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How To Price A Secret Room?

  Creative Home Engineering specializes in secret doors. (Above is a picture from a recent Street Of Dreams Home.) You have no idea how much I love hidden rooms.  I don’t know where it comes from but I saw one when I was a kid and it floored me. Up in a loft where everything […]

Map Based Home Search

Map Search of The RMLS   Serious buyers have an agent using the RMLS to email them the newest listings on a daily basis. Then they check about four different sites making sure nothing is missed. I think many enjoy the hunt of it all. Even when I was at the larger companies, where directional […]

“How Long Will It Take You To Sell My Home”

I, and assume several other agents, were sent a questionnaire from a homeowner that had 10 questions with multiple questions in most of the numbered questions. I have listings that have few showings and little interest. I have a listing that had 24 showings in less than 2 weeks. My marketing, photos, websites, wording, etc. are […]

Thanks For The Donations

St. Baldrick’s raised over $100,000 and your donations to me were more than $325 for shaving my head. Here is the result. Any votes on if I should keep it?

Don’t Walk Away From Your Home

According to Huliq.com, Borrowers facing foreclosure will be unable to obtain loan for up to five years through the mortgage giant, unless there is “documented extenuating circumstances” in which those borrowers would have to wait up to 3 years for a new mortgage, according to a release by Fannie Mae. At first this sounds like […]

Best Photo Of The Weekend

No trick photography here. I don’t have photoshop or the skills to plant ducks into it. They just flew over me while I was snapping pictures at Westmoreland Park to add photos to my Berkeley Place listing.

Market Watch For April 2008

Nothing new or good to report.  Market is about the same though there are different statistics to play with that could make it look good or horrible.  It is about the same. I wonder if the boom took longer to hit as people slowly became aware loan requirements were eased by banks.  Now most people […]

Donating to St. Baldricks

There are 3 ways to donate to me shaving my head for St. Baldrick’s Foundation for children with cancer. You can donate online, download a form or call. Here is the link to get you there, www.stbaldricks.org/participants Thank you to the people who already offered to donate and the others who have offered sunscreen for […]

St. Baldrick’s Fundraiser Sunday At Barracuda

Looking in the mirror I often think I have more hair than some picture angles show. Sunday I will get a glimpse into the future as I get my head shaved for charity. St. Baldrick’s is the world’s largest volunteer-driven fundraising event for childhood cancer research.  In the US, more children die of childhood cancer […]

Increasing Your Credit – Guest Post By Seth Harris

Increasing your credit score! Seth Harris Reduce Balances: Credit balances affect your credit score by about 30%. Even if you’ve never missed a payment, if your credit cards are maxed, your score will drop. Never Close an Old Account: Credit history is a major factor for your score. Often, people feel that they should close […]

Bright Shiny Friday

Depending on the forecast you watch we are headed for about 70 degrees today, 75 tomorrow and high 60’s on Sunday. And I am ready for it. This has been a long week which is why there haven’t been any new posts. I listed two new homes over the weekend. Since I started doing single […]

Free Events This Weekend

My week has been interesting enough that I think between appointments I will just be a homebody.  If you want to get out and find some free stuff events at Around The Sun Blog. photo via http://www.flickr.com/photos/notsogoodphotography/

Couple Sues Google Over Street Map View

To the left is a “Steet View” of one of my previous listings. My yard sign will be there in perpetuity. You can actually use the arrows and travel up and down streets as well as spin around 360 degrees to see what is around you. This is great for people to get a feel […]

Ms. Bank – The Finale

“In like a Lion, out like a lamb.” Lisa from Transnation Title was kind enough to fit My Client’s schedule and we signed this morning at 6:30 so My Client could be to work at 7:30. Because of another blunder by Ms. Bank we missed closing or even signing yesterday which caused fits of frustration […]

Interesting Links

A Tasting Report for the Willamette Valley. Phoenix has 53,000 homes for sale.  The riskiest markets where Phoenix was 10, Detroit ranked No. 1 followed by Orlando, Fla.; Cleveland; St. Louis; Miami; Las Vegas; Sacramento, Calif.; Denver and Tampa, Fla. Intuition Real Estate Group may be as good as a Palm Reader (see I was […]

Six Evictions A Week

The Sheriff is the one to evict people when a foreclosure has been completed. I don’t think they imagine this is part of their job but still they have to do. And this guy has to do it almost every day right now.

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