Rain City Guide

Fresh off an great conversation with Tracy Record of the West Seattle Blog, I’m really excited to have Tim on our show next week!   I’m sure we’ll talk about all things Seattle bubble as well as Tim’s great new parody project: Naked Loon.
Please set aside Tuesday, July 1st at 4pm to join us!   And if [...]

A friend of mine contacted me the other day about a property investment opportunity that her brother-in-law (BIL) was placing in front of her and her husband. The property in question is located in the city and state where the BIL lives - and it’s far from the Seattle area at roughly halfway across [...]

Several weeks ago when I had my “radio debut” on The Tom Kelly Show, Tom asked if I would come back and do it again sometime. I told him as long as I didn’t have to talk about Blogging again So I picked the topic of First Time Home Buyers.
There’s a catch, [...]

When ever I’m working with a home buyer who may be considering new construction, I know I might lose them to the builder’s in house lender.   Often times the builder will offer an enticing credit to the buyer’s closing costs only if they obtain their financing from the builder’s preferred lender.   
How can having a Loan Originator [...]

My client and I reviewed the Resale Certificate and cancelled his purchase today.
When you buy a condo, or condo-townhome, you do not know everything there is to know before you make an offer.
After you are in escrow, after the contract is “signed around”, you get a resale certificate within ten days. I’m not [...]

Before everyone jumps into the pool, every agent and owner must “LOOK before they LEAP”.
The Zillow Zestimate WILL appear, of course, in the same space as your “Property For Sale” listing. The printed data is also picking up the erroneous square footage info and number of bedrooms and baths from the tax records. [...]

Ardell’s recent post on FSBOs was courageous as you won’t see many agents talk about how one might sell a property without listing it. While it may be a bit counter intuitive to some agents, one reading the post should come away feeling that Ardell (and others like her) are not in the business [...]

I find that most people who track countywide stats, looking for bubbles and market trends, are not people who are buying and selling property. Anyone who is actually buying or selling property knows, that countywide stats tell you both everything and nothing. It is in the small subsections of any given market that [...]

At first glance it might appear that Greg Swan and I are like-minded when it comes to commission issues. but not so. Greg and I do agree that the buyer should not be led around thinking they are getting a free ride compliments of the seller, and we are both part of a growing [...]

I was reading Greg’s newest article on Buyer Agent Commissions and thought it might add more information to both his readers and ours, to run a “Point Counter Point” kind of discussion. So I have his article up side by side and will touch on some of the points where I either disagree with [...]