This smaller older home is clean as a whistle! While only 2 bd, 1 bath, it’s got a HUGE lot with plenty of room to add on and upgrade OR consider splitting this prime property. Horses OK too!. Close to Light Rail, but feels like out in the country, on this nice and quiet, well-established [...]
Cup Cake Stars
I have to admit that when I found out I was in charge of finding 550 cupcakes for our annual gala awards event for National Child Abuse Awareness Month, I wasn’t at all worried about it. I mean, how hard can it be to find a good-hearted baker to donate a big batch of cupcakes [...]
Reflections on Perspectives
In this the middle of the worst real estate market in my life time, I’ve gotten caught up in the daily to-do’s like most everyone else. However, it occurred to me on recent flight home from LA, how very useful it is to step back, or at least aside, and think, breathe and reflect. From [...]
Buying or Selling a Sacramento Flipped Property
Recently on my blog talk radio show, Sheri Schmitz and I were discussing some of the nuances of flipped properties. Many buyers with FHA government backed loans do not know that the FHA requires two appraisals on a flipped property to ensure buyers are not getting ripped off. The buyer must absorb this cost and [...]
Why Time of Escrow Counts When Buying a Sacto Home
I’d like to highlight how important it is to pay attention to the terms in your home buying contracts. One in particular many home buyers do not understand, is term 1D in the Residential Purchase Agreement. 1D outlines the close of escrow you are agreeing to. Thirty days is the average turnaround of escrow, however [...]
