Cindy's Blog about Portland Real Estate & Stuff

Does Making An Offer Without Any Earnest Money Put A Buyer At A Disadvantage?   I can remember the first buyer I worked with many years ago. They were a challenge to work with in many ways, but when we did find a home that they wanted to offer on, they didn't want to offer any form of earnest mon...

What REALLY Constitutes A Safe Area?? As I sit here typing this, watching the news on the Clackamas Town Center shooting, my heart is heavy for those two known persons that have lost their lives, others that were injured or those there that have had their world of safety shattered. I've shopped h...

West Linn's Holiday Parade Down Historic Willamette Main Street 2012 (Video) One of the many reasons I love living in West Linn is being in close proximity to the Historic Willamette Main Street District. This past Saturday, it was a full day of festivities starting with the Ugly Sweater Dash & W...

Christmas Ship Parade On The Columbia River, Portland OR 2012(Video) I'm fortunate to own a floating home on the Columbia River in Portland, Oregon where the Christmas Ship Parade goes by a couple of times during the season. It was a perfect Portland evening to watch these gorgeous ships, listen ...

Pink Skies On The Columbia River, Portland Oregon After battling the typical Friday afternoon traffic on I-205 from West Linn to our Floating home on the Columbia River, I was able to finally sit down and relax with a nice warm cup of coffee and enjoy the view of the Columbia River.Tonight the Ch...

Historic Willamette's Second Annual Progressive Holiday Crawl Saturday December 8th 2012! One of the reasons why I love living in West Linn is that it's just minutes from Historic Willamette's Main Street where I enjoy having some great local shops and well as restaurants and businesses. Througho...

Oregon Zoo's New Baby Elephant Makes National News After two years of gestation, Rose-Tu and eighteen year old asian elephant at the Oregon Zoo gave birth to a healthy 300 pound cutie! Two years..wow, I thought nine months was long! The birth even made the Today show. I didn't know this, but The ...

Open Link In A NEW Window OR Open Link In SAME Window..What To Do??   I've been blogging now for two years now and I'm still not sure if I'm doing this right..or if there is a better way. When you add a link into your blog, you're given a choice to have the link open in the SAME window and open i...

  I had some friends in high school that new exactly what they wanted to do when they "grew up" and had that goal and career path to get to it. Most of the rest of us had no clue. Buying a home is very similar to this. Some buyers looking in the Portland Metro area know exactly what neighborhood ...

Selling Your Home During The Holidays Holiday time is here and Portland Sellers will be wanting to pull out their favorite holiday decorations to display. This is a great time to to be reminded that how we LIVE in a home is not how we live in it when we are trying to SELL a home. I know this is s...