Kathy Judy's (kathyjudyrealtor) Blog

Wow we have had a lot of changes recently, moved our office, changed our name, dropped our franchise.  All these have been good, a lot of work, a little herky-jerky on the organization end  but good. On a personal note, I tried to change my home internet system.  That didn't work out so well.  I ...

Malheur County Oregon is a huge area (bigger than Rhode Island) with less than 40000 people in it.  We're on the Idaho Oregon border and Boise is our "big town".  The further south you go in Malheur County the less the population.  Most of the land in the southern 2/3 of the county is federally o...

In the some western counties of Idaho recently there have been a lot of mineral leases recorded and natural gas is being drilled for etc.  We are suddenly becoming aware of this as it affects selling real estate.  Roxanna Cline a New Plymouth Idaho based realtor has been studying the impacts of t...

Big changes going on at not-for-much-longer Remax Tri-Cities.  We moved our office to a a little smaller lots prettier and way cheaper location.  That was a job we'd been in the same place for 15 years.  It's slowly working out, the agents chose to be in a smaller area so they could have a big fa...

Two of us have been showing a lot in Boise's North End recently, Boise is 60 miles away but in both cases these are our kids.  The North End is a fun area in Boise.  It's known as the home of liberal thinking and that's quite true.  I am sure there are some tea party types there too, but they are...

When my kids were young teenagers they went skiing on the Ontario Oregon parks and Rec Dept ski bus.  It goes 110 miles to Brundage Mountain in McCall Idaho. It's a wonderful place to ski - beautiful mountains looking over Payette Lake, lots of powder.  As a parent it was fantastic - imagine send...

This is one of those outfits handling reos.  My personal experience with them pushes me to write this post. The one and only nice thing I can say is that the receptionist and one of the asset managers were polite.  I would be very careful before I would consider doing business with them.  It took...

Wednesday everything worked out.  There was supposed to be a big snow storm - it didn't happen until Thursay and then it was freezing rain.   I had a widespread day planned.  From Fruitland Idaho go 45 miles to Nampa and get a contract signed.  Then take that contract and work my way to Emmett Id...

This is the last gasp of the worst year I've had since my very first two years in real estate in the mid nineties.  I'll be further analysing what I could have done better and making changes. But I am by nature a positive person. So to focus on the pluses, I helped people make that leap from rent...

Our market is good right now.  I live and work in a rural area adjacent to the Boise/Nampa metro area.  I am curious because suddenly we're really busy.  I haven't seen a late December like this for about 10 years.  It was quite slow before this.  Are your markets busy right now?  Or is it just a...