Lodi / Stockton CA Homes For Sale & Real Estate Information

I have always had fun each year attending the downtown Lodi Street Faire.  It happens twice a year and usually draws a very large crowd.  There will be great food, fun, music, and all kinds of vendor booths for your browsing and shopping pleasure.

Here are more details:

Lodi Street Faire

Location: Downtown Lodi

700 antique arts and crafts commercial and food vendors come together in Downtown Lodi for this one day event Church and School Streets between Lockeford and Lodi Avenue
Lodi, California
When: May 2, 2010
Starts at: 8:00 AM

Description:
About 700 antique, arts and crafts, commercial, and food vendors come together in Downtown Lodi, CA for this one day event. Church and School Streets between Lockeford and Lodi Avenue.

Fee: Free
Time: 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. (approx)
Phone Number: (209) 367.7840

A while back I posted an article about how shipping containers were being used for innovative ways for housing.  I came across another article profiling even more unique ways of using shipping containers for more than just shipping cargo.

I wonder if using these containers in this manner would help or hurt the real estate market in the Lodi, CA and Stockton, CA areas.

To see how these containers are being creatively being used, CLICK HERE.

First American CoreLogic reports that distressed properties accounted for 29% of all U.S. home sales in January. Also, real estate-owned sales rose to 22% of homes sales from 19% in December, and short sales rose to 8% from 7%.

National average sale prices in January were $161,600 for distressed homes, compared to the average non-distressed sale price of $247,700, $141,900 for REO properties, and $215,300 for short sales.

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Last summer during our annual family reunion, my cousin Jeanne put out some zip lock baggies with water and a few pennies in each of them on the picnic tables.  She said she heard/read that it keeps the flies away.

Rrriiiight.  :-/

Well, this morning she sent me an email with some comments from people online that confirm her ‘home remedy’ of ridding your area of pesky flies. ( I can’t stand flies!)  Let me know if you try this at home or anywhere and if you notice a difference.  Here are a few of those comments…

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ZIP LOCK BAG – Good tip!

We went with friends to Sweety Pies on Sunday for breakfast and sat in the patio section beside the house.   We happened to notice zip lock baggies pinned to a post and a wall.  The bags were half filled with water, each contained 4 pennies, and they were zipped shut.  Naturally we were curious!  Ms. Sweety told us that these baggies kept the flies away!  So naturally we were even more curious!  We actually watched some flies come in the open window, stand around on the window sill, and then fly out again.  And there were no flies in the eating area!  This morning I checked this out on Google.  Below are comments on this fly control idea.  I’m now a believer!

Ann Says:
I tried the ziplock bag and pennies this weekend.. I have a horse trailer.  The flies were bad while I was camping. I put the baggie with pennies above the door of the LQ. NOT ONE FLY came in the trailer.  The horse trailer part had many. Not sure why it works but it does!

Danielle Says:
Fill a ziplock bag with water and 5 or 6 pennies and hang it in the problem area. In my case it was a particular window in my home. It had a slight passage way for insects. Every since I have done that, it has kept flies and wasps away. Some say that wasps and flies mistake the bag for some other insect nest and are threatened.

Maggie Says:
I swear by the plastic bag of water trick. I have them on porch and basement.  We saw these in  Northeast Mo.  at an Amish grocery store & have used them since. They say it works because a fly sees a reflection & won’t come around.

DJ Says:
Regarding the science behind zip log bags of water? My research found that the millions of molecules of water presents its own prism effect and given that flies have a lot of eyes, to them it’s like a zillion disco balls reflecting light, colors and movement in a dizzying manner. When you figure that flies are prey for many other bugs, animals, birds, etc., they simply won’t take the risk of being around that much perceived action. I moved to a rural area and thought these “hillbillies” were just yanking my city boy chain but I tried it and it worked immediately! We went from hundreds of flies to seeing the occasional one, but he didn’t hang around long.

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Here’s to a pesky, fly-free Spring and Summer for you and your family.

Thank you Jeanne!

For several months last year I heard a lot that banks were not too willing to jump on   the Short Sale wagon due to they were making more money on a home once they foreclosed on it and then sold it as an REO.

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I’ve been hearing a lot more lately that banks are actually starting to work more easily with Sellers and Realtors® in order to get the process to go more smoothly with the short sale of the home

because it’s less costly to the banks than a foreclosure and they are starting to learn how to streamline the process a little better.

Here is a great that I came across that explains just that…CLICK HERE

I am beginning to see more and more Short Sales listed and being SOLD in the Lodi and Stockton, CA areas.  Here at Realty World-Davis Homes & Properties, we are taking the necessary steps to help homeowners that may be facing the decision to have to do a Short Sale on their home and assist in this process to help make it as less stressful as possible.

READ THIS ARTICLE, then contact us to get your questions answered and see if a Short Sale is right for you.

Randy

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Well, we’re getting down to the wire on the deadline for the tax credits.  If you purcase your home last year and haven’t filed your taxes, then here is the much needed info on how to get your benefit:

http://bit.ly/b0P8CP