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Alan Savage with Sierra Heritage Realty
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Sierra Heritage Realty in GRASS VALLEY
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My childhood years were spent growing up in small rural towns in Idaho and Nevada. Some of my fondest memories of those early years are the daily fishing trips my father took me on, sometimes walking up unscathed heavily wooded canyons. My family would hike into beautiful mountain lakes, build large log rafts to float on the water and sing in harmony around the campfire at night. We enjoyed wonderful meals from our daily catch of fresh rainbow trout and ample miners lettuce wed collected as our salad. We explored old railroad and ghost towns, abandoned cabins, gold and silver mines, caves and shanty towns. We searched for arrowheads, mineral crystals, buried bottles and old rusty square nails. Nature and history fascinated me as a child and continues to do so today. At age 12 my family relocated to central California where I became a boy scout continuing my camping, hiking and fishing expeditions into California mountains and lakes.
It was around age 16 that I became interested in real estate. My first purchase was a steep forested lot in Cambria, California which I later traded as a down payment on a house. I then purchased a 10 acre parcel of land near Springville, California, and at age 17 purchased my first of many home rehabilitation projects in Bakersfield, California. Although I worked successfully in several other professions during my lifetime, I remember my mother continually telling me: Alan, you should be selling real estate.
In 1984, after working up the ranks in a large life insurance company, I became a Regional Vice President with that company and also began selling securities to investors. It was at this point I realized how much I enjoyed helping others build their investment portfolios. With my knowledge of real estate investing, in 1989, I made the difficult decision to leave my lucrative insurance and securities business, jumping headlong into real estate to sell property in the small forested coastal town of Cambria, California.
During my first 3 years in Cambria, I sold real estate with Century 21. I earned top honors as the top listing and top selling agent in my community. My personal production passed all previous listing and sales records on the Central Coast, and I was recognized as being at a production level that only the top 1% of real estate agents nationwide had reached. I worked with Century 21 until mid 1992, when I ventured out to open my first real estate brokerage, Cambria Realty.
In late 1995 I began reaching beyond the boundaries of the central coast, to list and sell properties in mountain and lake regions throughout northern California. I developed a Lot Flip Program which allowed me to sell over 1,000 lots in northern California lake communities to my real estate investor clients, who subsequently resold most of these lots, at much higher prices. I coached many of my clients on how to use their Self Directed Retirement Plans such as IRAs, Sep IRAs, Roth IRAs and some 401K plans, to complete these lot purchases and resales, allowing them to defer and/or avoid paying taxes on their investment profits.
From my initial real estate brokerage office in Cambria, I opened two other successful real estate brokerages in northern California, including Manor Realty in Chester, and Foxwood Realty, Inc., inside the Foxwood subdivision at Lake Almanor, California. My wife Cherie and I opened several successful businesses in Cambria, including two art galleries, and a wonderful retail store with a gourmet coffee bar. I also began consulting on land subdivisions and lot splits, RV Park projects and numerous other large and small redevelopment projects. As a successful broker, during my 22 years in real estate, I have had the privilege of working on more than 200 new home and/or commercial construction projects, as well as being a principal partner on numerous subdivision mapping projects and/or lot split projects, and have partnered on several home renovation flip projects.
In 2007, Cherie and I decided to move to Grass Valley, California. During these past 4 years, I have continued helping real estate buyers and sellers purchase and sell properties throughout northern California. Through a discounted mortgage purchase and resale program, I have also helped over 20 homeowners stay in their homes that may have otherwise been displaced through foreclosure.
Alan Savage with Sierra Heritage Realty is most familiar with the local real estate markets within and around the following zip code areas. See other realtors that service the same areas by clicking: 95910, 95922, 95936, 95945, 95959, 95960, 95983, 96118, 96122 & 96125
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