Marisa's Blog

There are a couple of things going on this weekend in Portland and the surrounding areas that look interesting.  We all know there is awesome weather coming for us in the next couple of days because that’s all people can talk about! So that means we need to get outside and get some vitamin D into...

The Montavilla Neighborhood celebrates it’s 120th birthday this year. Established in 1889, the Montavilla Neighborhood quickly developed into a thriving community of small businesses and growing subdivisions. The name Montavilla came to be the popular term by the land surveyors platting out subdi...

Shaun Donovan, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced today that the FHA is going to permit its lenders to allow home buyers to use the $8,000 first time home buyers tax credit as a down payment.  Talk about getting buyers off of the fence!  I know a lot of st...