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Quick Hits

Find the cheapest gas for an area. My client bought this tomato and soon thereafter had an accepted offer.  I am not saying that it brought the offer but when a tomato is called the Mortgage Lifter, what are you going to do? Coyotes are on the rise in Lake Oswego. I was driving through […]

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?

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 […]

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 […]

Inertia And Mistakes

Ms. Bank continues to make mistakes. A mistake today cost My Client any hopes of closing today. A small thing that I think was small enough that the person who was to be stepping in to help couldn’t have anticipated. There seems to be this universal law that once something goes wrong, it continues to […]

The Chaos Continues

Friday March 28th, 2008 This is an email I sent to Ms. Bank I don’t understand how we have gone from “one more thing” to restructuring the loan. I thought we were a step away? What has happened? Mike Ms. Bank called My Client and said that I sent a rude email to her. This […]

Another Prank/Crime Gets Perpetuated

Craigslist has been used for another crime. The first one is good to alert the public so they may not get scammed. The most recent cost an Oregon man a lot. But I won’t describe it here so it doesn’t help perpetuate the crime/prank.  And this is crime has been done before which shows that […]

Where Did The Cherry Blossoms Come From?

Somehow I completely missed the blossoms.  I was at an inspection yesterday and finally when I was on the second floor with a tree in my face, I saw the blossoms.  From there on I saw them everywhere.  My street is lined with them, much like this picture I took while I was in Gresham […]

Free Events For The Weekend

Around the Sun blog came out with the weekly list.  Once again Twisted is my pick.  I love Raising Arizona and my favorite scene is where he tries to rob a store to get diapers which doesn’t work and then hilarity ensues.  Also for about 5 years in my mid 20’s I had on average […]

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