MLS#98459170 Short Sale 2722 Charlotte Boise, ID

Short Sale, Wonderful well kept home in newer neighborhood with a fully fenced back yard full auto sprinklers set up with pressurized irrigation.

Close to schools, shopping, and parks and airport. Features include: Split bedroom floor plan and a large kitchen/great room. The kitchen has breakfast bar, pantry, suspended soffits over counters, and a beautiful tiled backsplash. Floors in kitchen, eating area, and bathrooms are beautifully tiled. Large Master suite has soaker.

Perfect for the investor with renters currently in place until September of 2011.

Mastering your craft

Working Realtors now days must do the extra details of every aspect in dealing with your clients and customers in relation to real estate transactions. There is no rock that can go unturned.

This is especially true when you have out of town and out of State clients that buy in your area. If every Agent did the extra that it takes to make things easier for the average home buyer get the information they need it would not only sell the properties but would cut down time on the market for their listings.


Going the extra step means to have great detail of your property including many pictures and virtual tours. As a buyer agent it is my job to go and take more pictures if there are few or poor documentation. This may include taking video to post on YouTube! It simply doesn’t cut it any more to place information on the MLS and hope that it sells. Making it easy for out of area buying public to notice and get “feelings” about a property is the responsibility of the Realtors.

To me, full service means to give everything that I can to help the public visualize and dramatize the properties. Happy buying!

Home Sale Snapshot for January 2011

It is always a good indicator of the housing market to see what the first month of the year is doing. So far it is on track to be a fair year in home sales. Let’s break down the market sales to see how we are faring. These statistics are from the intermountain multiple listing services for the month of January 2011.

• 659 Single family residential (Houses)
• 55 Condo or townhome
• 8 other category, includes recreational and mobile home

Now for the sold prices

• $940,500 the high price sold
• $7,000 the low price sold
• $140,855 average price sold

Average days on market where 99
These statistics only reflect the homes sold with the multiple listing services.

The Big Game

As the weekend flew by, I did get to watch one of the best spectacles on TV, I am talking about of course the Super Bowl! I feel that I must go off topic for heartfelt congratulations to the Green Bay Packers, not just because I now work for a real estate company that is called Packers realty, but, I am a lifelong Packers fan.

The game itself was everything you could imagine a championship to be, the two best teams finally made the grade and didn’t disappoint anyone. Despite one of the worst halftime performances and the opening star spangled banner sung out of place, the game made up for everything.

When you look at the outcome it couldn’t have happened to a greater team. There was also class on the other side, the Pittsburg Steelers were a formidable opponent and played like a game should. In the end the Green bay Packers are a championship team that your kids can look up to.

Balanced Rock in Southern Idaho

Balanced Rock State park is located in the Southern part of Idaho.  It is a National Monument; the Rock is nearly 59 feet tall and only a little over 3 feet at the base.  Just a short drive from Castleford and Buhl, you will find a very nice and quiet park across the road to have a picnic.  

MLS# 98459170 - Income short sale for sale!

Wonderful well kept home in newer neighborhood with a fully fenced back yard full auto sprinklers set up with pressurized irrigation. Close to schools, shopping, and parks and airport.

Features include: Split bedroom floor plan, 3 bedrooms 2 bathroom and a very large 3 car garage and a large kitchen/great room. The kitchen has breakfast bar, pantry, suspended soffits over counters, and a beautiful tiled backsplash. Floors in kitchen, eating area, and bathrooms are beautifully tiled. Large Master suite has soaker tub, separate shower and double doors to access private covered patio. Current tenants at $850 / mo $142,000.00

Click on Link to view the youtube video tour!

What Home Buyers are shopping for!

With the glut of homes on the market home buyers are searching for bargains that can be found for reduced prices. Location used to be the term used by real estate professionals when describing the top list want of house buying clients. Now it has changed with market changes. Here are my top 5 wants of my buyers surveyed.

• Price (they like the low prices)

• Size (get as much as they can for the price)

• Number of bedrooms (more the better)

• Covenants and restrictions (they don’t want)

• Area (most have given in to get all of the above first)

As the market changes in the future the order of the wants and wishes of buyers looking will probably change again. For my recent buyers it is PRICE, PRICE, PRICE.