Real Estate and Real Life in the Wine Country

Windsor schools have unveiled their new website : www.wusd.org.

Great website, easy to navigate,  allows you link to the different schools in Windsor,  to pay fees online and  coming soon will also allow parent access to individual student records.

Windsor is a great place to live, did you visit the town green lately and sipped your latte at Caffe Noto or Starbucks?

Should you need the perfect hair cut, please visit Bella Nova Salon be, a great place to experience. They are always looking for better products with less toxins/healthier ways to treat your hair. They also offer online booking, tell them I send you and you will receive a 10% discount on your first treatment.

  Last week barrel tasting…  our visit to Windsor Oaks Winery was perfect as was the last time, great wines, great location and they just started a wine club. Ask Regina for more info: Regina@windsoroaks.com.

 And by the way… should you decide Windsor is the place for you to live… there are a few houses right now on the market on just the perfect locations. Should you like to stay on top of these great deals, just let me know and I will put you on my special update list.

Mirjam (mirjam@c21alliance.com)

   Today CENTURY 21 Northbay Alliance has an open house extravaganza. We have 72 of our listings open and there are prices to win. Each house has a drawing for $20,00 giftcard and there will be a Grand Prize Drawing for $ 300,00 giftcard for Best Buy.

I will be at 164 Cordoba Way, a great 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom home in Foothill Estates. I will have a drawing for a Home Depot giftcard. I look forward to see you there! Combine it with a hike in Foothill park, you will have a lovely Sunday afternoon!.

See you there!

Mirjam

Realtor Magazine today had an interesting article about something that is confusing for buyers and sellers. Confusing prequalification with preapproval can mean disappointment for both a home seller and a buyer.
It’s smart for buyers to become preapproved by their lender – not just prequalified.
To obtain a bona fide preapproval, you must submit a loan application with the necessary documentation and fee. After the lender verifies and analyzes the application, it will notify you -the applicant- of how much money you can afford to borrow. This usually means a few hours work for both buyer and lender. But armed with that information, the buyer can confidently go home shopping.

Prequalifications are simply an estimate of what a buyer can afford. A buyer who assumes that this estimate is accurate and chooses a home based on the information may, in fact, be denied a loan when he actually applies, a situation that wastes his time and can put a seller in an a bad position if they’ve already turned away a qualified buyer. And, of course it wastes the real estate practitioner’s time as well.

There are terrific buys out there right now. Anyone who has been thinking about purchasing a property should do so right now. Check out the following properties:2625 Spring Oaks in Santa Rosa, 164 Cordoba Way, Windsor, both are great homes in super neighborhoods.

Mirjam de Rijk