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Charity Update - Vision House: A place for a home and help Vision House is a faith-based non-profit organization that provides transitional housing and support services to homeless women and their children and to homeless men recovering from drug or alcohol addiction. For more information, visit...
02/27/2007
How to Choose the Right School One of the most important decisions that every parent makes is choosing the best school for their children. This can be a very complicated decision. Here are some ideas to help you evaluate schools and make an informed choice. Do Your Research: Scholastic Considerat...
02/26/2007
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Buying Step 1: Are You Ready to Buy a Home? Knowledge and experience are the keys to successful real estate transactions. The Internet is an enormous library of valuable real estate related information. Doing your research to gather knowledge as well as working with local REALTORS®, whose experti...
02/25/2007
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Cleaning gutters is one of those necessary springtime tasks. For most homeowners April showers bring rust, clogged rain gutters and all manner of sticky doors and windows. To help with these troubles, here are some sure-fire solutions to common spring problems. They're easy enough to tackle in a ...
02/22/2007
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Get this week's local market conditions.Would you like to receive real-time MLS market updates and trends analysis reports that are directly related to your neighborhood?If so, feel free to use the link below to request a Market Snapshot today. My Market Snapshot stays on point by sending you up-...
02/21/2007
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Setting the list price for your home involves evaluating Renton and Newcastle's market conditions and financial factors. During this phase of the home selling process, your REALTOR® will help you set your list price based on: -pricing considerations -comparable sales -market conditions -offering ...
02/19/2007
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A house that "sparkles" on the surface will sell faster than its shabby neighbor, even though both are structurally well maintained. From experience, REALTORS® also know that a "well-polished" house appeals to more buyers and will sell faster and for a higher price. Additionally, buyers feel mor...
02/17/2007
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Not all agents or brokers in Renton and Newcastle are REALTORS® - there is a difference. As a prerequisite for selling real estate in Washington, real estate professionals must be licensed, either as an agent/salesperson or as a broker. Before a license is issued, minimum standards for education...
02/16/2007
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Examine your finances and shop around before you apply for a mortgage. Shopping for a mortgage is the first step toward owning a home and perhaps the most daunting, especially if you are not prepared. Once a simple task that meant comparing fixed rates from among perhaps a dozen or fewer savings ...
02/15/2007
You might have heard that the Seattle Sonics are leaving Seattle's Key Arena for a new location between now and 2010. According to the Seattle Times, Sonics Owner Clay Bennett told state lawmakers that he prefers Renton over Bellevue for the new $500 million basketball arena. (It would likely be ...
02/14/2007