Sacramento Real Estate Blog

Subtitle: One man’s opinion.

I’ve been wanting to get into some more detail about many of the beautiful areas / neighborhoods in and around Sacramento, along with photos, detail, and “circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one is and to be used as evidence [in favor of it].”

Yesterday I had another chance to cruise through Sacramento’s Fabulous Forties, and was struck once again by how classically beautiful whole streets in that area are (let alone the individual homes as I’ve linked to above). It’s no wonder that the market there is resistant to the market forces elsewhere.

But of course the Fab Forties is not the only terrific neighborhood in the Sacramento area. One of the perks of this profession is getting to see all the different areas around where you live. Yesterday I dug deeper into some areas I already knew about, previewing some outstanding (and not so outstanding — that’s the point of previewing) homes throughout the Arden-Arcade area. (Don’t let the multi-million-dollar homes on the first page put you off. Subsequent pages go through all the different price ranges).

And — at the risk of pre-empting the longer articles I’d like to write — there are so many more that I love for various reasons:

• Curtis Park for a mix of charm, affordability, and proximity to downtown.
• Greenback Estates for pure low price plus relatively safe area.
• Waterford in El Dorado Hills for beautiful custom homes on large lots that seem to be universally beautiful. (I’m sure there’s an ugly one in Waterford — I just haven’t seen it yet).
• The Professor and Mary Ann…

And now for the dog ate my homework part: I’ve been spending so much time in a few of these different areas recently working for clients on showings or previewing homes for showings that I haven’t had the liesure time to go through and take the obligatory photos.

Ask anyone who’s everyone: you can’t have a real estate blog without obligatory photos. That’s what makes them obligatory.

It’s the classic dilemma. Work cuts a hole in your whole day.

Oh, wait, that’s not the classic dilemma. That’s the classic worktime joke. This is the classic dilemma: working with clients detracts from snapping photos, but working with clients pays for snapping photos.

Things to do:

• Write more about the neighborhoods in and around Sacramento.
• Send business cards to photographers. (Lousy stupid dilemma ain’t getting the better of old Johnnie…)