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The ultimate beach pad 🌊🏄
MIN DOWNPAYMENT NEEDED: $18,900
First Time Buyers can have most of their closing costs covered! Send me a DM to learn more.
This ground floor condo is ready to go! With a very convenient location, walkable grounds of the complex with a community pool and this unit feels very private and tuc…
MIN DOWNPAYMENT NEEDED: $18,900
First Time Buyers can have most of their closing costs covered! Send me a DM to learn more.
This ground floor condo is ready to go! With a very convenient location, walkable grounds of the complex with a community pool and this unit feels very private and tucked away, with direct acce…
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You’d be shocked what we can accomplish together!
My first time buyers are currently getting closing costs covered with lender incentives.
You don’t need 20% down to buy a home.
I have access to many off market housing opportunities you can’t find on zillow.
All you have to do is start with a conversation! DM me…
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The best real estate advice I ever got?
“You’re not selling houses. You’re selling the life people fantasize about at 2am when they can’t sleep.”
And on this morning in 2026 I stood in my driveway watching fog roll through redwoods, and it dawned on me..
Six years ago, when I moved to Boulder Creek, people thought …
home.with.bailey
The ultimate beach pad 🌊🏄
MIN DOWNPAYMENT NEEDED: $18,900
First Time Buyers can have most of their closing costs covered! Send me a DM to learn more.
This ground floor condo is ready to go! With a very convenient location, walkable grounds of the complex with a community pool and this unit feels very private and tucked away, with direct access to your private covered parking.
This is such a great easy living spot close to the beach 🙌🏽
1925 46th Ave #127
Capitola, CA
Coming soon for $630,000
Listed by yours truly!
𓅯 bailey copley
realtor® |📱(831) 337-8232
Helping people find their Santa Cruz County home since 2016 ✨from coastal vibes to mountain sanctuaries - I’ve got your back
𓅯 BC ESTATES & HOMES
CA lic 02148293 | powered by @roomrealestate
Want the real neighborhood scoop? 👀
DM me & I’ll send you my insider walk-throughs 🏘️
#santacruzrealtor
#movingtocalifornia
#santacruzrealestate
#capitolabeach
home.with.bailey
MIN DOWNPAYMENT NEEDED: $18,900
First Time Buyers can have most of their closing costs covered! Send me a DM to learn more.
This ground floor condo is ready to go! With a very convenient location, walkable grounds of the complex with a community pool and this unit feels very private and tucked away, with direct access to your private covered parking.
This is such a great easy living spot close to the beach 🙌🏽
1925 46th Ave #127
Capitola, CA
Coming soon for $630,000
Listed by yours truly!
𓅯 bailey copley
realtor® |📱(831) 337-8232
Helping people find their Santa Cruz County home since 2016 ✨from coastal vibes to mountain sanctuaries - I’ve got your back
𓅯 BC ESTATES & HOMES
CA lic 02148293 | powered by @roomrealestate
Want the real neighborhood scoop? 👀
DM me & I’ll send you my insider walk-throughs 🏘️
#santacruzrealtor
#movingtocalifornia
#santacruzrealestate
#capitolabeach
home.with.bailey
You’d be shocked what we can accomplish together!
My first time buyers are currently getting closing costs covered with lender incentives.
You don’t need 20% down to buy a home.
I have access to many off market housing opportunities you can’t find on zillow.
All you have to do is start with a conversation! DM me if you want to make your dreams reality.
𓅯 bailey copley
realtor® |📱(831) 337-8232
Helping people find their Santa Cruz County home since 2016 ✨from coastal vibes to mountain sanctuaries - I’ve got your back
𓅯 BC ESTATES & HOMES
CA lic 02148293 | powered by @roomrealestate
Want the real neighborhood scoop? 👀
DM me & I’ll send you my insider walk-throughs 🏘️
#santacruzrealtor
#santacruzmountains
#movingtocalifornia
#santacruzrealestate
#mountainlifestyle
home.with.bailey
The best real estate advice I ever got?
“You’re not selling houses. You’re selling the life people fantasize about at 2am when they can’t sleep.”
And on this morning in 2026 I stood in my driveway watching fog roll through redwoods, and it dawned on me..
Six years ago, when I moved to Boulder Creek, people thought I was insane. “Too remote.” “Career suicide.” “You’ll be back in six months.”
But there’s something about mountain living in Santa Cruz County:
It’s not about escaping your life.
It’s about finally having room to BUILD the one you actually want.
The tech exec who codes better with windows open.
The burned-out creative who needed trees taller than her anxiety to feel grounded.
The couple who realized their “forever home” was actually keeping them from their forever life.
Every single client I’ve helped move up here?
They weren’t buying real estate.
They were buying PERMISSION.
Permission to choose a life that doesn’t look like everyone else’s—and feel proud instead of guilty about it.
The mountain doesn’t care about your career status.
The redwoods don’t judge your unconventional path.
And that fog? It wraps you up and reveals what actually matters.
If you’re reading this, pretending you’re “just browsing” mountain properties “for someday”…
Someday doesn’t exist on a map. But Boulder Creek does.
DM me for my Mountain Living Reality Check.
Not to sell you something.
Because I know what it’s like to make the move everyone thought was crazy...
And stand in my driveway nine years later thinking:
“I should have done this sooner.”























