Tri-Cities, Washington, real estate and homes – thoughts and conversation.
Posted in Week That Was on Aug 31st, 2008
Taking the weekend off, essentially. We have company in town and we’re having fun mini-golfing, bowling, going to the CREHST museum, taking in Wall-E for the second time (really enjoyed seeing it this time, much more than the first).
So, no real links back for now. I’lll either get to it later in the week or [...]
Posted in Tri-Cities, WA on Aug 30th, 2008
Yes, once again I’m going to bring to my readers’ attention the story of a young kid battling the disease I despise. Before, I told you about Mathew Blacketter, and his brave battle, and eventual loss. I know this has nothing to do with real estate, but it has to do with the communities in [...]
Posted in Tri-Cities, WA on Aug 28th, 2008
If you read this blog regularly, you know I am not a fan of the WASL (the Washington Assessment of Student Learning). The results from the latest testing go-around in the spring were released today, and they show limited gains over last year.
The Richland school district, which until recently was headed by the estimable Richard [...]
Posted in Week That Was on Aug 24th, 2008
Stepped on the scale this week to find that I have lost 30 pounds (mostly since the beginning of February, which is when I really started trying). I have 40 more to go, so that according to the BMI charts, I will be in the normal range. Pretty exciting, both in terms of [...]
Posted in Sellers on Aug 23rd, 2008
A really nice couple I know are going to try to sell their house for-sale-by-owner. They asked me for an approximation of title and escrow fees, so I gave them an estimate. Then I reminded them that as sellers in the state of Washington, they’d need to pay excise tax on the sale of their [...]
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