DANIELLE DAVENPORT PROFILE
Job description: Land real estate agent at D3Group and Keller Williams' ambassador for California land. Her office is in Los Gatos.
Hometown:
Properties she owns out of state: home in Texas.
Fun facts: Davenport has five horses and three dogs, including an aging Australian shepherd called Buddy. Her border collies, Dally and Nelly, are working cattle dogs who like to tag along with the jeans and cowboy boots-wearing agent.
She also cuts cattle on horseback.
As she puts it, “I love being out in the country, but then again, I do get dressed up and train people and lead classes up and down the state.”
Q
Would you build?
A
Hell, no. Would I buy a house that's a tear-down and use the existing infrastructure? Yeah! If it's been there a while, then it's weathered some of the issues we're seeing right now like flooding and landslide issues after all the fires. A site like that tends to be pretty rock solid.
Q
Does that go for vacant land that has been in the same family for decades coming to the market?
A
I would wonder. Another thing people don't realize is land is fraught with title issues. They're usually not clean titles and have been passed around. There could be easements on there that aren't understood. Don't even contemplate it until you pull a title and understand that there is so much due diligence that goes into it.
If I could stop people from using their hard-earned money on the dream of buying land in California for cheaper than buying a home, then I'm more than happy to lose a few sales.
Morgan Hill
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