hawaii. Since then, I’ve been back to Hawaii twice. That’s how long I’ve been working on this sale.
When I came home to Sacramento in February, I met up with the seller to inspect the home. Without going into detail, let’s just say it wasn’t show-ready. I made a number of suggestions to the seller of things she could do, and she took me up on all of them. If you had seen the condition of the home when I first viewed it in comparison to how it presented cleaned up and staged, well, you would say it was the difference between night and day. Like the difference between extreme vog and no vog.
Remarkable improvement. We painted the cabinets a rich chocolate brown. Installed granite. Finished the engineered hardwood floors. In short, we transformed a 22-year-old home into a modern updated home that looked almost brand new. If you had seen the “before” condition of the home on Laguna Woods Drive and the “after,” you would not recognize it.
The seller expressed concerns about the pricing because she thought it was too high. Her home was not located in the subdivision of more expensive homes. She did not feel comfortable right away that she could get upwards of $600K for her home. The seller also fretted about a recent foreclosure affecting her value. But given the market conditions, I felt that she could. I’m right more often than not, and in this case, we were right on the money.
Everything went smoothly until we received the Request for Repair. For some reason, the buyer asked for 8 repairs, including replacing the windows, of all things. However, anybody who knows me knows what I think about Requests for Repair in a seller’s market. Especially over-the-top requests. The answer is no and no again. Of course, the decision is the sellers’ but they often follow my advice.
The buyer backed down from her requests and elected to close escrow. Now my seller can relocate to Alabama and get on with her life. Five months of work this took. But the end result is priceless and the seller was very happy. That’s all that matters to me.
4909 Laguna Woods Drive, Elk Grove, California 95758 closed escrow on May 30, 2018 at $595,000.
Stunning and Affordable Pool Home in Elk Grove
Every once in a blue moon this Sacramento real estate agent receives the opportunity to list and sell an incredibly gorgeous home that spins heads and stimulates lust of homebuyers everywhere. Because I’ve been in the business for four decades, I know it when I enter the home. It’s not just a feeling — although the feeling is part of it — it’s the instant realization when my eyes fall upon the interior that this home will drive buyers crazy. All my sensors go off.
Being in love is the reason homes sell as well as the reason many people get married. I hate to stop to think how many people would never ever get married if it weren’t for falling in love. It’s that temporary state of absolute insanity, when the vision of your loved one consumes every fiber of your body and thoughts of this loveliness floats around in your mind from the time you wake up in the morning and lurks in the background throughout daily activities, that makes life worth living for some. It’s madness. It’s nuts. And many of us would not trade this euphoria for the world.
My new listing, this spectacular pool home in Elk Grove will elicit such ecstasy, I can assure you. For starters, it’s a desirable single-story, semi-custom home built in 2006. It has a ton of upgrades and gorgeous features such as stone arches, walls of layered stone, travertine floors, large and spacious rooms, and fabulous energy in the open layout. Everywhere you look there are special touches.
The kitchen is enormous and features a breakfast nook, all of which overlooks the back-yard pool. A stone fireplace sets off the family room. You’ll find a separate formal dining room. There is more than 2,700 square feet, with 4 bedrooms and 3 baths. The master suite is located toward the back of the home and sports French doors that open to the pool.
Best of all, the piece de resistance is the resplendent back yard with its huge pool as the focal point. Off to the side of the pool on this generously sized 1/4 acre lot are a couple of patios; one patio is partially covered by a pergola. There is even a play area for children. Just imagine the summer fun that can linger way into the winter months because we are lucky enough to live in the Sacramento Valley!
This treasure is located at 9328 Feickert Dr, Elk Grove, CA 95624, offered by Lyon Real Estate and your Elk Grove agent, Elizabeth Weintraub, at 916.233.6759. Open Sunday, July 13, 2014 from 2:00 to 4:00 PM. $445,000.
Photos: Elizabeth Weintraub
