My sellers received a free rent-back for about 3 weeks when I negotiated the sale of their home in Franklin Crossing, a newer subdivision of homes in Elk Grove. You know, I don't even know why we call that situation a "free rent-back" because that's an oxymoron.  But one thing I know for certain, the neighbors will be yakking about this sale. It will help to bring up the values in the area. You can't go wrong with a cash sale far exceeding list price. You can read the whole story in my personal blog today at this link: Franklin Crossing Home Sells at Record Price in Elk Grove. 07/20/2017

 Franklin Crossing in Elk Grove is a newer subdivision of homes, typically built between 2011 and 2015. This cluster of newer homes is just south and a hair west of one of my favorite subdivsions in Elk Grove, near Bilby and Willard Parkways. If you are taking I-5 south from Sacramento, it's about a 20-minute drive from downtown, and you'd get off the freeway at the Hood-Franklin exit. It's a short commute past farmlands and old estates, which probably won't exist much longer. There is also a cemetery, but I imagine they'd have to leave that in the path of new construction. Some things you just don't mess with. Long-term residents' homelands though seem to be up for grabs by developers, and many people in Elk Grove are unhappy about that, which is understandable. Remember, Elk Grove was... 06/23/2017