Santa Maria Real Estate: Tips for Buying Santa Maria Short Sales

1) Be prepared for an “as-is” purchase. Many times there is deferred maintenance on short sale listings. Often owners in financial distress stop performing maintenance on the home either willfully and because they lack the funds. You can ask a short sale seller to make repairs, but often they are unable or unwilling to do so since they are losing their home. You can also approach the short sale lender and ask that they allow the cost of the repairs to be deducted from their “net” but often the answer will be no, even if the repairs are required by your lender in order to originate your new loan.
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Snapshot 2010: Nipomo Foreclosures

There are 189 active and pending homes and condos in Nipomo. Of those 189 properties, 16 are foreclosures (8%) and 34 are short sales (17.9%). Looking back six months, there have been 122 sales in Nipomo with an average listing price of $440,781 and an average selling price of $429,203, so sellers are getting about 97.3% of their asking prices in Nipomo indicating that there is some bargaining room for buyers in the Nipomo real estate market.
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