Welcome to Gold Country Real Estate
Gold Country Real Estate Services is a professional, courteous, honest, and energetic group here to assist with all your real estate needs. We offer assistance with purchases, sales, short sale negotiations, loan modifications and foreclosure prevention. We have a full service in house lender staffed to serve all your lending needs. We take pride in the experience we have and the knowledge we are able to share with our clients and colleagues.
Our firm is made up of professionals who have lived in the California Foothills are for over 20 years. A team well versed allows us to represent buyers, sellers, and investors. Our tax and financial background allows us to assist with unique and sophisticated strategies so that you and your family feel well represented.
The Gold Country Team
Gold Country Real Estate Services is a professional, courteous, honest, and energetic group here to assist with all your real estate needs. We offer assistance with purchases, sales, short sale negotiations, loan modifications and foreclosure prevention. We are also staffed to assist with any loans or refinance assistance you may need. The team effort is a collective one so that our clients know that we are all here and available to assist at any time. From loan processing to short sale negotiations we can do it all.
Our collective experience consists of real estate, loans, and tax assistance and advice. Please feel free to contact any one of us in the group at any time.
Click below to meet the team:
REO Resume
Summary of Qualifications
Full service REO and short sale facilitator. We tailor our approach to each clients preferred method of operations. We understand what it takes to get the job done.
- Female-run
- 2 full-time listing agents, 1 full-time buyer’s agent, office manager, BPO manager, and transaction coordinator
- Serving Placer County, Sutter County, Yuba County, Nevada County and Sacramento County
- 3+ years handling BPOs, 2+ years managing both REOs and short sales
- In-house legal counsel
Provided
- Broker price opinions - interior and exterior
- Cash for keys
- List, market and sell REO and short sale properties
- Administer utilities, including electric, gas, water, sewer and trash
- Homeowner association research and contact
- Obtain quotes for repairs to get property in marketable condition
- Property maintenance, including:
- Trash outs
- Lawn care
- General repairs
- Pest control
- Mold remediation
- Teardowns
- Winterize and de-winterize
- We have a comprehensive vendor network for our entire service area
Clients Serviced / Relationships
Asset Management Services, California REO Management, Clear Capital, Deutsche Bank, E-Mortgage Logic, Evaluation Services, JPM Chase Home Finance, Land America Default Services, Litton Loan Servicing, Mark to Market, Old Republic Default Mortgage Services, Premiere Asset Services, RealServ, Res.Net, Select Portfolio Servicing.
Marketing
- Online Listing/Marketing Services
- REOTrans, Res.net, REO BOSS, Realtor.com, Yahoo! Real Estate, Zillow, Trulia, Google Base, Vast, Geebo, OLX, HotPads, DotHomes, Cyberhomes/AOL, FrontDoor, PropSmart, Oodle, and via Oodle - Lycos, MySpace Classifieds, WalMart.com Classifieds, Local.com
- Buyer Acquire/Instant Info System - Sign Rider to capture prospective buyers
Errors & Omissions Insurance
Areas of Coverage
- Loomis (95650)
- Penryn
- Newcastle
- Auburn
- Meadowvista
- Fair oaks (95628)
- Orangevale (95662)
- Roseville (95661, 95678, 95747)
- Granite Bay (95746)
- Folsom (95630)
- Sacramento (95818, 95814, 95817)
- Yuba City
- Plumas Lake
- Sutter County
Short Sale Process
What is a Short Sale?
Are you upside down on your home, facing financial hardship or falling behind in mortgage payments? A short sale may be the answer to the question you have with regards to how best to sell your property.
The short sale process is a lengthy and time consuming process. It takes persistance, knowledge, organization and professionalism. Our team is experienced in the process and successfully negotiated 20+ short sales in the past 12 months.
This is not a task to be undertaken by just any real estate agent. As a Certified Short-Sale Professional, CSP, we have been trained to navigate through the requirements that need to be met to get all parties to agree to the short sale. Finding a buyer is only half the battle. Once we have an able and willing buyer, we must convince the lender(s) that they should grant you a short sale - in essence, accepting less than what you owe on the mortgage(s).
What should you expect during the short sale process?
- We calculate the value of your property. This will be accomplished by preparing a CMA and looking at the closed sales as well as the active lisitngs and comparing the amount of short sales to bank owned and active listing. The KEY to the short sale is pricing the property right so that once an offer is received it is accepted at list price so no delays or further negotiatons will be reuired.
- Preparation of your Short Sale Application. The lender(s) will require a specific documents from you. This is a critical step in the process; your short sale package must be complete and accurate. We will counsel you on what is needed and we will assist in completing a full financial package and sending this information to the bank.
Generally, the lender will require the following items from you:- Lender short sale application
- Hardship letter - clearly outlining their financial hardship and substantiating the reasons for requesting the short sale
- Seller’s financial statement / budget - delineating all income and expenses
- Last 2 years tax returns
- Last 2 bank statements
- Last 2 paycheck stubs
- Listing and Marketing Your Property. We will list the property through the Multiple Listing Service. We deal direct with the bank and the buyer’s agent, keeping in contact with both weekly.The buyer must be willing to deal with extended deadlines and additional demands made by your lender
- Acceptance of short sale- We expect when taking on a short sale listing to comlete the job with an accepted offer, full short sale approval, and release from all further deficiency balance. We will obtain a short sale approval letter which serves as a legally binding document to assure all parties involved our job has been completed.
Summary
As Certified Short-Sale Professionals, we can handle the challenge of short selling your property and prevent you from succumbing to the many pitfalls that can beset those who are not familiar with the process.
Contact us today for free, no-obligation analysis of your home’s value and short sale consultation
Contact Gold Country
Our Office:
3853 Taylor Road, Ste. 400
Loomis, CA 95650
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phone: (916) 719-3235
fax: (916) 313-0758
Kim Tucker
(916) 719-3235
kim@goldcountryre.com
Cherie Smith
(916) 300-5147
cherie@goldcountryre.com
Leanna Havens
(916) 247-6226
leanna@goldcountryre.com
The Gold Country Team
Kim Tucker
Broker/Owner
Kim is a licensed Mortgage Broker with a BS in Finance and MSBA in Taxation. Kim handles the operations and management of Gold Country Real Estate Services and is excited to be involved with clients and her staff to make the company a growing success. Kim has become a short sale, REO and loan modification specialist in this quickly changing environment and feels that staying on the forefront of what is happening in the market is what differentiates the firm from many others. Kim is also is a Registered Securities Principal and Registered Tax Preparer.
contact: kim@goldcountryre.com (916) 719-3235
The Gold Country Team
Cherie Smith
Realtor®
Cherie is a licensed realtor and heads the loan modification team at Gold Country Real Estate Services. She has lived in the Foothills for the past 20 years and serves as a valuable resource to buyers and sellers.
contact: cherie@goldcountryre.com (916) 300-5147
The Gold Country Team
Leanna Havens
Transaction Coordinator/Loan Processor
Leanna Havens-Leanna is the operations manager at Gold Country Real Estate Services, she makes sure all staff is supported in their needs and maintains direct contact with most all clients that pass through our firm. She is the transaction coordinator for all files and recently has started studying for her real estate license!
contact: leanna@goldcountryre.com (916) 247-6226

