MegaMillions!

Todays Featured Listing

This home is one you can purchase with your MegaMillions winning Lotto ticket! This home is a nature lovers paradise on a lake. It has great lake views from the wrap around porches.Designed by an architect, it has an open concept with an in law set up, split floor plan.Wood floors and a huge kitchen, it's own elevator & large master suite on its own level. Big, beautiful backyard with green house, pool & spa.This home has solar power that meets all its electrical needs.The property is currently 2 parcels & can be further subdivided. So, Saturday morning give me a call and we'll go get it for you! Hahaha!

Seriously, if I won the MegaMillions (can you believe I started this sentence with "seriously"?) - and I did actually buy a ticket today, I would have a hard time grasping my mind around that kind of money. Would it change me - absolutely! - It will change anyone! Friends will come out of the woodwork! Charities will beseech you, relatives will find you! I think yours and my best option is to disappear for a bit. Figure out what to do with all that money. Relax on a trip around the world. If you could live ANYWHERE in the world - where would you live? If you could drive any CAR in the world what would you drive? Would you still drive? Would you hire a chauffeur? What would your house look like?


So, when I win the MegaMillions, I'm going to buy a plane ticket. - Oh crud! - I don't have a Passport! - Ugh! - It's okay though, I can go to San Francisco or Sacramento and get an emergency one. Okay so, now I have my passport. Whew!  I'm buying a plane ticket to....hmm....Sandals Beach Resort - No... Hmm, more research needed here - okay - I'm going to Round Hill Hotel and Villas in Montego Bay, Jamaica! Oops, now you all know where to find me. - Okay then, meet me there and we'll have a whole lot of Rum - My treat!


11 new listings today and 15 Pendings! Get them while they're HOT! - And Good Luck! - Don't forget though, you cant win the Lotto unless you buy a ticket! - 

Chicken or the Egg?

Today's Featured Listing





This large home sits on a beautiful setting on Millseat Creek, with living room, family room, updated kitchen featuring Corian counters, gas fireplace, small work shop, single wide mobile that would be great for guests or in-laws. Click on the link above for a virtual tour.


So, Chicken or the Egg? Which came first? Same goes for List or Buy? Should you pick out your new home before you list your old one, or should you list your old one and then buy a new one? There are benefits to either direction although I know which one I prefer. If you wait to sell your home until you find one you would like to buy, you run the risk of not selling your home in time. This would be what we call a "contingent" offer. A buyer is making an offer to purchase contingent upon the sale of their home. The seller in this case would have to agree to wait until the buyers home sold to have their home sold. Some sellers are reluctant to do this. The average home sits on the market for 131 days, citing Shasta MLS for Feb. 2012. Now conversely, if you list your home and wait until you have an offer before looking for a home to buy, you run the risk of a couple of things. First, the home you want to buy may have multiple offers - doh! You may not get it. You may have to start over. Secondly, my average is 3- 6 months to find and close that perfect home for a buyer. This seems like a long time - but with all the bank -owned deals out there, the Short Sales", repair work, loan delays, etc. It really takes that long. The average buyer is looking for a home 12-18 months before they actually call a Realtor or agent. If you wait to buy until you have your home listed you have more buying power. You know what you can afford. You know your home is sold. You can always try to negotiate to "rent back" from your buyers if the worst case happens and you can't find a new home. So, what do you do? Decide which works best for YOU.


Today there were 21 new listings and 10 pendings. 735 total residential listings.


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Today's featured home has incredible views! This westside home offers a gated entry into a serene setting on 3 acres. You'll enjoy this nicely designed 3/2 with a granite kitchen, hardwood floors & lots of natural lighting. Very spacious master suite offers a private balcony to take in the views! Set up for entertaining inside & out. Relax, take in the breezes under the covered patio & the beautiful pool.  Its so new I don't have the virtual tour yet!


So on a different note, a little background here, when my baby girl was 4, I bought her a Barbie Jeep. It was one of those PowerWheel  thingies that was pink and white and had a pretend phone where Barbie would call and say "Lets go shopping." She loved that silly little jeep. She would ride up and down the block with her little best friend or her brother and pretend to go shopping or wherever her little 4 year old brain told her she was going. It was the cutest thing to watch her in that Jeep. All our neighbors would gather outside, we would gossip and watch the kids all play. Anyways, she played with that Jeep for years - it was the best $189 I ever spent. Today, as I was heading to work, my baby girl was in her very own Jetta driving right behind me on her way to school. *Sigh*. She had her best friend with her. So weird when it was just last week she was in the Barbie Jeep. 


Today there are 20 new listings, including the one above, and 10 pending sales. Of the 743 Active listings in Shasta County for residential only 174 of those are bank owned or Short Sales. Weird huh? Just a little over 23%. This just goes to show that all Real Estate is local. Meaning what you hear on national news really doesn't apply to our market. Listening to the news or other media you would think that every home for sale now was distressed.