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El Dorado Hills  ·  Folsom  ·  DRE 01483621

Buying a home  ›  El Dorado, Sacramento and Placer counties

Find the house your next chapter happens in

For most people out here the hard part is not finding the house. It is working out how to buy the next one while you still own this one. Start looking below, and when you are ready, the tool underneath will show you the order to do it in.

A kitchen in El Dorado Hills

On the market now

What is actually for sale.

What I have on right now. For everything else on the market, use the search above. None of it costs you an email to look at.

The Asuncion at Francisco Oaks For sale

The Asuncion at Francisco Oaks

5 beds  ·  4.5 baths  ·  4,738 sq ft

$1,695,000
See the sneak peek →

This is what I have coming up. Use the search above for everything else on the market.

Buying your first home

Your first home starts with a conversation.

You do not have to know exactly what you are looking for, or how the whole process works. Questions are a good place to start.

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We will talk about what matters to you, connect you with a lender so you understand your budget, and explore homes and neighborhoods that fit your everyday life.

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As we tour, I will help you look beyond the fresh paint and the pretty kitchen. My appraisal background helps me explain value and the details worth paying attention to.

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When you find a home you love, I will walk you through the offer, the inspections, and each step toward getting your keys.

You will have someone to call, room to ask questions, and clear guidance along the way.

Let’s talk about your first home → Or send me a question first

The part nobody helps with

You own one house and you want another. What order do you do it in?

Almost everybody I work with is carrying a house already, and most of what they are worth is inside it. Sell first and you might be renting for three months. Buy first and you might be carrying two mortgages. There are four real ways through it, they suit different people, and if you are moving your property tax base the order changes your tax bill. Answer four questions and see which one is yours.

$1,100,000

A working figure. The net proceeds estimator on the selling page does this one properly.

$220,000

Everything secured against it, so a second mortgage or a line of credit counts.

$1,300,000

The house you keep going back to look at.

The cost of selling is estimated at 7.5 percent, which covers commission, escrow, title, recording and the county transfer tax, and it is deliberately a round number because the real one depends on what gets negotiated. Nothing here counts what it costs to get your house ready, a bridge loan or line of credit if you use one, moving, or storage. The Proposition 19 thresholds are the ones in the statute and they apply to people 55 and over, to severely and permanently disabled homeowners, and to victims of wildfire or a declared disaster, up to three times in a lifetime. All of it is a planning number rather than advice, and the tax part in particular is a question for your accountant and the assessor in the county you are moving to, not for a website.

Cheri on your next chapter

The conversation I have most often does not start with a house at all. It starts with somebody sitting at their kitchen table saying some version of the same thing. We love it here, the stairs have started to feel like stairs, and we have no idea how you do this without ending up homeless in the middle.

You do not end up homeless in the middle. There is an order to it, and picking the right one for your situation is most of what I am actually for. Some people should sell first and rent back from the buyer for sixty days. Some should buy first and bridge it. Some should never have worried, because the equity in their house makes the whole thing simpler than they feared.

And can I say the nice part out loud, because everybody skips it. This is exciting. You are choosing where the next part of your life happens. Which kitchen you make Thanksgiving in. Whether there are stairs. Whether the grandchildren are twenty minutes away or two hours. That is a wonderful thing to be deciding and I would love to help you decide it.

Come and look at one house with me and let us start there.

CheriCheri Kilby  ·  CK Real Estate Services

The offer

See one house with me.

One property. Not an exclusive, not ninety days. There is a form for exactly this and most agents will not mention it exists. I will show you a house on it, and afterwards you decide whether you want me for the rest of it.

  • 1Tell me which house, or which street you keep driving down.
  • 2I send you the single property agreement and my fee, in writing, before we meet.
  • 3You see the house. If you want to carry on, we carry on. If you do not, it ends there and you owe nothing.

“We always felt seen, heard, and never alone. She didn’t just help us move. She helped us feel confident about where we were going.”

Rachel O. · El Dorado Hills · More client stories

Before the first showing

What you will be asked to sign.

Before we tour homes together, you will be asked to sign a buyer representation agreement. It outlines our working relationship and what you can expect from me. We will review the terms together so you have time to ask questions and understand what you are signing.

Nothing about it should be a surprise on a driveway. It is negotiable, it is capped in length, and the California Department of Real Estate publishes its own guidance on what to watch for, including pressure to sign quickly. Read it before you sign anything, with me or with anybody else.

Yours to keep

The Next Chapter Home Guide™

If you are buying here because you are leaving a house you have been in a long time, this is the one to read. Fifteen pages: a self-assessment for working out whether it is actually time, the three kinds of downsizer and which one sounds like you, all five phases of the Next Chapter Blueprint, what Proposition 19 does to your property tax when you buy the next house, and what my clients said afterwards.

PDF  ·  15 pages  ·  No cost

It opens right here. I send a short note about El Dorado Hills and Folsom every so often, and you can stop it in one click.

You need to know what yours is worth first

What would you walk away with?

Sale price, minus the payoff, minus commission, minus what it costs to get ready. A real number, and no email in front of it.

Work it out →

You want somebody to talk it through with

Fifteen minutes with me.

Which order suits your situation, what your house would realistically fetch this fall, and whether the one you keep driving past is worth the trouble.

Book fifteen minutes →

Lets connect

Start with a conversation.

No contract, no obligation, and no pressure to be further along than you are. Plenty of people write to me a year before they are ready, and that is genuinely the right time to write.

(916) 296-4953 cheri@ckteamrealestate.com I read these myself

Your details go to me and to my office system, and nowhere else. They are never sold. How I handle them.

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