Buying a new construction home is a bit different than purchasing a resale home – one that's been previously owned by someone else. You'll need to be familiar with a few tricks of the trade, along with understanding a bit about how the process works. These 20 tips to buying a new construction hom
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03/06/2012
In Part I of this post, I reviewed new construction and communities by DR Horton, Soundbuilt Homes, Schneider Family Homes, and Conner Homes. Because new construction is such a huge part of our south King County and north Pierce County Auburn location, I’ve split my quick overview into two posts.
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03/05/2012
Acquiring a new home is thrilling for every Buyer, but new construction, in particular, maintains an exceptionally high level of anticipation, followed by what seem to be endless delays and frustration, and then finally culminating in a near fever-pitch of excitement. In addition to the shiny new
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03/05/2012
I was a bit (well, a lot) skeptical about whether we’d end up with a storm of the magnitude the weather folks were predicting early last week. We were to get 12-18” of snow. Uh huh … right! In my area of south King County, we’d had a number of just wet little snow blizzards that melted about the
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01/28/2012
New home-building in Auburn, WA continues to increase, as evidenced by a quick drive through the area. One of the most ambitious new developments in Auburn is The Bridges, by MainVue Homes, located just east of 124th, between 304th and 288th. A few years ago I watched as the area was cleared and
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01/18/2012
My husband, the amateur weatherman, has been obsessively following the build-up to the “Megastorm” of decades, currently predicted for our greater Seattle region. We’ve been watching for days, experiencing a bit of snow here, and a bit of snow there. At our home in east Auburn, so far we’ve accum
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01/17/2012
I’ve always loved the Lakeland Hills area of Auburn, which technically straddles the King County / Pierce County borders and includes both Auburn and Sumner addresses. Perched above the Auburn valley, there are some staggering views of the valley, southeast of Mt. Rainier, and east to the Cascade
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01/17/2012
Inspired by a blog post recently written by Richie Alan Naggar, about posts being duplicated without permission, I decided to run CopyScape on my outside WordPress-based site just to see what popped up. And, yikes!, my stuff IS out there on someone else’s site without comment about where the post
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01/16/2012
The last couple of weekends have included a few hours helping our son decide what car to buy. We’ve been to this dealer and that, had him prequalified … and have driven a number of cars. Usually with the all-chatty salesman in the backseat, telling us exactly why this car is THE one to buy. We’ve
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01/14/2012
This is a never-ending business. We work until all hours of the night and yet most agents I know feel so blessed to be working the way we do. This evening, after a long day at the computer, punctuated by breaks to play ball with the dogs, I met with a new client and helped him begin to dial in to
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01/13/2012
