Chico CA Real Estate Blog and MLS Search

Don’t miss this cherished family home located just blocks from Bidwell Park. Enjoy the best of both worlds: a classic, centrally located Chico neighborhood AND a well-sized, newer home! Constructed in 1993, the home replaced one that had been in the family for years. The new house has a great open floor plan that feels very spacious, with an especially roomy master suite. Original floor plans allow for a 4th bedroom in lieu of the master sitting area. This gently used home shows pride of ownership (and newer exterior paint!) Gorgeous hardwood floors, beautiful windows overlooking the backyard, and soaring ceilings add to the ambiance. Nice covered breezeway connects to the garage. Huge .33 acre lot with plenty of room for a pool, garden, play area, etc. Fruit trees, rose bushes, and a large patio grace the backyard.

Features

Bedrooms:	3
Bathrooms:	2
Year Built:	1993
Lot Size:	.33
Garage Size:	2
Square Footage:	1952
Agent Name:	Sandi Bauman
Broker:	Chico Homes
MLS #:	201010382

Location

1006 Sheridan Avenue Chico CA 95926

vFlyer Id: 3147472

New Foreclosure Listings Coming Soon!

sandibauman — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:54:31 +0000

The following foreclosure properties are in pre-list stage with The Sandi Bauman Team! at Chico Homes.

Watch for them to hit the market soon!

2935 2nd Street, Biggs

4 Coolwater Court, Chico

1408 Citrus, Chico

1857 Devonshire, Chico

3265 Rockin M, Chico

2279 W Biggs, Gridley

6438 Woodward, Magalia

328 Crane Avenue, Oroville

4169 Oroville Bangor, Oroville **This property is a SHORT SALE

459 Washington Street, Willows

820 Madrone Manor, Willows

Listings now ACTIVE!

36 Franciscan Way, Chico

47 Ranchwood Court, Chico

862 E. 5th Avenue, Chico

3165 Hidden Creek, Chico

13821 S Park, Magalia

14721 Northwood, Magalia

6821 Sacramento, Nelson

90 High Meadows, Oroville

1821 Greenway, Paradise

1828 Arrowhead, Paradise

5570 Brookside, Paradise

625 N Shasta Street, Willows

Now Pending!

1155 Ceres Manor, Chico (Only 6 days on the market!)

1419 Yosemite, Chico ** Short Sale

1439 Yosemite, Chico **Short Sale

14647 Bridgeport, Magalia (Only 11 days on the market!)

14753 Nimshew, Magalia ** This property is a SHORT SALE (Only 13 days on the market!)

965 Lindsey, Oroville

1693 16th Street, Oroville **This property is a SHORT SALE (Only 8 days on the market!)

4427 Sierra del Sol, Paradise

4463 Casa Sierra, Paradise

Just Sold!

1621 Sweem Street, Oroville

13664 Fritz, Paradise

If any of these greater Chico Homes properties interest you, please email your contact info to Sandi@SandiBauman.com. We will notify you as soon as we have a list price!

Chico Real Estate: Upcoming Listings and New Properties for Sale w/e 1/23/2010

sandibauman — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:03:32 +0000

The following foreclosure properties are in pre-list stage with The Sandi Bauman Team! at Chico Homes.

Watch for them to hit the market soon!

2935 2nd Street, Biggs

4 Coolwater Court, Chico

862 E. 5th Avenue, Chico

1155 Ceres Manor, Chico

1408 Citrus, Chico

1857 Devonshire, Chico

3265 Rockin M, Chico

2279 W Biggs, Gridley

6438 Woodward, Magalia

14753 Nimshew, Magalia ** This property is a SHORT SALE

322 Butte, Orland

328 Crane Avenue, Oroville

1693 16th Street, Oroville **This property is a SHORT SALE

4169 Oroville Bangor, Oroville **This property is a SHORT SALE

459 Washington Street, Willows

625 N Shasta Street, Willows

820 Madrone Manor, Willows

Listings now ACTIVE!

36 Franciscan Way, Chico

47 Ranchwood Court, Chico

3165 Hidden Creek, Chico

13821 S Park, Magalia

14647 Bridgeport, Magalia

14721 Northwood, Magalia

6821 Sacramento, Nelson

6246 CO RD 9, Orland

62 Gaylor, Oroville

86 Montana, Oroville

90 High Meadows, Oroville

1821 Greenway, Paradise

1828 Arrowhead, Paradise

4427 Sierra del Sol, Paradise

4463 Casa Sierra, Paradise

5570 Brookside, Paradise

1828 Arrowhead, Paradise

If any of these greater Chico Homes properties interest you, please email your contact info to Sandi@SandiBauman.com. We will notify you as soon as we have a list price!

CalREDD Statewide MLS System Coming to Chico, Paradise and Oroville!

sandibauman — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:56:41 +0000

Buckle your seatbelts, and hold on!

CalREDD, the new statewide Multiple Listing Service (MLS), has begun it’s transition into the Chico, Paradise and Oroville real estate market as of 1/20/2010.

What does this mean for you as a consumer?

1. Buyers and sellers can expect a bumpy road for the next week or so.

You may experience difficulty when attempting to find current listing information when using the search feature on most websites. It’s no small feat to transfer one huge system with thousands of listings to a brand new, more robust platform. The transition is expected to be complete by January 25, 2010. I imagine that it may take a few days after that to finish working out the bugs.

You may experience a disruption in your auto email notification program for new listings. If you are accustomed to receiving daily (or minute by minute!) updates from The Sandi Bauman Team! at Chico Homes, please know that they may be discontinued during the transition period. As soon as it is possible to enact an account for you on the new CalREDD system, we will be working day and night to resume your notification of new listings. The notifications will look different, but will contain the same information you are accustomed to, and much more! Expect to see more photos and better property descriptions in many cases. (Not yet signed up for this great service? Tell us what you’re looking for here, and we’ll get you all plugged in).

2. Scenic roads ahead.

The California Association of Realtors is encouraging more than 60 assocations across the state to convert to CalREDD. Lake County, Merced and Madera have committed to the switch along with the Chico, Paradise and Oroville Assocations. With every association addition, users of the system will have access to a larger geographic area, and therefore more listings! Consider, for a moment, what that could do for you as a seller- your property would have much greater exposure to out- of -town buyers looking to relocate to the greater Chico area. Likewise, if you were considering a purchase in another county, you would be able to utilize your favorite Realtor’s local website to browse for listings. There would be no need to go searching new and unfamiliar websites for information– everything you need is already at your fingertips!

Thank you, in advance, for your patience. We expect some rough roads ahead in the next few days, but they won’t last forever. Change is good!

Chico Homes For Sale: Listings Coming Soon!

sandibauman — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:08:12 +0000

The following foreclosure properties are in pre-list stage with The Sandi Bauman Team! at Chico Homes.

Watch for them to hit the market soon!

2935 2nd Street, Biggs

4 Coolwater Court, Chico

862 E. 5th Avenue, Chico

1155 Ceres Manor, Chico

1408 Citrus, Chico

1857 Devonshire, Chico

3265 Rockin M, Chico

2279 W Biggs, Gridley

6438 Woodward, Magalia

14647 Bridgeport, Magalia

14753 Nimshew, Magalia ** This property is NOT a foreclosure listing

322 Butte, Orland

328 Crane Avenue, Oroville

4169 Oroville Bangor, Oroville **This property is NOT a foreclosure listing

459 Washington Street, Willows

625 N Shasta Street, Willows

820 Madrone Manor, Willows

New listings now ACTIVE!

14721 Northwood, Magalia

62 Gaylor, Oroville

86 Montana, Oroville

5570 Brookside, Paradise

1828 Arrowhead, Paradise

If any of these greater Chico Homes properties interest you, please email your contact info to Sandi@SandiBauman.com. We will notify you as soon as we have a list price!

Just another reason to hire a Real Estate Agent… the EXTRA MILE MATTERS!

sandibauman — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:11:51 +0000

By guest writer Tara Taylor, “Buyer and Foreclosure Specialist”

On the surface, it can seem that a real estate agent’s “job” is fairly simple: Write the offer, negotiate the terms, collect a paycheck. However, sometimes there is so much effort beyond the paperwork that goes unseen, and often unappreciated.

I have spent the last week navigating an auction bidding website that had their grips on a condo that my clients really loved. I wasn’t terribly concerned about offering on an auction property, but then I read the fine print on the site. Realtors are known to have a case of RDR (Realtors don’t read) …not this agent!! I sorted through all the legal schmegal language until I found what I was looking for. The fact is I didn’t know what I was looking for. All I knew was that I needed to protect my first time homebuyers and their hard earned deposit! So I found, in the small, ever so fine Q and A section the words “This offer is not contingent upon financing.” Not a big deal, if you have CASH! If you are financing, this is a terribly big deal. If anything were to go wrong with the loan, i.e. the Buyer in this scenario can’t close for ANY reason, they lose their 5% deposit (required by the Auction Company.) Lost, gone… no protection!

This is a good example of why the buyers ”hired” me. I had to get to the bottom of the story with a loan on the condo! Would it finance? I had to be 100% sure before letting my clients wager their savings and opportunity to become homeowners. I tracked down the property management, which was not easy to do since no company in town claimed the complex and no agent in town knew who was in charge. With more digging and prodding, I determined the owner-occupied to tenant ratio for the condo complex was only 50/50. According to local lenders, the requirements for lending are now 70% owner-occupied to 30% tenant occupied in most cases.

This is not the property for them. The loan will not go through, and they would have lost their entire deposit. Luckily my reading and investigative persistence paid off! My clients still have their deposit and we can look for another property. Whew!

Work with an agent who will go the extra mile, has lending knowledge, seeks out your answers to questions, and knows the bank foreclosure offering process. It will be priceless to your success as a buyer and literally won’t cost you, the buyer, a penny. But it could save you a deposit and more!

Chico CA Real Estate: Listings Coming Soon!

sandibauman — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:14:58 +0000

The following foreclosure properties are in pre-list stage with The Sandi Bauman Team! at Chico Homes.

Watch for them to hit the market soon!

2935 2nd Street, Biggs

4 Coolwater Court, Chico

862 E. 5th Avenue, Chico

1857 Devonshire, Chico

3265 Rockin M, Chico

2279 W Biggs, Gridley

6438 Woodward, Magalia

14647 Bridgeport, Magalia

322 Butte, Orland

328 Crane Avenue, Oroville

5570 Brookside, Paradise

459 Washington Street, Willows

625 N Shasta Street, Willows

820 Madrone Manor, Willows

New listings ACTIVE this week!

14721 Northwood, Magalia

62 Gaylor, Oroville

86 Montana, Oroville

1828 Arrowhead, Paradise

If any of these greater Chico REO properties interest you, please email your contact info to Sandi@SandiBauman.com. We will notify you as soon as we have a list price!

“Ready, Set, Bag!” premieres at The Pageant Theatre

sandibauman — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 06:10:34 +0000

My family just had the pleasure of previewing the film “Ready, Set, Bag!” It is a documentary that follows eight grocery bagging champions from states across the US as they prepare to compete in the National Grocers Association’s Best Bagger competition in Las Vegas. I won’t lie. My kids, upon hearing the words “documentary”, both chimed in with the requisite moans and groans. I wouldn’t expect anything less from a pair that is normally entertained by the likes of “Wizards of Waverly Place” and “America’s Funniest Home Videos.”

However, once the show started, my kids were riveted. There’s something about the hometown characters that makes it hard to look away. Initially, they may have been intrigued by the drawl and awe-inspring snort of the young band member that inhabited a pink bedroom. Or it may have had something to do with the really fast kid with the red curls. They wondered aloud how the older lady that “might even be a grandma” could compete with the younger participants. Eventually, I think they were inspired by a diverse group of characters who all had one thing in common: they take pride in doing their job to the very best of their ability!

The film helps drive home the point that every job is a critical one. I will make sure that we watch it again, and would readily recommend “Ready, Set, Bag!” for families. If you need a little inspiration to get you through the day to day drudgery of your own job, this might help!

The movie will be playing every Thursday night in January (Jan 7, Jan 14, Jan 21, Jan 28) at 5:30pm at the Pageant Theater. The screenings benefit the local community food bank CAA Butte County.

For every ticket sold, local company ChicoBag will generously donate $1 to the CAA Butte County Food Bank! If folks bring two or more nonperishable food items
to a screening, they’ll get $1 off their ticket thanks to ChicoBag, and a discount on popcorn too.

You can see the trailer for this film at http://www.readysetbag.com.

Be sure to arrive on time so you don’t miss the screening of ”Leonardo”, a new hand drawn animated short from Academy Award nominee Jim Capobianco, in front of “Ready, Set, Bag!”. As an added bonus, after the screenings, there will be a “Ready, Set, Bag!” Q/A session with the Directors and Producer.

Have you seen the film? Leave a review!

California Park Neighborhood in Chico, CA at Sunset

sandibauman — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:08:26 +0000

Words are not always necessary…

Cal Park Neighborhood in Chico, CA at sunset