Real Estate Agents Spill The Beans On The Best Way To Sell Your Home! Recently, ActiveRain, THE site for real estate agents, lenders and contractors took a poll and real estate agents spilled the beans on the best way to sell your home...or more to the point, the biggest mistakes sellers make whe
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01/30/2014
The Challenge of Getting All Of My Gadgets On The Same Page In our line of work, having those gadgets that let us be mobile is not only smart, but in this day and age in most places a necessity. I have my laptop, I-pad, I-phone, and was given the Surface as a Christmas present. Apples to Windows.
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01/29/2014
Shout Out To La-Z-Boy Furniture Store In Tualatin! Back in September of 2013, a month after we moved to our new home we decided that it was time to get some new furniture that suited the room better. Off to many furniture stores to peruse what they had, but we finally ended up in La-Z-Boy in Tual
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01/22/2014
White Or Neutrals | Interior Home Paint Colors When Selling Your Home I recently met a home designer to which we agreed to disagree on whether using white as a paint color is a good choice when selling your home. She insisted that white is a nice crisp color that makes artwork "pop" and is a cle
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01/20/2014
West Linn Oregon Real Estate Snapshot January 2014 If you're looking to buy or sell a home in West Linn, OR as of today (January 18) there are currently only 114 active listings to choose from with most of them falling above the $500k price range. This report is for detached homes only. H How d
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01/18/2014
Tualatin Oregon Real Estate Snapshot January 2014 If you're looking to buy or sell a home in Tualatin, OR (pronounced Tu-aah-la-tin), the real estate inventory is pretty limited this January, 2014. As of today (January 17) there are currently only 47 active listings to choose from! How do they br
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01/17/2014
Giving My New BOX BELT A Test Run For My Hard To Place Lockbox There are times when you have a listing where finding good placement of a lockbox can be difficult. Here in the Portland Metro area, it's not uncommon to have to wade through mulch and shrubbery (often wet from rain) and having to ben
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01/16/2014
I Was Just Quoted In The Washington Post Thanks To ActiveRain! When I first started blogging here on ActiveRain, my goal was to have more online presence and to hopefully be one of the go-to real estate agents in the Portland Metro area for buyers and sellers. Of course Portland is a larger area
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01/10/2014
For The First Time I Got A Listing By Default! That's right, today the seller signed the listing paper work with who contacted five agents to which I was the only one that not only called them back right away (I was driving when they called), but showed up to check out the home at 9AM the next mo
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01/09/2014
Brokerage Or Agent-Which Is More Important When Selling Your Portland Home? As an agent that was with a large franchised real estate brokerage for eight years, I remember my first listing appointment after making the move to a smaller company, Premiere Property Group. I had researched them before
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01/07/2014