Cindy's Blog about Portland Real Estate & Stuff

Do You Attend Your Client's Real Estate Signings? A few days ago I attended my last client signing for 2013 and was pleasantly surprised to see the lender show up. We were chatting and I said that in my nine years of signings, I've had only three lenders show up and he was saying that it's about ...

Ending The Year On A Good Note! I can easily remember when I first got my real estate license back in 2004 the agents in the office talking about December being the slow season and how this was often the time when they would take those long vacations only to jump back into things in January. Ha! ...

New Construction Homes For Sale In Tigard Oregon Tigard Oregon (pronounced Ty-gurd) is a City that's about 20 miles south of Downtown Portland and consists of homes within both 97223 and 97224 zip codes and is located in Washington County. If you're looking for a new construction home, there are ...

We've Only Just Begun | My 2013 Theme Your Business With A Song Title When Kathleen Daniels challenged us to come up with the 2013 Theme Your Business With A Song Title Challenge,  I will admit it was indeed challenging! My first thought was Cha Cha Changes...by David Bowie, but that was more in ...

If I Only Had Access To Some Truth Serum... ~ I would give it to every lender that says a client was "good to go". This past year was the first time in my nine years of being a real estate agent where two lenders wouldn't fund at the final hour. Fortunately in both cases I was able to hook them u...

Twas The Day After Christmas And All Through The House Christmas 2013 has now passed and I'm ever thankful for my family and all those wonderful gifts! I'm sitting here looking around my house and know I need to dig in and start the cleanup. My office looks like I could be a candidate for the hoa...

I'm Honored To Be Given The Five Star Professional Real Estate Award For 2014! It's always nice to get a bit of validation for doing a good job, and getting this from past clients via the Five Star Professional Real Estate Award for two years in a row puts a smile on this Portland Metro REALTOR's...

A Simple Change In Tone Would Have Alleviated Our Fears Yesterday, I was reminded just how important our tone of voice is when speaking to others...especially our clients. You see, My Mother-in-Law and I were patiently waiting to hear the test results from a procedure she had on Tuesday. Human na...

Portland Home Buyer's And Sellers Want To Know About Flag Lots The other day I decided to go through and check out the traffic hits on some of my older blog posts and I was surprised at how many times my post titled  What Is A Flag Lot And Are There Any Pros And Cons Of Buying Or Selling A Home O...

How Many Licks Before They Get To The Center Of Your Lollypop? Ok, so it really should read, How many clicks until they get to the good part on your  Website? I can remember as a kid getting those lollypops with the good stuff in the middle(not sure what it was) and for me, It was about three lic...