Rain City Guide

Several years ago, I attended a summer retreat in blissful Colorado Springs. And while I didn’t retain an abundance of what I experienced on that 10-day retreat, a line one of our leaders reiterated clung to me – and has subsequently helped me to propel myself out of my comfort zone and into more tenuous [...]

A couple of weeks ago I blogged on a new real estate model where I try to match real estate agent strategies to the agent’s personality.  I call the different strategies ”games” (www.getstrategic.com/agents).  I’m going to share my progress with you, the highs and the lows to let you know how it is going since there’s no other company that I [...]

Editor’s Note: I’m excited to introduce Seattle Eric as a new contributor on RCG. It must be six months ago that I first approached Eric to see if he would be interesting in coming on as a contributor because I really liked the writing style he demonstrated on his blog about life as a [...]

What I enjoy most about our home are the many places where our family gathers to share stories. Some of the places include our the kitchen table, our computer room, and our deck. But the place that I’ll always associate most closely with epic stories is our living room.
Taken by itself, our living room [...]

This past week I received the ultimate gift for my 30th birthday, which just so happens to be today!
With everything going on, I really haven’t spent much time thinking about my birthday (surprise, surprise!), but it did occur to me that maybe I should mix in a new feature of Rain City Guide with [...]

As a real estate agent, Anna gets 100’s (maybe 1000’s) of letters and emails every week from companies that would love to do her marketing for her. However, we’ve never once used any of these services because I strongly (pigheadedly?) believe that if there is one thing a real estate agent should be good at, [...]

Revolutionary War general, father of our country, cherry-tree murderer. Many descriptions come to mind when we invoke the name of George Washington.
Real estate mogul isn’t one of them. But it should be.
This fun San Francisco Chronicle column continues…
At the tender age of 15, Washington became a professional land surveyor and cartographer, a short-lived [...]

Did you know that you can get the full-text of on-line newspapers through the Seattle Library? I read an article describing how many libraries provide full-text access (on-line) to magazines and newspapers that would normally charge fees for such access:
It’s impossible to list every database available from every public library since resources vary amongst [...]

I’ve talked with many people recently that are interested in investing in real estate but not sure where to start. If that descrives you then I would recommend reading Gary Keller’s most recent book, Millionaire Real Estate Investor. In this book he gives you a step-by-step approach to becoming a real estate investor. It’s nice [...]