• What can $2.75 million buy? This house, a 4,300-square-foot riverfront home at 3915 Ortega Blvd. The Wall Street Journal published a photo and information about the home in its May 13 “Relative Values” feature, along with a $2.9 million Montana property and one in New York for $2.5 million. Prudential Network Realty agents Caroline Powell and Allison Steilberg represent the listing for owners Payton and Carol Scheppe, who’ve owned the 1918-built home for 35 years and are downsizing. It’s been on the market for a year. “What a windfall this was,” said Powell, who has been called by agents across the country and has shown the home locally based on the feature. “I smile when I think what we would have paid for this kind of advertising.” She said the Journal reporter called “out of the blue.”
