The Real Estate Blog by Cari McGee

I’ve posted about this before…be sure to contact your lender if times get tough.  Also, I’ve asked to PLEASE use a local lender because loanguyontheinternet-dot-com doesn’t care about you and they don’t care about their local reputation. 
The erudite Rhonda Porter penned this great reminder about how bad lenders do business and how good lenders don’t.  If you read [...]

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I’ve mentioned before that it fascinates me that different communities have unwritten rules.  It amazes me when an entire subset of the population has rules or codes they employ.  And, when you become a member of that group, you find out the dirt.  You find out information that is important for you to know.
There is [...]

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I, personally, dislike the WASL (Washington Assessment of Student Learning) as a tool to measure our children’s academic process.  That’s my disclaimer right from the get-go.  My son tells me that his classmates claim that WASL stands for “Wasting All Students Lives”.  Basically, I agree.
Recently, the Tri-City Herald posted the scoring breakdown for our area schools, in an article entitled, [...]

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I was contacted a while back by a woman who is interested in keeping a portion of West Richland and Richland undeveloped.  A portion of the land is currently zoned RR-5, which means there can be one house every five acres.
She said she felt that many like-minded conservationists viewed Realtors as the ‘them’ in the [...]

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An agent from another brokerage (she is her own broker and works with one other agent) told a colleague of mine this week, “Our market is extremely sluggish right now.”
Really? Well, I suppose since we’re down from our May high of 359 under contracts to 293 July under contracts, we could argue that we’re slower [...]

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