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2329 SATURN CIRCLE • $164,900

240 VISTA DEL REY • $343,000

3BR, 2BA 1850 SF home with a formal living room, formal dining room, large eat-in kitchen, large family room/sunroom with fabulous views of the valley! Nice enclosed front patio and covered porch! NEW tile and carpet throughout! New interior paint! New exterior paint! What a terrific Deal!!

WEST. This is an incredible home situated on 5 fenced acres. The home has 2203 sqft. 3BR/2.5BA plus an office, 2 eating areas, a bright open floor plan, extensive use of tile and wood, plus stained concrete floors. The 3-car garage is oversized, the backyard is fenced with shade and fruit trees, grass with a sprinkler/drip system. There is a 150' x 240' roping arena with a 10' return and horse stalls. Conveniently located between Las Cruces & El Paso.

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2917 CHEYENNE DRIVE • $369,500

HIGH RANGE. Overlooking your constant depth 12' X 30' in-ground pool. 4 bedrooms, 3 full baths with tile floors and granite counters in the kitchen and all 3 baths. Lots of wooden beams in great room. Seperate formal dining flows to Great room making this the perfect house for entertaining. Smart wired for your electronics needs and pride of ownership shows. A short climb to your viewing deck enhancees the valley views available from the back yard and adds a great view of the Organ Mountains. You really gotta see it!

LYN HASTON, Owner/Agent 575-993-6398

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4280 EGYPTIAN • $439,950 Pecan tree lined drive leads to Adobe Pueblo with a 40x8 foot lap pool in the atrium area. 5 BRs, 4 BA & 2 livingareas w/kiva fireplaces. Viga ceilings, brick & wood floors exudea hacienda lifestyle for buyer looking for acreage, mountain viewsand a slower pace of life. Stalls & corrals for horses. Large unfin-ished Studio above garage. This property would make a tremen-dous `Bed & Breakfast’ for entreprenuer.

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2701 COVENTRY ROAD • $217,000

High Ridge. This 4BR, 2BA home is open and light suits itself to entertaining as well as comfort. Approximately 2380 square feet of heated and cooled area along with refrigerated central air conditioning and gas forced air heating make this home an ideal place for you. BILLY BULLOCK - (575) 650-6112

High Range. Topping the must-have list is this split living three bedroom plus office two bath home in the Highrange area. Fireplace, refrigerated air, oversized two car garage with cupboards and plenty of storage. A small corner of the world with extra large lot and mountain views. The yards are lush green beauties with large shade trees and plenty of room. The backyard has a water feature and the side yard has an English garden. Two storage sheds included. L# 808483

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249 S. MIRANDA STREET • $249,000

Alameda Depot District. Classic Queen Anne Style home. Huge lot over 1/2 acre with irrigation well, workshop (old carriage house), custom Iron fence and gates looks likes its been there forever, just beautiful. Large font covered porch. House can be a 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath, parlor, living room with fireplace, dining room, kitchen, mud room, basement. This home is over 100 years old. Sold as is. Needs some updating and some structural work on the South wall. Zoned for multi family, so can build a casita or two on the property.

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4982 WENDALL ROAD • $144,900 Jornada-Las Colinas. Nice open floor plan, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2 car garage, vaulted ceilings, 1400 sq. ft.. Beautiful view of the Organ Mountains; easy access to WSMR. Energy Star certified with savings up to 40% on energy bills. Whirlpool appliances. Tiled entry way, utility room, bathrooms, kitchen & dining room. Ceiling fans in Master Bedroom and Living room; ceiling fan pre wires in all other bedrooms. Synthetic stucco, tight 2x6 construction, covered front & back porch.

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3610 MIDNIGHT RIDGE DRIVE • $299,000 High Range. Super nice home located in popular "The Ridge" neighborhood. Only 3 years old, includes 3 bedrooms plus an office. Master bedroom has 12' x 12' sitting area plus main bedroom area is 14' x 15'. Kitchen has granite counters and pantry. Landscaping is beautiful.

EMILY COSS (575) 650-0771 COSS REAL ESTATE LC (575) 524-7653

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1995 TAPASTRY CIRCLE • $849,900

4589 NOGAL CANYON • $199,800

Mesilla Park. Located in the lush Mesilla valley just past Old Mesilla on Highway 28. This luxury gated community offers diverse old world charm. As you drive past the massive stone sentury buildings and bell tower you will be transported into a elegant neighborhood. Casa Bella is the model home and is a spectacular example of the variety of textures, pallets and architectural style offerd at Mesilla Park Mosaic.

Las Cruces. Price reduced. Beautiful, welcoming family home was built in 2000, has 1695 sq.ft.. Three bedrooms, 2 baths. Secluded backyard. Open living room with fireplace and skylights. And location, location, location. Take a look! Contact your Realtor or call 575644-8772.

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2683 CABALLO COURT • $374,500

4116 CAPISTRANO AVE. • $384,900

High Range. Beautiful 3BR, 2BA, 2 story home withentry atrium! 2855 sq.ft. Great flowing floorplan with separatedining. Kitchen is large with great eating/patio island havinggranite counter. Extra bedrooms are downstairs with Master up-stairs with fantastic study/office, both having access to a private large upstairs deck. Inground Pool with SPA!

High Range. Gorgeous property with 3 BDRMS, 2.5 BATHS, plus a bonus room that could be an office! 2422 sq. ft. Very open split floor plan with loads of upgrades and designertouches throughout. Two- tier backyard with an in-groundpool/hot tub with motorized cover. This is an exceptional property.

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1209 N ALAMEDA • $229,000

Alameda. This home was built in 1918 and has all of the charm of yesteryear, with modern amenities. 2020 square feet, master bedroom includes an office and master bath, guest bedroom, updated bathrooms, sunroom, living room with original fireplace and restored wood floors, formal dining room, kitchen, breakfast room, pantry, laundry room, 1 car garage, refrigerated air conditioning. Located in popular Alameda/Downtown district. Home is just amazing, and well cared for. Must see! Possible owner financing, terms negotiable.

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2531 LOS ALAMOS COURT • $415,900

620 ROCKY ROAD • $416,500

Beautiful Hillside home situated on a nice cul-de-sac oversized lot with gorgeous views of Picacho Mountain and City lights. This home features 3BR, 2.5BA plus an office/library, master bedroom features a fireplace, sitting area, walk in closets, large master bath with seperate sinks, jet tub and shower. Chef’s kitchen with granite counters, custom tile backsplashes, built-in convection oven and microwave, stainless steel appliances including double door refrigerator, five burner gas cooktop with pot filler. Custom cabinets throughout, wood blinds and an oversized 3 car garage with loads of storage. 2634 sq. ft.

Fort Fillmore. This 3 bedroom, 3 bath, plus Office has 3741 feet ofliving area.

MARGY BROWN 575-202-1160

COLDWELL BANKER DE WETTER HOVIOUS LLC 575-521-1000

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Huge Family/Gameroom/Bar Combo area inside, as well asan additional oversized patio with kitchen & upstairs deck. Also has 2detached bar/buffet areas. Great for entertaining!! 2 car garage has amechanic's pit. This wonderful property has great views and can behorse property.

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Second-guessing the purchase offer By Tara-Nicholle Nelson Inman News Service

Q: I just made an offer on a bank-owned house. The bank's asking price was $125,000, and I offered $120,000. I keep kicking myself, wondering whether that offer was too high. Was it? A: I'm going to do some of my law school and philosophy professors proud, and disappoint others severely, by answering your question with a question: What do you mean by "too high"? Do you mean, "Could I have gotten it for less?" If so, that depends. Banks don't generally accept lowball offers, which your offer was not, so good on you. However, whether the bank/seller would have taken a lower offer than $120,000 depends on a couple of things, importantly among them: (a) What was your net offer price, and (b) What was your competition? Many homebuyers are looking for meaty closing-cost credits. To the bank, your offer price is less meaningful than your net offer price -- the price you offered minus any closing-cost credit you requested. In the San Francisco Bay Area where I sell real estate, it is nothing for an entry-level-priced, bankowned home in a decent neighborhood to receive between 20 and 35 offers in today's market. At that level of competition and at your price point, you would expect the property to sell for as much as 50 percent above the asking price. This phenomenon, while surprising to folks who aren't currently house hunting, is starting to repeat itself throughout the markets hit hardest by

foreclosure, though the list-price-to-sale-price ratio might not be quite as high in other areas. Oh -- and if your competition included even one all-cash or large-down-payment offer, and your offer's financials include a lower down payment or a pickier-guideline FHA loan, your offer might not even get to the asset manager's desk -- even if the other offer was lower than yours! On the other hand, if your question is getting at whether your offer price was more than the place is worth, then whether your offer was too high or not depends on, well, what the place is worth! To the consternation of buyers and appraisers everywhere, the concept of what a home is worth is bizarrely nebulous, given the importance of the subject. The industrywide accepted definition of fair market value for a property at any given time is, essentially, what a reasonable buyer on the open market would pay for the home at the time. That, in turn, is estimated by what reasonable buyers on the open market did pay for comparable homes in the very recent past, hence the phrase "pulling" or "running the comps" -- lingo for finding out what similar homes in the same area sold for recently. When you're preparing to make an offer to buy a home, you and your agent should get familiar with the recent comparable sales in the area, to make sure that their sales prices (to be distinguished from their list prices) justify the price that you are offering. This is an informal version of the process the appraiser will eventually go through in justifying the bank's extension of mortgage funds for your purchase.

I might be wrong, but in your question I detect hints of the question I am most frequently asked, which I call "The Hunt for a Rule of Thumb." While this is less dramatic than "The Hunt for Red October," I'd say it's only slightly so. I'm going to buck the conventional wisdom (the wisdom of which I debate) here and make a bold statement: There is no such thing as a nationwide, general rule of thumb for how much a buyer should offer for a home vis-Ă -vis the purchase price. I've heard other commentators say that buyers should offer 5, 10 or even 20 percent less than asking in today's market. But I sell real estate and would frankly not keep a client who continually made such lowball offers in my market when I can document to them that comparable homes have a 117 percent list-price-to-sale-price ratio, meaning they sell for 17 percent above asking, on average. This might sound crazy to someone across the country, but in our area it's common for listing agents to depress the list price way below the market value of the home in order to generate multiple offers and overbids. In our market, paying more than the asking price is not necessarily the same as paying more than the home is worth. On the flip side, my esteemed colleagues in other areas might know by experience that a 10percent-below-asking offer is just right in their market, at a certain price point. My point is, real estate pricing and negotiation practices are uberlocal and, as such, if you work by a rule of thumb, it should be one you arrive at based on recent local sales price data with the help and experience of a trust-

worthy, local real estate agent. I think the real question any buyer's offer price should answer is: "What's it worth to you?" This takes into account both how much you want the place and what you can afford, and puts you beyond regret, whether you get it or not. But as you reflect on what any given place is worth to you, you must keep in mind that an offer doesn't do its job if you don't actually get the place, so it behooves you to reality-check the "what's it worth to you" price against the recent sales and your real estate agent's experience of standard negotiating practices (whether it involve over- or underbidding) in your local market. So, to really answer your question takes not one, but three more questions: * Did you get the property? If not, it wasn't enough (obviously). If so, it might still have been too much, but it might have been right on. Keep reading. * Did it appraise at the price you agreed to? If so, great -- this is no small feat, given the conservatism of today's appraisal professionals. If not, it was too much (at least from your lender's perspective), but you should attempt to renegotiate the price lower on grounds of the low appraisal value, and * Can you afford the mortgage obligations you'll incur at that purchase price on a long-term basis? If you answer to all three of these questions is "yes," then I submit to you that no, your offer was not too much. No further questions, Your Honor.

Work without a permit, get burned By Bill & Kevin Burnett Inman News Service

Several weeks ago we responded to a reader's question about possibly removing a fireplace in her 1920s Oakland house. She made it clear she was going to hire this job out, but wanted our opinion on what we thought of the idea. We gave her the pros and cons as we saw them and also gave her a primer on what might be involved should she decide to take the plunge. We pointed out that it would be a lot of work to not only demolish the fireplace but also replace the void she'd create. Pretty general advice, we thought. But it struck a nerve with another of our readers, architect Neil Rains. Here, edited for space, is his view: "Thank you for your Sweat Equity columns. They are generally enlightening, sometimes entertaining and, I'm sure, helpful and supportive to those who write to you. "I am dismayed by your lack of informing your readers about the legal requirement for obtaining building permits prior to beginning work! On Sept. 13, you wrote about the possibility of removing a fireplace but did not suggest that a permit would be required to do the work. A permit is required for almost any alteration of this type.

"Following is verbatim from the 2004 California Building Code (language from the 2007 code now in effect is virtually the same): "106.1: Permits Required. Except as specified in Section 106.2, no building or structure regulated by this code shall be erected, constructed, enlarged, altered, repaired, moved, improved, removed, converted or demolished unless a separate permit for each building or structure has first been obtained from the building official. "Clearly, the writer for the fireplace (and many other alterations mentioned in your columns) would require a permit prior to beginning work. "Most local building departments have technicians who are sympathetic toward homeowners attempting to do such work and are happy to walk them through the process and provide valuable assistance such as required wood size and spacing to support given loads, electrical, plumbing and mechanical requirements and energy conservation requirements. "Those who think it is a hassle to go through the process of obtaining a permit before the work is done should try doing it after the work is done. Almost all cities will require complete plans of the illegal work, engineering (if required) and enough uncovering of work to confirm that work conforms with code

requirements. Non-conforming work must, of course, be removed and made to conform. "As an architect and retired building official, I couldn't begin to tell you in this letter of even a few of the frustrations and heartaches I have witnessed sitting across the counter from people who have done work without permits. "So I hope you will be cognizant of the need to mention permit requirements and possible assistance from the local jurisdictions to those who write to you in the future. Your doing so will benefit them." Agreed. It's true that we don't often mention building permits. Securing a permit is one of the first things to do, right after the initial planning. In the case of the woman with the fireplace, this was not a do-it-yourself project. We assumed that the permit and inspection process would be explained in the bid from her licensed contractor and that the contract to do the work would address permits and inspections. That we often omit mentioning permits doesn't mean that we advocate doing the work without them. To the contrary, if a permit is required, apply for it before starting work. And make sure to take advantage of the expertise of the local building officials. Our experience is that they often go the extra mile to help owner-builders and contractors alike. Another critical reason to secure a building

permit is that California real estate law requires disclosure of non-permitted work upon sale. In today's tough market, work done without a permit could be a valuable bargaining chip for the buyer, or worse, a deal killer. So, thank you, Mr. Rains, for pointing out our omission. To our readers, there a few things that we always mean, even if we don't take the space to repeat them every time: -- Safety first. Know how to operate any tools you use in a safe manner. Wear appropriate clothing, eye protection, ear protection and dust/vapor protection. -- Plan before you start a project. Change-orders halfway through a job can be very expensive. -- If you don't plan to do the work yourself, hire a licensed and bonded contractor. It is illegal for unlicensed contractors to take on jobs larger than $500. Check to make sure contractors' licenses are valid at www.cslb.ca.gov [2]. -- If required, secure a building permit before starting work. To find out if you need a permit, simply call your local building department.

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4982 WENDALL ROAD. Nice open floor plan, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2 car garage, vaulted ceilings, 1400 sq. ft.. Beautiful view of the Organ Mountains; easy access to WSMR. Energy Star certified with savings up to 40% on energy bills. Whirlpool appliances. Tiled entry way, utility room, bathrooms, kitchen & dining room. Ceiling fans in Master Bedroom and Living room; ceiling fan pre wires in all other bedrooms. Synthetic stucco, tight 2x6 construction, covered front & back porch.

1995 TAPASTRY CIRCLE. Located in the lush Mesilla valley just past Old Mesilla on Highway 28. This luxury gated community offers diverse old world charm. As you drive past the massive stone sentury buildings and bell tower you will be transported into a elegant neighborhood. Casa Bella is the model home and is a spectacular example of the variety of textures, pallets and architectural style offerd at Mesilla Park Mosaic.

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This 2 story home with 2540 square feet is situated on 4 acres and nestled among approx. 100 pecan trees. Built in 1986 it features 4 bedrooms (2 up and 2 down), 2 full baths and a 2 car garage. There are ceiling fans, wood floors and new carpet thru-out the home. The master bedroom is 24' x 12' with a dressing area of 8' x 6' totaling 340' SF.The family room is on slab and the balance of house is wood flooring. The roof has a 30 yr warranty. Other amenities included are EBID, a 30' x 50' workshop with refrigerated air, 30' x 15' hay/equip shed, 6 pipe pens and 1 stall.

Upon arrival to this beautiful southwestern style home, you are greeted with panoramic views of the Rio Grande valley and mountains. Built in 2008 the home features 3 bedrooms, 2.75 baths with approx. 2752 square feet. A split floor plan offers a great room with fireplace, a den/ family room and a gourmet kitchen that includes all granite countertops, custom wood cabinets, wine refrigerator and chef quality appliances. Other amenities include alarm system, refrigerated air, 2 car garage with opener, outdoor cooking center, and a large covered porch all situated on a .78 acre hilltop lot. This property is a must see to enjoy all that it has to offer.

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