Rain City Guide

There was a time when mortgage rates were…oh, yawn…pretty darn boring. Not any more. Oh the drama, the turbulence, the emotion!
Dan Green of The Mortgage Reports has an excellent post including some comic relief video explaining How Mortgage Rates Went From (Relative) Riches to Rags in 30 Days.
Dan’s post is a [...]

Man convicted as being a key player of “swindling” $50 Million likely to begin serving 15 yrs. in prison and reportedly has been selling “reverse mortgages” to senior citizens while waiting for date to report to prison.
Evidently, The Washington State Dept. of Financial Institutions (DFI) denied his loan originator license on Dec. 17th of last [...]

Before I calculate the stats for this week, I’d like to take a minute to explain why I am being this tedious. Week to week stats calculate momentum of the market. Will new inventory grow faster than properties are going into escrow? So far only one week showed a slight decline in [...]

Okay, are you tired of the cold, the gray, and the rain…are you ready for SPRING yet?
I am, so I’m off to see the flowers, gardens and “stuff” at our spectacular Northwest Flower & Garden Show !
The show is this week, February 20th to the 24th at the Washington State Convention Center in Downtown Seattle, [...]

So you are thinking you are going to put your house on market in “The Spring”. Well, me too. So let’s do this together, step by step.
1) Set Your List Price.
You will check that again when it is time to list the home, but you can’t start getting the home ready to [...]

Mortgage rates continue their trend upward and they don’t look like they’re coming back down soon. This market is still very volatile and as I always, I encourage you to lock and not float your interest rates if you a closing within the next 4-6 weeks. If you’re hunkering for more [...]

Shock and disbelief overwhelm me and likely you too - and at this point I’m extremely glad I’m not going to work tomorrow. While I plan to finally secure my state residency and volunteer a bit, I almost want to take the day just to recover from all the emotional pangs that paralyze me when [...]

An excellent class that is offered through the Rental Housing Association is coming up soon. Tamara Simon of Koss Property Management has a been a long time owner of her own business and well respected colleague in the real estate industry and a professional that we’ve referred many a client to for help with [...]

A huge congratulations goes out to Robbie! He has been an extremely valuable member of the RCG community and I only hope we can keep him interested in real estate (especially since he runs the backend of my wife’s MLS search site!).

In between the thick gray clouds, and just before dark, my home office turned bright orange and I saw the sun saying goodbye, playing hide and seek in the tree.