The Washington State attorney general's office recently released three videos that explain your rights and options should you be facing a foreclosure or short sale of your home. As an active Realtor®, I frequently receive phone calls from people that are already behind on their payments, or feel
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10/06/2011
Seattle is a gorgeous area, full of lakes, mountains, and lots of green spaces. Just to the east of Seattle, directly across Lake Washington, are Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland and other communities, commonly referred to as Washington's high-tech corridor. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and a batch of o
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09/02/2011
First time homebuyers Melanie and Eric are thrilled with their new house! Congratulations to you both; may you have many many years of happiness here. Now crack open that champagne and celebrate! Thank you for allowing me to be of assistance in your home search and purchase. I was truly honored
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09/01/2011
Now that summer's coming to a close (well at least on the calendar), I thought a wrap up of Maple Valley home sales activity might be due. This information only includes those homes that post a mailing address of Maple Valley. Here's how things looked over the summer: Of interest, especially, was
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09/01/2011
It's Spring, which means Farmer's Markets are "Springing" Up All Over! I love shopping at local Farmer's Markets. Just mingling amongst all the fresh produce, the local crafts, and flowers is inspiring. I always come away with the zeal to go home and weed. Or something equally as dirty. Not to me
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06/16/2011
Customer service should be a critical part of every business .. and yet so often it's lacking. Sometimes, however, there are folks that go above and beyond to be helpful. Today I had just such an experience! I use Sprint as my cell carrier. And their customer service with regard to phone repairs
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06/16/2011
I'm going to loosely define "Spring" as March 1st through today, June 15th-- our 2011 period of incredible rainfall, cool weather, brief sunshine and a few rainbows thrown in around the edges. I know Summer doesn't officially start for another week or so, but I'm calling it now ... Here's ho
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06/15/2011
Some of you may know that my hubby and I have two beautiful golden retrievers. Generally good dogs, and reasonably well trained, but sometimes instincts are just too strong no matter what the training. We're also new urban chicken keepers ... well, there were 10 10-week old chicks living in a cou
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06/14/2011
Buyers are hooked on photos. I mean REALLY hooked on what they see when searching online for a home. They read a home's description in the marketing remarks, then expect to see a visual confirmation of all of the features mentioned. From there they go to Google maps, or Bing, or wherever and pull
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06/13/2011
My family is new to the world of chicken-keeping. Funny busy noisy creatures those chickens. But inclined to running all over the place when attempting to direct them from one place to another. Block one bird from running off course, then look around and another one has doubled back and is headin
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06/09/2011
