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  It is tomato season in Yolo County - the Pacific Coast Producer's cannery on East Main Street in Woodland is in full production with clouds of steam billowing out early this morning. Tomato trucks rumble down the highway and there are piles of tomatos where a loaded truck took a corner just a ...
08/27/2010
One of the main builders in Davis during the 60s and 70s was Stanley Davis Homes. In East Davis it sometimes seems as if *every* home is a Stanley Davis model. There are six models, all named after California counties. The Alpine is the only two story model, the El Dorado the only with a detached...
08/26/2010
I recently wrote about the Woodland, CA housing market and the role of short sales in that market. Homes in Active Short Sale or Contingent Short Sale status make up more than half of the Woodland housing market. Now let's look at Davis, 10 miles to the south. What a difference 10 miles makes! In...
08/26/2010
When the bubble burst new home building in Yolo County just about disappeared. Of course there have not been many new homes built in Davis for sometime (although the Willowbank Park project under way will bring some new and highly energy efficient homes to the market) but Woodland boomed with man...
08/25/2010
The quality of the public schools in Davis in Yolo County, Ca are a lure to parents concerned about the education of their children, and one of the factors keeping Davis home prices much higher than surrounding communities. A useful tool for those considering buying a home and wondering about the...
08/25/2010
In Woodland (in Yolo County, CA) over half of the homes available are short sales. We have 279 homes currently in an active status on our MLS, 146 of those are short sales. But what agents understand and most home buyers don't is that not all of those short sale listing are equally available. Of ...
08/24/2010
Fantastic news for Yolo County homeowners considering a short sale, via Elizabeth Weintraub's blog. I follow Elizabeth's blog because she is so on top of what is happening in short sales in California. In Woodland short sales are a large part of our business. I have had to tell potential sellers ...
08/23/2010
Several times in the past few months people coming through an open house have mentioned that their agents are not willing to make offers for less than about 2 percent below list price. Last week one of these people said her agent made her feel like an idiot for wanting to make an offer 7 percent ...
08/23/2010
Sometimes I meet people who expect all of California to be like San Francisco or Los Angeles. It ain't so - Yolo County is mostly farmland and Woodland, the county seat, is still in many ways a farm town at heart. There are families who have been here a century and more, and sometimes it still f...
08/23/2010
I try to be good about returning phone calls promptly but I know I don't always succeed. If I'm out for the afternoon showing houses and I know I need to return calls I'll try to sneak in at least a quick call back, if only to apologize and explain I will be calling later. But I was reminded this...
08/20/2010
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