Rain City Guide

Last fall I was saddened to learn that the greater Puget Sound region voted down the mass transit package that had been put forward for the Pierce, King and Snohomish County areas. While that put a bump in the highway, so to speak, for the transit people it didn’t stop them from moving forward [...]

A title rep sent me an email today that gave me a head’s up on a new site I’d not seen before called www.Zilpy.com. It looks a heck of a lot like Zillow but with data on rents instead of home values. I’ve been playing around with it a bit and while I [...]

So, we’ve all been inundated by WSDOT telling us to stay off the highways during the shut down on I-5 and today’s Seattle Times shows that they’ve done such a good job of convincing us about it that traffic has been better than the past 15 year’s time (my personal opinion on that timeline) because [...]

http://savingwater.org/ is the website you can go to if you are a Seattle resident to sign up for a free shower head and faucet aerator. The offer expires Sept 15, 2007 and require up to 4 weeks for delivery. This “deal” is brought to you by several local utility companies including: Seattle City Light, Puget [...]

As many readers of this blog know I have been dealing with the after effects of my parents being hit by a drunk driver back at the end of March back in Wichita, KS. Both of my parents were injured and my father was put into a coma for several weeks. He is now out [...]

Staging Thefts Reported
January 29, 2007. It was reported to NWMLS that a theft of Staging items took place in Area 21 (Tacoma). The thieves broke off the door knob to get the Keybox and were able to retrieve the keys. A long list of items where stolen, stripping the house from towel racks to bedroom [...]

The local NWMLS has posted a notice to its members that I’ve pasted in below:

Snohomish County Copper Pipe Thefts
January 19, 2007. NWMLS has received reports that copper piping has been cut away and stolen from the crawl spaces under several vacant homes in the Everett vicinity. Many of these crawl spaces were not secure, allowing [...]