Kathy Judy's (kathyjudyrealtor) Blog

Like onions?  You may be paying more for them in 2015 unless the Treasure Valley (area west of Boise and part of Malheur County in Oregon) gets some rain and snowfall.  This area grows 1/4 of the nations onions and significant amounts of other crops like potatoes for your fries and hops for your ...

This is the wonderful backyard of this convenient townhome in Ontario Oregon.  Less than two blocks away from Treasure VAlley Community College.  This home has an open floor plan with a large great room with fireplace that looks out over the yard.  Theres lots pf possibilities with this one beca...

With apologies to the fun song "It's getting hot in here"... So it's 102 degrees and where is Kathy Judy - showing houses an hour away from my office, which is 45 minutes from my home.  Not really any way to avoid this I'd have to show at 3 am for it to be cooler and that isn't going to happen.  ...

just read a fascinating articles"The Informers" in the June 24th issue of Time Magazine.  it explains the current anrecent batch of high level leaks are not from people motivated by money or one countries politics over another but by a philosophy that says all,information should be freelly availa...

Margaret is a friend of mine and sort of clientish.  She is quite elderly 95 lives on her own and manages pretty well.  Her mind hasn' t lost anything!  She was referred to me to sell a house for her neighbor.  I have had several wonderful conversations with her over the last few years.  She wrot...

The Catfish Derby is Memorial Day Weekend, the big cats are put into a horse tank and then released after the days contest.  Everything is set up in the little park , there's a Steak BBQ at the VFW Hall and the town is full of people - enjoying Huntington's historic buildings and the fun atmosphe...

I am officially old this year about to hit 65.  My husband is a year older and retired from his full time sales job last week.  He can still sell tractors and balers and stuff but it'll be part-time.  Several years ago I decided that it was time to quit being obsessive about real estate and to ge...

First I will tell you about Huntington Oregon.  It is a small town just off Interstate 84 in Eastern Oregon.  It's an old railroad town, there used to be a roundhouse there.  It's the access to Brownlee Reservoir's hunting and fishing and increasingly recreational mining.  The town is about 75 mi...

My days have been filled lately with old people figuring out what to do with their houses, and young people buying their first house.  The gears in my brain (on the old side itself) have to switch several times a day.  I have had several heart-breaking conversations recently with older folks not ...

Lately nearly every day I have gone through Roswell.  This is a teensy little townette near Parma Idaho.  There are 3 churches and maybe 50 houses.  There's a very cool OLD store and a defunct elementary school thats quite large.   The area west of Parma Idaho is huge - it very gradually slopes d...