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Browse California real estate listings and you will see impeccably staged houses with kitchens and living rooms that Martha Stewart may as well have designed.

It’s a different picture when you look at property ads in Santa Rosa. Over the past few weeks more than a dozen burned out lots have come onto the market. Families whose homes were destroyed in the October wine country wildfires are selling the charred dirt where their houses once stood.

Real estate agents say they expect many more plots to hit the market in the coming weeks as owners realize the time, investment and energy involved in rebuilding.

“The decision on whether to rebuild or not is a complicated one,” said Mark C. Spaulding, a real estate agent representing sellers who had two properties burn in the fires, one their home and the other a house they rented out.