Rain City Guide

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And following John’s lead, here were the five most popular posts on Rain City Guide (in terms of total hits) in February:

Zillow’s Impact On Day 1 (890)
How well does Zillow Zestimate your home? (609)
Redfin - Something to think about. (573)
Zats really cool… (541)
3 Easy Steps to Stop Zillow from Publishing the [...]

In my mind, the best thing about Rain City Guide is that the site has grown into a wonderful community with a constant stream of interesting posts and comments. In no way do I want to mess with this!
However, I’m a slightly concerned with the rise in anonymous commenters on Rain City Guide because [...]

Jon Strum of the LA Real Estate blog put together a very interesting article manifesto that outlines what it will take for real estate agents can be successful in the future. It is a fascinating article and was picked up by both the NYT real estate blog and Redfin’s blog.
While he was [...]

You might have noticed that I’ve done some updating here at Rain City Guide… (Didn’t I just do that?).
What inspired me? WordPress came out with another major update (from version 1.5 to 2.0), and I decided to upgrade. Then, while I was making those changes, I just kept going until I had implemented a [...]

Several real estate agents (and one broker) approached me last week with an interest in contributing to Rain City Guide. Just about every one of them said they had noticed that Rain City Guide has a very high rankings on some key Google search terms, like Agent Recommendations (#1), Seattle Real Estate (#6), and [...]

Robbie Paplin of Caffeinated Software has built a great home search tool for the Seattle area and he put some very interesting posts together giving background on his effort, but I’m not sure he’s done a great job letting everyone know just how cool it is.
So, let me clarify the situation… The search [...]

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 [...]

Since last September, I’ve been using a free stat program that maps the visitors to Rain City Guide. Last time I logged into the site, I notice that they’ve added a new toy (a poll feature) that has inspired me to ask a question I’ve wondered for quite some time…
Take the poll
Free Poll by [...]

First-things-first: Wow! Life is Beautiful!
It’s been wonderful to take a few weeks off from blogging and I’m so glad that Galen, Robbie, Marian, and Ardell picked up the slack and continued to post very interesting articles! Thanks to all of you!
With that said, I’m definitely looking forward to writing again and I have [...]

I’m extremely proud to announce that our baby boy, Peter, was born this morning at 5:17 AM. He’s healthy and we couldn’t be happier!

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