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RECENT BLOG POSTS
  Everyone seems to be saying - 'don't delay' 'Buy now'!  But WHY, oh Why, do they persist so?   The answer is simple, Three Reasons: Affordability is up nationwide do 56.1 percent of the population, that is 16 points HIGHER than at the height of the market, when only 40.4 percent of the populati...
12/05/2008
Three fantastic points about the current real estate market: All of the not so good agents and part-timers (idiots!) are getting out of the business Everything is on sale! It IS a good time to sell your home*   *IF you are a young family in a cramped two bedroom condo and just found out that you ...
11/21/2008
PRICE Reduced!  $357,788 - BEST home in desirable Jacob's Creek! Secluded & Private Setting, Gorgeous Finishes This one is special.  Extensive upgrades, ground floor corner home with desirable separated bedroom floor-plan and two walk out patios.  Only home in this community with these great fea...
08/10/2008
Hello All,   Well it has been a while since I blogged, but that is because I have been hit pretty hard with trying to decide how to comment on the near daily barage of bad national housing news.  Here is what I will be doing to cope with it this weekend...   I am heading out in about an hour to p...
07/25/2008
Yesterday I commented on the emerging Sprinkler Workers Strike at The Bravern and Bellevue Towers.  Here is a quick update from today's Seattle PI   Today the Headline: Strike Continues to Halt Construction  is an update.  Apparently the Sprinklers Union began striking on Tuesday July 1st, and is...
07/04/2008
The Developers of Bellevue Towers and The Bravern must be feeling all wet this morning.  And I am not talking about the incredible thunder storms or heavy showers we have been having throughout the Seattle Area over the past 24 hours.  Members of the UA Local 699 or 'Sprinkler Fitters Union' have...
07/03/2008
Hello everyone,   Well it looks like I have been a bad bad Real Estate Agent the past 10 days!  No Blog posts, and no showing or previewing appointments.  Although I have been on the phone with clients, and emailing daily, the past 10 days have been filled with lots of in-town tourist activities....
06/30/2008
I'm heading out to do an open house in Leschi right now, but just wanted to get this out here.  Quite a few people have asked us lately about how much money they have to put down to get a mortgage.  I think the national media have done a good job of making the 2 million or so 'bad' loans that wer...
06/15/2008
What does it mean to 'WALK' in a neighborhood?  What about 'Walkability'?  Depends on why your walking...  Seattles new Walkscore.com website allows users to log on and type in an address, and get an instant 0-100 score for the neighborhood 'walkability'.  Here is a general map from todays Seattl...
06/12/2008
Townhouse Solutions??  Uglify or Beautify - not such a clear line.March 8th 2008 the Seattle PI ran the article: ‘On Architecture: The Townhouse Scourge’.  Writer Lawrence Cheek penned these two sentences in the opening paragraph:“Seattle has the townhouse pox. A rash of trite, stale and clumsy f...
06/10/2008
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