Pricing Your Home Right: Art or Science?
When you and your REALTOR® sit down to analyze comparable homes and recent sales, you may find that prices of homes similar to yours can be thousands of dollars apart. It’s tempting to pick the highest price and say, “Let’s list it here.” That’s a strategy that...
Getting Ready to Sell Your Home
People will say to me, “I am thinking about selling my home, but I do not even know where to begin to get it ready to put on the market-- I have so much stuff that I need to do.” Getting your house ready for sale does not have to be a stressful event. Take Another...
How credit influences your home financing options
Whenever a new buyer client calls, I ask if they have been pre-approved for a loan yet. Most reply “no.” From there I explain that before you begin looking at potential homes, you need to get pre-approved. For most buyers, it’s a fairly easy process of speaking...
JUST SOLD!!! $230,000 for 8246 Lake Forest Drive, Sacramento Ca 95826
I just sold 8246 Lake Forest Drive, Sacramento Ca 95826. The house is in College Greens, one of my specialty neighborhoods. My seller client bought the house in the summer and spent the past few months remodeling the house. The home sold in 4 days for over list...
How to Come Up With a Game Plan for Buying a Home in the Sacramento Area
Doug Reynolds, a Sacramento Area Realtor, sits down with Erick Perpich to discuss the best way to start thinking about buying a home in the Sacramento Area. Erick Perpich is a local loan officer with Republic Mortgage, a direct lender in Folsom. Erick explains that...
First-time Home Buyers Dominate the Market
In some areas of the country, housing is selling like hotcakes, driven higher by the first-time home buyer segment of the market. Typically, first-time home buyers average about 40% of all home buyers, but in 2009, they composed an unprecedented 47%, according to the...
How-to’s: How Much Home Should You Buy?
Conventional wisdom suggests that buying a home is a long-term investment and that you should buy as much home as you can possibly afford. It’s possible to build equity over time, but that depends largely on what you pay for a home, how robust your market is, and how...
Finance FAQ
Below are some of the frequently asked questions that are posed by homebuyers who are new to the process of buying a home: What is a mortgage? A mortgage is a loan used to buy a home or other real estate property, with the home serving as the collateral for the loan,...
Selling Tips in a Buyer’s Market
A buyer’s market means it’s the seller’s turn to be flexible, especially with sale terms. Purchase price, closing dates, move-in dates, storage, appliances, window treatments, points and fees may all require a little negotiation. Whatever the terms, don’t let personal...
Sacramento County Real Estate Update October-November 2011
Doug Reynolds, a Sacramento Realtor, provides an analysis of the local market statistics from September. This month discussing how Sacramento area sales went down a bit in September. As well as the issues with low inventory and the competition from buyers. Multiple...


