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The seller of this home used to operate a small grocery store in my neighborhood when I was a kid.  Often my friends and I would go in and purchase candy, pop and other snacks.  My dad would also frequent the store when the early evening/late night chocolate cravings kicked in.  Decades later, th...

Recently there have been a couple of scenarios where I've come into contact with people who have expressed a desire to invest in a home.  They are currently renting, so each of these people would be a first time home buyer.  Upon turning in their loan application to a lender for review, I've gott...

This is the question I've been hearing most often from people who approach the Prudential booth at the Burien Farmer's Market.  It seems that everyone has a bit of curiosity about the market and wants to hear an answer first-hand from local Realtors who are in the trenches. My answer to this ques...

Today from 11-6  and Sunday, June 1st from 12-5pm, the new, expanded Wing Luke Asian Museum is having its grand opening celebration.   It is housed in the beautifully renevated, historic Kong Yick building, which is located at 719 S. King Street.  It officially opens to the public on June 3rd.  A...

On Friday night I came home from Happy Hour to find my son and husband cooing over a little bunny that they had found in the yard.  We just so happened to have a rabbit cage(I have no idea why or how we got it), so they trapped him and put him in the cage.  We quickly set it up for Bun-Bun, and I...

Here in the Puget Sound it's customary to hold a Broker's Open House sometime during the first week of a new listing.  Last month, an agent from another company came to our office to drop off a nice gift basket complete with invitations to her Broker's Open, snacks and drinks with information abo...

A statistic that continues to alarm me personally is the fact that our homes are the second most common location of fatal injuries in the U.S., with our highways being first. The top five leading causes of unintentional home injury death are falls, poisoning, fire/burn, choking/suffocation, and d...

...because this week, it's National Bike(or Walk) to Work Week.   Friday is National Bike/Walk to Work Day.  In honor of this, I thought it would be a great time to clean the cobwebs out of my walking shoes and do as much as I can on foot this week. Here in the Seattle area, the Cascade Bicycle C...

Yesterday I read a post by Bobby Carroll which addressed the issue of abandoned blogs.   Thousands of well-intentioned blogs just go belly up and die every day.  We wonder where these people go, our fellow professionals, artists, neighbors, friends that we have come to know and admire through the...

Some of you may know about MyZip.net, a Marchex project.  Their goal was to get "people to think of their ZIP Code + .net as the default Web destinations for information and commentary about their neighborhoods or towns."  I've mentioned it before in previous blog posts, and I was fortunate enoug...