Search Powered by:
Tag: construction
Tami Michaels re Mayor Nickels & Multi-Family Design Standards
Tomorrow morning, Saturday July 26th, at 11:00 a.m., a representative of the Seattle Mayor’s Office will be On Air with Tami Michaels. The show will be devoted to Mayor Nickels proposed changes to multi-family zoned construction (original announcement from the Mayor’s Office).
And more details about Tami’s show tomorrow here.
Tami called me before I left for [...]
Posted: July 25th, 2008 under Seattle.
Tags: construction, mayor, multi-family, radio, Seattle, zoning
Comments: 5
From ‘A&E’s Flip This House’ to You!
Have you been watching the current real estate market and wondering how to find the pot of gold in it? Fix and Flip guru Than Merrill from A&E’s Flip this House will show you how right here in Seattle on October 11. Than, like many other saavy investors, is building his business taking advantage of sellers in trouble. [...]
Posted: September 29th, 2007 under General Real Estate.
Tags: Advice-on-Getting-Your-Property-Ready-to-Sell, analysis, buyers-sellers, commercial-real-estate-investing, construction, finding-a-home, flipper-nation, flipping, home-buying, investing, Investment, investments, investor, preforeclosure, remodel, repair, seminar, short-sale
Comments: 48
How solid is your foundation?
A new client we’re working with noted a listing in the Greenwood area that has many comments by the listing agent that state the house’s value is really in the land. The conversation turned toward the foundation and a small tutorial about what foundations are made up of and why some might be better than [...]
Posted: July 13th, 2007 under General Real Estate.
Tags: condition, construction, earthquake, pacific, post
Comments: 4
Low flow toilets and old houses
A relative of mine just replaced the old high-flow toilets in all 5 units of his building with low flow toilets. The result: a water bill that is $100 a month lower - the replacements should pay for themselves in six months. The toilet of choice: Toto Drake. It’s approximately $200 and it gets rave [...]
Posted: February 28th, 2007 under General Real Estate.
Tags: construction, remodel, toilet
Comments: 11
Buyer Beware - New Construction Sites
I wrote an article earlier today about a scammer. I can almost appreciate the creative talents of an obvious scammer like that. But when it comes to the real estate industry, I just want to puke.
I stopped into a new construction site yesterday to evaluate it for one of my clients. [...]
Posted: February 11th, 2007 under General Real Estate.
Tags: construction, new, real-estate
Comments: 31
Condos off to a busy start
(Editor’s Note: Today is another great day as I get to introduce Matt Goyer as the newest contributor to RCG. I’ve been following Matt’s Urbnlivn website for quite a while and I’ve always been impressed. With urbnlivn, Matt has managed to collect, organize and republish an incredible amount of local condo [...]
Posted: January 8th, 2007 under General Real Estate.
Tags: Condos, construction, events, listings, MLS, Seattle, urbnlivn
Comments: 5
Condos: Conversion versus New Construction
(Editor’s Note: Please welcome Wendy Leung as the newest contributor to Rain City Guide. She is a real estate professional specializing in the Seattle Condo market. She has been running a very interesting condo blog for a few months now, and I thought we could all benefit from her knowledge on the condo market in [...]
Posted: May 26th, 2006 under General Real Estate.
Tags: condo, Condos, construction, conversion, real-estate
Comments: 3
