Tri-Cities, Washington, real estate and homes - thoughts and conversation.
Posted in Real Estate Career on Dec 3rd, 2007
I like the Internet. I like my laptop. I love my Mac desktop that I have at home but can’t use for business. Our MLS (multiple listing service) doesn’t run well on Macs, so I have to use a PC, which is what my laptop is. But the fact that I have two different kinds [...]
Posted in Real Estate Career, Real Estate Industry, Sellers on Nov 18th, 2007
…well, I never really left it, actually. I’ve been crazy busy this week. One of the things I’ve been dealing with is a laundry list of requests from some buyers that sellers I am representing need to evaluate.
One of the things that a buyer will do when they are skittish or nervous or have changed their [...]
Posted in Real Estate Career, Real Estate Industry, Tri-Cities, WA on Nov 12th, 2007
In real estate, clients naturally ask about the demographic makeup of a community. And, an agent cannot tell about the demographic make up of the community for lots of reasons, but the most important being that it’s against the law.
Therefore, I’m thankful for ZipSkinny. You type in the zip code that you want to know more about, [...]
Posted in Real Estate Career on Oct 20th, 2007
In the sixth grade, I sat next to a boy named David Jackson. David had dark red hair and freckles and I remember thinking he was cute.
David was also smart (hey, I’ve always been a sucker for a guy with a high IQ). In our class, you were allowed to wander over to the library/game area [...]
Posted in Buyers, Real Estate Career, Real Estate Industry, Sellers on Oct 10th, 2007
I showed a house last week and then again this past weekend. It’s a rambler with four bedrooms, very nice floor plan, wonderful view from the living room picture window and a HUGE backyard (the lot is 6/10 of an acre). It is located in a golf course community and they are asking LESS THAN [...]