sacramento real estate
Looking for a Duplex in Sacramento at a Good Price?
I was pleasantly surprised when I pulled up to this duplex in Sacramento and waited for the sellers last Saturday. The roof looks to be in good condition, the siding is vinyl, and it seems very well maintained. This is an investment property that’s been owned by the sellers for many decades, held in a trust. The successor trustees are now selling the property.
Met with the lovely tenants on each side, and they have been living here for 3 years or more. Very cooperative, friendly and sweet people with small children. The place showed pretty well for having children. Everything was cleaned up and picked up, and the tenants are very agreeable to showings, unlike some tenants I don’t wanna talk about.
Each side consists of 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, and a large private back yard, plus an attached garage. The square footage is 1,000 square feet for each side (per the County Assessor), and this duplex in Sacramento was built in 1980. Each of the units has its own garage, and having the two garages meet in the middle lends a bit more privacy to each unit. The tenants are presently paying about $800 each, but going rates for similar duplexes range from $850 to $950, maybe more. The tenants pay electricity. Owner pays sewer, water and trash.
This duplex in Sacramento is exclusively offered by Elizabeth Weintraub at Lyon Real Estate at $265K. 2323 Matson Dr, Sacramento, CA 95822. Call 916.233.6759 for more information. Below are more photos:
Photos: Elizabeth Weintraub
Newer Home (2011) South of Florin at Hampton Station
Holy moley — will you take a look at this home in Hampton Station! It is not what you would expect to find where this is located. One moment you’re driving through lovely Parkway Estates and the next, whammo, you’re driving into a new home community consisting of around 175 homes.
The location is close to several parks, including Hampton Park, which is almost 5 acres with a playground. This home was built in 2011 by Woodside Homes, and it is called the Empire model.
You might be astonished to find all of the special touches throughout, the types of upgrades you’d normally find in homes that cost a lot more than $325,000, such as the beautiful hardwood floors throughout the first level, except for the bath and laundry.
Check out the kitchen, with black granite counters and a peninsula counter with a dining bar. The appliances are stainless, and the stove is gas. Plenty of storage too, plus a four-pane overhead light fixture that matches the chocolate cabinets. Around the corner is a formal dining area as well.
All four of the bedrooms are upstairs, including this master suite with extra windows to let in the light. It features a ceiling fan, too. The floor in the master bath is ceramic, and you’ll find dual sinks under a large rectangular mirror. Extra storage throughout.
This home features 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths and is 2,036 square feet, according to the county assessor. It is close to light rail, offering a 15-minute ride into downtown Sacramento. What are you waiting for?
7511 Georgica Way, Sacramento, CA 95822 is offered exclusively by Elizabeth Weintraub at Lyon Real Estate at $325,000. Open Sunday, 2/19/17 from 2:00 to 4:00 PM. Here is the virtual tour of Georgica Way. Call Elizabeth at 916.233.6759 for more information.
Photos Selling Sacramento Real Estate on Vacation in Oaxaca
The best news ever when it comes to selling Sacramento real estate while on vacation in Oaxaca is the fact my cellphone works in Mexico. Granted, I get charged 20 cents a minute, but I averaged about 5 calls a day during my 10-day whirlwind visit. What is that? Twenty-five bucks, maybe. The fact I can answer my phone, make phone calls and download documents is enormous. I was in 7th heaven!
While strolling through the Ocotlán de Morelos Market, I received an offer for one of my Sacramento listings. It was taking too long to download, so I forwarded the buyer’s agent info to my transaction coordinator, who then opened the file and texted the highlights. I could not wait to get back to our hotel to read the offer. Our hotel was built in 1576 as a convent of Santa Catalina de Siena. Stunning architecture. We strolled through the old church with its 40-feet high ceilings to get to our room on the second floor, which also featured an outdoor enclosed balcony with several fireplaces.
I kept my laptop and iPad on the desk and worked on my listings in the early morning hours, creating comparative market analysis (CMA’s) for my new clients. The WiFi at Quinta Real worked really well as compared to some of the WiFi services I was unfortunate enough to encounter while on my wor-cation in Hawaii last month.
We worked out an agreement with a counter offer and voila, into escrow we flew. My seller had moved already out of state, and was absolutely thrilled when I contacted her with the great news. No matter where I may be, I still personally take care of my clients. Although, after my vacation in Oaxaca, I don’t think I’ll take another vacation until September. Too much work to do in Sacramento real estate right now.
Below are a few photos from my vacation in Oaxaca, and of the Octolán de Morelos Market, which I hope you will enjoy:
Photos: Elizabeth Weintraub
Why the Missionary Position is Always the Best
Sacramento Realtors like me can make a strong argument for anything, including why the missionary position might be preferred by more doctors 5 to 1. I’m certain to offend somebody somewhere on the internet today, by talking about positioning. It’s incredible what people find to get riled up about. Some of them send me mean, snippy little emails, when I write a completely tongue-in-cheek blog. They don’t get it.
Like last week I wrote a blog about hearing aids and where the microphone is located on your cellphone. It was a light-hearted blog, mostly poking fun at myself and how I stuffed soda straws into my ear as a kid. Some old fart like me — I presume he was an old fart because I talked about how 80% of 80-year-olds can’t hear a thing — blasted me. He was pretty ticked off. He told me to stop using hearing aids to sell houses. But if I could actually use hearing aids to sell houses, you betcha I’d do it. Sorry, old fart.
The missionary position I’d like to discuss today has nothing to do with what you might be imagining. I consider myself a missionary of Sacramento real estate. It is my religion. I am pretty much consumed by it. Even while on vacation to see the butterflies in Mexico last week, I pondered how to get my sellers another two weeks in escrow because the construction of their new home was delayed. Constantly thinking, analyzing. I created a solution.
One thing I do all of the time is relentlessly study the comparable sales for my listings. I don’t always remember to share the results of the analysis with my sellers, my bad, but I got into a discussion about it recently. The seller wanted to reduce the price, and I cautioned against it. She was positioned beautifully.
I could see why she considered a price reduction. She was in a hurry to sell, and owned a somewhat unique home. Agent after agent sent buyer feedback that mentioned their buyers had made an offer on another property. That’s excellent news to me! You know why? Because it’s one less competing home in inventory. When every home within a mile goes pending, and you’ve got the only home left on the market, your home will sell.
Which is not difficult in our present Sacramento real estate market. Comps are one thing but you’d be a fool not to consider the missionary position. Look at the value, the price per square foot, and how many homes are selling for less. If there is none, you’re in like flint. Sure enough, my seller’s home popped into escrow at list price. Happens time and time again.
A Sacramento Realtor Never Loses That Personal Touch
Sometimes, if you want a job done right, you have to do it yourself, to lend that personal touch. That kind of reasoning can hold you back from obtaining monumental success, however. Because most of the truly successful people in the world who catapult themselves to the top of the money heap rely on somebody else to do the job for them.
They delegate. They choose wisely. They let go and learn how to accept, if necessary, mediocrity. Because nobody is ever gonna do the job the same way as you would. That’s just fact, Jack. Yet, there is no mediocrity in my world; I won’t allow it. My standards are high.
Remember way back when they used to say the most important person at any given company was the receptionist? In some ways it was even true. First point of contact. Impressions formed. But today most of those people have vanished. We have voice mail. Nobody answers their phone. And many executives don’t even have a secretary anymore to rely upon. It’s a miracle anything ever gets done correctly in our isolated, assembly-line and remote-controlled worlds.
Which is why my clients like the fact that some of the more important aspects of real estate still retain a personal touch by their Sacramento Realtor. Every client deserves my individual attention. Yeah, the problem with that kind of attitude is I will never close 1,000 homes a year in Sacramento. In fact, I may never close 300 homes a year. But when you figure most real estate agents close only 3 to 4 homes a year, my present production level tends to blow people away.
I expect to be good at my job. I strive for excellence. My personal touch is involved in every aspect of listing and selling a home. I don’t agree to accept mediocrity, and that’s what passing the buck means when it comes right down to it. Besides, some of us are Type A personalities and we can’t hand over the keys to our business to anybody else. We want to be the driver, sick little puppies that we are. We’re the kind of people who live to plan and carry through our plans.
If you can believe it, I often spend hours pouring over photographs for my listings. I inspect the 20 to 30 angle shots of the pool, hoping to capture the light just right. I considered the close-ups, adjusting the focus on objects in the distance, making sure fence lines are level both horizontally and vertically so it’s pleasing to the eye and not out of balance. I compensated for the shadows and brightened dark areas. I agonized over photos of the front of the home.
Nothing I hate more than having a concrete mess as the main focus of a home. Too many driveways dominate photographs online.
In the end, my goal is thrilled clients. When they’re happy, so am I. Because if your photographs don’t look good online, your home doesn’t look good online, and it’s not in my DNA to let that happen. When you hire Elizabeth Weintraub as your Sacramento Realtor, I personally oversee every aspect of your transaction. You get that personal touch, no matter what. Call 916.233.6759.