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I love this listing that Vicki-Agregado just took.  It’s right down the street from me — and right in Vicki’s neighborhood in Deertrail Estates.  It has a beautiful open floor plan, on a meticulously landscaped quarter acre.  It was just remodeled in 2005, and features Trek decking in the back.  This one shows beautifully.

2701 Sandhurst Drive, Cameron Park, CA

Location: Deertrail Estates

Wanted: bright, open floor plan. Competitively priced, yet not a short sale or foreclosure. Immaculately remodeled within the last few years. A big, shady, corner lot with a big back yard. All this in a fantastic location with great schools. Stop looking, we found it for you, and it would be an honor to show it to you. Or call your agent and get her to show you this before it’s gone.

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Asking Price: $399,900.00

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2701 Sandhurst Drive
Cameron Park, CA 95682
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Bedrooms: 3

Bathrooms: 2

Parking: Ample

Year Built: 1987

Subdivision: Deertrail Estates

Lot Size: .253

Garage Size: 2 car

School District: Rescue Union / El Dorado Union

Square Footage: 1640

Agent Name: Vicki Agregado-Babcock

Broker: Elite Properties

MLS #: 80055485

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VFLYER ID: 1693151

Come visit this beautiful 3 bedroom 2 bath home on a quiet cul de sac in Cameron Park.

Vicki Agregado-Babcock is holding 3262 Sandhurst Court open on Sunday, May 18th, from 1PM to 4PM. 

Check out this lovely home — I got a chance to preview it this past week and it should definitely be on anyone’s short list of homes to preview.

For more information about this, check out the following links:

• 3262 Sandhurst Court Web Site (with photo gallery)
• Map to Property 
• School Information
• Schedule a Showing

Our local multiple listing service, Metrolist, recently made several changes to their search pages and database structure.

We all know how people like change.

Some of these changes are probably to the good, but looking at the database structure, it’s uglier than it ever was.  Whether a property is a short sale, for example, used to appear in two places, either one of which might be correct.  Since the change, whether or not a property is a short sale appears in one field if the property is active, and another if the property is sold.

Well, that’s fine, I get it — sometimes you’re talking about a flavor of the status “Active” and sometimes all you need to do is record history.

Some of the changes actually make things a little bit easier, though having five new varieties of “Active” isn’t one of them.

I do wish corporations wouldn’t write like corporations.  It doesn’t help to enter the system and get a message:

“MetroList is working harder to give you the tools to work smarter!”  What is this, an Anthony Robbins seminar?  No doubt someone will tout the six sigma benefits of the new design.

Meantime the changes broke some existing code of mine.

It’s time to go move some code around…

I have a confession to make.  No, I’m not a politician involved with prostitutes, stop thinking that!  Actually I already made the confession about  how often real estate listings get updated, didn’t I, so like a New York politician I have officially shamed myself. 

So I’ve updated the listings!  So check out the foreclosures, new homes, etc. and enjoy!

Except for that screen scraper software I caught this morning.  You don’t get to enjoy any more.  I have released my inner programmer, and you’re shut down.

But all you humans-who-can-prove-you’re-human can use the foreclosure search with the new captcha. So let me know if it works ok for you!

Cheers.

Elite Properties agent Mike Keleshian just listed this beautiful 3 bedroom, 2 bath home in Folsom’s Broadstone subdivision. For additional information, call Elite Properties at (877) 735-5657, or call Mike directly at (916) 997-4086!

Beautiful Folsom Home

Location: Broadstone

This beautiful home in Folsom’s desirable Broadstone subdivision features a low maintenance yard. Fresh paint, granite slab counters in kitchen. Home is close to shopping and Freeway.

Features

Bedrooms: 3

Bathrooms: 2

Year Built: 1998

Subdivision: Broadstone

Lot Size: 5500sf

Garage Size: 2 car

School District: Folsom-Cordova

Square Footage: 1454

Agent Name: Mike Keleshian

Broker: Elite Properties

MLS #: 80017104

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Asking Price: $374,500

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1308 Tippens Way
Folsom, CA 95630
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VFLYER ID: 1529053

We’ve updated our listings database.  It was getting pretty long in the tooth there.

Most people who are users of our web site(s) probably don’t know it, but many of our web sites including this one, our Roseville real estate site and our Elite Properties company site actually rely on two different databases of listings.  When you use our search page, for example, you’re using a listings database that’s our IDX company gets from our Metrolist database.  These listings are updated daily, so when you do a search, you’re looking at listings that are within twenty-four hours of being as current as the ones that we as Realtors® can look at..

In addition to the search tools that our IDX company provides, however, we also wanted to allow you to browse for certain types of listings.  One thing our IDX system doesn’t do, for example, is show you short sales and foreclosures.  Because we don’t have direct access to the database our IDX company uses, we’ve created a second database that we can use in various ways.

For example, our foreclosure search page lets you search for foreclosures and short sales, or browse them by county.  Similarly our new homes section let’s you see homes that have just been built that are listed in the MLS, and our condo pages contain links to condos grouped by price and county.

As we mentioned above, we’ve also used this database on some of our other sites.  Many clients find us through our the maps of listings by zip code that we maintain on our company site.  These maps include zip codes in El Dorado County, Placer County, and Sacramento County.  Within each zip code you can find active listings and get recent market data.  We publish similar data for Placer County only on our Roseville site.

Unlike our IDX system, which is updated automatically on a daily basis, these other resources are updated manually as time permits.

We realize that from a software perspective, that’s not the brightest way to do it.  But if you’ve ever tried to get someone from Metrolist to call you back about a data feed, you probably have a good idea that it’s not half-dumb from an organizational perspective.

The good news is, it’s up to date now.  So as my wife is fond of saying, “Get your red hot houses here!”

Enjoy.

As most of you know if you’ve been reading this blog for a long time, like back in the dark ages when it was just boring old me and Purva had yet to pitch in to help out, for some time now I’ve been publishing certain listings here so people could browse them easily. 

Last year or thereabouts I consolidated how all those listings were imported and displayed, which helped out quite a bit.  The downside is that it’s still a pretty manual process, and sometimes I fall behind a bit.  Remind me to tell you the story some day of the time I called Metrolist to talk to the data import guy.  Oh, that’s the whole story, isn’t it?  He never called me back.  They’re pretty on top of things when it comes to sending out invoices, though, I’ve noticed.

Anyway, enough about me.  The point is, we have freshly picked listings covering the MLS as of today, which updates our:

• Condos in Sacramento, El Dorado, and Placer County
• New Home Listings
• Foreclosures and Short Sales

We’re showing 13,838 homes available in the tri-county area.  Give us a call and let us know which ones you want to see!

Enjoy.

We’ve just had a big price reduction on this beautiful 4 bedroom, 2 bath home in Placerville, California. This home sits on four acres of pine forest, and the back yard is the perfect place to enjoy this serenity from the huge deck surrounding a beautiful pool. The inside has many upgrades and is impeccably maintained, so it shows like a model home. We have the video and the online flyer below. To schedule a showing, call John Lockwood at (530) 672-9160 or Vicki Agregado-Babcock at (530) 409-1100.

Beautiful Four Bedroom Home With Pool on Acreage

Location: Pleasant Valley

This is a beautiful home on picturesque acreage. Plenty of room for a growing family or for vacation home with 1950 square feet and four bedrooms. Back yard features pool, a seasonal creek, and a large deck, with low maintenance landscaping and the smell of pines. Open floor plan with bright and lovely kitchen and a pantry. Plenty of parking and room for a boat or RV, etc. Large master bedroom with walk-in closet. Minutes from downtown and highway 50. Must see inside to appreciate.

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Asking Price: $349,900.00

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3400 Fort Jim Road
Placerville, CA 95667
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Bedrooms: 4

Bathrooms: 2

Parking: Ample

Year Built: 1999

Lot Size: 3.856

Garage Size: None

School District: Placerville Union

Square Footage: 1950

Agent Name: John Lockwood

Broker: Elite Properties

MLS #: 70087796

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VFLYER ID: 1243384

I’ve made some improvements and bug fixes to the Sacramento Foreclosure Search Page, and moved the search tool to the main page of the foreclosure section.

I want to thank Daniel Kenna for his excellent suggestions, and I’ve implemented some of those.  Along the way I found a lot of bugs, too, which I’ve tried to fix.  If you see any others, please let me know!

In making the change to the main foreclosure page I did something that my colleagues would probably find counter-intuitive:  I took a lead generating form down and replaced it with a free search tool.  

However, if my experience on the rest of the site is any guide, free search is the way to go.  In the first place, over and over again buyers have told me that they called me because they liked the registration free search tools.  In the second place, I’ve noticed that when I do put up a lead generation form for email updates of foreclosure listings or the like, I get to spend a lot of time working with folks who haven’t yet used the search tool enough to be ready to do anything.

Anyway, give it a whirl and let me know if you see any problems.

For some time now, we’ve had a Sacramento Foreclosures section where you could browse for Bank Owned Properties or Short Sales by county in El Dorado, Placer, and Sacramento County.

We’ve now added a Foreclosure Search Form to make it a little easier to:

• Select only in the areas you’re interested in, across all three counties.
• Narrow your selections by price range.

We’ve kept it really simple, but hopefully this basic functionality makes things a bit easier.  Please give it a try and let me know if you run into any problems!

I’ve updated our site home lists, including the sections for:

• Condos
• New Homes
• Foreclosures

Most of these sections are pretty much “browse only” as of now, but I plan to have a search tool in place for the foreclosures soon — probably some time this week.

A client once told me that it’d be nice to have such a thing for the new homes section as well, so I may tackle that this week as well.

Enjoy.

Those of you who do real estate searches from the either our main search page or many of our other search pages have access to listings that are updated six times per week.

I’m not sure why it’s six and not seven.  Presumably it’s to give FTP a Sabbath.  The point is, it’s practically daily, so it’s about as up to date as you can get without calling a Realtor up and asking him.

In addition to the search pages, there are also a lot of pages where you can browse listings, such as our foreclosure pages, the condos pages, and the new homes pages.  These pages are driven by a separate database that we maintain, that we update once per week or so.  We’ve recently improved the import mechanism on these pages to fix a few issues, so we expect these pages to more closely match our MLS (Metrolist) as time goes along.

We just did an import as well, so we’re pretty current as of now.  Enjoy!

We’ve improved our Sacramento Foreclosures portion of the site this morning with two enhancements.  First, if you scroll past the foreclosure listings offer, you’ll be rewarded with a set of foreclosure “Frequently Asked Questions”.  Actually, to be perfectly frank, I think the best questions here are the ones that aren’t frequently asked — and that may keep some people from ignoring the real opportunity that buying a foreclosure represents.  We’ve tried to answer those as well.

The second improvement is that we’ve now added Placer County and El Dorado County to the areas where you can browse short sales and bank owned foreclosures.  Those links are all available from the main foreclosure page, but for your convenience, here they are again:

Bank Owned Properties:

El Dorado County

Placer County

Sacramento County

Short Sales:

El Dorado County

Placer County

Sacramento County

PlOur seller’s just reduced the price over 10% on this beautiful home on almost four acres in Placerville.  You must see inside this home to appreciate it — model quality.  Seller is moving out of state and wants it SOLD, so give us a call at (530) 672-9160 for more information or a personalized showing.

Beautiful Home Among Stately Pines — Price Reduced

Location: Pleasant Valley

This beautiful manufactured home on peaceful acreage shows better than many “stick built” homes we’ve seen. Plenty of room for a growing family or for vacation home with 1950 square feet and four bedrooms. Back yard features pool, a seasonal creek, and a large deck, with low maintenance landscaping and the smell of pines. Open floor plan with bright and lovely kitchen and a pantry. Large master bedroom with walk-in closet. Minutes from downtown and highway 50. Don’t miss this one!

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Asking Price: $389,000.00

Property Location

3400 Fort Jim Road
Placerville, CA 95667
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Bedrooms: 4

Bathrooms: 2

Parking: Ample

Year Built: 1999

Lot Size: 3.856

Garage Size: None

School District: Placerville Union

Square Footage: 1950

Agent Name: John Lockwood

Broker: Elite Properties

MLS #: 70087796

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VFLYER ID: 1243384

Don’t forget to come and visit our beautiful listing in Placerville, being held open TODAY (Sunday, September 23rd) from 1PM to 4PM. The address again is 3400 Fort Jim Road, Placerville (map). This is a really beautiful 4 bedroom home with a pool on almost four quite, pine-studded acres.

Please join us and check out this wonderful home.  Check out the video and the online flier.

Note:  We’ll have free lists of other homes being held open in Western El Dorado County this Sunday, so come and stop by if you’re checking out the open houses this weekend.

Recently I’ve been reworking the foreclosure area of the web site and — as promised earlier — I’ve added a page of links where you can browse Sacramento Short Sale Listings. If you’re unfamiliar with Short Sales, what these are are sales where the sellers are “short” in the sense of not having enough cash to sell, pay closing costs, and pay off the lender(s) they owe. So what happens is that you have to get approval from the bank, a process which is fairly time consuming.

That said, there are some bargains to be had in short sales, but (as we recently showed for Antelope and we’ll examine further in a future article), on average the discounts are better on bank owned properties.

We have two pieces of news about Susan Norris’s beautiful listing in Foresthill.

First, the price has been reduced to $495,000.

Secondly, Susan accompanied me to preview this listing today and take some photos, and so I can now attest that this home is every bit as gorgeous in person as it is in the photos. We were able to take a lot more pictures, some of which we’ve worked into a video slide show. If you’re in the market for an immaculate, 3/4 bedroom on almost an acre, we urge you to take a look at this one. The seller has kept this in immaculate condition.

We’ve also created a web site for the listing, http://www.5166ColdSpringsDrive.com.

We’ve changed the way we publish our video photo tours, using new software that lets us create a movie in a number of different formats. The good news for our clients is that we’re able to publish their video photo tours of their home more widely than ever before.

For example, today we published the video for our seller’s listing on 3400 Fort Jim Road to a number of online video hosts, including:

• Google Video
• Yahoo! Video

And of course, we’d be remiss if we didn’t also include it on YouTube.

In addition, we’ve published links to the video in our vFlyer ad for this property. The link in the lower left corner of the flyer now takes you to the video. What’s cool about having it here is that the video link also appears in the Craigslist ad (I won’t link to that here because it gets updated once per week, but I checked, and it’s there).

I will be holding 2792 Sterling Way in Cameron Park open this Saturday from 11 am - 1 pm.

We have a flyer for it here on the main site, but I wanted to reiterate. This is a two story four bedroom (all upstairs) two and a half bath home (two full baths upstairs, one half bath downstairs) on a quarter acre lot. The kitchen has been completely remodeled with granite countertops and new stainless steel appliances.

The home also boasts a family room with a granite front fireplace and a bay window in the living room. All in all, it’s a great place to entertain family and friends. So stop by and take a peek!

Asking price $459,000.

Purva Brown just listed this beautiful home just a stone’s throw from my house.

Because it’s just down the street from me, I know that it’s in walking distance to a dog park, and even nicer, to Cameron Park Lake, which recently was the subject of my Cameron Park Lake video (based on my walk around the lake of the same name).

But seriously. You should live here. It works for me.

We recently listed a beautiful 4 bedroom, 2 bath home on over three acres of peaceful Placerville pine forest. This 1950 square foot home has a great back yard with a huge deck and pool that is ideal for entertaining. Inside, the seller’s pride of ownership and taste for decorating shows throughout. Please check out the video (below).

3400 Fort Jim Road, Placerville, CA 95667

I’m back from vacation and ready to go! A new listing is coming up tomorrow in Cameron Park. The sign might take a few days to install, but the home will be in the Metrolist MLS and here, of course. It’s a four bedroom, three bath home on a quarter acre lot. Terms are very negotiable, so be sure to take a look.

I will have a few Open Houses, especially since the weather has changed and buyers don’t immediately keel over from the heat once they step out of their cars. It’s fall. Great time to plant trees.

Now, don’t you want a nice big backyard for that tree?

This is one of the best homes we’ve listed in some time, and is definitely worth a look if you’re looking for an impeccably maintained home on acreage in Placerville at an affordable price.

Beautiful Home Among Peaceful Pines

Location: Pleasant Valley

This beautiful manufactured home on peaceful acreage shows better than many “stick built” homes we’ve seen. Plenty of room for a growing family or for vacation home with 1950 square feet and four bedrooms. Back yard features pool, a seasonal creek, and a large deck, with low maintenance landscaping and the smell of pines. Open floor plan with bright and lovely kitchen and a pantry. Large master bedroom with walk-in closet. Minutes from downtown and highway 50. Don’t miss this one!

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Asking Price: $430,000.00

Property Location

3400 Fort Jim Road
Placerville, CA 95667
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Bedrooms: 4

Bathrooms: 2

Parking: Ample

Year Built: 1999

Lot Size: 3.856

Garage Size: None

School District: Placerville Union

Square Footage: 1950

Agent Name: John Lockwood

Broker: Elite Properties

MLS #: 70087796

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VFLYER ID: 1243384

A listing that we just entered into VFlyer / Craigslist, etc. is Vicki Agregado’s beautiful townhome listing in Citrus Heights. I visited this listing with Vicki awhile ago and I was especially struck by what a nice setting it, on a shady cul de sac in front and with a large greenbelt in the back.  Check this one out.

Gorgeous 3 Bedroom Condo

Location: Crosswoods

This lovely townhome has great curb appeal with many oak trees and a feeling of privacy. This unit has 3 large bedrooms, newly tiled kitchen floors, inside laundry room, large living / dining combo, and a large deck for entertaining. Close to bike & walking trails.

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Asking Price: $359,000

Homeowner Dues: 270

Property Location

7060 San Jacinto Court
Citrus Heights, CA 95621
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Bedrooms: 3

Bathrooms: 2

Parking: 2 car attached garage

Year Built: 1980

Subdivision: Crosswoods 08

Located on Floor #: 1

Floors in Bldg: 2

School District: San Juan Unified

Square Footage: 1868

Agent Name: Vicki Babcock

Broker: Elite Properties

MLS #: 70015963

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