My Best Friend - the IPhone

     Today's Featured Listing

This home has 2866sf with 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, Minutes from fishing and boating on Shasta Lake. It sits on a large corner lot w/ample RV parking in front of and behind RV Gate. Wow - 2 RV"S - or Boak and RV - Large kitchen, Dining area off kitchen as well as formal dining room. Large living and separate family room. Inside laundry room with full bath, Guest bath has large walk in shower, Master Bath has walk in shower and garden tub. 


Well, it's been pretty hectic around here lately - which is good. Just plain good. Thought I'd share some good links with you today - shamelessly marketing my wares of course. We have a great website that allows you to take virtual tours of all of our properties listed, it is northstatehomeshow.com  - Also, You can do specific searches on My Website. You can also access my website by clicking on the "search for homes" tab at the top of this post. We also have a great Mobile AP - Gomobilensh.com that you can download to your SmartPhone. Wow - all these tools - just for you!


Let's talk about Smartphones now for a minute - Are you as addicted to yours as I am?? What in the begeebers did I ever do without it??? So, every night I tuck it in to its "cradle". In the morning, it's the first thing I reach for. If I forget to charge it , I cry. I have to have it with me and my coffee in the morning. - The funny part is that I have ZERO reception 90% of the time at my house. But I do have WIFI - AAAAAHHHHAAA... Kinda like taa-daa - but not sure how to spell AAAAAHHHHAAAA.... It has become a part of me, CRAZY! - I though when "cellphones" (showing my age here) came out that they were awesome but really! My IPhone is the coolest gadget EVER! I can take it with me and use the Map ap to figure out where in the Carmen Santiago I am. When I'm waiting in line anywhere - I can play a game - it tells me instantly if I have email - (that's why its fastest to email me) I can look at listings from outside the doors - The worst thing it can say to me is "battery power at 10%" - Ugh! - Really this little tool is my bestest buddy. God save me when I get the IPhone4. I'm really afraid to get the IPad. Alrighty I'm digressing here a bit but if any of you want to play Words with Friends my user name is Maddness77 - let's go!!!



Only 755 Residential listings in Shasta MLS today. 273 in Redding.
48 under 150K, 19 under 100K - I did hear that HUD may be releasing some homes in August so Investors and 1st time home buyers stay tuned. As for you sellers - Let's get those homes listed!

Little Ducky

Today's Featured Listing

Fulfill the dreams of the entire family! Room to run and play. A large shop with really Big RV space and a brand new kitchen. New carpet, new counters, koi pond with water feature,  tube lights for energy efficiency, just shy of a half acre in town but located in the County. You won't be disappointed!

I like this listing. It has a lot of really nice features - I can picture myself or someone like me in the backyard surrounded by the trees, listening to the sounds from the waterfall, feeding the fishies, reading a good book. - Call me and I'd love to show it to you!


On the homefront here, my baby girl is now all safefy installed in her new apartment in San Francisco. Ugh. The boys took over her room in about an hour and have now dubbed it their "Man-Cave". Baby girl left all her posters and goodies on the walls though to remind me of her and I won't let the boys take them dowm. So, now I'm the minority in my house. The guys have taken over - I really think I should go crash with the baby girl. Too much testosterone in my house now. The remote hasn't been in my hands for the last 4 days!

It's hard when kids leave home - after we got all her stuff unpacked in her new place, I went to leave (like a band-aid you know- rip it off!) She was pretending to be a baby duck saying "Mamama Mama...quack quack" I lost it totally then!  I keep thinking that I haven't finished teaching her stuff - that I didn't spend enough time with her. What if she gets lonely? What if I get lonely. I've probably talked to her more though in the last four days - on the phone - than I have in the last two years. Do you think that teen-agers purposely distance themselves in the year before they ditch you? I do. I know that my oldest - the one in Italy. talks to me constantly - we Skype almost everyday. When she was home she locked herself in her room, only coming out to say - "See ya... be home late!"  Before my oldest son moved to Humboldt I never saw him (he's home for the summer though). There is a coming to grips here that I'm going through - They have to start their own lives now. My turn is over. I have to trust that they will be alright. That they will make their own mistakes and achieve their own dreams on their own now. *Sigh*

Okay -  Real Estate - that's why we are all here right? Stats given today say that there is only a 28 day supply of homes available under 100K in Shasta County MLS. Wow! Think the time your kids take to grow up goes fast? Buyers really have to jump quickly right now.

765 Residential listings in Sahast MLS, 272 in Redding. 19 - Yup not a typo- NINETEEN under 100K - 27 - Twenty-Seven between 100-150K - WOW. Talk about leaving the nest! Sellers - Buyers are having bidding wars! Investors - sell those flips! Call me and I'll get it listed for you and SOLD!

Cat in a Bowl

Todays Featured Listing

Today's listing is mine - back on the market - Yup - buyers backed out. Why? I'm not sure but I'm pretty sure they just changed their mind. Can you do that? Sure! As long as it's whithin the first 17 days (typically) the buyers can back out for really ANY reason whatsoever. My sellers are pretty bummed - I'm bummed. Guess what? We'll sell it again. Now all of you have a chance to buy it! I get to have an Open House! You can come!  Hahaha!

This is what Real Estate can do - transactions can be cancelled - buyers and sellers and banks can back out - just when you (the real estate agent) thought it was safe ... BAMM!

I always think that when one door closes another one opens and that is usually what happens. Thats's all part of the fun around here.

So - Let's talk about something good - It's sunny outside. it's 94 degrees with a breeze. My family is in good health - I woke up alive today. I haven't watched the news or read a paper in about a week so as long as there is still a planet out there that I'm on - its all good! It has been Super busy! I'm going to San Francisco this weekend - the baby girl is moving out - Oh wait - I said something good to talk about - Let's not talk about her leaving then - It bumms me out.


ok - picture for the day now...



It's my cat - in my candy bowl - It's a big bowl because there was a lot of Easter candy in it - The candy is all gone now obviously. For a whole week she was laying in the bowl whenever she could and I didn't have the heart to move the bowl. One time she got on this cabinet kick - that wasn't cool! - She decided she liked sleeping in the dish cabinet - with my dinner plates - on..my...dinner..plates - She figured out how to open the doors and climb in... Thank God She quit that!


749 residential listings in Shasta County MLS - down quite a bit from last week. 258 of those are in Redding.

Nifty Little Chart

Today's Featured Listing






My daughter, the critic, who incidentally has gotten herself involved in the Rome, Italy, Real Estate market, says that I need more pictures on  the blog. So there - I put TWO!

Mama - don't let your babies grow up to be Realtors.  They'll never come home, they always will roam...
ok - my signing voice is TERRIBLE so I'll stop there. Spare you all the pain and the anguish of it.

Did I ever mention my mother was a Realtor too? Yup in Hawaii. For about 8 months. Took her longer to study for the test tan she actually worked in it!


Today's featured listing is a 3 bedroom 2 bath and has living and dining area plus a huge custom recreation room. Corian kitchen counter tops. Granite in bath. Outside has all weather siding. Beautifully landscaped front and back with rock walkways, gazebo. Covered patio. RV access.


I don't know why we need to mention Living area - I mean, yea, some houses don't have a dining area it can be just an area in the kitchen so it's  good to mention but shouldn't ALL houses have a living area? I mean we mean for them to be LIVED in so why do we have to say it? Isn't it implied?


Well the Redding Real Estate Market is HOT! For once I'm not talking about the temperature outside. Got a report that for May 2012 saying that there was only a 26 day supply of homes in Redding from 100K-200K!
Here's the nifty little chart I got:

Time Period	Area	Average Sale Price	Average Price/SF	Price/SF 0 – 10 Yrs	Price/SF 10 – 30 Yrs	Price/SF 30+ Yrs
Q3 2011	Redding	195,797	107.01	128.68	115.07	87.89
Q4 2011	Redding	181,025	103.01	123.41	111.69	86.14
Q1 2012	Redding	191,593	104.80	137.12	108.37	86.49
Apr/May 2012	Redding	185,999	104.60	130.85	112.03	87.14

HA! - It worked - Went over the edges a bit - but it worked. I love cut and paste. I also love charts - don't know why - just something really interesting about them - almost better than a good novel. Almost.


WOWWY!  262 total residential listings in Redding today 13 under 100K! 762 total residential in Shasta County. So, get ready for the summer selling season! Alrighty - Ta-ta for now! Thanks!