Cindy's Blog about Portland Real Estate & Stuff

Open Link In A NEW Window OR Open Link In SAME Window..What To Do??   I've been blogging now for two years now and I'm still not sure if I'm doing this right..or if there is a better way. When you add a link into your blog, you're given a choice to have the link open in the SAME window and open i...

  I had some friends in high school that new exactly what they wanted to do when they "grew up" and had that goal and career path to get to it. Most of the rest of us had no clue. Buying a home is very similar to this. Some buyers looking in the Portland Metro area know exactly what neighborhood ...

Selling Your Home During The Holidays Holiday time is here and Portland Sellers will be wanting to pull out their favorite holiday decorations to display. This is a great time to to be reminded that how we LIVE in a home is not how we live in it when we are trying to SELL a home. I know this is s...

  Saving Trees by Opting Out In Portland   I wrote a blog post a while back titled  No, you won't find a glamour shot of me in the phone book! about how I thought that the yellow pages are a relic of the past with the majority of people looking online. Every year I get a couple of these dropped o...

How Do Portland Oregon Schools Compare| Portland's 2012 School Report Card I get many calls and questions from buyers wanting to know how the schools are in certain neighborhoods in the Portland Metro area.  " Are the schools good?" is just one of those questions I can't answer for you as a "goo...

Seller Moves That Make A Buyer Swoon   Ok..so I'll admit that I'm a sucker for some reading fluff, so when I was just reading one of those articles on Yahoo titled "Men reveal the moves that make woman swoon"..well, being a woman I wanted to investigate this a bit more as some of these usually ha...

  Oregon City Listing Pending In Two Days!   This wonderful home in Oregon City's McLouglin Historic District went pending in just two days!! Fantastic location within minutes to Downtown Oregon City, Transit center, shopping, restaurants and more! With it's oversized three bedrooms with one on t...

 My Top Six Reasons Why I'm Thankful This Thanksgiving From last Thanksgiving to this one, I've had lots of reasons to be thankful. I know I'm missing lots of reasons, but these are my top six. 1. Last year at this time, my Mother-In-Law, a spunky 4'10 79 year old woman with a thick Brooklyn acc...

Portland Real Estate|October 2012 Real Estate Market Report We just got the latest market action report statistics for October 2012 from the RMLS (regional multiple listing service) and it's showing that the Portland real estate market is holding its own!  With the slight rise in inventory in Sep...

"Oh..We Know..We Read It On Your Blog"...Oh Sweet Music To My Blogger Ears! Yep, It finally happened. Here I was showing a Portland floating home today and I was going over some things related to buying one and they said " Oh yeah, we know about that cuz we read it in your blog" NICE!! I had to b...