Tri-Cities, Washington, real estate and homes - thoughts and conversation.
Posted in Richland Real Estate, Tri-Cities, WA, West Richland Real Estate on Apr 25th, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Tri-Cities, WA on Apr 18th, 2007
Don’t you just love the county fair?
I have great memories of the county fair of my childhood years. I think it’s crazy, in retrospect, to think of a fair in Los Angeles County! They still have it, I know, I just don’t think of huge, sprawling LA holding that bastion of small-town living and entertainment…a fair!
The entertainment [...]
Posted in Tri-Cities Market on Apr 16th, 2007
It’s time for the statitician readers (you know who you are!) to get really excited. First quarter results are in for 2007…and, compared to the same period last year
Active listings are DOWN
Solds are DOWN
Prices, as you would then expect, are UP
Average price 2007Q1,$182,960
2006Q1,$176,200…103.8% INCREASE
Median price 2007Q1 $165,300
2006Q1 $157,000…105.2% INCREASE
For a Tri-Cities home-owner, this is exactly [...]
Posted in Buyers, Sellers, Tri-Cities Market on Apr 12th, 2007
Our local office now has a residential property management division, and I couldn’t be happier about it. I frequently get calls from out-of-town investors who want to purchase a home here for investment purposes, and then rent it out. My forte is selling residences to people who want to live here, and interact in our community [...]
Posted in Buyers, Pasco Real Estate, Real Estate Industry, Richland Real Estate, Tri-Cities Market, Tri-Cities, WA on Apr 11th, 2007
Probably like most Americans of a certain age, I first heard the phrase caveat emptor in the Brady Bunch episode in which Greg buys a car he was told would be easy to fix up but isn’t. Like “Find out what you do best and do your best with it”, “caveat emptor…let the buyer beware” is [...]