Alexsandra's Real Estate Blog, Portland OR

I found a kind of funky inspirational site the other day called the Inspiration Line.  Their tag line is "It's time to BE - the world you want to see." They have a series of Words From the Wise videos and many links to other inspiration themed sites, such as Angels, Art, Music, Books and Poetry, ...

I drive past the Riverview Cemetery on Taylor's Ferry Road several times a week.  Several of my great, greats are buried there, I always think of them, the Langworthys and Fosses. I've looked for and found their grave sites. It is a little uncanny to look at a mossy headstone, see names and dates...

We've a saying in Portland, "it's a really small place." You never know when you'll run into some one you know. And as for six degrees  of separation, it's small enough that we are really only about three degrees, maybe fewer, of separation. It's not unusual to meet someone and during the initial...

Flashback to summer, 2005. I've been back in Portland for about a year.  I'm having coffee with a new friend and her friend, a real estate agent.  We're talking about staging and organizing as a career and if the agent might be refer people to us.  I need a job.  I had been an Organization Develo...

I got a catch-up email from my good friend, Lynn, the other day. She's a member of a dragon boat team made up of breast cancer survivors, located in the Capital Region of Upstate NY. She says she is loving being a part of the group. Here's what she says about the Dragon Boat team and why they do ...

Went to Hopworks Urban Brewery - HUB - the other day.  And I'm totally impressed.  Not only is it the first eco-brewpub in the Northwest, they've done it fantastically well! Housed in the old Sunset Fuel Company's building on SE 30th and Powell, it was a gut rehab to end all gut rehabs.  Thick co...

The work crew had to dig out a portion of the dirt floor - it's a crawl space under my house - in order to pour the new foundation.  I was amazed at what they found.  A brown bottle with Purex etched on the surface, filled with burnt wooden matches, water and sludge.  I had an image of a teenager...

... people! That's the number by which Oregon's  population is expected to grow in the next 30 years. After saying WOW, I realize it's no wonder that sources like Forbes have gathered information that puts Portland on a top ten list like " Where Home Prices Are Likely to Rise." (Other cities on t...

--- where homes are selling fastest!  That would be our own 97202!  Altos Research which covers real estate data all over the country, complied a list and 97202 was 5th on the list at an average of 77 days on market. You can see the whole list and read the article at Realtor Magazine.  Realtor Ma...

I found it in an antique store, an old, faded photograph. A vine covered porch, a family in what looks like Sunday best, posed.   Dark suited father, mother in a dark skirt and white blouse, and four daughters in white dresses. One girl with a sailor tie and collar. Between two of the girls sits ...