Thanksgiving!

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Here is my new listing, just a great little starter home!





This adorable little 3 bedroom 2 bath home has more space than you think! Extra long driveway to two car garage plus 2 additional rooms off the garage and a workshop with laundry hook-ups! Natural gas hooked up to the property. It has a very nice little covered patio in the backyard.

It has happened, the holidays are rapidly approaching and full scale chaos is just around the corner. Thanksgiving is next week and the kids are coming home! - AAUGH! I'm not saying that I don't relish this chance to see the babies and the kids and have everyone all together, in fact that the very best part - the AAUUGHH is for all the work to do before this happens. You know what I'm talking about. The carpets have to be cleaned. The shower in the second bath which hasn't worked in months has to be fixed. Babies and toddlers will be in the house - which is definetly NOT childproof! - I don't worry about them breaking stuff, I worry about them eating stuff. Stuff that I would never consider eating, babies and toddlers will eat.
I did seriously consider taking a suite at a nearby resort, but ruled out that option. The only other option is to clean like mad, crawl around my home and put stuff away and clean it again.

One year, when I was a newly familied young person, my mother decided that we would all just rent a three bedroom in a resort in Oceanside. We had our Thanksgiving dinner at this really posh resaurant and me, my husband and our baby girl joined with my parents and yournger sister eating at this huge table. My beautiful baby girl didn't like her dinner. In fact, she hated it, she hated the restaurant, she probably hated the little fluffly dress I had her in and she wanted to make sure the whole restaurant knew it. She THREW her plate across the room like a champion frizbee player. Yup, everyone in the restaurant knew.

The thing about Thanksgiving is that real families can be really messy. Literally and metaphorically.  That was the last time I took my Thanksgiving public. So, here we are.

Usually, Thanksgiving at my house is pretty tame. We all sit around eating too much and talking all at once, I look around the table at all the different personalities and all the beautiful people who sit around me and I feel so very blessed. I'm always the one who gets all emo when we say our thanks. Thanksgiving really is my favorite holiday. No expectations really, feed everyone and be together. That's all.

So, although I still have a lot of work to do at my house this week, I know it's all going to be worth it.
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you.

Meanwhile Real Estate keeps going. Only 714 Active, residential listings in Shasta MLS, 287 of those in Redding. If you want a bargain, there are only 12 homes priced under 100K.

Way Too Much Coffee Today

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A long gated private driveway leads to this impressively designed home featuring master bedroom suite on ground floor. 1 half bath designed for pool use, the other for guests on main floor. 3 other bedrooms, bonus room (currently used as office) & 2 full baths located on upper level. 2 large walk-in closet in master, area to build shop to west of current parking area. See supplement for more...
Granite slab island and granite tiled counter-tops are highlighted by stainless steel appliances. Maple cabinetry throughout combines with durable blond ash flooring in traffic areas & marble floors in 2 baths. Home feels comfortable with formal dining and nook eating areas. A quaint living room could house a grand piano. This is not the same-o-same-o design as one north wall is 2X8 construction with beautiful arches highlighted by unusual lighting fixtures throughout. The home has the benefit of a master cool system in addition to air conditioning.

You know, I'm a real sucker for a great backyard! - I love backyards more than interiors. The saddest time for me is when I can't go outside anymore because of the weather. I need a covered patio at least so I can sit outside and enjoy the rain.  It seems like a really long time since it last rained here. I know about the drought and all that and I'm pretty sure I did a fair amount of complaining in earlier posts about the rain, but I'm ready now - it can rain. - This house has an awesome backyard - I mean the house isn't anything to complain about for sure - but look at the yard!!!! ( wow just read that back - way too much coffee today)

Ok - I was thinking maybe I'm not giving value here in my blog - too much nonsense maybe - My big girl says more pictures! More Video! - Still working on that video angle... So - there's another picture...

Can you say "Inventory Shortage"? It's getting quite dire out there - 727 Residential listings on Todays MLS, 276 in Redding - Average sales price for Sept 2012 was $200,633 - up from last years average of $176,876 for the same time. But, it's deeper than that. Homes priced on the low $100K range are few and far between right now - competition is fierce for those. - 11 offers on a house I looked at today which came on the market 8 days ago.( And it was priced at $185K!) Too late. Homes priced about 300K are in demand but there are limited options available. Interest rates are crazy wicked low right now too, 3.4% or ish there. - that means a 200K home that had an interest rate of 5% was costing $1073.65 per month and now at 3.4% it costs $886.96 per month  (excluding taxes and insurance - blah blah disclaimer)  Now you can afford more home for less money. (See my Facebook for a great article on lending guidelines I found.)

I was going to tell you how much Today' Featured Listing would cost but then I would have to take up a whole other blog site with the disclaimers so - I'll say this - email mark.stander@mortgagefamily.com if you really want to know. and of course email me at Rockstarrealtor77@Gmail.com if you want to see it!

Dreams of Glory

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This spectacular ranch style home in Palo Cedro sits on a fully fenced 5 acre lot. This home has a gourmet kitchen with granite counters and stainless steel appliances. Hand scraped hickory hard wood floors run throughout the home. Newly upgraded master bedroom/bathroom, beautiful tile/glass shower and Jacuzzi bathtub along with separate vanities & large walk in closet. Large 3 bedrooms, den,

an abundance of storage space. Backyard features pool, built in BBQ and competition size horseshoe pit, perfect for entertaining or just to escape! Outdoors also includes 4 stall barn, 2 car garage plus 2 car detached shop A must see home!

Well, it has just been a flurry of activity here since I came back from Hawaii. At first it was really hard to get back into to grove. Then, I finally seemed to hit my stride again. But - now the hard part...It's football season. I am a really die-hard football fan. My team is of course the San Francisco Fourty-niners who I have had a love-hate relationship with for the past ahem..cough..many years. But really, I'll watch all the teams. Of course, I'm not a fan of the arch nemesis of most 49er fans - the Oakland traitors - I mean Raiders but I will stay and watch them lose. The past two seasons for the 49ers have put hope back into my heart for the return to glory of this team. So, if you try to track me down on Thursday evening, Sundays or Monday evenings you know where I am. Parked in my living room - on my sofa.

The market has not slowed down at all here, it seems to be picking up momentum daily actually. There are 741 Active residential listings in Shasta MLS today, 279 of those are in Redding. Of the listings in Redding - I think it's interesting to pint out that only 12 of those are under 100K and the majority of those listings are between 200-350K!
33 Bank owned and 52 shortsales on the market today.

Call me to list your house today! We need more inventory!