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Local guidesThe courthouse in Woodland is here because the other town flooded
A flooded county seat, a store called Yolo City and one street the town grew from. What three old decisions still change when you sell…
Local guidesYour flood zone is a line on a map that nobody can see from the street
What a FEMA flood zone label actually means, where Sacramento County keeps the answer for your parcel, and the one document that can move the line.
Local guidesSelling a house on a well and a septic system, where the city line stops
Water from your own ground, waste into your own tank. Here is where the county records live, and what a buyer will ask about both.
Local guidesSelling a house in Stockton or Lodi: one county, two cities, three different counters
Two towns twelve miles apart, in one county, built for two different reasons. Here is which counter holds which record when you sell.
Local guidesWhat is different about selling in Roseville, Rocklin or Lincoln
Three Placer County cities, three different eras of house, and what the rail yard, the granite quarries and the clay plant still mean when you sell.
Local guidesSelling a house in West Sacramento: the older river-side tracts
West Sacramento incorporated in 1987, so much of the river-side housing is older than the government that permits it. What that means when you sell.
Local guidesWhere your property records actually live: Sacramento, Placer, Yolo and San Joaquin counties
The deed, the parcel and the roll live in different buildings, run by different offices, in four counties. Here is where to look, county by county.
Local guidesIs your house in a city, or does the county answer for it?
Most people assume their address is in a city. In Sacramento County that is often wrong, and it changes which government keeps your records.
Local guidesLand Park, Curtis Park, East Sac, Oak Park: how to tell the four apart
Four older Sacramento neighborhoods, four different eras of house. What the cross streets, the grid and the decade of the block actually change when you sell.
Local guidesWhat is actually under the floor of an older Sacramento house
Sacramento raised its own downtown out of the flood zone. Here is what is under the floor of an older house, and what a buyer sees…
Local guidesThe alley behind the house, and how the old Sacramento grid put it there
Sacramento was laid out in 1848 as a grid of numbered and lettered streets. Here is what the alley behind your house is, and why it…
Local guidesWhy so much of Sacramento looks the same: the postwar ranch house
Sacramento grew outward in bursts, so whole neighborhoods went up at once. Why the same house repeats down the block, and what it means when you…
