Washington's Wet News by Karen

Temporary problems in the mortgage market are expected to free some pent-up demand, but disrupted existing-home sales and distorted prices on sales closed in September, according to the National Association of Realtors®. Even so, prices continued to rise in some area. Because of this and other fa...

Know The Facts - The foreclosure rates today are the same as they were 10 years ago.  Fewer than one percent of mortgages end in default in Washington state. As of mid-June, sub-prime, adjustable-rate loans represented 20 percent of loans nationally but just 6 percent of home loans in Washington....

Once upon a time in AR Fairyland, in it's infancy, there was a queen, named TLW, and a king  named, Bryant, who got this whole thing about blogging on a roll.  They blogged and blogged day and nite to create an atmosphere of friendship and knowledge. Then there appeared a fair maiden, whose name,...

Hello all, for those of you that don't know me, I love to gourmet cook in my spare time. Years ago a friend of mine (I'll name her "Julia") followed Julia Childs as our children were young and we were "mommies at home". We watched her TV shows, bought her books and followed her autograph sessions...

The foreclosure rates today are the same as they were 10 years ago.Fewer than one percent of martgages end in default in Washington State.As of mid-June, subprime, adjustable rate loans represented 20 percentof loans nationally, but just 6 percent of home loans in Washington.Why Washington is dif...

The sun is shining in the beautiful Pacific NW, the leaves are turning red and gold. It's the perfect weekend to search for that biggest, best pumpkin you can find. However, newscasters are telling us that our weather of late is too wet and most pumpkins are rotting on the field! Heaven forbid! G...

Dealing with Debt After Retirement Reverse mortgages designed to help "house rich, cash poor" seniors meet their day-to-day expenses have gained popularity. Equity is taken out of the home, so debt increases and equity diminishes over time, (unless the property value increases and offsets this us...

I was just doing some networking calling clients and one of my clients alerted me that one of our mutual friends was in distress this week. It seems her grandson who lives in Montana had a seizure. There are no facilities there that could help him. They airlifted him to Children's Hospital in Sea...