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Home in South Land Park Sold With Multiple Offers
This home in South Land Park sold quickly with multiple offers.
This cute cottage home in South Land Park sold with multiple offers and closed escrow on Friday. The sellers, like most homeowners, had all sorts of concerns about why their home might not sell. They worried about things that most people never worry about, and some they do. Like a dripping faucet. Yes, if a faucet drips, it should be fixed. I know we all get busy and can’t always attend to small things but small stuff turns into big stuff, I lecture, er, remind them. They laugh.
The sellers called me because I listed and sold another home in South Land Park at 1407 Carrousel Lane, not far from their house. By the time they toured the home on Carrousel, they could only enter a backup offer because it was pending. Basically, a seller has options in this market when they want to sell a home and buy another home, but trying to buy on a contingent basis is one of the most difficult. I explain it this way: just think if this was your home and you received 3 offers. Two were from buyers who did not have to sell a home in order to buy yours. Which offers would you consider?
When the shoe is on the foot, it makes sense. It’s not impossible to buy contingent, and we do it, but you might not get your first choice in a seller’s market, is all I’m saying. So while I’m going through the seller’s home, taking notes, completing my agent visual inspection, the sellers are sharing all the things they don’t like about the home. I steer them away from that conversation, just in case they tell me something horrible that I’ll be forced to disclose to the buyer, which I obviously do not want to do. Instead, we discuss all the wonderful attributes about their home, the pluses, the emotional pull it will have on other buyers.
This is the problem with studying the market too much as a seller. You start to pick up on the negative vibes and those thoughts take over, consume you, and that stuff begins to color your viewpoint.
I introduced the sellers to my extraordinary team member, Josh Amolsch, to help them to find a home to buy. After meeting with Dan Tharp at Guild Mortgage, the sellers discovered they did not have to sell their home in order to buy. This freed them to make a strong offer on a home in the Pocket, and they won that bid. They bought a home across from one of the last buyers I ever worked with before I switched to seller representation.
The home in South Land Park quickly sold. We chose a full-price offer, all-cash, no appraisal contingencies. That was the sellers’ biggest worry, whether the home would appraise, and with their winning offer, that concern was eliminated. It was a nice, smooth, easy escrow for a change, thanks to the wonderful agents who represented the buyer.
I thought about this closing yesterday when I visited another seller in South Land Park whose home will be ready for the market sometime in the next year. When I studied the comps for the seller, I noticed a different home in South Land Park that was listed by an agent from out-of-area, and realized this was a home I was supposed to list. At the last minute, that seller had canceled her appointment with me because a friend of hers introduced her to a “most wonderful listing agent.” Wha? Was I chopped liver? I forgot about it until I saw the home had only a couple of photos and no showings without calling the agent. Hmmm . . .
That’s OK, I’ll list the other home in South Land Park and be happy. This is a great market, and it’s a good time to sell. I’ve learned that a positive attitude will take you places others only wish to go.
Charming New Listing With View of William Land Park
Curved porch steps add curb appeal to this home with a view of William Land Park.
You are going to love this home with a view of William Land Park from the front yard. Not only is this home beautiful and charming, but it is affordable for a first-time home buyer. While it is officially located in South Land Park, it sits a half block from Land Park. The location is perfect. Imagine living a half block away from William Land Park. It is also close to Starbucks and a terrific Mexican Restaurant with outdoor dining, Dali’s Kitchen.
My husband and I went there for lunch a few weekends ago and were impressed. Although I did ask for more jalapeños because mine just wasn’t hot enough. It’s got to scorch the tongue, you know. But the point is if I lived at this home with a view of William Land Park, I would be dining almost nightly at Dali’s Kitchen.
Hardwood floors thoughout except for kitchen and bath.
The sellers have lived in this home for a long time and loved it to pieces. You can see it in the refinished hardwood floors throughout the home. They are in impeccable shape. Every room has hardwood floors except for the bath and kitchen. Above is the formal dining area, and it gets even better because there is also space in the kitchen for a table.
The kitchen features a pretty floor, white tiled counters, a built-in range, dishwasher and glass doors on a few of the upper cabinets.
Roomy master bedroom overlooks the peaceful back yard.
The master bedroom sits at the back of the home, overlooking the gigantic back yard. While there is no view of William Land Park from the master bedroom, the visuals of this back yard lend a romantic feel to the space.
The children’s bedrooms are simply adorable.
All together, the home features 3 bedrooms. There is a master bedroom and two children’s bedrooms. This bedroom is painted blue and the third bedroom is pink. Both feature two windows that brighten the rooms and open up the space. Even the chandelier stays.
Covered patio, plus an attached open deck in the spacious back yard.
The back yard wraps around the other side of the deck. If you want to stay out of the sun, you can sit on the covered patio while you watch the kids play in the yard. You can also view this yard from the kitchen and dining area.
Come to our open house on Sunday, July 9th, from 1:00 to 4:00 PM, hosted by the incredible Barbara Dow. Take Sutterville and turn south on Babich, a block before Freeport. 4420 Babich Av, Sacramento, CA 95822 is offered exclusively by Elizabeth Weintraub and Lyon Real Estate at an affordable price of $435,000. Hey, check out the virtual tour, too.
South Land Park Pool Home Coming Soon
Pool home in South Land Park at 7348 Willow Lake Way
Everybody loves a sprawling ranch home in the hills of South Land Park, and when you throw in a pool and updates, well, the home becomes pretty much irresistible. You’ll fall in love the minute you step inside. Mid-century design (1966) features a step-down formal living room from the tiled entry, illuminated by a skylight. Cut-outs in the living room walls open the space to the family room, dining and kitchen areas. There is also a sunroom off the kitchen toward the pool.
You will enjoy four bedrooms, three full baths, and the master suite is oversized and updated with the type of amenities you would want if money were no object. For example, dual closets, built-in dressers, plus an entertainment center for a TV; and the master bath features a jetted tub. Contemporary colors throughout. Mostly wood and 20-inch ceramic flooring.
The family room focal point is a floor-to-ceiling raised stone fireplace. Much of the home showcases natural materials and calming influences, such as a water feature in the front yard, and a side yard with a magnificent old cherry tree, with space for grilling or BBQs and a swing. The home is almost 2,000 square feet per the assessor; however, the lot itself is enormous, .28 acre! That’s more than a quarter acre.
An enormous backyard with two raised decks and a pool in South Land Park
Of course, the back yard is spectacular. The shimmering pool is 10 feet deep! You’ll find two raised decks, plus a pergola used as a covered patio. There is a slight hum from the freeway, that is so steady and soothing it can rock you to sleep in a hammock. Being freeway close has its advantages, such as fast access for that morning commute on I-5 to downtown Sacramento!
Everybody loves South Land Park. Call your agent for a personal tour on Friday when this home hits the market or, if you’re looking for a Sacramento Realtor to help you to buy a home, call Elizabeth Weintraub, at 916.233.6759. 7348 Willow Lake Way, Sacramento, CA 95831 is offered exclusively by Lyon Real Estate at $395,000, and will be on the market this Friday, May 6th. Get your appointment scheduled today!
How a South Land Park Realtor Lost Credibility
All Realtors and not just South Land Park Realtors should practice ethics.
The obvious risk management question about relaying a story concerning a South Land Park Realtor who lost credibility (and most likely misplaced his ethics) is whether the person telling this story could be liable for talking about it, and let’s just say the best defense in any situation is the absolute truth. Before you ask, I have also considered filing an ethics complaint against this individual, but a) I am not the ethics police, and b) a first-time violation is a small fine. In my mind, it’s better to bring this action into the open in hopes that another agent won’t be so inclined to do it.
It started with an offer on my South Land Park listing above list price, with about 40% down, prior to our first Sunday open house. I had no record through the lockbox that the agent had even showed this home. Not good. The purchase offer also expired in less than 24 hours. I used to use that trick myself back in the 1970s, and it worked well then, but demanding a fast answer doesn’t work so well in today’s world. It shows aggression for little reason. Moreover, the seller will simply issue a counter offer, which starts the clock again.
As the South Land Park listing agent, my suspicions were aroused by all of this, but then I tend to question everything that seems a bit out of normal. We sent a counter offer.
The South Land Park Realtor replied to report the counter offer was “a deal killer,” because he wanted to use a different title company. First, often when a buyer insists on choosing the title company in Sacramento, which is against normal local custom, it sends up a red flag, at least to this experienced agent, that there could be something the buyer doesn’t want the seller to find out about. Not always, but it’s a possibility. Further, who uses words like “deal killer” anymore? Our transactions are not “deals.” Then, the South Land Park Realtor mentioned he was showing the home “again” on Sunday to the buyer, and there was also a new home that came on the market he would show. Implying the buyer might possess second thoughts.
It made me wonder even more strongly if perhaps he had not shown the home at all in the first place, but that was not the primary issue.
My Elizabeth Weintraub team member held the home open on Sunday, among many homes in South Land Park open that Sunday. We had a stupendous turnout. I asked my team member to keep an eye out for the South Land Park Realtor and his buyer, to try to find out where the other home on the market was located — because I could not find any home anywhere in the vicinity that was like my listing in South Land Park. I wondered if he had lied to me about the new listing. Sure enough, the duo came through the Open House and my team member gave me the name of the street they had mentioned, where the other “new listing” was evidently located.
I love my team!
Hmmm . . . the only home on that street was pending. Very similar to my listing in South Land Park. I’ve done business with that listing agent, so I called. The listing agent answered his cell. On a Sunday no less. Asked if the name of that particular buyer meant anything to him. Why, yes, he was in escrow with that buyer on that particular home and had been in escrow for about a week. Holy toledo! The deposit had been cashed, too. The deposit was the same check number the buyer had submitted for my listing in South Land Park. What? My jaw dropped. Unbelievable.
That could be a trust fund record violation, which is heavily regulated by the California Bureau of Real Estate. I would not want to be standing in the shoes of that South Land Park Realtor, and neither should any other agent in Sacramento.
By this time, we had multiple offers on my listing in South Land Park. We issued the alleged buyer a seller multiple counter offer, asking the buyer to cancel the escrow at XYZ title company for that particular property, providing the buyer could not afford to own both homes, and to submit a new deposit check for this transaction. We also requested release of deposit. If the buyer truly had no plans to cancel our transaction, the buyer would release the earnest money deposit, and it was the only way the sellers would feel safe accepting that phony offer.
I’m fairly confident the South Land Park Realtor was a bit astonished to realize we were on to his tactics and discovered his deception. Not only that, but his actions could have placed his somewhat prominent buyer into a difficult legal situation. The moral is a buyer should not ever write offers for more than one home, because it can breach the good faith covenant inherent in purchase contracts and lawyers say it is against the law. But if you’re such a moron that breaking the law doesn’t matter to you, for crying out loud, don’t submit an identical deposit check and possibly violate DRE regulations on top of it.
This home in South Land Park sold at full list price to sweet buyers who deserved it. To buyers represented by a wonderful South Land Park agent who was a sheer delight to work with. We’re going out for cocktails next week at Riverside Clubhouse to celebrate. We’ve never met. It’s a good idea to maintain relationships with other agents in the industry. This other South Land Park Realtor is not an agent I can honestly recommend to anybody, and that’s a shame. Call Elizabeth Weintraub at 916.233.6759 if you’re thinking about selling your home in South Land Park. I’m resourceful, and I get to the bottom of nonsense in this business.
