You can't buy this short sale because another buyer already put an offer on it. The sellers accepted the offer and asked me to put this into pending status. But you can write a back-up offer if you like. If you find this frustrating, I understand. Tell me about it. My husband went on a hiking trip to Rocky Mountain National Park this week and left me alone with four remote controls and a big screen TV, which I've never before turned on by myself. Whatever happened to the days of slipping in a video and turning the channel to 3?
This is a four- to five-bedroom Cambridge home built in 2005 with 3 1/2 baths. It is situated on .252 acres, according to the Sacramento County Assessor, and it has a 3-car garage. A two-car garage faces the front and the other garage, which contains a water softener, faces the side.
The photos on this page were shot in March of 2009 during the rainy season, so the home doesn't look like this today. But this Anatolia home does have a ton of upgrades, including an abundance of granite counters in the kitchen, maple cabinets throughout, ceramic flooring in kitchen and baths, plus lots of windows and a soaring ceiling in the living room / dining space -- approximately 3,470 square feet overall.
The back yard has a water feature and an uncovered patio. The home faces south; the homes across the street back to nature, as do the homes on the east side of the cul-de-sac. This listing will go into MLS today as a pending sale.
11878 Pyxis Circle, Rancho Cordova, CA 95742, is offered exclusively by Lyon Real Estate as a short sale at $350,000. For more information, call your Sacramento short sale agent, Elizabeth Weintraub, at 916 233 6759.
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Elizabeth Weintraub is an author, home buying columnist for The New York Times-owned About.com, a Land Park resident, and a Land Park real estate agent who specializes in older, classic homes in Land Park, Curtis Park, Midtown and East Sacramento. Weintraub is also a Sacramento Short Sale agent who lists and successfully sells short sales throughout the four-county Sacramento area. Call Elizabeth Weintraub at 916.233.6759. Put 35 years of real estate experience to work for you. Broker-Associate at Lyon Real Estate. DRE License # 00697006.
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Being a back up contract on a short sale is not a bad idea for a buyer. You and I have seen the buyers on our listings flake out, despite our best efforts to vet them and make sure they are solid.
Gorgeous home! (BTW...I'm waiting for technology to advance further where we won't need remotes...everything will be voice prompts!)
Well, my efforts to sell to a second, third or fourth buyer have greatly diminished since I've implemented new procedures to retain the original buyer. Often, if the buyer is going to flake, it happens in the first week, which is preferable.
Beautiful home. . . and you reminded of my neighbors long time ago. . they purchased a new betamax and they invited us to see a movie. . .I was . .WOW. . .a lot of things have changed since then.
I definitely have new admiration for my husband's remote control navigational skills. We rarely disagree on what to watch on TV, which is why he gets to operate the remotes. Giving him the remotes is such a small compromise in the overall scheme of things. :) I had no idea how complicated watching an on-demand movie can be. No joke, I have 2 full pages of notes on how to watch a movie. Some of the buttons are off to one side, others are three over, three down. None of it makes any logical sense. I'm with Terri. I want voice control. Thank goodness the TV turns itself off because I have no idea how to do it.
I wish more agents would encourage their sellers to take back-up offers. We tried 3 times on one house and the answer was always "no" ... and the price of the house kept going down when each deal fell through. I don't get it! But I do get the remote thingy, I'm helpless when I'm alone.
Elizabeth- I can totally sympathize on the entire tv/remote thing. I kinda figured out the new tv, then we got a new dvd player... I wanted to watch a movie, but I couldn't with my husband at work...
Now... what have you "implimented" to retain that original buyer.
Elizabeth, great looking house, and I hope all goes well for you and the buyers.
Hi Cynthia: I will always take a back-up offer if a buyer wants to write one and has intentions of waiting. But 9 times out of 10, when I call them back, they've gone on to something else.
Hi Tammy: I make buyers put their earnest money deposit into escrow, extract an agreement to wait for approval and make agents promise to not write any other offers for that buyer -- everything short of shackling them to the front door -- because I don't want my sellers to go through 8 to 12 weeks of short sale hell to approval only to discover the buyer and agent flaked.
Hi Rebecca: This is a great home, and the buyers seem to be very excited over the prospect of finally being able to buy it.
Ah Elizabeth - Your current state of being temporarily "man-less" around the house reminds me of my old days as a bride, when I would often be "widowed" this time of year, while the father of "most" of my children went hunting!