Karen Eddinger's (callkaren) Blog

WHAT DO I LOVE ABOUT SELLING REAL ESTATE? 1.  The Element of Surprise Everyone loves a surprise.  That's why we throw our friends surprise parties.  That's why we wrap gifts before presenting them.  That's why some of us don't order that test that would tell us the sex of our unborn baby.  We lov...

...you have come to the right place.   Homes For Sale in Laurelhurst in Seattle are "flying off the shelf", in many cases.  That's why I'm excited to share with you my new listing at 3625 47th Ave NE in the Laurelhurst neighborhood of Seattle.  This classic Dutch Colonial has incredible curb appe...

My name is Karen and i'm a Groupon addict  The scope of my addition actually extends beyond Groupons. I started with Groupons and then went on to use Living Social, Buy With Me, Google Offers, Local Deal Finder, Amazon Local...the list goes on and on. It started slow, with just a few deals here a...

In the words of William Shakespeare, let's kill all the lawyers, er, I mean underwriters.  Yes. let's kill all the underwriters.  I know this sounds a little drastic.  I'm somewhat emotional, coming off a bad week, but I still think this could be a good idea.  They are messing with our closings! ...

"Play toys" is probably not on your list of "to do's" for today -- or even yesterday, for that matter. And it's probably not part of your real estate training.  In fact, I would venture a guess that you haven't had "play toys" on your list of things to do for as long as you've had a list.  We've ...

It's not what you know that counts.  It's not even who you know.  Now, and possibly for the rest of eternity, it's all about who you can meet.  I've been a Realtor® for over thirty years.  If I get more specific than that, you might figure out how old I am.  I used to think I knew a lot, and I ha...

I have somehow landed on a Spanish-speakers mailing list.  I'm not sure how this happened.  At first, I thought it was the result of joining NAHREP (National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals), but the emails are arriving through an account I rarely use, rather than the Gmail acco...

When I was a young real estate agent in St. Louis in the 1970's, my manager John coached us on how to handle buyers.  Buyers are liars, he warned.  What he really believed and what was contrived to form a rhyme, I will never know.  Back in those salad days of seller markets, John knew the value ...

When I moved from St. Louis to Seattle, I left behind more than high humidity and the baseball Cardinals.  I said good-by to the conservative Heartland and hello to the progressive Northwest.  No more cursing at pesky cyclists trying to squeeze out a piece of pavement for themselves.  In Seattle...

Living in Green Lake Could be Fattening I say this because I live across the street from the best little gelato place in all of Seattle - Bottega Italiana.  They also have excellent coffee, even by Seattle standards, and their sandwiches and salads are pretty good too, but it's the gelato, late i...