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William Etling
(805) 688-0500
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BUYERS
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Certifications and Recognitions
40 year SYV resident William Etling is a Broker Associate with Sotheby's International Realty in Los Olivos. He earned his real estate sales license in 1977 and his broker's license in 1982. From 1994 to 1997 he was broker for Fred Sands Santa Ynez Valley Properties. He opened RANCHLAND Real Estate in Los Olivos in 1997, and joined Sotheby's in 2006.
Real Estate Studies include:
Real Estate Practice
Real Estate Principles
Real Estate Appraisal
Real Estate Economics
Real Estate Finance
Real Estate Law
Real Estate Agency & Ethics
Business Opportunity Sales
Tax Deferred Exchanges: Residential & Commercial
Real Estate Contracts
Trust Funds: Accounting & Handling
Fair Housing
Time Management
Real Estate Office Management
Master of Business Administration courses,
California Lutheran University:
Managerial Finance
Organizational Development
Behavioral Science for Managers
Personnel
Marketing
Business Ethics
Law for Business Executives
Computer Use in Management Decision Making
International Economics
BA, University of California Santa Barbara, 1975
Santa Ynez Valley Union High School, 1971
Specialization
I specialize in representing my clients in the purchases and sales of single-family homes, land, and income property in the Santa Ynez Valley, including Los Olivos, Solvang, Buellton, Ballard, Los Alamos, and Gaviota. I monitor all transactions in these areas, and I'm also very knowledgeable about the local schools. My kids and I went to them.
Personal
A resident of the Santa Ynez Valley since 1966, a real estate agent since 1977, with William Etling your needs come first. The focus is always on your priorities. No property is an island. A good agent knows more than the property; he knows the community.
Bill grew up here. He graduated from Santa Ynez High and UC Santa Barbara, with MBA work at Cal Lutheran. His wife Debra's Danish grandparents came to Solvang in 1932. His children were born and grew up here; both also graduated from UCSB. He works hard to help clients and the community at large. He's on the board of the Friends of the Library (please join this worthy cause!) He personally cleaned up 4 miles of Hwy. 154 for a year in the Adopt-A-Highway Program, and served on the boards of the Solvang School Education Foundation and Arts Outreach. He initiated the beautification projects that banished ugly telephone poles in Los Olivos, Solvang and on Refugio Road. Bill has built and refurbished numerous homes here over the years. And of course he's handled many millions of dollars worth of sales for many happy clients.
"My father-in-law, Renton Mitchell, was one of the most successful real estate agents in the valley. My mother Marion is the former Director of Nursing of the Lutheran Home's Recovery Residence, and past president of the Visiting Nurse Association and the Republican Women's Club. My father Ben is a retired rocket man; he worked for AT&T at Vandenberg; you may see him playing trumpet with the Village Band at Danish Days. My wife Debra runs the Solvang Children's Shop."
The local knowledge you need to make a sound and confident decision is right here.
When you choose an agent, you deserve the best. You are committing vast amounts of time and money to your real estate decision. For superior real estate ability, education and experience; for outstanding local knowledge, community involvement, and tested negotiating skill; and most of all, for peace of mind, CALL WILLIAM ETLING at 805.688.0500.
Welcome to "Sideways" Country
Santa Barbara County is a sprawling, schizophrenic, 2,737 square mile giant, stretching from the long lines of surf rising in sparkling, glassy walls at Rincon Beach at its southwest corner, to the majestic, circa 1820 adobe brick Mission, and the tawny sands and balmy, palm-lined beaches and red tile roofs of Santa Barbara, on up the pristine Gaviota Coast, to the Santa Ynez Valley's rolling, sere golden hills, dotted with majestic oaks surrounding Lake Cachuma's inland sea, encompassed by stately mountains receding into the distance, to the cold, churning, fog-shrouded white water of Point Conception and the launch pads at nearly Vandenberg Air Force Base,to the abundant cornucopia of strawberry, broccoli, cauliflower and flower fields surrounding the busy towns of Lompoc and Santa Maria, to the tiny, almost forgotten oil town of Cuyama, rusting away northeast of the mountainous National Forest and condor sanctuary that carves a huge chunk out of the center of it all. (whew!)
More than 400,000 residents call it home. A few vaqueros are still riding the vast plains on ranches carved from the original land grant ranchos, but most of us work in the cities and towns near the coast.
From the glitz of Montecito's star-studded streets and the searchlights and red carpets of the annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival, to the fishermen culling the rich bounty of the sea, to the students at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the engineers in the research and development think tanks in Goleta, to the Danish bakeries of Solvang, to the migrant workers laboring to bring home the harvest, county residents put their shoulders to the wheel in a languorously lovely piece of Eden.
Sideways brought the local wine industry, nationally second only to Napa, into the public eye. Eighty wineries are listed on the vintner's association website, www.sbcountywines.com. Robert Parker, Jr. the world's most influential wine critic, proclaimed "California's Central Coast will rule America...No viticultural region in America has demonstrated as much progress in quality and potential for greatness as the Central Coast, with its Rhone varietals, and the Santa Barbara region, where the Burgundian varietals Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are planted in its cooler climates."
Little Los Alamos, population 1,300, founded in 1876, became a vineyard village in recent years, growing grapes for Kendall-Jackson, Sutter Home, Byron, Beringer, Mondavi, Meridian, and many boutique wineries.
Friends star Matt LeBlanc bought a 1,052 acre ranch near Los Alamos, with forests of oaks, meadows of poppies and lupine, ponds, seasonal streams, miles of dirt roads, and abundant wild life, including deer, red-tailed hawk, dove, quail and wild pig.
Kiefer Sutherland sold his 800 acre ranch just over the ridge in 2000 for $3.2 million, to concentrate on his hit series 24. Fess Parker's winery is just a short hop down the Foxen Canyon wine trail.
Michael Jackson's 2,675 acre Neverland Ranch is in Los Olivos. Jackson bought in 1988 after filming the video 'Say, Say, Say' at Los Alamos' 120-year-old Union Hotel with Paul McCartney.
Stars loving rural Santa Ynez include guitarist Robert Cray; Cheryl Ladd; Bo Derek; Fess Parker (Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, the dad in Old Yeller) and his friend, singer Ed Ames; songwriter Bernie Taupin; Kelli LeBrock; Jimmy Messina; Noah Wyle; David Crosby; and Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Ronald Reagan relaxed at his 680 acre "Rancho Del Cielo," Ranch of the Sky. He bought it in 1974, when he was still governor, and he loved to be atop the Santa Ynez mountains, close to heaven, as the name implied. Riding with Nancy, chopping wood, or just taking in the incredible views made him happy. The Danish village of Solvang and the Santa Ynez Valley stretched out far below him; clouds drifted past the modest adobe cottage he had personally remodeled.
The President was up at the ranch, in a jovial mood, the day he joked, "The bombing starts in five minutes." Blame it on too much fresh air.
His Santa Ynez neighbors were proud to have him nearby. They held an annual "Reagan Country Roundup." They winced when the press called it his "Santa Barbara" ranch. And they cried when he died in 2004. The ranch is now owned by the Young America's Foundation, and preserved as Reagan left it.
The timeless story of this place will continue long after all of us are gone.
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Santa Ynez
$1,499,000 | 
Los Olivos
$10 | 
Refugio Beach
$8 | 
France
$7 | 
Tour of California
$6 | 
Ranchland
$6 |
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