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Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:26:30 -0800

An Alternative Approach To Home Buying
Historically, a homebuyer first calculates how much home they can afford. They either do this on their own by calculatin
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Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:03:49 -0800

Mid-Century Modern Gingerbread House
For Jerry Gropp. Happy Holidays, Jerry! The story.
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Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:34:05 -0800

Is the Housing Bubble Fear Over?!?!
Seattle Bubble announced about a half hour ago that it is changing it's name to Sound Housing News. If that's not a si
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Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:39:16 -0800

The “Never Ending” Homebuyer Tax Credit
Do you only have until April 30, 2010 to get into a binding contract on a house, in order to collect your $8,000 "1st ti
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Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:07:17 -0800

Are you “making an offer” or buying a house?
Buyer Beware of Real Estate "lingo". The soft language of "making an offer" is really leading you to sign a binding cont
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Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:16:01 -0800

Buy Now or be Priced Out Forever!
I once heard that an Ocean Front property could have been purchased for $70,000 back in the 70's. That property is over
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Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:28:32 -0800

How much is your credit score damaged by ?
Did you know that if you have a credit score of 780 or higher, you might damage your score more from a single 30 day lat
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Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:56:53 -0800

How much home can you afford?
There are few things more important to me than a home buyer being able to qualify themselves, vs. taking anyone else's w
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Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:42:07 -0800

Seattle Schools – Admit by Address
The Seattle Times reports that Seattle is returning to a neighborhood-based system. Given it has been about 30 years sin
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Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:45:59 -0800

Seattle: Characters Welcome…
Have been seeing this man walking around with no shirt on through rain and cold and...for about a week now. My guess is
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Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:44:52 -0800

Seattle Homes – An Eclectic Sampling
Took a walk over to Green Lake today and snapped a few pics of a random sampling of Seattle Homes.
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Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:42:36 -0800

Two Homebuyer Credits in One Bill
Well it's all approved and just needs the President's Signature, so I think we can pretty much call this Homebuyer Credi
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Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:16:09 -0800

Investors, Tax Credit & 90 Day Seasoning.
I rarely write on investor topics, because most of my topics come from recent issues discussed with one or more of my cl
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Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:22:28 -0700

What’s Happening with the $8,000 homebuyer credit?
There are a lot of rumors flying around suggesting that the $8,000 credit has been extended. While that is not the case,
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Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:01:41 -0700

Buyer Beware – “great deals” may come with other “issues”
When you get the opportunity to buy a house "worth" over a million dollars, for fifty to seventy cents on the dollar, yo
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Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:39:24 -0700

Short Sales & Bank-Owned pulling prices up?
King County Home Prices, and what is causing them to go up or down, is dramatically different from one area to the next.
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Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:35:55 -0700

President Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize
I am stunned to wake up to the news that President Barack Obama has won The Nobel Peace Prize, while I slept. The range
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Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:34:45 -0700

Truliaboy gets his house…and a puppy
Back in June, a young man posted a question on Trulia Voices. The question no longer appears, though the answers to his
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Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:44:31 -0700

Carnival of Real Estate
Oddly the winners of the Zillow sponsored Carnival of Real Estate, did not win for the posts submitted. In fact even tho
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Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:47:02 -0700

New Rule on Home Blogging & Zillow
There's a lot of talk going on about the new mls rules regarding blogging about homes for sale. The same new rule can pr
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Sun, 13 Sep 2009 09:36:09 -0700

What is NOT included in the home inspection?
The other day I presented a request to the seller's agent after a home inspection. The agent said "My home inspector nev
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Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:59:04 -0700

Inspection = Yay or Nay
An alternate title for this post might be "The seller doesn't 'have to'...anything". I am writing two offers today and t
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Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:44:30 -0700

My daughter’s shoot for Smashbox Makeup
I'll be heading down to see my three girls and two grandaughters in L.A. on Tuesday. I thought you might like to see And
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Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:53:29 -0700

Lower Interest Rate – Escrow Timeframe
1) How long is Escrow? The correct answer is it can be as long or short as the buyer and seller want it to be. However a long...
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Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:29:03 -0700

Price per square foot revisited
Are formal dining rooms becoming obsolete? Are huge master suites too “selfish” for today’s changing society?...
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