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2011
It's never time to reassess your retirement plans. Retirement is a wonderful time of life when you can relax and enjoy the rest of your life and it is also a time to look at your Lake Forest Park retirement real estate options. It is an opportunity to explore your interests and connect with lik...
03/17/2011
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Martha Rose Construction has been building at the rigorous 5-Star Built Green level since its inception, choosing to make this their standard practice as opposed to making energy efficient options upgrades."Building at this level requires more work and allot more attention to details" mentions R...
03/16/2011
Queen Anne Hill is the newest location for Molly Moon's, a local ice cream chain, due to open in the summer of 2011. The popular ice creamer has stores in Wallingford, Capitol Hill and has named Queen Anne as the winner of their "Where will shop 3 be" the competition was run through their Faceb...
03/16/2011
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While it is extremely hard to build a net-zero home, a home that produces as much energy as it consumes, without the use of active-solar equipment. Martha Rose, of Martha Rose Construction (MRC) in Seattle Washington, is designing homes that when equipped with solar equipment will be extremely c...
03/16/2011
The Congress for the New Urbanism defines neighborhoods as places that are "compact, pedestrian-friendly, and have mix use options. Victor Dover and Jason King in their article "Neighborhood Definition" mention that most people will walk approximately one-quarter mile before choosing to turn ba...
03/14/2011
Over 30 years ago Martha Rose, president of Martha Rose Construction, was building energy efficient homes above the current energy code of that time. The 1970's was fueled with anti-nuclear activism and oil embargos which greatly influenced Rose's decision to build homes that were more efficie...
03/14/2011
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Not your typical Friday morning, I woke up this morning at 4 AM (PST) turned on the news to have it filled with Tsunami warnings for the west coast as a result of a earthquake in Japan. Pretty good coverage from NWCN they have been broadcasting estimate time and magnitude of impact as the waves ...
03/11/2011
South Lake Union (SLU) is a vibrant neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, named after its location south tip of Lake Union. The South Lake Union streetcar is easily accessible from many spots in theneighborhood providing quick link to downtown. The South Lake Union is home to many mixed use buil...
03/10/2011
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Seattle Foreclosure Re-sales Seattle Home Values - Interactive chart The graph illustrates the change in the number of bank owned properties that have either been repossessed or foreclosed over a five year for the zip codes 98155 located on the northwest corner of Lake Washington in a city j...
03/09/2011
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Seattle Foreclosure Re-sales Seattle Home Values - Interactive chart The graph illustrates the change in the number of bank owned properties that have either been repossessed or foreclosed over a five year for the zip codes 98105, 98115, 98125 primarily North Seattle. The area covers some of the...
03/09/2011
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