Patsy Barten's (patsybarten) Blog

Recently I wrote a contract on a Short Sale.  Questions were asked why an owner would do a Short sale.  Well this is the answers that I gave to them.  People often find in today’s economy that they cannot keep up with mortgage payments for a variety of reasons.  Their home in today’s market may b...

Wow we are so fortunate to live here in North Idaho!  “Art on the Green”, a fabulous mix of vendors and artists will be in the park and on the NIC campus showing off their creations.  This is the 44th annual “Art on the Green” and they are expecting over 50,000 visitors to this year’s event.  The...

Frontier Ice Arena is getting closer to opening!  Expect to see ice this week or at least by next week.  They are expecting to open here in mid August.  The county has been there inspecting the facility in advance of issuing a “Certificate of Occupancy”.  The landscaping is coming along, you will...

Come visit one of North Idaho’s newest family fun attractions.  Silver Streak Zip Lines are now open, they operate 7 days a week starting at 9:30 in the morning.  They have 2 sets of zip lines, the east and the west to choose from and the cost is $75.00 per person.  There is no age restriction bu...

“Get Fired Up” tonight at Kootenai Urgent Care. 1300 E. Mullan Ave., Post Falls, Idaho. Tonight Kootenai Urgent Care is having a summer celebration, featuring a special outdoor BBQ, there will be music and prizes.  This is a “Business After Hours” event through the Post Falls Chamber.  So come do...

A Small Step to Being Smarter….   1.     It will make you smarter. 2.     It will make you more purposeful. 3.     It will make you more creative. Are you intrigued by these three statements?  Are you learning based? Or are you ignorance based?  There are two broad options here for us to consider...

I have thought this might be the case with alarm systems and I always have great anticipation when a home has an alarm system that I am showing.  How about going with a dog that lets you know when someone is outside yoour home (dog can be friendly) and alarm systems don't  usually notice people w...

Thursday July 19th you have an opportunity to tour and go behind the scenes to see just what goes on at Kootenai Urgent Care facility in Post Falls, Idaho at 1300 Mullan Ave.  Most of us don’t think about Urgent Care facilities until we are in desperate need of some kind of medical care and then ...

You do not have to live in Orange County to have a problem with clutter.  My own personal rule is if you haven't opened a box in 5 years, time to get rid of it.  Why do we keep so much?  I do not have an answer for this question but we do need to stay on top of this and periodically go through st...

Well the extremely hot weather here on the prairie in Post Falls, Idaho has broken and now we are back to seasonal normals .  The only thing that really seems to like the extreme heat was the corn in the garden and it looks to have caught up to where it should be by now so I guess there is a silv...