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Real Estate Agent - Coldwell Banker Bain
Greater Seattle, Washington offers a beautiful diversity of natural and technological wonders. This is a blog about the real estate that connects it all together, and the people who enjoy living, working and playing in the heart of the Pacific Northwest.
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Right now is by far the most powerful time to make a lsting impression on someone who might provide and/or refer future business.  Is that a good enough reason to do it right now? Timelines Transaction timelines are important.  Murphy, that dude with the law that always seems to find a way to bit...
04/22/2010
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I've heard a lot of real estate agents grumble about having to spend a few hours at an inspection with their buyers, but I absolutely love attending inspections!  I've never failed to learn something new during my buyers' inspections that can be applied to my own home management and to helping my...
04/21/2010
I received a phone call today from a very happy client who did everything right in his transaction, from start to finish.  He didn't call to praise himself, he called to praise me, but I had to stop him. Have you ever had clients that make you look good?  Aren't they an absolute joy to work with?...
04/16/2010
When most buyers first embark in the home buying process, they tend to feel guarded, like someone is out to get a pile of their money, and they've got to protect their treasure while tiptoeing around the shopping process.  It's not very comfortable, and it can even be emotionally draining, when i...
04/14/2010
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Most first time buyers have never been through the process of making an offer for real estate, and many relocation buyers don't know the differences between their current state's forms and practices, and their destination state's equivalents. Some buyers in these situations find a practice or dry...
04/13/2010
Referral Stream Optimization A lot of us are continuously scrambling to optimize our web sites for search engines, but are we continuously optimizing our work for referrals?  As I previously wrote in Where Referrals Don't Come From, they don't just happen to come along.  We cause them to come to ...
04/13/2010
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) of our online content for the purpose of enhancing our presence and positioning is such an important topic that we often over do it to the point of Search Engine Over Optimization (SEOO). SEOO begins to occur when the process of perfecting our image to search engi...
04/09/2010
Last summer I had the pleasure of listing a home for a family on a mission.  Their mission was to move away to an area nearer their kids' grandfather so they would be able to spend more quality time building lasting memories with him in the short time they had left together. For this family their...
04/02/2010
I love real estate, and I'm not shy about telling people about that.  It doesn't matter whether business is booming or busted.  The state of the market is dynamic, but my passion for my work is fixed. Real estate got hard in recent years, and that should be inspiring, not depressing.  I often thi...
04/01/2010
Yesterday I spent three hours of very valuable time at an inspection.  This was the third inspection I've attended in five days, a pretty heavy toll on my time when I am exceptionally busy.  But this inspection was different than most. On Monday I received a phone call from an inspector I often w...
03/31/2010
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