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Buying New Construction – Choosing the Lot

ARDELL on 04 18, 2012 | 2 Comments

Buying New Construction - Choosing the Lot

The first step in buying a new construction home, unless it is an already built "spec" home, is to choose the lot. However, not all lots can hold all homes. So to some extent you have to choose both t

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Warning: School Rankings Just Went Whacko!

ARDELL on 10 19, 2011 | 8 Comments

Warning: School Rankings Just Went Whacko!

Many parents or "to be" parents use School Rankings as part of their Home Search Process, and I generally support that wholeheartedly. BUT something is amiss! I don't know what just happened. Possi

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Is King County at 2001 or 2005 price levels?

ARDELL on 09 29, 2011 | 2 Comments

Is King County at 2001 or 2005 price levels?

Was reading the questions in the comments over on The_Tim's post about "The Bottom Falling Out on the Low Tier". That prompted me to run some numbers on two cities in King County. One of which is movi

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Should you buy a New home or an Old one?

ARDELL on 09 19, 2011 | 7 Comments

Should you buy a New home or an Old one?

Lots of people want a NEW Construction home, the same way they want a new car vs a used car. However starting the home buying process at "I want NEW" is just as wrong as starting the home buying proce

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