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May 2008
- MGIC Tightens Underwriting Guidelines…Again
- Friday Rates
- A Mortgage Broker is not a Lender
- When it’s good to know a “wiseguy”
- Just got the news! Another Grandchild on the Way!
- Mortgage Broker Commission Meeting Tomorrow
- Sunday Night Stats on Monday Morning
- Friday’s Rates
- Free Flushes?
- RCG Flashback to gHomes
- “It’s Microsoft’s World, Kid…
- May Day Seattle Neighborhood Round Up
April 2008
- Welcome NYT’s readers!
- The Future of Mortgage Brokers
- HELP! Techie Problem! I’m going NUTS!
- Fed Funds Rate cut 0.25% to 2.00%.
- Make Sure Your Loan is Locked
- Condos - How much should be in reserves?
- Are you videogenic?
- Caught!
- Sunday Night Stats - King County
- Title and Escrow - Who Chooses?
- Sound Transit needs your input!
- Friday’s Rates
- Greatest Real Estate Agent in the World
- The Commission-Based Fee Structure: it’s Bad for Buyers
- Spring Projects: sprucing up that old cracked walkway or patio?
- Sunday Night Stats - King County
- Predictions: helpful or counterproductive?
- Rivertrail Townhomes in Redmond
- RCG Intermission to bring you ……
- Friday’s Rates
- Just How Much Your Credit Score Impacts Your Interest Rate
- Avoid Seattle’s nasty traffic jams
- Seattle Real Estate - 2008
- A New Way To View Condos
- My friend takes job in Iraq
- Will Real Estate Agents Embrace a Loan Originator with Fiduciary Duties?
- I went to a mortgage whore, he said my life’s a bore
- Sunday Night Stats + 1st Quarter YOY
- Be afraid, very afraid…
- Rates for Friday
- How to evaluate “the comps” and price per square foot
- Salvaging a dead transaction: when a client refuses to sign.
- Need cash flow? Don’t be afraid of unpopular sales and…
- Older sells faster and for more
- Senator Dorgan’s Office Now Collecting Deceptive Mortgage Advertising
- Sunday Night Stats - King County
- A year later - A DUI case gets its day in court and the victims get their day in the paper
- In Tribute to Charlton Heston
- Friday’s Rates
- Geekier than Geek Estate & Sweeter than Sweet Digs
- Don’t Sign That Listing Contract!
- Date My House - Saturday on TLC
- Buying without an Agent: How to get that 3%
- Zillow Launches On-Line Mortgage Rate Quotes
- I Dig Dueling Digs
- FHA Jumbo
- There’s No Fool Like An April Fool
March 2008
- Buyer Agency - Don’t pay someone to “open a door”!!!
- Using an agent to buy a house? That is soooo 20th century…
- Seattle Real Estate - Sunday Night Stats
- Purchase Implosion: Pre-approval letters worth the ink?
- Temorary name change: Welcome to Snow City Guide
- Another day, another real estate agent student collapses in the classroom
- Last chance for Space Needle happy hour
- Buyer’s question at signing
- New Heater and Air Conditioner in Seattle Area
- Friday Night at Crossroads Shopping Center
- Sunday Night Stats - King County
- Title Insurance Affiliated Business Arrangements Under Scrutiny
- Mortgage Rates on a Good Friday
- Question from today’s short sale class
- With her typical common-sense approach, Rhonda lands…
- A Special Tribute for RCG’s 3rd Birthday!
- 3 Steps to Understanding Real Estate Commissions
- Fed Rate Cuts
- Seattle-area agents interested in driving more web traffic?
- Should you buy before you sell?
- Sunday Night Stats
- Happy Birthday, Rhonda Porter!
- Proposed RESPA Reform
- Used Car Salesmen, Trial Lawyers and Real Estate Agents
- Laying Bamboo or Wood Floor on the Diagonal
- Friday’s Rates
- Another Lender Pulls Out of Fannie/Freddie 100
- Major Credit Score Rate Adjustments — The Hits Keep Coming
- MB Confidential - Should he come out of the closet?
- Have you heard about Zilpy? New site for tracking rents in cities across USA…
- Fannie Mae’s Jumbo-Conforming Loan Guidelines
- Sunday Night Stats - King County
- Does it matter who you list with, who you close with or who your loan officer is?
- Any guesses as to if the BOA buyout of Countrywide will still happen?
- Tim Ellis of Seattle Bubble on 710 KIRO
- Friday’s Rates are in Limbo
- New Version of “Musical Chairs”
- Catching Z-Z-Z’s Zillow on Mortgage
- A class act… Screen for Success via Rental Housing Association
- $435,000 Ballard home: only $900 a month
- New Conforming Loan Limits for Washington State
- Mortgage Brokers and Loan Originators Will Owe Fiduciary Duties to Consumers
- New FHA Mortgage Limits
- Life in escrow: When we compete with American Idol.
- Should you lose your Earnest Money?
- How Quickly Guidelines Change
- Street of Dreams is on Fire
- Having second thoughts about that High-End Condo presale?
- Major Changes with Appraisals for Conforming Loans
- Warning to Thurston County agents - and this goes for FSBO folks too…
- Absorption Rates
- Sunday Night Stats & YOY Results
- You may be the most impressive part of RCG
- Tam O’Shanter in Bellevue
- Greatest Real Estate Agent in the World
February 2008
- Friday’s Rates for Leap Day
- Good advices are an imperative in a changing market
- Will St. Patty’s Day Bring Us Luck with Conforming Loan Limits?
- What are they doing now?
- Days On Market and a few other things
- The first local information site to do it right
- Extensions: When Your Time is Up With Your Lock
- Why I Read Seattle Bubble
- A while back I spelled Seatttle with…
- Greatest Real Estate Agent in the World
- Sunday Night Stats
- WEB 2.0 vs. WEB 1.5 and Blogwars
- REALTOR (R) Magazine Welcomes Web 2.0
- Skinny Bitch and Jenny Craig
- Friday’s Rates
- Internet Marketing Seminar for Realtors in California
- The Northwest: blessed with water,mountains, settings and views. How do you value views?
- Board votes 6-3 to landmark Ballard Denny’s building
- Safety can’t be stressed enough for agents and sellers of property….
- Are Rates Shooting to the Moon?
- 30 Year Fixed over 6%
- Yikes, that was close. Or, was it? Convicted felon making loans.
- Sunday Night Stats - King County
- It’s coming….SPRING (!) and The Northwest Flower & Garden Show….
- Get Ready to Sell with ARDELL - Part 1
- Mortgage rates heading up
- Heartbreaking atrocities leave us barren
- Landlord 101 class offered February 26th by RHA
- Robbie, the Jedi Knight, accepts a position with the Rebel Alliance
- Seattle Sun
- Greatest Real Estate Agent in The WORLD
- Frankly My Dear…You’re Not
- Bargain vs. A Steal
- We’re not in a declining market…we’re just soft
- There Oughta Be a Law…
- Sunday Night Stats - King County
- Never Afraid to Tell It Like It Is…
- Flying under the radar with the stealthy SecondSpace
- Best Pizza Delivery in Seattle
- Red and Blue States - Foreclosures
- Escrow Signings: your place or ours.
- Friday’s Rates
- Rudy is to Trulia…
- Setting the Asking Price for a Home in Redmond
- Homeowners in Foreclosure Should Hire an Attorney
- Hold On To Your Hats! Sunday Night Stats
- Pondering the 2008 RMBS Vintage
- Friday’s Rates
January 2008
- Great Views = Landslide Waiting to Happen? Looking for a Geologist to Evaluate Slope Stability
- Fed Funds Rate now at 3%
- If You Walk Away, I’ll Walk Away
- Free Speech? Miami Realtor/Blogger sued by developer for $25Million
- Sunday Night Stats - King County
- Washington State Legislative Alert: SB 6381 and SB 6452
- Friday’s Rates: 30 Year returns to the Mid to Low 5’s
- Round-up of Seattle Neighborhood Blogs
- Lock It or Lose It
- Cold…but Awesomely Gorgeous in Seattle
- Happy Birthday, Dustin!
- I Love Brian Brady’s Twitter - You Will Too
- Surprise! Fed Cuts Funds Rate by 0.75%
- I empathize with ya, Chicago
- Sunday Night Stats
- Are any homes worth buying?
- The Dustin Luther factor: Where it all began, sprinkled with blogging surprises
- Friday’s Rates — Still low!
- CNN Money.com: Appraiser sues WaMu
- When Spell Checkers Aren’t Good Enough
- Congratulations to Russ Cofano
- Credit Scores, Government Loans and 100% Financing
- Sunday Night Stats - King County
- Why did YOU move to Seattle?
- Improving Your Credit Score
- What if Non-Profit Housing Associations Were Able to Originate Mortgage Loans?
- Seattle Bubble Says Seattle Markets Going UP!
- Trulia wouldn’t let me say “pain in the butt”
- The Future of Countrywide
- Mortgage Rates for Friday: ARMs and Jumbo’s MUCH Lower!
- What I love about this business: the people
- From Inman Connect in New York
- Dear Zillow-meisters – Better start makin’ copies of the Trulia-nator
- Bellevue Manor Price Histogram
- Sunday Night Stats
- How difficult is it to find a good rental in Seattle?
- You’ve Got to be Kidding
- Historic Seattle Home Parts
- Deep thoughts & a shameless plug
- Ring in the New Year with Lower Mortgage Rates
- Who Needs to Register as a Contractor?
- Magnificent 7 Consumer Awards
- Seattle Real Estate
December 2007
- Here’s to a shimmering ‘08
- Reliving 1999 in 2008
- Are Short Sales Affecting our Home Prices?
- Dustin Luther and ARDELL’s butt make “the news”
- Washington State Loan Originator Licensing Update
- Linden Home Loans Charged with Bait and Switch Advertising
- The Last Friday’s Rates for 2007
- Where are the coyotes in Seattle?
- Christmas Neighborhood Round-up….
- Recent Mortgage Fraud Developments and Future Outlook
- Lower Cost Options for Buyers & Sellers of Real Estate
- There Are Still a Few Days to Do Tax Planning
- An Early Holiday Present
- This week according to 4realz…
- Mortgage Interest Rates on the rise
- To Whom it May Concern
- A lesson in the dangers of distressed property purchases…
- What it’s like to be a mortgage originator today
- A D-I-Y Don’t: Divorce
- … And down comes the rain
- Kirkland Extreme Makeover - Tonight at 8
- Friday’s Mortgage Interest Rates
- Should You Buy a Short Sale Property?
- Major Proposed Changes for Residential Closings in 2008
- Fed Funds Rate now at 4.25%
- Adventures In Articulated Transportation
- The Baby or the Bathwater
- Wow! What a ride!
- Friday’s Mortgage Interest Rates
- Four plus inches of rain
- “Hope Now” program to curb delinquency/foreclosures fraught with problems
- The Difference between a 679 and a 680 Credit Score
- Which St. Joseph statue?
- Snowing in Seattle
November 2007
- Mortgage Fraud Case Studies
- Mortgage interest rates are going down…but for how long?
- Seattle Neighborhood Roundup…. It’s beginning to look a bit like….
- Self-Directed IRA’s with Checkbook Control
- Why are sales down and prices up?
- Mortgage Rates for Black Friday
- Those Whacky Real Estate Contracts
- Let’s Do Away with Loan Origination Compensation
- You like Turkey and Christmas more than real estate
- A Thanksgiving Real Estate Story
- Estate Sales and things you need to know while selling or buying them…
- Happy Birthday to…
- Mortgage Interest Rates for Friday
- Let Brokers charge what they want. Do away with YSP.
- Mythbusters takes on water heaters as rockets….
- The Sky is Falling! The Sky is Falling!
- Did you find everything OK?
- Are you going to Vegas?
- Mortgage Brokers and Loan Originators Should Support HR3915
- Tweet tweet
- Friday’s Rates
- Say Goodbye to the Penguin
- Three Steps to Staging a Listed Property
- My inspiration for this week: Hamoody
- Blog Wars: It’s everywhere.
- A Shopping Trip for Staging a Home
- Mortgage Rates for Rain City
- Photos are worth 1,000 words (and a lot of money too)
- What will a market slow down do to discount brokers?
- Famous Real Estate Agent Found Dead
October 2007
- The Mortgage Witch Hunt
- Update on Sixty-01 Seattle Area Appreciation
- Doing the JavaJitter
- Inman is Lead Investor in Curbed…
- Rantings on volunteering, wigs parties, de-icing
- Mortgage Fraud
- Emergency Short-Term Housing In Southern California
- Friday’s Mortgage Rates
- Neighborhood Round-up: Halloween is just a week away….
- Microsoft Theater Troupe
- Closing the Translation Loop
- Seattle companies get no love
- I have no intention of turning this into…
- The MLS is not just for advertising your property
- Anything but stormy
- Common myths & misconceptions of Escrow.
- It’s Stormy out there, but we are having fun!
- Rain City Rates: 30 Year Under 6 and Jumbo 30 improved by 0.5% since last Friday!
- Washington State Loan Originator Licensing Update
- Jumbo rates are greatly improving!
- Does the NAR & the Big Brokers really want to fight The Blogosphere?
- Update on ‘Fix and Flip’
- Private Money Loan Recommendations?
- Top 12 Women Real Estate Bloggers 2007 Podcasts
- Are you really preapproved or are you just prequalifed for a mortgage? Part 2
- Friday’s Mortgage Rates
- Inspiration is everywhere if you decide to let it touch you.
- Home Owner Quicksand
- 6 Interesting tidbits from around the web
- Department of Justice Speaks Out
- Neighborhood round-up serves up with Salmon…
- ZOLVE.com - Another RE Network
- I’m glad I don’t have their job…
- Social networking around geography
- Do It Yourself Home Staging
- Are you really preapproved or just prequalifed for a mortgage? Part 1
- The mortgage business needs to clean up.
- Mortgage rates slightly up following a strong Jobs Report
- Should Loan Originators Retract Preapproval Letters?
- In good company…
- Are YOU a Contractor?
- FHA: A Siren Who Just Might Break Your Heart
- Redfin on Guy Kawaski’s Blog
- A Seller’s Guide to FHA
September 2007
- Autumn season always one to savor
- From ‘A&E’s Flip This House’ to You!
- How are condo/home sales being financed?
- Utilities: Avoid post-closing disputes
- NWMLS Form Changes
- I interrupt the regularly scheduled programming…
- Friday’s Mortgage Interest Rates
- Introducing Jillayne D. Vader
- One day every pothole will get its moment in the limelight
- Jim Cramer says don’t buy now…except for Seattle.
- I am a Mortgage Dispenser
- 7 Ways to Make an Impact
- Worthy of the public trust?
- Deceptive Radio Advertising in Mortgage Lending
- Top 100 Most Influential People in Real Estate?
- Friday’s Rates featuring Jumbo
- Employment Ideas for Laid Off Mortgage Workers
- $30 Million for Zillow.com
- Personal Finance with Mint
- New Mortgage Program for Helping Out Family Members
- Ba-Ba-Ba-Benny and the Fed
- Taking on KING/KONG…
- How walkable is your neighborhood?
- The Flip Side of the Sub-Prime Story
- Who is to Blame for the Subprime Meltdown?
- A Fistful of Feeds
- Friday’s Mortgage Rates
- laughing through the pain
- Perspectives: Is this a former loan officer or a customer of a LO/subprime lender?
- The Pre-Payment Penalty: Gold mine or equity Quicksand?
- Hey Zillow! Yeah, you have fun, but do you have a George Foreman Grill?
- Rules for Rain City Guide Contributors
- A tribute and salute to the guys at Firehouse 10 in NYC.
- September 11, Neighborhood Round-up begins with a West Seattle Tribute to Freedom….
- VC meets RE
- Buyer Beware - Seller/Seller Contracts
- Sunday Fun: Self-Importance Test…
- FHASecure: A Helping Hand for Those Who Did Not Refinance in Time
- Friday’s Rates on Saturday
- Short sales and foreclosures in the MLS
- Quick reminder to lock in your mortgage
- Best phone for Realtors just got cheaper
- Help! My Laptop is quitting on me.
- We don’t need no stinkin’ “angle” LOL!!!
- The newbie’s assessment: SEA v. CHI summers!
August 2007
- FHA Secure: A Political Power Move Disguised as a Helping Hand to Those in Need
- And now for something completely different…Seattle Neighborhood Round-up
- Friday’s Rates ala Ben and Bush
- More from the mortgage-junk-mail bag
- Don’t let your “gut check” go to waste…
- Recall notice on some GE Dishwashers
- What is your Mortgage Exit Strategy?
- Blog Classes - Everyone’s Getting Into the Act
- Searching for ruminant with huge appetite for gorging opportunity in gully…
- Buying without an agent
- ARDELL con BRIO
- Did I miss anything while I was on vacation?
- Landscaping and it’s impact on your home sale price…
- Seattle Real Estate Market Conditions
- Mortgage Industry News in Need of Sensible Moderation
- Realtors are feeding listings everywhere
- Presentation: Using Blogs to Build an Online Brand
- Countrywide: SuperBad
- Hocus pocus… the great disappearing sign
- No, Chicken Little, the sky isn’t falling…
- Friday’s Rates…Big Ben is watching
- Fed drops discount rate 1/2 point
- Smith Tower going condo…
- A hot idea…
- Neighborhood Round-up
- Transit on my mind…
- What is escrow’s role when agent & loan officer are present at difficult signing
- Bridal Bowl 2007 was a tafetta ripping success!!!!
- How do you envision the Puget Sound region by 2040?
- 16% Appreciation so far in 2007
- Pike Place Market Celebrates it’s 100th Birthday this Friday!
- What’s your favorite source of real estate porn?
- The calm after the chaos
- Street of Dreams 2007
- Is Normandy Park dense?
- Mortgage Rates for Friday
- If your loan ain’t vanilla, you may be in for a rocky road.
- A deeper look into town home joint maintenance agreements…
- Kick off your sandals at Sandel Park…
- Soap that can scratch your back
- Closing at the end of the month
- Cease & Desist Order by Wa. State Insurance Commission against Title Co.
- It’s going to be a wild ride
- Friday’s Rates…it’s a bumpy ride.
- From Guy to Glenn
- So You Think You Might Need a Mortgage?
July 2007
- Connect SF Tagging
- #1 Consumer Real Estate Blog
- Back-to-school clothing drive is back!!!!
- Seattle rents rising…. we’re in the top 10 nationally for increases
- You do my nails; I’ll sell your house
- The Bus has left Ardell’s: Blog Tour USA
- Mortgage Interest Rates
- Real Estate Commissions - Dollars and Sense
- Banker, Broker, Consumer Lender or Credit Union? Part 4
- Estately True Areas: Search Beyond the Box
- Sellsius Party is Tomorrow! Joe and Rudy are…
- Estately on Inman TV
- The Carnival of Real Estate
- There goes the neighborhood. A Redfin sign is on my street!
- Happy Friday! Rates are slightly improved from this morning.
- Don’t hire an agent who lets you shoot yourself in the foot
- Underwriting Guidelines are Tightening Up
- Hosting The Carnival of Real Estate
- Why Text Message?
- Mmmm, delicious ambiguity
- Ahh, the cool rain returns…
- Landing on Long-term Value
- Blog Tour USA hits Seattle on July 25th
- HowTo: Create an Online Community
- 7 reasons to make sure your agent can read well…
- Panasonic Lumix FX07: The perfect camera for real estate
- Banker, Broker, Consumer Lender or Credit Union? Part 3
- West Seattle Summerfest
- How do consumers find ethical help?
- How solid is your foundation?
- Mortgage Rates for Friday the 13th
- “I’m a PC; I’m a Mac
- Cats alive!
- SEO Idea: Seattle Real Estate
- Neighborhood Round-up: Things are Heating Up
- Joe Buyer and the Lending Treehouse of Horrors: Part 2
- Is there a laptop with a camera in the screen?
- RCG Reader Asks: Can You Beat this Rate?
- King County Home sales - First Half 2007
- Friday’s Rates…are higher
- Embracing transition
- Banker, Broker, Consumer Lender or Credit Union? Part 2
- The joy of remodeling: sometimes it’s like a box of chocolates! You never know what you get until you open it up!
- Do-It-Yourself Home Staging
- Excellent summer classes for new landlords…
- Water saving tips for summer
- Blogging is one great big Come As You ARE Party!
- When the Appraisal gets “stuck” at the end
- Facebook Slut
- A Power Grab
- Joe Buyer and The Lending Treehouse of Horror: Part 1
June 2007
- To Foreclose or Not to Foreclose…
- Who buys the house you left behind?
- Girls’ Night Out - Boys Can Come
- Friday’s Rate Sheet
- Real Estately on Rails
- Is this what I’ll encounter working in the Bible Belt?
- What’s wrong with calling lenders for rates?
- FICO Algorithm says “Don’t Consolidate!”
- Kevin Tomlinson of South Beach WINS Project Blogger Competition
- The poor guy’s gotta live with it day in-day out
- It was a Busy Week in the Jungle
- Buyer Beware - Protect Yourself!
- It’s Friday and mortgage interest rates are…
- In Seattle and lovin’ it!
- Neighborhood Round-up: Introducing Deborah!
- The Pacific Coast: Another reason to live in Washington State
- Electrical Outlets over the Mantle
- Banker, Broker, Consumer Lender or Credit Union?
- Friday’s Rates on a Saturday
- The Client is Never Always Right
- Welcome to the jungle – eBay vs Google
- The Summer Solstice Parade in Fremont
- Agent responsibilities and help for Limited English Proficiency clients…
- vFlyer - Watermark Plus Beta Launch
- Important info if you own a home with actively used oil furnaces in WA…
- Latent Landmine #1: Due on Transfer Clauses
- House off I-5 and Ravenna
- Would you pay $60,000 for a mattress?
- Go Dog Go!
- Buyer Agency and Fiduciary = Nonsense
- Sopranos - The Final Episode
- Friday’s Rates continuing up
- For-Sale-By-Owners sell for more because agents sell for less
- John L. Scott Real Estate Launches “Neighborhood Wizard(sm)”
- Great Scott! Polygon Based Property Searching!
- What’s Hot? What’s Not?
- LOCK your mortgage interest rate
- Signing out of Chicagoland
- Who gets the interest on earnest money?
- Consumer Benefits of a Statewide MLS?
- Should A Seller Have Their Home Pre-Inspected?
- BBQ Tomorrow!
- Friday’s Rates
May 2007
- So you’ve decided to buy property with a friend…
- Meanwhile, Back In Redmond…
- Google Maps Cool New Street View Feature
- More updates from Google real estate
- Before the Sun Goes Down This Memorial Day
- Redpin and Leslie Stool on 16 Minutes
- The Problem with Good Faith Estimates
- It’s a Holiday Weekend - Getting Those Houses Ready For Market
- Friday’s Rates…conforming is up 0.25% from last Friday
- Latent Landmine Survey: Due On Transfer Clauses?
- The Three Amigos Podcast
- Pickiness imperative in roommate search
- New Seattle Area Condo Brokerage
- Reserves and Prepaids on the Good Faith Estimate
- Citizen Rain Gives You Something to Talk About
- Loan Originator Licensing Update
- Seller Privacy vs. the Connected Web
- Coming attractions…
- First Time Home Buyer Radio Show Tomorrow
- Making the jump from Chicago to Seattle
- NAR’s side of the story
- Friday’s Rates…ya’ better lock ‘em…rates are inching up
- From stirring to digging in one day…
- Snapshots For Sandy
- Trigger list finally get some much needed bad press
- Stirring up the Redfin dust…
- Buying Seattle Podcasts, Videos and Photos
- Time for Traditional Agents to Get Real and Come Clean
- Like Gravity…
- Redfin on 60 Minutes – Something to Monitor
- Working Mother of 5 Funds Voyage to America
- Seattle Real Estate Market 2007 YTD
- Subprime Solutions
- Photo Friday: Understanding Place
- Steal This Blog Post - Friday Fun with Splog Busters!
- YES!!!!!!!! The Valuation Tool is Working!
- LPMI, PMI and 80/20 Mortgages…Oh My!
- Tech Thursday: Are you addicted yet?
- What do you mean I already “picked” MY agent!?!
- Where should the MLS end and the IDX begin?
- Because it was a Wacky Wednesday…
- Bribery to Work with the Builder’s Preferred Lender
- What’s in the best interests of agents?
- Homepages.com - Now less bad
- Friday’s Rates and FHA 4-1-1
- Home Valuation “Tools”
- Adventures Revisited - Is Realtor.com brain dead or just dead?
- Sellers — are you getting SC@EWED by the lender? Fight back!
- The Legislature Volleys Back….
- Microsoft Area selling 5 times faster.
April 2007
- Like a Virgin
- Riding the OC Wave…
- Blogging in luxury & style with Word 2007
- Friday’s Rates…
- How about those SEO tweaks?
- Two offers to refi in one day…just how lucky can a gal be?
- Sellsius Launches their Real Estate Classified Site!!
- I’ve been waiting since September of 2005
- The (legal) importance of a home inspection
- How Loan Officers Harvest Seller Paid Contributions: An escrow perspective for buyers and sellers.
- What I admire about real estate
- Are Real Estate Agents Facing Extinction?
- Plain English RSS
- News at 6:00
- Zillow Update
- Living Room is to Parlor as Den is to Study
- Am I watching the end of cable TV as we know it?
- Living Room vs. Family Room?
- Earth Day, Andrea’s B’day and Bill Maher
- Going on in the neighborhood…
- MILA shuts down
- Dance, Dance Revolution - Advice Please
- Friday’s Rates and How Frequently Rates Change
- Zillow says: Kirkland goes UP…ARDELL’s House???
- Zillow gets a “cease and desist” order in Arizona
- Understanding the Basis for Prepayment Penalties
- Are you leaving too much on the table?
- Moving to “the darkside” of the “ARITLP”
- The Real Estate Agent’s Role in the Lending Process
- Miss Independent
- Historic Photos of Your Seattle Home
- Workshop Post-Beginning the Homebuyer Process
- This Just In: Zero Interest Loans, at a Cost of Zero, with a Monthly Payment of Zero (APR 0%)*
- Beginning the Home Buying Process-Workshop Post
- Friday’s Rates
- Starting with Community Outreach
- Steps to Hosting Your Own WordPress Blog
- President’s in Drag
- Choosing a Name for Your Blog
- Is Another Offer REALLY Coming?
- While I was away…..
- Seattle, WA vs. Vancouver, BC - Sister Cities?
- Owning the Malibu Community
- The Jobs Report and Mortgage Interest Rates
- Seatte Metropolitan Magazine’s Best Places to Live
- How Well Do You Know Your Mortgage?
- Mortgages Rates are Hopping Up
- Google’s My Maps
- What a week!
- Feeding the Shack…
- Zillow Announces - Home Q & A
- Things that make you go hmmm…..
- What’s all the ruckus in West Seattle?
- The Real Estate Consumer Bill of Rights
- Neighborhood Roundup: Seattle Uncovers a Funny Bone
- Commercial Real Estate Transaction Using Your IRA
- I Wonder How They Practice Real Estate in China!
- Announcing the next great real estate blogger…
- Grasping for pebbles & listening for grasshoppers
March 2007
- Real Estate Blogs That Answer Questions
- Tom Kelly & ARDELL on The Real Estate Show
- 425 Eastside Magazine
- Belltown-Denny Regrade (or things we couldn’t do today)
- Friday’s Mortgage Rates
- Trends - New Construction & Remodel Finishes
- Do YOU have a durable power of attorney?
- Using fast cars to sell homes
- Content is King!
- 5 Steps for Shopping Mortgage Interest Rates
- Neighborhood Roundup: Breaking the Espresso Rut
- Trulia and Zillow booted from Pru Convention
- Second Opinions on Good Faith Estimates
- Seattle Neighborhood Blogs
- Professional Status: Perceptions and Reality
- Добро пожаловать на путеводитель Сиэтла по недвижимости города дождей
- Friday’s Rates
- Why FSBO without putting it in the MLS?
- Humble Pie: how to lose a customer(s), forever.
- It may not be your business…but it is all mine!
- Monthly Payment Only $505,654!
- Winds of Change; The Rise and Fall of the Subprime Market
- A look behind the Shack, Part 1: Speed Kills
- Two Years and Still Learning…
- Sell Pays - Buyer Deducts - Get out those HUD-1’s
- Is this the new look and feel of Ballard?
- Another item to add to Daylight Savings Time changes… batteries and power cords
- If it smells, it doesn’t sell - planning for pets in home sales…
- Friday’s Rates
- Email Overload - 50,0000 emails
- Disk Space vs. Memory - Laptop
- The Great Rent vs. Own Debate
- Is the mobile web the next big thing?
- In Search of a Secret Weapon
- Foreclosure or Buyer Remorse?
- Vacation Mortgage
- did you know…
- Now that Matt…
- A case for the ages. Perry Mason, where are you?
- Got renter’s or condo unit insurance?
- Why Selecting a Lender by Rate Alone is Not in Your Best Interest
- The Longest Season Ever - Spring Forward
- It’s Friday…Mortgage Rates are unchanged (for now)
- The MLS of the future
- Subscribe to Comments via Email
- More Fun Than Useful…
- Short Sales
- Planning for your beneficiaries
- “Putting Your Personality Online”
- What’s the Point?
- Zero Down Loan? You Better Have a 620 Credit Score or Higher
- 2007 Still looking like a Seller’s Market
- Mortgage Rates for Friday Morning
- Some people intuitively understand
February 2007
- Are You Financially Prepared for a Disaster?
- Low flow toilets and old houses
- Mortgage Blogging…
- Craig Does the Daily Show
- Redfin’s First Year
- The condo public offering statement/resale certificate
- Seattle Area Appreciation
- Leave it to Marlow…
- Inman has Gone Blog Wild
- Use Your Sent-Items Folder as Inspiration
- Death by a thousand paper cuts
- Interest Rates Unchanged and Mortgages Are Not Sexy
- Update on staging of house…
- The Escrow Files: the funny side of escrow
- What the Viaduct Vote means (even to those outside of Seattle)
- 15 Year Mortgage Too Pricey for Normal People
- Seattle’s Fremont Troll - Street Art
- Beautifying those Seattle Retaining Walls
- Jack this House!
- Housing sales fall in 40 states; but not in Northwest
- Just for Ardell…Interest Rates on Friday
- Inman Wiki
- Triggering My Hot Spot
- Valentines day - a day to heart your favorite houses
- another day of staging…
- Where’s the line between “agent” and “lawyer”?
- There’s No Love for the Subprime Borrower
- Web2.0 is About You
- Is Freakonomics Right for the Wrong Reasons?
- Confessions of a Zero-Down Lender
- Buyer Beware - New Construction Sites
- Speaking of Attorneys - What’s Up With This?
- Get out your boxing gloves! Attorneys vs. Agents
- Adventures in digital listing land
- Calling All Patches Pals
- The House was Smokin’
- Shooting Hoop in the U-Dist with Izzle pfaff
- New-home sales plunged… blah blah blah… largest amount since 1990… blah blah blah
- Taco trucks on the radio today
- (Are We) Oil and Water?
- Biliruben’s House - $639,950
- Watch Out Below!
- ARDELL on “Where is the 2007 Market heading?”
- Versatile Chair?
- Getting Dirty with Your Feed Reader
- Quick Update on Loan Originator Licensing
- Tightening Lending Standards: A market conundrum
- $100,000 for the “no show” agent
- New seminar in Los Angeles this week…
- APR: Just One Part of the Mortgage Machine
- Children, Can You Say “Suitability”
- $100,000 + in consumer savings: It pays to shop
- Yet more vacant property theft news in the Puget Sound area…
January 2007
- To Landlords and sellers in City of Seattle - new rules w/ fines… Get up to speed!
- $68,745.00 Paid to Rain City Guide Readers
- To First Page of Google in 7 Hours!
- The Perennial Borrower
- The Perfect Real Estate 2.0 Company
- 2006 Statistical Review and Highlights
- Appalling Statistics
- Amazing Access
- Doctor, I have this weird …
- To Catch a Predator
- Phinney Neighborhood annual home fair, Sunday, Jan 28th
- Guilty of Slandering Seattle
- End of Month Fireworks: LOE’s and YSP’s
- Townhome concerns…
- Danger, Will Robinson… theft types for all to be aware of
- Where’s Dogbert when you need him?
- Is EVERYBODY Happy!?!?
- Ah… the joys of a shared driveway
- This is why you move to Seattle
- On mentoring and blogging…
- HouseValues lays off 60 employees locally
- Surreal Comment Spamming
- Interview with Marlow Harris of the 360 Digest
- Your Private Information is For Sale
- Worse than a trampoline
- Talking Up Shackprices
- Whose client is it, anyway
- Copper thefts on the rise - a new threat to vacant homes for sale or rent
- 10 Great Interview Questions for Agents
- A bit of staging magic goes a long way
- Rolling with Grow-a-Brain
- Affordable Condos or Cheap Apartments — Who’s choice is it?
- Photo Editing - Too Much Ceiling!
- “Honey, how come you’re taking so long to read the real estate section today?”
- 2000 Bloggers
- Who Wants One?
- Interview with Mary McKnight of RSS Pieces
- Too Close to Home
- Holy flying skylights! Why I take good care of my contractor buddies…
- Buyer’s remorse
- Ten Things I love about Living in Seattle
- Changing the World One Banana at a Time
- Pine is dying, Urbnlivn get together, SLU delays
- Interview with Kristal Kraft of the Denver Real Estate Blog
- Beware No Trespassing (even if you do have a keybox)
- Agent FIRED! - Lender Fraud
- Rain City Guide on Your Mobile Phone!
- DRIP DRIP DRIP
- Let me get this straight, you will pay me if it rains???
- Whose priority is it?
- Interview with Ardell DellaLoggia of the Searching Seattle Blog
- The Ethics of Ambiguity
- Group-Blog Etiquette
- What does a money-nerd think about when buying his first home?
- Mash-up 102 - Virtual Earth Pushpins
- You are breaking my heart Redfin…
- Licensed to Loan
- Hey, that’s not fair - can the Seller DO that?!?
- Interview with Drew Meyers of the Zillow Blog
- Redfin - PRESS RELEASE
- Good Morning (It’s Friday!)
- Interview with Joel Burslem of the Future of Real Estate Marketing
- Puget Sound’s Market Conditions Update
- Snow is Seattle’s Kryptonite
- Hotpads: A Slick Search Tool for Apartments, Rentals, Sublets and Roommates
- Agents rarely “feel the love” when someone new and interesting joins the party…
- Investigating Preapproval Letters
- Redfin vs. Establishment
- Interview with Michael Simonsen of Altos Research
- PMI is NOW Tax Deductible
- Is your agent spending your money without asking your permission?
- There are now five drink sizes at Starbucks: Short, Tall, Grande, Venti, and Chuck Cross
- Commission double-take
- Glenn Kelman and Allan Dalton
- Our 100 Year Old Seller Closes Escrow Today
- Selling houses is a flashback to dating on Match.com
- Condos off to a busy start
- Interview with Glenn Kelman of Redfin
- Interview with Rudy and Joe of the Sellsius Blog
- Future of Realtor Associations
- If you build it, they will come…
- How to Market Yourself on LinkedIn
- Last minute invite to art opening tonight (friday)
- A Personal Take on the Ethics of a Title Professional…
- Interview with Jim Cronin of The Real Estate Tomato
- Survivor! - The Active Rain Edition
- Is HouseValues really gaining traction or are they just churning agents?
- Please review the Resale Certificate
- We interrupt your regular programming…
- Interview with The Greg Swann and his Pack of Bloodhounds
- The Value of High Quality Photos for Real Estate Listings
- Mark is Radically Re-thinking “Lead Management”
- NWMLS sets its sights on violators
- An ‘07 Resolution: Convey quality
- Happy New Year!
- Happy New Year!
- Danger Will Robinson!