The Real Estate Blog by Cari McGee

This coming Sunday, March 22, all of the agents at Windermere Real Estate (the brokerage where I work) will be sitting Open Houses in our twice-a-year event called the Open House Extravaganza.
We’ll be holding open over 250 houses, which is more than half our inventory. Our closest competitive agency doesn’t even have that many [...]

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I go to the gym right near the office, at Columbia Point.  There are no showers or changing rooms, no fitness experts hanging around, and no ‘beautiful people’ showing off their perfect bodies.  Usually when I go, there are a couple older gentlemen and a young woman and one or two other people around.  One [...]

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At William Wiley Elementary in West Richland, WA, they have an annual food drive.  Two years ago, the Apple Cup Canned Food Battle began.  Children donated canned goods and instant meal packages into their favorite team’s box.  We have a ton more Cougar fans than Husky fans in this part of the state, so the Cougars [...]

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I went to this page and then clicked on ‘Letter Houses’ under Richland, in the Architectural History section, along the left-hand column.
There are loads of the A’s, B’s, C’s and F’s still around.  They’re easy to spot.  If we ever turned into an area with a huge housing need and no more land upon which to [...]

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Move over, Wiley Elementary, there’s a new school in town.
And it’s bringing some trepidation and uncertainty with it. I had a mom approach me the other day, “Cari! Are your kids going to White Bluffs or staying at Wiley next year?”
I told her we live squarely on top of what is called ‘bird [...]

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