Your Guide to the Seattle Real Estate Market
Removing the Must Appraise Clause. BEFORE you as a buyer of a home agree to “remove the must appraise clause” you need to know that means more cash from you the buyer of an undetermined amount. You also need to know the Finance Contingency does not usually cover not having enough Cash to Close. Cash [...]
Gone are the days when you can advertise “must see!” to sell your home, as if people have to come into your house as the first step in the home buying process. You can scream that from the roof top all you want, but unless you have a location that would cause anyone and everyone [...]
A huge congratulations to our very own Jillayne Schlicke on making this year’s list of the 100 Most influential Real Estate Leaders! Here’s how they describe her: Jillayne Schlicke is a researcher, writer and educator who advocates that real estate and mortgage industry professionals maintain a high level of training and ethical standards. As CEO [...]
There was so much fear mongering going on about “The Fiscal Cliff” it was starting to feel like being tied to a chair and being forced to watch The Shower Scene from Psycho. The stock market rallied up in response to it just being OVER WITH! But should we just be happy that it’s over [...]
I was running some stats the other day for Kirkland, Bellevue and Redmond home prices and the graph below came out a bit oddly, as if all prices are trending to 200 to 207 per square foot. I say “oddly” because some went UP to there while others went DOWN to there. That is not [...]
I’m very honored to have been included in this years Seattle Bumbershoot. I recently started painting earlier this year for a hobby. I had (have) no expectations where my paintings may take me – it’s all just for fun. What is especially fun is to be asked to participate in this year’s Bumbershoot festival at [...]
A Cautionary Tale that Multiple Offers can lead to Discrimination in Housing…somewhat inadvertently. I had a young couple ask me if they should submit a “love letter” to the owners of the home with their offer. I had not heard the letter called “a love letter” before, but it reminded me that I had used [...]
I just published about junk mail that I received on my blog… but it doesn’t even compare to the piece of garbage we re
Earlier this month, FHA mortgage insurance premiums (both annual and upfront) were dramatically increased for purchases
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