I wrote on Facebook the other day that I think time changes stink. I am not a morning person to begin with so taking an hour of my sleep away from me leaves me thinking a quintuple espresso is sounding good. Between the time change and a significant problem in a real estate transaction for…
I love it when people do funky surveys. Just in case you were sitting and home and wondering who the cheaters of the world are out there, rest assured that someone with way too much time on their hands had the exact same thought. I know I sit up at 3:00 in the morning just…
Salem Oregon real estate market and home trend report Today I saw a countdown for the home buyer tax credit to end: 50 days left to get under contract. That count down has been so apparent this past month as the Salem Oregon real estate market started early. Typically I tell clients that the market…
Paul Slaybaugh, an excellent Scottsdale Arizona real estate agent, wrote a great blog post today. I wanted to comment on it because I have talked about this issue so many times in the past few years. In the world of real estate there seems to be this polarization occurring, agents like myself and John Kirk,…
“I’d like a house on a 1/2 an acre,” says the buyer on the phone. I have had this conversation with several people that want to relocate out to this area. I often find myself explaining that in Oregon, all cities are required to have an urban growth boundary per state law. I seem…
This post has nothing to do with real estate…well only indirectly. A local colleague (ie a real estate agent with another company), Charles Price has a really wonderful food blog called Taste of Oregon. In fact it is so good it was selected as one of the blogs in Saveur for best regional food blog. …
Okay…some of you know that I have been in the process of bringing a real estate agent into my firm. Today I was down at the Real Estate Agency with John Kirk, making it official. John is a Principal Broker like myself so that my company can still serve buyers and sellers without dealing with…
I like it when people that read my blog send me things. I was alerted to this study by one of my current clients and thought I would share it with you. What study you ask? Well the folks at Gallup-Healthways created a Well-Being Index. They interviewed a bazillion, okay not really a bazillion but…
Last summer when we went to Bend for our summer vacation, true to form about 30 minutes into the car ride we got the yell from the back seat “How much longer?” Every few miles we got the notorious question. I think it is a genetically programed question into the brain of every child to…
Whew…I’ve been so busy in the past couple of weeks that my blog has been neglected. With the tax credit ending soon, buyers are out earlier than usual this year searching for deals… and so are the scammers. I reported before about the Craiglist scam that hit Salem Oregon regarding rental properties. True to form…