I can sell my home myself.

I can sell it myself – I understand why people think a FSBO is easy and will save them paying the real estate professionals commission. Just like a gymnast makes spinning between the… Continue reading →

FSBO Home Sellers: Beware of Vacant Home Dangers

FSBO Home Sellers Beware of Vacant Home Dangers  These are professional hints to avoid some of the many pit-falls of trying to sell your home yourself. American’s love to do it ourselves. Look… Continue reading →

Buy your home First? Sell your home First?

Buy your home first or Sell your home first? It’s the Chicken or the Egg of real estate. Sell First –  You’ll have  more cash to buy a new home. This is the… Continue reading →

Summer Maintenance Checklist

Summer Maintenance Checklist: •Inspect roofing for missing, loose, or damaged shingles and flashing. A quick fix now can save hundreds of dollars on surprise leaks in the fall. •Change the air-conditioner and furnace… Continue reading →

Retirees are Selling Out

Retirees are Selling Out When my parents retired they had finished paying off their 30 year loan and owned their Fairwood home free and clear with only taxes and insurance payments ahead. They… Continue reading →

Seattle’s Real Estate Bubble – Fact or Fiction

Seattle’s Real Estate Bubble – Fact or Fiction We’ve had high and low price increase in our Seattle real estate market but for the most part our home sale prices never dropped as… Continue reading →

The Brilliance of Over-Bidding

You offered how much over the asking price?!! Today’s real estate market it highly competitive; Five buyers for each house. Sellers reviewing multiple offers 7 days after listing is common. And amazingly, some offers… Continue reading →

Sunroom Additions = Higher Sale Price?

You know from the word “addition” that this project doesn’t come cheap. If you have to add on to the foundation — and the footprint of your home — the price climbs. In… Continue reading →

“Mommy Knows Best” Note to New Home Owners

“Mommy knows best” Have you …… changed the locks? found the gas, and both water shut offs (at the street and at the house)? changed out the washing machine hoses to a safety… Continue reading →

Living Off the Grid – 100% Self Sustaining

An Earthship is a sustainable home made using recycled materials,  that generates its own water and electricity, conserves and reuses water creatively, generates it’s own food and is heated and cooled by itself… Continue reading →