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1835 Drendel Circle. Paradise, CA 95969 Location: Paradise, CA Looking for a project? Have some elbow grease to spare?? They just don't come priced better than this one. Better take a look ... it'll be gone before you know it! Total fixer on a very large, fenced lot. New leach field will be in place prior to close. Information Contact Information Sandi Bauman 530-864-5407 Pricing Asking Price: $114,900.00 Property Location 1835 DRENDEL CIRCLE Paradise, CA 95969 Links Search For Additional Paradise Foreclosures Features Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 2 Year Built: 1956 Lot Size: .43 Garage Size: Attached-1 Square Footage: 1241 Agent Name: Sandi Bauman Broker: Chico Homes MLS #: 200802329 Attributes Interior Amenities Fireplace Hardwood Floors Exterior Amenities Patio Fenced Yard Grass Lawn Powered by vFlyer.com EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY VFLYER ID: 1623464

Foreclosures: What you should know BEFORE you make an offer, Part 1

Foreclosures: What you should know BEFORE you make an offer, Part 2

Foreclosures: What you should know BEFORE you make an offer, Part 3

Chico, California Foreclosures and West Nile Virus

Search for ALL area foreclosure listings! Chico Home Search

Chico CA Foreclosure! Don't walk.... RUN! Location: Chico, CA Almost too good to be true! Super clean, move-in ready 3 bedroom, 2 bath home with a formal dining room, inside laundry and attached garage. Built in 1989, the price just can't be beat! If you are looking for a no-hassle, ready-to-go investment, this is IT. , Information Contact Information Sandi Bauman 530-864-5407 Pricing Asking Price: $179,900.00 Flexibility: Negotiable Property Location 1527 B Street Chico, CA 95928 Links More Chico CA Foreclosures Features Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Parking: 2 Year Built: 1989 Lot Size: .1 Garage Size: 1 Square Footage: 1108 Agent Name: Sandi Bauman Broker: Chico Homes MLS #: 200802607 Attributes Appliances Range/Oven Sink Disposal Interior Amenities Fireplace Inside Laundry Formal Dining Room Exterior Amenities Fenced Yard Grass Lawn Powered by vFlyer.com EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY VFLYER ID: 1562970 Photo Gallery Living room Cozy woodstove Dining room Kitchen Inside laundry Kitchen Garage Bath Bedroom Powered by vFlyer.com EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY VFLYER ID: 1562970

Foreclosures: What you should know BEFORE you make an offer, Part 1

Foreclosures: What you should know BEFORE you make an offer, Part 2

Foreclosures: What you should know BEFORE you make an offer, Part 3

Chico, California Foreclosures and West Nile Virus

Search for ALL area foreclosure listings! Chico Home Search

1115 Nunneley RD, Paradise, CA 95969 Location: Clark Road Come take a look at this large treed lot in a convenient Paradise location. With 3 bedrooms, 2 baths a work area/ carport and a very large shop, there is a LOT of opportunity awaiting a buyer with some elbow grease. Features Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Year Built: 1950 Lot Size: .48 Acres Garage Size: Attached-1 School District: Paradise Unified Square Footage: 1626 Agent Name: Sandi Bauman Broker: Chico Homes MLS #: 200802143 Information Contact Information Sandi Bauman 530-864-5407 Pricing Asking Price: $114,900.00 Property Location 1115 NUNNELEY RD Paradise, CA 95926 Links Chico Real Estate Listings Attributes Interior Amenities Fireplace Exterior Amenities Patio Powered by vFlyer.com EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY VFLYER ID: 1616017 Photo Gallery Screened in Patio Area Screened in Patio Area Screened in Patio Area Large Yard With Mature Trees Large Detached Garage/ Shop Attached 1 Car Garage Powered by vFlyer.com EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY VFLYER ID: 1616017

Foreclosures: What you should know BEFORE you make an offer, Part 1

Foreclosures: What you should know BEFORE you make an offer, Part 2

Foreclosures: What you should know BEFORE you make an offer, Part 3

Chico, California Foreclosures and West Nile Virus

Search for ALL area foreclosure listings! Chico Home Search

2 Unit Duplex, Great Investment Property Location: Chico, CA College rental!! Don't let this one get away... the location just can't be beat. A cute, single family residence with a garage conversion in back that makes for a nice one bed, 1 bath studio. This property is 1 of 3 parcels that the owner would love to sell as a package deal, although each could be purchased separately. Information Contact Information Sandi Bauman 530-864-5407 Pricing Asking Price: $240,000.00 Property Location 635 and 635 1/2 CHESTNUT Chico, CA 95928 Links Search Additional Chico Real Estate Listings Features Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 1 Year Built: 1927 Lot Size: .o9 Acres Square Footage: 1196 Agent Name: Sandi Bauman Broker: Chico Homes MLS #: 200803208 Powered by vFlyer.com EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY VFLYER ID: 1616509 Photo Gallery Powered by vFlyer.com EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY VFLYER ID: 1616509

Foreclosures: What you should know BEFORE you make an offer, Part 1

Foreclosures: What you should know BEFORE you make an offer, Part 2

Foreclosures: What you should know BEFORE you make an offer, Part 3

Chico, California Foreclosures and West Nile Virus

Search for ALL area foreclosure listings! Chico Home Search

852 Lindo Lane Chico, CA Location: Chico, CA This property will be irresistible for those savvy investors looking for a GREAT fixer. Lots of square footage here for the money! Located on a great big fenced lot in town, on a wide, shady street. Original hardwood, some newer windows, and 3 bonus rooms. Information Contact Information Sandi Bauman 530-864-5407 Pricing Asking Price: $209,900.00 Property Location 852 Lindo Lane Chico, CA Links Search for Additional Chico Foreclosures Features Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 1.25 Year Built: 1950 Lot Size: .34 Acres Garage Size: Converted Square Footage: 1398 Agent Name: Sandi Bauman Broker: Chico Homes MLS #: 200803746 Attributes Interior Amenities Hardwood Floors Exterior Amenities Patio Fenced Yard Grass Lawn Powered by vFlyer.com EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY VFLYER ID: 1620566 Photo Gallery Powered by vFlyer.com EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY VFLYER ID: 1620566

Foreclosures: What you should know BEFORE you make an offer, Part 1

Foreclosures: What you should know BEFORE you make an offer, Part 2

Foreclosures: What you should know BEFORE you make an offer, Part 3

Chico, California Foreclosures and West Nile Virus

News Release

BAUMAN ATTENDS SPECIAL TRAINING,

BUILDS EXPERTISE IN CHICO LUXURY HOME MARKET

Chico, CA 4/14/2008 -- Sandi Bauman with Chico Homes recently completed a luxury home marketing training course. The Institute for Luxury Home Marketing provided the Certified Luxury Home Marketing Specialist training.

The course - which covered such topics as demographics of the affluent, lifestyle segmentation, trends and amenities in today’s luxury home product, and creating a marketing plan for the multimillion dollar property – was taught by Laurie Moore-Moore, President of the Dallas-based Institute and author of the book, “Rich Buyer, Rich Seller! The Real Estate Agents’ Guide to Marketing Luxury Homes.”

“The course is a step towards earning the prestigious Certified Luxury Home Marketing Specialist (CLHMS) designation which The Institute awards internationally to sales professionals who meet performance standards in the upper-tier residential market,” said Moore-Moore. Sandi Bauman is an example of a sales associate who has earned the CLHMS designation, and who works to hone the special skills and competencies necessary to provide exceptional service in the fine homes and estates marketplace.”

Bauman is an award-winning sales associate who has been in real estate since 2005 and specializes in the Chico/Paradise residential market. She has been the top producing listing and selling agent at Chico Homes each year, servicing relocating buyers and sellers, investors, first time home buyers, and is highly active in the foreclosure market. Visit her blogsite “The Pink Couch” at www.ChicoHomeSearch.net.

“The training provided new insight about the upper tier market, helped me polish my skills, and provided valuable networking contacts with other agents across the country who specialize in luxury properties,” said Bauman. “In addition, I discovered new and creative tools for promoting expensive homes and estates and new resources for finding buyer prospects. Home buyers and sellers will benefit from my new knowledge.”

For current information on the Chico luxury homes market, contact Sandi Bauman at Chico Homes, 530-864-5407 or email sandibauman@sbcglobal.net

 by Mike Wiegert

While the rest of the world continues to shroud itself in a cloak of doom and gloom, our Chico real estate market appears ready, able and willing to go to the 15^th round.

All type of media ranging from the daily newspaper to “expert” fiscal commentaries on various internet news services to regional and local blog sites are all assuming the role of a sort of economic Edgar Allen Poe. I can’t speak for everyone, but I’m not just tired. I’m exhausted, wiped out and drained by all the tales of woe that doomsayers consider newsworthy.

It’s time to stop assuming that just because a home down the street went through a foreclosure that this is the end of Chico real estate as we know it. As pointed out in previous “moments”, foreclosure sales nationwide only amount to seven tenths of one percent of all the households in our country. Due to the reseting of adjustable rate loans and a subsequent inability to pay by the borrowers on these loans, the rate of foreclosures is certain to rise. But with all the government and banking industry sponsored programs to assist these troubled homeowners, any foreclosure rates increases are assured to be negligible.

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by Mike Wiegert  (Sandi's broker at Chico Homes)

There’s a lot of talk in the news these days about the end of the housing slump, home prices stabilizing and increases in real estate sales activity in the West. Last week while speaking at a banking conference in Tokyo, former Federal Reserve Chief and guru Alan Greenspan announced that he expects an end to the drop of U.S. home prices by early in 2009. Greenspan added that as housing inventory is reduced, “it is very likely that home prices will stabilize well before that.”

In nearby Sacramento county, an area among the highest in U.S. foreclosures, a recent survey of 1200 residents indicated that 63 percent believe that now is a good time to buy a home. The study conducted by Sacramento State University’s Institute for Social Research fine tunes the data by stating that 47 percent believe that now is the right time to buy and 16 percent believe that between now and six months will be the best time to buy. Additional, less than comforting information, is that 58 percent said that they have concerns that their income will be insufficient to cover their expenses.

Outskirt communities of San Diego County such as Oceanside, Escondido, Valley Center and Ramona are experiencing a burst of new activity as buyers and investors take advantage of significantly lowered home prices. Brian Crisp, a San Diego broker has stated in the North County Times that investors are pouncing on deals....

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With interest rates continuing to hold in the mid to high fives, this in a fantastic time to buy real estate in Chico, CA!