Coach/Trainer/Realtor
(Excuse the distracted talking. I was watching for my clients.) Over the years I have heard agents brag that they never show more than 10 homes to a client. I always sat in disbelief that they would think like this. In my nine years in real estate it has never occurred to me to do […]
This is a repost from 2007. About 4 years ago I was setting up showings for a client. It was about 4 days before Halloween and nasty weather. There was one house that was owner occupied but it said to call the Listing Agent. That almost always means there is some problem with something. […]
I was at a restaurant years ago and asked if they Coke. The waitress said yes and came back with RC. I didn’t used to hate it, I just disliked the taste. Now I hate it because restaurants try to pawn it off as Pepsi or Coke and I have to ask more specifically […]
It would be nice if we could cross the 20,000 mark but these are good.
You would think it would be accepting an offer but it’s not. The hardest decision the seller makes is choosing the listing price. Most seller’s pay attention to their neighborhood, especially as they get closer to listing their home. So they get a number in their head. Then they talk to friends and probably a […]
I could watch this gorgeous time-lapse of Portland over and over. It captures all of the great sights of Portland, even the small aspects that can go unnoticed.
It’s so hard to pick a good Realtor because most people don’t buy homes often enough to get a good gauge on the process and know what to look for or what works for them. Do you pick based on sales? I know a Realtor that had 60 sales in one year and your best […]
It’s that time of year, so much to do, so little time it seems. That’s why real estate slows down so much during the holidays. Few people are motivated enough to buy or sell a home once the middle of October hits with Thanksgiving around the corner. Once January rolls around the market gets flooded […]
Dennis Hope, a Nevada entrepreneur, has been selling lunar real estate, priced at $20/acre, for the last 20 years. By exploiting a loophole created during the 1967 United Nations Outer Space Treaty (the Treaty stated that no country or government could lay claim on extraterrestrial land, but did not mention private individuals or corporations), he […]
The city of Beaverton and the Biggi family have been arguing/negotiating over some land in Beaverton that the city would like to use to build a stadium for the Portland(will they change the name to Beaverton) Beavers. Negotiations broke down and the Mayor started talking about eminent domain. Once he agreed to back off that […]
Last year the Vice President of a major title company was in town to talk about the state of our local housing market. He started off by asking, why is there so much litigation with siding in the Northwest. If you live anywhere in the Portland area you have likely seen whole housing developments with […]
90% of the time when I go to list a home the last place they want me to look at is the garage. It is often followed by apologies about how messy it is and then they just trail off. First let me say I have rarely found a buyer who cared what the garage […]
USDA loans are for what is typically considered rural properties. Those areas are still mapped based on old population numbers. Now you can find new developments and gorgeous homes well within these boundaries. USDA loans require no downpayment and for a few more months there is no mortgage insurance required. The monthly mortgage insurance will […]
I love (that has changed) the book Freakonomics. I like to look at information counter-intuitively to see what is maybe missing. Such as killing the cats made the plague spread quicker because it was the fleas on the rats that were the real culprit In the video above they don’t look outside the box; they […]
UPDATE: It’s 2019 and I completely forgot about this and sadly, many agents are just as bad about returning calls. I finally found a way to vent my frustration about the lack of response from agents when I was trying to show their listings. It was tough to go back to my client over and […]
I will get used to the microphone and not so much heavy breathing. 🙂 Here is the full PDF to the Portland Metro Area 2011 Market Action
