Kathy Judy's (kathyjudyrealtor) Blog

I'm going to call it a working trip because everyone I'm going with is a past client  and we're going up there to see another past client.  That's my excuse anyway.  In reality it's just a pleasant day off with people I like.  We'll talk and picnic and Helen will fill us in on Idaho City politics...

I took another Jordan Valley Oregon listing Monday.  I'll post it on localism later today.  I had been trying to get there for a week.  It's 90 some miles from my office!   Malheur County Oregon is huge bigger than several states.  I get on US 95 and drive through Parma, Wilder and cross the Snak...

If this service is offered by your MLS GRAB it!  Intermountain MLS in Idaho and part of Oregon offers us this service and it's great.  Clients can search easily and really narrow down their criteria, sellers can see how many hits their listing is getting and can check up on the competition.  The ...

Truly don't know what's causing this,  Normally the two weeks before Labor Day is a dead zone.  Not this year, July was my dead zone, normally a busy time.  (Disclaimer, I am ALWAYS busy activity breeds activity and I always am working).  But I'm talking profitably busy.  After waffling all summe...

Gee willikers this has been a low profit summer, lots of activity yes, but it is ludicrously hard to get deals to jell and even harder to get them to close! The real kicker was when after a long series of delays repairs more delays etc, a house that I'd sold FHA about 8 years ago, now wouldn't pa...

This phase perfectly describes lenders underwriting today.  I have been in this business for 15 years - this is similar to 1996 when I started but it is worse.  It seems like Bank America (to point out one) does not want to make mortgage loans.  They try everything they can to make the borrower g...

This is an older (not easily financed) doublewide with an addition on a wellfenced acre!   It's priced at 62900 and the owner is aware she'll probably have to carry some of it.   It has 3 bedrooms and another one in the addition that could be used,  there's been some nice remodeling done to the k...

I'm listening to ""Alley Oop" on satelite radio right now.  Instant memory!  I was probably 13 or 14 and thought that song was so cool..  I named my 4H steer "Alley Oop" .  I was a smart bored farm kid.  My parents were quite strict and the county fair was a huge deal to me and to all of us, in f...

This home is 7 years old and sits in Hidden Meadows - a very pleasant place to live.   You enter and on your right is the formal dining or parlour, on the left is a bath and coat closet and the stairs rising to the second floor.   Continuing on to the spacious kitchen with island, dining area goi...

Brownlee Reservoir is part of the hydroelectric dams on the Snake River as it borders Idaho and Oregon.  It's the first then Oxbow then Hells Canyon and then you are in Hells Canyon.  These are fabulous recreation areas.  Brownlee is 56 miles - that's a lot of fishing, jetskiing or waterskiing!  ...