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2012
MSN Real Estate Offers ANOTHER Idiotic "Suggestion" Out of curiosity I am constantly clicking on real estate stories found scrolling on the headline cubicles running across MSN and Yahoo! I read them because most of them are full of so much HOOEY! Today I read another "what you need to be doing"...
06/10/2012
Portland Real Estate Questions: Do I Need a Buyers Agent? For those folks thinking about buying a home in the Portland Metro area, the question always comes up: Do I need a buyers agent? In a word: YES! After reading a recent post entitled: "Trust But Verify . . . It's Your Responsibility Buye...
06/09/2012
This is a GREAT post I'm re-blogging about how listing agents really puff their listing and have inaccuracies in the listing sheets. Puffery and inaccuracies are known and common in this business and Barbara Todero talks about the buyers' agents responsibility to protect their clients' best inter...
06/08/2012
Portland Real Estate Questions: How Much MONEY DO I NEED to Buy a House? While real estate agents don't give financial advice, we can go over the basic costs of buying a home. This is a BRIEF OVERVIEW of how much money you might need in order to buy . . . and it is in pretty much in the order ...
06/08/2012
Portland Real Estate Questions: Do Home Inspections COST MONEY? In a word: YES There are, indeed, costs when a Buyer is contemplating a home purchase. Some of these costs will be assessed at the end of closing and some of the costs are incurred during the home buying process. This is not a post ...
06/07/2012
Credit Suisse Monthly Survey of Real Estate Agent May 2012 Results With all the seemingly good news that Buyers are out now, after sitting on the fence for a while, the lastest survey result of Real Estate Agents conducted by Credit Suisse shows some uplifting news in some markets. The Portland M...
06/06/2012
Portland Real Estate Questions: What is an Escrow Holdback? Escrow Holdbacks have become uncommon in the Portland Metro real estate market. When I first started to practice real estate in 1999 Escrow Holdback were common. But, common or not . . . what are they? An Escrow Holdback: Created in a...
06/05/2012
Ruthmarie Hicks does a nice job of outlining the areas where trust is important to the real estate relationships . . . and she covers all sides. TRUST is one of the most important things I value in my agent/client relationship. I've had clients who trusted NO ONE -- not even me. These transacti...
06/05/2012
Lake Oswego Embraces the Art Work of Simon Toparovsky Lake Oswego is a city located just a few miles south of Portland proper. In the olden days, the City of Lake Oswego was a "get away" for Portlanders who wanted to experience the lake. "Passenger traffic hit its peak in 1920 with 64 trains to a...
06/04/2012
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Well, it's the first rose in my garden for the season. Spring comes a little late here and the Azaleas were nice, the Rhoddies blossomed and now the first rose in my yard. This was actually taken the first of the week and I was going to do a Wordless Wednesday but got too busy to post it . . . ...
06/03/2012
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