Join me for a Housing Market Conversation with Lawrence Yun July 16, 2008
I don’t normally cross-post between 4realz.net and Rain City Guide, but tomorrow I’m having a conversation with the Chief Economist of the National Association of REALTORS that I think will interest many people in the Rain City Guide community. We’re going to be talking about the effect that the recent news associated with the FDIC [...]
A class act… Screen for Success via Rental Housing Association March 6, 2008
I’ve been a big fan of Tamara Simon and her landlord focused classes for some time. She’s been kind enough over the years to provide slimmed down versions of them for my clients and other public classes I’ve sponsored over the past 5 years. So, today I’m giving her a plug for an [...]
Do the Banks Own Seattle? October 10, 2006
The photo is of the Bank I worked in for twenty years. Lots of memories in there and lots of pranks pulled up on that balcony
I was perusing The Tim’s blog while writing something on my blog earlier today, and ran into the comments regarding King County median income and median home [...]
Would you lie for God? August 29, 2006
Yesterday’s theme was PreFab, today I’m back to simply providing links to 10 interesting real estate conversations…
Prosper is an online marketplace for people to lend money to other people. Shaun has been playing with Prosper and has some interesting observations.
I don’t agree with Mark’s conclusions, but I think he makes an interesting case [...]
We Deliver Anywhere August 27, 2006
PreFab housing is a foreign concept to me, so I decided to investigate…
“There is no single definition of prefab. In fact, one could argue that almost every house built today has elements of prefabrication, since components such as roof trusses and windows are built off-site. Prefab can perhaps be best understood as a continuum with [...]
Required Reading… August 24, 2006
Another list of 10:
Worth reiterating: Polly’s comments should be required reading for all agents (including the comments within the post about her comments! ).
Claudia Wicks lets us know about this “genealogy” site geared toward homes instead of people… The site includes maps, photos, etc.
Also, are press releases still valuable? A [...]
Embracing Seattle’s New Urbanism July 16, 2006
As a longtime resident, I’m used to watching the Puget Sound area go through continual growth spurts as development and demographics change. I get lost in my hometown of Port Orchard spurting for the last 45 years as steady as the whales in Sinclair Inlet.
In spite of economic ups and downs, the NW is never [...]
What is a .25 bathroom? July 7, 2006
Nine times out of ten when someone asks me this question, the house does not actually have a .25 bath. The mls here in the Seattle area requires us to count bathrooms in a specific, and somewhat outdated manner, causing many homes to appear to have a .25 bath that do not.
I will shortly be [...]
The Five-Minute-a-Day Habit
It’s been a while since we did a plug for David’s AHI blog. His blog is insightful, fun and for the price of only a few minutes a day, you can learn a lot! I don’t know how he does it, but he manages to write a quality article every day and they are [...]
Hair Raising Fears of a Housing Bubble!!! May 1, 2006
It is very difficult for young people today to buy with confidence. There are some very real fears, and justifiably so, that housing prices can not and will not continue to rise at the levels they have in recent years. Some ask if they should wait until they have saved 20% down. [...]
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