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New Listings This Week in West Sacramento and Del Paso Manor
New listings this week are in West Sacramento and Del Paso Manor.
All of my new listings are following a pattern in Sacramento real estate. It seems that I list 2 or 3 homes a week, put them on the market on Friday and by the following week we are pending, generally with multiple offers. It’s been this way all year. Can’t keep anything in inventory anymore, but then I do so much of my work upfront that buyers can’t help but want to buy my new listings. Everything is turnkey and ready to go.
This week’s new listings are in West Sacramento and Del Paso Manor, two completely different types of neighborhoods and homes, except for the fact each is remodeled. The home in West Sacramento was built in 2002, features 4 bedrooms and 2 baths, and a breathtakingly beautiful back yard. I kid you not. The sellers have spent a fortune on landscaping. It features a raised deck and spa, plus a pond and waterfall.
Some of the trees includes a bay laurel, bottle brush, pineapple guava, river birch, Japanese maple, trident maple, pistash tree and Meyer lemons. It’s like a magical garden, with shade trees, a picnic area, lounging space, plus flagstone walkways.
The kitchen is updated and the baths are remodeled. You’ll find extra cabinets in the kitchen and a newer double oven. Most of the floor covering is cork, so soft on your feet! This single-story home in West Sacramento Bridgeway Lakes will be on the market on Friday at $445K.
Next in the new listings inventory is a three bedroom home, built in that wonderful year of 1950, in Del Paso Manor. This kitchen has been remodeled. It features white and gray backsplash tile, granite counters, brand new cabinets with brushed nickel hardware, a new stove, dishwasher and refrigerator, all in stainless. You’ll find mostly hardwood floors throughout, plus a family room offering access to the huge back yard.
There are storage sheds in the yard, and a covered patio. One of the storage sheds is used as a workshop, and it’s big, maybe 10 x 20 feet. This home will be available on Friday at $329K.
Be the first to find out about new listings in Sacramento by calling an Elizabeth Weintraub Team member and getting on our list. Call Barbara Dow at 916.761.7398 or Josh Amolsch at 916.224.2756 or Amy McMullan at 916.737.6664.
Coming Soon Listings From Sacramento and Elk Grove to Lincoln
Coming soon listings are no longer allowed by MetroList in Sacramento without a waiver.
Many Sacramento Realtors do not know we are prohibited from marketing Coming Soon listings that are in off-market status in MLS. We can’t do it (unless we get a waiver signed, which I see no advantage to). That means no signs with Coming Soon on the property, no blogs about it, no posting homes in Zillow or Facebook as Coming Soon listings. And then there are the agents who do know but don’t care. I’m not any of those agents. However, I do have Coming Soon listings from Sacramento to Lincoln that are not yet in MLS, which I bet you’d love to hear about.
Am I right? Would you like to know about Coming Soon listings that are not yet listed but will be soon? You can get on the list of my buyer’s agents or you can contact your own agent and ask your agent to contact me. It doesn’t really mean your offer will receive priority because I have a fiduciary to my sellers, but at least you won’t miss the home when it hits the market. In today’s real estate market, you’ve gotta be Johnny-on-the-spot to snag a house. We have very few homes for sale and a million more buyers than houses. (For you fact checkers, a “million more” is not a literal term.)
Coming Soon Listing Lincoln
Heading the top of the list price-wise is a place in the gated community of Verdera Village, known for its majestic golfcourse homes in Lincoln. Huge square footage, over 5,000. Mind-blowing panoramic views. Explosive sunrises / sunsets. Infinity pool. More bedrooms than any person can probably use except for Octomom. A short sale in the low 900s. Available May 12th.
Coming Soon Listings Curtis Park
Two homes in Curtis Park are coming soon. Both are vintage homes exploding with character. Three to four bedrooms and two baths. Hardwood floors. Two stories each. Updated kitchens and baths. Fairy tale master suites. Hard-to-find garages. Low 700s to high 600s, depending on square footage. Available by Memorial Day.
Coming Soon Listing Elk Grove
Looking for homes in Elk Grove? This is a beautiful single-level K Hovnanian homes situated on a cul-de-sac with almost 1/3 of an acre! Lots of fruit trees and flowers, with a large covered playhouse or hobby room. The home was originally built as a four bedroom but the sellers decided they wanted a formal dining room. So the builder converted a bedroom by opening a wall and turning the closet area into a built-in buffet. Many upgrades throughout. Low 400s. Available May 12th.
Coming Soon Listing Del Paso Manor
The original owners have remodeled this home with love and devotion. All new kitchen featuring subway backsplash and ceramic floors, plus new cabinetry with granite counters. New stainless appliances. Contemporary light fixtures. Refinished hardwood floors. Almost double-size lot, three bedrooms. Low 300s. Available May 17th.
As to why our MetroList doesn’t allow marketing of Coming Soon Listings, I’m not sure, but I suspect it’s because some unethical agents try to capture direct buyer leads and lock out the competition to do dual representation. A few bad apples ruins it for the rest of us. I am a seller’s agent and I do not work with buyers. I don’t have a vested interest in which agent sells our listings, whether it’s an agent on my team, an agent at another company or an agent from the Bay Area. Just as long as it sells and my seller is ecstatic.
Like I said, if you’d like to get on our list of Coming Soon Listings and are unrepresented, call me and I’ll match you with a team member, or call your own buyer’s agent and ask your agent to contact me. Elizabeth Weintraub, Top 3 Listing Agents, Lyon Real Estate, 916.233.6759.
Fixer Rosemont Home Pending in Four Days With 10 Offers
People see how fast an agent can put a home pending (into escrow) in Sacramento and they often make the mistake of thinking that selling Sacramento real estate must be a piece of cake, when little is further from the truth. I’ve been working on this listing for the past 6 1/2 weeks. There were a lot of moving parts, many circumstances and unforeseen situations, some out-of-state, some in the city, and it all had to come together. On top of this, I revised my comparative market analysis almost daily to arrive at the perfect listing price.
The listing price is not the selling price. The listing price is the value at which it would make sense to buy quickly and would attract buyers to tour the home. It has to be “just right” like Goldilocks. In our present Sacramento real estate market, it means to put a home pending quickly, the price can be overtly aggressive and it’s OK. Not out of whack.
To keep the peace among many people living in one house and to offer maximum exposure to potential buyers, we elected to set up showings on Friday night from 6 PM to 7 PM and during an open house on Sunday from 2 to 4 PM. The home went on the market Friday morning. I heard there were almost 100 buyers though the home Friday evening. Another 50 or so came by on Sunday. That’s how high our demand. We asked every potential buyer to please submit an offer by 6 PM on Sunday.
The results of showings and efforts to put this home pending
Some agents called to ask if they could show the home next week.
Although the listing expressly stated no FHA or VA, agents still called to ask if their buyer could get an FHA loan.
Another agent begged for a fast reply on Friday, threatening to buy something else on Saturday if his offer was not accepted. Hey, go buy that other nonexistent house. Be our guest.
An agent submitted a contingent offer at list price, as if either wasn’t bad enough.
Quite a few agents submitted at list price, even when informed we had multiple offers.
One guy texted me over and over to ask if he had to submit an offer by 6 PM, to explain to him precisely what I meant by that. Did I mean to say 6 PM? Or was it really 6 PM?
An agent who wanted to send a lowball but I told him not to then whined that we were not allowing him to meet his 40% profit margin. I suggested perhaps his inherent difficulty was his not being able to hire cheap labor and buy wholesale materials, but he was hellbent on complaining that his inability to meet my seller’s terms was somehow our fault.
One agent showed the property on Friday and got around to submitting her lowball offer after we put the home pending in MLS on Monday.
But interestingly enough, some agents were right on the money. They removed all contingencies upfront and provided proof of funds for cash offers. They offered to close quickly, giving the occupants a free rent-back to the end of May. I worked through dinner last night to put this together. And let me tell you, my efforts earned every penny.
If you want to sell a home in Sacramento, please call Elizabeth Weintraub and put 43 years of experience to work for you at 916.233.6759. I maximize profit potential.
Another Seller Learned Not to List with a Discount Agent
Maintenance free front yard is unusual for Tahoe Park real estate.
There are many people in the world who try to save money in all sorts of ways but hiring a discount agent is often not the way to go when it comes to Sacramento real estate. It is common knowledge among the top achievers in the industry that sellers who focus on the commission can get taken to the cleaners in the middle and on the back end. They are penny wise and pound foolish.
If they save $5,000 on the commission, they’ll give it away in home repairs, credits to the buyer and further price reductions after the buyers try to renegotiate. And it might not close on time or blow up. On the other hand, when sellers pay full commissions to the top producers, they often sell the home for more than list price and make even more money, even though they are paying more in commission.
Full service Sacramento real estate brokers cost more than a discount agent for a reason. Because they tend to make their sellers more money than a discount agent would do. I pound this into my seller’s heads over and over, but some either don’t believe me, because they are not in the business 24 /7 or they have to find out for themselves before they will trust.
Some just get fed up and decide that trying squeeze a nickel here and there is hurting them more than it is helping. Such was the case with the seller of this home in Tahoe Park. They had it listed for 6 months with a discount agent. The list price was lower than my contract. That agent could not sell it. The owners finally contacted me, and I sold it in 4 days for more money. At the worst time of the year, too, early December.
The discount agent did not do these people any favors. That’s a polite statement. We just closed escrow yesterday. A clean straight forward transaction. The sellers are thrilled with me. And to top it off, I sold this house from my wor-cation in Hawaii. I wasn’t even in Sacramento at this time of year. I’m as remote as you can get from California.
If you’re thinking about selling a home in Sacramento, you might ask yourself how does a Sacramento Realtor who is full service sell a home in Sacramento when she is on vacation in Hawaii that a discount agent could not sell for 6 months no matter how hard he tried? Then call Elizabeth Weintraub at 916.233.6759. No matter where I am, I will list and sell your home.
Why You Want to Work with the Elizabeth Weintraub Team
Josh Amolsch, Dianne Slutsky, Elizabeth Weintraub, Barbara Dow
If you’re a potential seller in the Sacramento valley who is ready to hire a Sacramento Realtor as your listing agent, you might want to consider an agent like me who is the team leader, for lack of a better term, of the Elizabeth Weintraub Team. I suppose we could have named ourselves like a garage rock band but it seems easier just to use my name because it has become its own brand of sorts. And besides, who has the time to sort through all of those goofy-ass names? We’re too busy selling real estate.
The reason you might want to hire a person like me is because I will represent you. See, people don’t think about fiduciary relationships, or even care much what they mean until you stop to ponder it. Why shouldn’t you have your own Realtor who works only for you and doesn’t work for the buyer? It just makes sense, right? Why should you purposely pay a large percentage of your home’s market value to a listing agent to work against your interests? Of course, dual agency can exist in just about any transaction if two agents who work for the same broker end up with their clients in a contract, but dual representation is slightly different, which is not our focus.
As a listing agent, I focus solely on the seller. I wear blinders on the Elizabeth Weintraub Team. I’m not looking around at buyers who dangle double the commission in front of my face, and those guys know who they are. I’m working for the seller. My team members are working with buyers. They might be buyers for your home or they might be buyers for another home, but I focus on sellers. If the buyers are my former clients, I generally work alongside my team members to ensure the clients get the home they want, and I’m always available to my team members for consultations and brainstorming, should they need it. But they are extremely qualified and competent to start with, which is why I chose them. We watch out for each other and fill in when needed.
I love listing and selling homes. I excel at marketing, photography, home staging. I adore negotiations and finessing counter offers. Escorting buyers to look at homes, well, not so much. So I capitalize on my forte, on my strengths. All I do, just about every single day, is work on selling my listings. Tweaking, rearranging, networking.
It doesn’t cost anything extra to hire a Realtor who is a team leader of the Elizabeth Weintraub Team. Well all work for the same broker, like a small company within a larger company. I was first licensed in this business in the 1970s, and I have a background in title and am a former certified escrow officer. I almost went to law school, too, but then decided that career didn’t pay enough and would have interfered with my real estate business. There are only so many hours in the day, you know.
Some people think I’m sort of a doofus in the way I operate because I believe strongly in doing the very best job I can. They say: just take the job, sign that listing, and get on with it. But we all need to cling to something in this business, and I choose personal integrity. Doofus as that may sound to some, it probably doesn’t sound that way to you. You can call Elizabeth Weintraub at 916.233.6759. Even after all these years, I still answer my phone.
