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A Beautiful Craftsman Home in Midtown Sacramento for Sale
A Craftsman Bungalow in Midtown Sacramento at 2601 U Street
What a beautiful home in Midtown for sale, close to all of the action, yet far enough away from commercial activity to avoid all those annoying people who often park in front of your house. The added benefit with this gorgeous 1908 Craftsman is the fact you get a 2-car garage! Yeah, seriously, and you can enter from the side on 26th Street where the garage is located, then go through your private fenced yard and into the house, which faces U Street.
There is an overhang over the back steps to keep you dry when it rains in the winter. If you live in an apartment in Midtown now, aren’t you tired of hauling in groceries over long distances? Here, you go from the garage to the back steps, through the laundry room and into the kitchen. Yes, there is a washer and dryer already hooked up in a separate laundry room, which means no more trips to the laundromat. Another benefit is a secure spot to park your car at night.
This beautiful home in Midtown is waiting for you, perfect for entertaining all of your friends who can’t afford a Craftsman bungalow and will be impressed by your accomplishment. The dining room is gigantic, it’s almost the biggest room in the house, featuring cherry walls and refinished hardwood floors, plus a built-in China cabinet with leaded glass, drawers, a mirror, and a pretty chandelier.
2601 U St, Sacramento, CA 95818
Through the French doors you enter the living room, which you could use as an office or any other kind of room because everybody else will hang out in the kitchen.
Yes, the kitchen, it features a corner built-in cabinet, a breakfast nook, granite counters, hardwood floors, a gas range, a dishwasher and a microwave. The only appliance you need to add is a refrigerator. You could even get a roommate because the bedrooms are separated by the bath, one in front of the home and the other bedroom toward the back.
2601 U St, Sacramento, CA 95818
The corner lot location results in fewer neighbors in close proximity, and the home has a spacious front porch that is perfect for lounging and watching everybody pushing their babies in strollers. Ask your agent to show you this home in Midtown or call the Elizabeth Weintraub Team for an appointment at 916.761.7398.
2601 U Street, Sacramento, CA 95818, is offered exclusively by Elizabeth Weintraub of Lyon Real Estate at $349,000 as a short sale.
How to Change Your Email Frequency in Outlook
There are many benefits to Sacramento Realtors to change your email frequency to send and receive.
My email frequency is based on my patience level. If you ask my Sacramento real estate clients how much patience I have as a Realtor, they will tell you I possess a never-ending abundance of patience. There is no drought in my patience level. If you ask my husband, on the other hand, he will stare at you with widened eyes and, being a smart guy, if I’m around, he won’t utter a word. He will just smile, but his bugged-out eyes give him away.
The main problem with emails on the iPhone is the minimum time to auto check email is every 15 minutes and, if you want to download emails faster than that, you’ll need to manually do it. Which is yet another reason why I continually charge my phone in the car when I’m on the road. Plus, Ingress eats up a lot of battery life, too. And THAT reminds me of another story you’ll enjoy, but I’ll get to that at the end.
My purpose of this blog today is to let Realtors and others know that they can change the email frequency that their email downloads if they are using an email client like Outlook. I also receive company mail through Google but, for efficiency reasons, I forward that mail so every email comes to my Outlook account. My email downloads every 2 minutes, making me constantly on top of what’s going on. Another benefit of the 2-minute download is the email doesn’t go to my iPhone first.
Not everybody else is on that kind of email frequency schedule, though. Because I’ll get an email from an agent asking a question, and I will answer her question and then, perhaps, in a separate email a minute later elaborate. Well, if that agent doesn’t have her email set up to download frequently, she won’t receive that second email for a while. Like maybe not until the following day, and then she’ll think it’s a duplicate and delete it by mistake.
If you’d like to receive your email more frequently, here is how you do it: Tools > Run Schedule > Edit Schedules and then double click on Send & Receive All. You will see a box to change the frequency to the number of minutes you would prefer. Of course, if you’re expecting an urgent email, you can click on the tool bar “send and receive all” until you’re blue in the face, and discover it’s like waiting for a pan of water on the stove to boil.
Oh, and the Ingress thing? I received an email from a woman who lives near Clear Lake, CA, and she asked, after reading one of my blogs, if she had a portal in her yard. That made me laugh. She does. I explained how to get rid of the portal or, if she prefers, she could instead periodically hack her portal all day long. Which is kinda like hitting that “send and receive all” because it doesn’t always work the way you want it to. You can burn out a portal. You’re better off changing the email frequency and being patient for a minute or two.
Zillow Zestimates and Why Home Sellers Need Realtors to Price a Home
How accurate are the Zillow Zestimates for a Sacramento home seller?
If you would like to hear something hilarious about Zillow and Zestimates, consider this. When I asked a new agent in my Midtown Lyon office what he thought about a listing I had placed on Lyon broker tour a few months back, he said that he believed we had priced it too high. When I asked him to explain how he came up with that idea — because when an agent is still in training, you never know what process they use to determine value — he said he looked it up on Zillow.
My mouth fell open in shock. I’m afraid I gave him a lecture, probably a speech he was not expecting, about how no professional real estate agent anywhere in the country ever in a million years would rely on a Zillow Zestimate, and if he wants a future in the Sacramento real estate business, he needs to learn how to estimate value independently. Don’t you be caught dead taking a Zestimate, I warned. Pricing a home is a service we offer, as a Sacramento Realtor, to our clients. We must be able to accurately and precisely compute market value.
I don’t think that guy is talking to me anymore.
It doesn’t matter if you’re a buyer’s agent or a listing agent, or you do a combination of the two services, an agent needs to know how to price a home. If only life were that simple that we could go to a public website and gather all of our information and never have to retain a specialist for services, but that’s not reality. Not for now, anyway.
We can’t use FaceTime for a doctor visit, although that’s a pretty good idea. You know, we could always drop by around lunchtime to offer a sample of blood or have our vitals taken in a private drive-through booth. Instead of wasting time sitting in the damn waiting room and reading old copies of Golf Digest.
To price a home for sale, there are many values to take into consideration and to compute that far surpass the data a person can obtain on Zillow. It doesn’t mean that Zillow is bad by any stretch, there is a lot of excellent information on that site, and sometimes, let’s face it, I admit to stooping so low as to tell other buyer’s agents, hey, go look at Zillow. The Zestimate for my listing is $625,000 and yet it is for sale at $575,000. What a great deal for your buyers! Send your buyers to Zillow, too!
Some of those agents, let’s face that, too, they don’t know any better, as evidenced by that new agent in my office and my daily interactions with other buyer’s agents.
I check out the Zillow Zestimate so I can properly explain to my sellers — whom you can bet your bottom dollar have already looked at Zillow — why that value is incorrect. That’s one of the reasons they really need a top listing agent. Because the professional Sacramento Realtors, well, we don’t rely on Zillow for market value.
Police Cite Med Center Home Squatters After Break-In
Breaking into a vacant home is a misdemeanor and home squatters do not go to jail.
You think you know your property rights because you assume that home squatters will be arrested if they break into a person’s home in the Med Center and take up residence without permission, but you would be wrong. Who knew there are home squatters rights in California? It’s not always a matter of what is logical. It’s a matter of our jails being too crowded with criminals charged with petty crimes, so the answer to that dilemma is just don’t throw them into jail anymore.
Depending on which side of the fence you sit, you might agree. Like a hungry derelict who swipes a loaf of bread from the store probably should not get life in prison for that kind of crime. But a couple of homeless people, squatters in California — who break a window to get into a home in the Med Center, and sleep on the floor, smoking cigarettes, stinking up the house, using the bathroom, and generally treating the place like they had rented it for 3 days through airbnb — just get a slap on the wrist and sent on their merry little way.
Sacramento Realtors are in for a rude awakening, along with our Sacramento home sellers. It’s like you have to pay somebody to sit outside your home and guard against break-ins when your home is vacant because the police can’t do anything except, if you’re lucky, escort them out. It’s not the fault of the police, it’s California law that makes these break-ins a misdemeanor. Breaking into a vacant home is not a felony under the rights of squatters in California. I never thought I’d be one of those people upset over the fact that laws aren’t strict enough, but here I am, now one of those people.
The next door neighbor called me as I was heading out the door to list a home in Elmhurst, a neighborhood adjacent to the Med Center. I instructed him to call 9-1-1 immediately. The police want to hear from the witness, not from the agent. The neighbor said there was a bicycle lying in the front yard and a couple of screens were missing. Then, I stopped cold and contacted the sellers who rushed over. They wondered why the neighbor called me and why he didn’t call them since he had their numbers.
Neighbors often just call the agent because my name and phone number are in big letters on the For Sale sign in the front yard. Fortunately, I know what to do. Call 9-1-1. The neighbor on the other side had been involved as well, so it’s good to know that neighbors watch out for the home. Still, the police simply escorted the squatters out of the home and gave them a ticket. They got to pass Go, almost collected $200 and picked up a Get Out of Jail Free card.
Plus, the seller almost shot me. By the time I showed up, the police had left and I met the neighbor in the front yard. The front door was open, so I walked in, calling the seller’s name. He spotted my shadow from the back yard where he was watering the lawn, and said he almost grabbed for his gun. It’s a good thing he did not shoot me because that would have left blood all over the newly finished hardwood floors and probably ruin my Tori Burch sandals.
The seller said the police gave the homeless couple a ticket, but not before he made the woman remove the layers of booties she had on. Apparently, she had no shoes, so she took all of my booties out of the basket I had left for visitors, and split them evenly between her feet. After she removed the booties, she then tried to steal the basket.
What are home sellers supposed to do nowadays? Hire a 24-hour security guard so squatters don’t break in?
Strong Sacramento Listing Agents vs Conflict Avoiders
Jackson looks like a tough cat, but he is a meek and timid soul, like some real estate agents
The thing I’ve noticed most about moving toward the age of 64 is not so much removing the ear worm stuck in my head of will you still need me, will you still feed me when I’m 64 — which I strongly suspect was a clueless image Paul McCartney conjured when he wrote it in his teens because you’re too young to tie your shoes at that age — nope, what I’ve noticed is it’s the growing non-acceptance of crap. Well, honestly, I’ve always been a no-crap taker, but getting older has absolutely strengthened that trait, given it stronger legs, more spunk. That’s the benefit of aging for many of us.
I am definitely in the category of strong Sacramento listing agents. I am also a top producer who ranks in the top 10 agents in Sacramento.
After 40-some years in this business, when I tell somebody it’s the principle, you better believe it’s the principle. It’s not the money. It’s not the time involved nor the effort. It’s the principle. It’s the conviction. It’s also eliminating the consequences a lesser action of conflict avoidance could produce.
I realize there are a ton of people in the world who routinely avoid conflict. They will do anything to avoid conflict. My cat, Jackson, the ragdoll, is such a good example of conflict avoidance. He will starve to death rather than push another cat’s face out of his bowl when he’s eating. He just steps away and lets another cat eat all of his food.
Some Sacramento listing agents are like that. When they receive, let’s say, an unreasonable request from a buyer, their sole focus is closing the transaction, and they don’t want to push back. They want to do things the easy way. They might suggest to the seller there is no other choice but to accept the buyer’s demand. To rollover and take it. Low appraisal? Their advice is just eat it; don’t push back.
Often — and I hate to point this out except that I’m right — these sorry situations involve the timid, zero push-back, mousy brand of agents who are Sacramento listing agents who have discounted their commission. These guys can’t even stand up for their own paycheck, why does a seller think they will fight for them?
When a seller is paying me for representation as her full-service Sacramento Realtor, I do what is best for the seller, which also happens to fall in line with my nature. My nature is to fight for the principle and for the principal through successful negotiations that produce results my sellers expect. It’s a lot more work but it’s the right thing to do. No question about it.
