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2011
SE Portland First Time Buyers ... Home For the Holidays With Christmas being only 10 days away it will be a little time-pressed but I'm sure my clients will be ready in their new construction SE Portland home for Santa Claus' visit down the chimney. They have a nice mantel to hang all their stock...
12/15/2011
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The 12 Days of Christmas ~ Gift #2 And who doesn't like the GIFT of music? We've all heard the choirs, the glee clubs, the re-mixes of our favorite holiday tunes and Christmas carols a gazillion times. But, I bet you've never heard "Carol of the Bells" (one of my favorites) played exactly like t...
12/14/2011
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The 12 Days of Christmas ~ Gift #1 On the 1st Day of Christmas my true love gave to me . . . an over grown Moose with blinking lights on its antlers?!?!? ß CLICK ON THE MERRY MOOSE for your 1st Day of Christmas Amoosement! How about a mind numbing game? Merry Christmas . . . and HO HO HO G...
12/13/2011
Bill & Liz Spear are Realtors® in Warren County in Ohio. They are NOT in my market of Metro Portland . . . and yet . . . they are experiencing what I -- and many active agents -- are: Non-Realtors® wanting to "play" real estate. Yeah, I "played" being a nurse when I was young. I had a small bo...
12/12/2011
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What's in YOUR HEART at Christmas . . . "Santa or Scrooge"??? This is a GREAT read for the Christmas Season. Very entertaining, and Juli Vosmick does an excellent job of keeping the interrest up. Quite a nice little twist at the end of the story too . . . For a holiday inspiration on the TRUE m...
12/12/2011
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I'm re-blogging this because I had about three clients this year who, with parents' involvement, ruined it! In two instances, parents lived out-of-state and never toured property in the Metro Portland market. In another instance, parents lived in town but knew more than me. Of course, they were ...
12/12/2011
Best Answer on Trulia . . . thanks to my AR Market Report . . . well . . . and my answer A few posts ago, I wrote about not answering ALL Trulia questions. Why I Don't Answer ALL Trulia Posted Questions The other day responded to a question on Trulia because it was a good one. "CJ" wanted to kn...
12/11/2011
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Not sure if you've seen this video . . . it's pretty amazing. There's something like 15M views so far, so maybe you were already "enlightened." Some people can't imagine how this was done. It took a lot of coordination and time lapse features, but I think this is genuine and quite brilliant.
12/09/2011
The Portland Luxury Condo Market The Downtown Condos fall into two categories: 1.) New (or newer) construction, built as high rise condo developments. OR . . . 2.) they are condo units in condo conversions of existing buildings, many of which are on the local Historical Registry. Luxury Condo | H...
12/07/2011
Credit Suisse Monthly Survey of Real Estate Agents for November 2011 As you may know, I like the Credit Suisse survey. Its "thumbs up / thumbs down" reporting on the markets is just the amount of sophistication I can handle. This month there are a few nice highlights: "Affordability is a draw fo...
12/05/2011
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