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I live in the Pacific Northwest, Washington State, and to be exact, Ellensburg Washington. Ellensburg is a small town of 20,000, which is home to Central Washington University. It is a great place to live and raise children, quiet, pretty, and envelopes much of what America is make of. We have be...
02/22/2009
The stimulus plan that would not even see the light of day before it was voted on by a congress which had not read it. Oh my gosh, then to eliminate the only part of the plan which I felt may actually help stabilize the housing market, the 15,000 home buyer credit portion. Now today I read an art...
02/15/2009
I have to confess here, I have been a steady oopponent of the stimulus plans, both the first one, all the bail outs, and the current stimulus/spending bill. I am a believer in the free market. If a business can not survive in the current economy, either due to mis-management or demand for their p...
02/07/2009
So it's mid morning and you have a showing. Breakfast was three hours ago and it's too early for lunch. There are five homes on the show list, and it will be at least a couple hours before you get back to the office. If your like me you will probably crash at around house # 2. It seams to me like...
02/05/2009
The telling of this story won for me the "Foot in Mouth" award last year at the Realtor awards banquet. although my foot definitely was involved, I am hear to say unequivocally that my mouth was no where near the event. I was showing the perfect home to my clients, just what they were looking for...
02/05/2009
The idea was posed to me by the first broker I ever worked for. in a conversation about production and sales, (he) looked at me and smiled saying "women are just better real estate agents than men." At that point I did not have enough real estate backgroundto make a judgment of my own, or even ma...
02/04/2009
I could never get into Myspace, actually I never tried. I did start a Facebook page as a source of networking. I understand that given time FB can become a good networking tool. Yesterday I got a "wall to wall" note from a friend showing some interest in a property I have for sale, there's the pr...
02/04/2009
I had some extra time this afternoon, which is one of the main advantages of being a real estate agent, the flexible schedule. It has been a long winter in the Pacific Northwest and today the sun came out and warmed it up to around 50 degrees. If you have not lived in a northern tier state, you h...
02/03/2009
As a new member of the community (hey there) I found that the web address I placed into my profile was short the http:// portion. Since the entire address was not there (my fault) it did not link to my web site. I assume that everyone else did it correctly until I needed to contact a community me...
02/03/2009
Here's the question, should a broker subscribe to the philosophy of "a rising tide raises all ships" or "instant gratification-me me me". I can only speak from my own experience where I have seen the greedy broker syndrome as the order of the day. I would love to hear from you where you have seen...
02/02/2009
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