Your offer will be rejected at this house. You’re not good enough.
4160 RIVERMARK Pkwy, Santa Clara, CA 95054 | MLS# 80942064
4160 RIVERMARK Pkwy Santa Clara, CA 95054
Price: $1,145,888
Beds: 5
Baths: 3.5
Sq. Ft.: 2,989
$/Sq. Ft.: $383
Lot Size: 3,484 Sq. Ft.
Property Type: Detached Single Family
Style: Traditional
Stories: 2
View: Neighborhood
Year Built: 2003
Community: Santa Clara
County: Santa Clara
MLS#: 80942064
Source: MLSListings
Status: Active
On Redfin: 48 days
Regular Sale; NOT REO; NOT Short Sale either! LAST CALL. .. if you would EVER consider making a move to own this beautiful single family home in the best Rivermark location! (FYI—we countered 5 written offers & in addition, rejected at least 6 other verbal offers prior to the written ones. )
Thanks to Burbed reader Jenny for this find.
My oh my. What a peculiar find.
For the past few years, Bay Area real estate ads have been missing the chutzpah, the bravado, the essence, the soul that it used to have. Whatever happened to the good old days when Sellers could require Buyers to sign contracts saying they would feed the neighborhood squirrels… or to undergo a background check to ensure they have the right character to own your condo… or to have the buyer’s children paint them a picture.
Well… if this house is a sign of the times, then good times are coming back.
Let’s face it… nothing drives buyers more crazy than being told they can’t have something – and that’s what this house is doing. It’s a big ol’ F you to the buyer. And the buyer will want it even more.
Better offer $2 million – because this house won’t be yours anyway.
October 26th, 2009 at 8:07 am
Property tax detail:
Building assessed value $357,746
Land assessed value $763,879 (3,484 sq ft lot)
October 26th, 2009 at 8:23 am
$1.145M for Santa Clara? You’ve got to be kidding me. You could buy a fixer in Los Altos for that.
October 26th, 2009 at 8:51 am
Is the realtard high? They bought this place three years ago (during the biggest RE bubble in living memory) and they think it’s worth 2x now? Don’t let the 54 DOM fool you either, they’ve been trying to sell off and on since July.
It’s even on the main drag through Rivermark…
October 26th, 2009 at 9:41 am
Good to see the RE bubble mentality is still alive and kicking!
October 26th, 2009 at 10:08 am
$1.145M for Santa Clara? You’ve got to be kidding me. You could buy a fixer in Los Altos for that.
Just wait until Oracle consumes Sun, and turns their campus into Santana Row II – with a Ferrari dealership, 2 whole foods, a Patek Phillipe standalone store, and more.
You heard it here first!
October 26th, 2009 at 10:11 am
I’ll bet none of the offers were over $1M.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:38 am
The ridiculousness of this listing (with it’s bragging about offers rejected and/or countered) made me go to PropertyShark.
I guessed it… the owner is the listing agent. Now I know one not to hire when I sell!
October 26th, 2009 at 10:39 am
oops – ignore the apostrophe in “it’s” above.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:45 am
Can’t you hear the desperation and irritation in the seller’s posting? Puts a smile on your face.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:53 am
Check out the realtor’s website:
http://www.sandralin.com/home/login
She touts herself as your special agent in real estate.
Special indeed. Like real estater.
October 26th, 2009 at 11:14 am
Nice bravado. Burbed said it perfectly: you need to create an aura of inattainability to drive high end buyers. Problem is, you’d have to find someone who lucked their way into a $200K down payment from stock options or whatever because anyone with a job good enough to afford a $1M+ home isn’t even looking in Santa Clara. It would be like ordering a medium rare grass fed aged ribeye from a Weinershnitzel. I’m sure it’s delicious, but you’re surrounded by garbage.
October 26th, 2009 at 11:25 am
But Realtards know all – where VC funding coming, which hitech companies are about to report strong earning. So, listing $1.1 for this property got to be based on good research and extraordinary vision.
Sun has musical chair policy. Many employees work from home and once in a week they are supposed (not mandatory) to come office. When they come to office, they use those musical chairs. And Oracle hates people working from home. That means once Oracle buys Sun, lots of Sun employees will be looking for homes near Rivermark for easy commute. See, Realtards know it all.
October 26th, 2009 at 11:48 am
I guessed it… the owner is the listing agent. Now I know one not to hire when I sell!
Wasn’t there a study in Freakonomics that showed that houses of real estate agents tend to sell for higher prices? Now we know why!
October 26th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
You are correct; it was because they are less pressed for a fast sale when it’s their own money. Freakonomics was an interesting book.
October 26th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
#6 – of course not – why do you think they were refused!! Greed is ugly.
October 26th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
I just tried to access this realtor’s website and she rejected my password.
October 26th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
I just tried to access this realtor’s website and she rejected my password
finally we have proof that top dog and real estater are not one in the same. that was much funnier than real estater has ever been (intentionally, anyway). sorry, pralay, but I view this as conclusive.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
I’m afraid I have to agree. Real Estater is rather humorless. (Or since it’s him, should it be humourless?)
October 26th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
Disagree. re has made plenty of not funny jokes in a style similar to 16.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
(stays dutifully silent)
October 26th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
I think #16 was clever.
October 26th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
that was much funnier than real estater has ever been
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Too bad steve, you are hold RealEstater in such a low esteem. I always thought he is funny and his stories are funnier (e.g. crying Austin man).
October 26th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
Correction in #22: you are holding ….
October 27th, 2009 at 1:08 am
guys, need some advice here.
we are seriously looking at one house in CUSD but it’s on busy 4-lane street – as bus as Fremont or Prunridge or Homestead.
What will you suggest? Should a bust street naturally be a deal breaker?
Based on comps, price is nice!
October 27th, 2009 at 1:08 am
had been a long day. too many typos. *bus* = busy; *bust* = busy
October 27th, 2009 at 1:28 am
Good lord, I swear everyone and their mother wants to be a bag holder.
Oh well – hopefully the kool-aid intoxication will bail out the banks. Lord knows – as a taxpayer, I’m not particularly interested in doing that.
October 27th, 2009 at 6:50 am
ask yourself:
-are you sure you want to buy?
-will you be happy there for *at least* the next 15?
-can you comfortably afford it?
if all three of those aren’t true, take a pass.
on the busy street, in areas with good schools, those are the only properties trading at semi-reasonable prices right now. however, they also had (have?) further to fall.
October 27th, 2009 at 7:04 am
sv_newbie: Put in some double pane windows and you won’t hear the busy street.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:53 am
sv_newbie – I wouldn’t recommend buying a house on a street that busy unless you can get a really good deal. It will be harder to sell later and won’t appreciate as much as other homes.
Also keep in mind how difficult it will be to get out of your driveway. e.g., Can you turn your car around or will you have to back into the road? Is there parking if guests come over?
October 27th, 2009 at 10:02 am
#24 I bought a house that is on a busy street in 1997. The price went up to 3+ times. I always wonder why I did not buy on a quitter street. But answers are
1) I will not have the ocean view
2) I would not be able to afford it if everything were the same but w/o the busy street.
After 11 years later I still love the ocean view, love the price, I still hate the street.
And if I cross the busy street the sand is there, I also got polluted air from the cars mix with my ocean breeze
October 27th, 2009 at 10:14 am
#24,30 the house has back alley.
October 27th, 2009 at 10:16 am
Can’t see the ocean from CUSD.
October 27th, 2009 at 10:30 am
sv_newbie – busy streets are more of a dealbreaker if you have or plan to have children.
Also Pruneridge isn’t nearly as busy as Homestead for example (and the houses are further away from the road compared to the ones in side streets).
Another consideration is that crime’s relatively higher on busy streets especially if they lead straight to a freeway entrance.
Finally, these days pretty much all the houses I’ve seen for sale have been on “busy streets”, whatever that means – maybe the owners really end up buying in quieter areas in the end.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:29 am
there are lots of studies re the bad effects of exhaust particles on kids’ lungs. and middle-aged peoples’ hearts. and studies showing that the noise of busy streets raises blood pressure.
if I had kids (agh!), I’d move to boulder creek and start a tiny commercial commute bus system for silicon valets (valleyites?).
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