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Win a FREE Natural Hazards Disclosure Report: A Christmas Gift from The Sacramento Appraisal Blog

November 30, 2009 in Uncategorized | No comments

Dear Local Home Owners, Real Estate Agents, Loan Officers & Attorneys:

The Sacramento Appraisal Blog is hosting a little contest for you, and the prize is a free $125.00 Residential Natural Hazard & Tax Disclosure Report by GeoAssurance. It’s what you wanted for Christmas, right?

gift_certificateThese types of reports are beefy in detail and help you get the skinny on hazards surrounding your property. GeoAssurance provides top-notch research, and you can use their report for any local residential property you want, whether for business or personal use (or for a friend or family member).

All you have to do is comment on THIS blog post or tweet the following message: ”Christmas Contest from @SacAppraiser: FREE Natural Hazards Report http://bit.ly/7BKVzX”

Contest Rules & Details:

  1. Home Owners, Realtors, real estate agents, loan officers and attorneys may participate (future home owners too).
  2. twitterYou must live in or do business in one of the following California counties: Sacramento, Placer, Yolo, El Dorado, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Merced, Yuba, Sutter, or Solano.
  3. All you need to do to enter the contest is leave one comment on THIS blog post. Each person only gets one entry, but if you have a Twitter account like me and you re-tweet the post, you can have two chances to win (blog comment and tweet).  Please re-tweet by manually clicking the re-tweet button on the post, or manually tweet the following message: “Christmas Contest from @SacAppraiser: FREE Natural Hazards Report http://bit.ly/7BKVzX”
  4. The NHD report applies to residential properties only and will be good for one residential property located in one of the aforementioned counties. Use the report for personal use, for a friend, or for business – whatever you want. Read HERE for more information on what the NHD Report includes.
  5. The winner’s name and contact information will be passed on promptly to GeoAssurance and they will contact you.
  6. A winner will be selected on December 21, 2009 at 3pm PST and announced here and on Twitter so long as there is at least a combined total of 50 blog comments and tweets. If there is not a total of 50 entries by then, the deadline will be extended. Email your local friends and everyone in your office though and the goal can be met easily.
  7. Please make sure I know how to contact you. If you do not provide accurate contact information, someone else will be selected. If you are on Twitter, no problem because I’ll tweet you to let you know you won. If you leave a comment below, just smlogo-234make sure your email address is accurate because I will contact you by email (your email address will not be visible in the actual comment you leave, but will be private between me and you).

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask. And while you’re here, have a look around the Sacramento Appraisal Blog and subscribe to our RSS feed or get posts emailed to you directly by entering your email just below the banner in the upper right corner of this page. Email ryan@lundquistcompany.com, contact me on Twitter at @SacAppraiser or call 916-595-3735. 

This should be fun!!! Good luck to you!!!

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The Speed of Pitching for the Los Angeles Angels: ALCS 10-25-09

October 26, 2009 in Uncategorized | No comments

I make trend graphs for my real estate appraisal work nearly every day on the job, and since I’m a huge baseball fan, I figured I’d make a scatter graph of the speed of pitches for the Los Angeles Angels during the last game of the American League Championship Series on 10-25-09. I know, it sounds a bit geeky, but when I get a random idea like this, sometimes I just have to make it happen. I would have also plotted the New York Yankees, but Fox did not display pitch speed for the Yankees’ entire first inning, and I was also feeling like tracking two teams was going to be way too tedious for a relaxing Sunday evening. Here is what I came up with:

Speed of Los Angeles Angels Pitching 10-25-09 American League Championship Series

If you notice, there is a gap of data between pitch 23 and 35, and that is because Fox did NOT supply the data for whatever reason. It seemed that most of the time Fox displayed pitch speed, but oddly they missed nearly all of the second inning for the Angels (as well as the first inning for the Yankees). You’ll also notice I missed a few pitches on accident (17, 123) and that during the 8th inning I called it quits. Between spending time with family, having two toddlers running around, and getting tired of watching more intently than I usually do, I figured it was time to hang up my MLB statistician hat and simply enjoy the rest of the game.

Key Points:

  • The spread of speed varied by about 20 mph.
  • Joe Saunders pitched from pitch 1 to pitch 115.
  • Ervin Santana pitched from pitch 116 to 130.
  • In the 8th inning when I called it quits, there were two more pitchers from the Angels who went to the mound (Scott Kazmir & Jered Weaver).

This was just for fun. Feel free to comment if you’d like. Or if you have any ideas for what sort of baseball stat I might experiment with graphing during the World Series, let me know what you think.

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What is the Unemployment Rate in El Dorado County for July 2009?

September 11, 2009 in Uncategorized | No comments

el dorado countyThe Employment Development Department publishes unemployment rates on a monthly basis. The most recent rates available are for July 2009. EDD usually takes about three weeks or so to publish data from the previous month, so rates for August should be out in the next ten days.

The overall rate of unemployment in El Dorado County is 11.8%. If you have interest to compare other county/city unemployment rates, see previous posts on Sacramento, Placer, and San Joaquin & Solano counties.

Cameron Park CDP   8.2%

Diamond Springs CDP   14.5%

El Dorado Hills CDP    7.0%

Georgetown CDP   20.0%

Placerville city   17.2%

Pollock Pines CDP   13.3%

Shingle Springs CDP   8.7%

South Lake Tahoe city   15.8%

Please let me know if you have any questions. You are welcome to call me at 916-595-3735 or email at ryan@lundquistcompany.com.

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Real Estate Market Trends in the Tahoe Park Neighborhood in Sacramento

August 5, 2009 in Market Trends, Sacramento, Tahoe Park, Uncategorized | 1 comment

“Tahoe Park” is an area of Sacramento off of Highway 50 and 65th street in the 95820 zip code (with one portion of the neighborhood in the 95817 zip code). The neighborhood consists mostly of single family detached ranch-style houses (some multi-units and occasional 2-story houses) and can be described with five portions as shown below. A previous post goes into detail about each of these portions.

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What’s been happening in the Tahoe Park real estate market? What are properties selling for? Let’s take a look at the past three years of sales. What do you notice?

Tahoe Park Neighborhood in Sacramento Past 3 Years of Sales

Now let’s consider the past twelve months of sales in Tahoe Park from August 2008 to August 2009. What do you see? Does anything stand out to you?

Tahoe Park Neighborhood in Sacramento August 2009 Sales

Tahoe Park Neighborhood Real Estate Market Trends:

  • 95 sales over the past 12 months
  • Low Price over past 12 months:  $25,000
  • High Price over past 12 months:  $330,000
  • Current Actives:  19
  • Current Short Sale Actives:  13
  • Current Pendings:  19
  • 25 sales over the past 90 days
  • Median Price over Past 90 Days:  $206,000

If you have any questions about Tahoe Park or the graphs and data above, please let me know. I appraise properties in Tahoe Park for purchase, refinance, estate settlement, bankruptcy, litigation and more. Please contact me at 916-595-3735 or ryan [at] lundquistcompany.com.

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