I don't know about you, but where I live in Eureka, CA it was just plain HOT today. We had record temperatures all over Humboldt County as a matter of fact. The highest temperature recorded was around 109 degrees and that was inland. But even in Eureka and Arcata (our coastal towns) the temper
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05/15/2008
After reading Lenn Harvey's post My Real Estate Company, How Do I Love Thee, Let Me Count the Ways, which is about the questions you need to ask yourself when choosing the right real estate company for YOU as a new agent looking to start in the real estate business or an experienced one looking t
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05/12/2008
For some of you who read or commented on my post yesterday Fortuna Couple Compete for Yard Makeover... many of you wanted to know if our lucky couple won today's competition on the Today Show.Well first of all it was cool to watch. There were four competing (the husband's competed, wives stood o
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05/08/2008
This is just too cool. This morning as I went out to get the Eureka Reporter, and I found this story on the front page of the paper. Since we live way up in Northern California on the coast, just a 2 hour drive south of the Oregon border, we don't usually get national media coverage(unless it h
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05/07/2008
This blog was inspired by Borino from expiredplus. This weekend I sat through a teleconference that Borino and Jennifer Allan hosted about how to get your listings sold successfully. By the way if you weren't there you missed an incredible talk that was extremely helpful for those of us tryin
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05/06/2008
So far for 2008 we are seeing a slight increase in home prices every month. Take a look at our numbers below: Market Update for Humboldt County, California Jan 2008 - Average Price Range: $332,000 Jan 2007 - Average Price Range: $364,000 Total # of Homes Sold (Jan 2008): 70 Feb 2008 -
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05/05/2008
I notice this happening more and more in Humboldt County, California. The listing agent doesn’t want to give too much information about their seller’s property, whether we’re talking about vacant land or a home, unless the buyer is “serious” and willing to put in an offer. Why dig a little b
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05/04/2008
It's Spring Time again and you know what that means. It's time to get out there are do some Spring Cleaning. Time to clean up your flower beds and vegetable gardens and get them ready for new growth! But how do you keep those neighborhood cats from using your flower beds as their litter box? Ho
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04/30/2008
It was 8pm on a Thursday night in Eureka, California. The doorbell rang and my husband answered it. In front of him was this young energetic teenager asking if he could help her earn points for a mentor program she was involved in. “By the way, your neighbor Jim suggested I talk to you to ge
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04/30/2008
Yesterday, I had a meeting with my clients who are first time homebuyers. Originally when they approached me several months ago to help them search for a starter home. To respect their privacy I have changed their names to Shannon and Jeremy. After meeting Shannon and Jeremy, I referred them t
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04/16/2008