Guide To Seattle Real Estate

We have another blogging project that focuses on negotiations.  Everyone negotiates!  Whether it is a parent with their children or a couple deciding were to go out to dinner, everyone is involved in negotiations on a daily basis.  And yet most Americans have a negative connotation of negotiation.  It is pride really.  If we have [...]

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Ok so just how is this going to work?
Part of the reason I am phasing out of full time Real Estate is that I don’t want to work with unscrupulous people.  No not all agents and lenders are unscrupulous!  But, unfortunately,I think there are more that are than not. 
Just look at what attracts most people [...]

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I have been a Seattle Real Estate Agent for a few years now.  While it was good and now when it is not so good.  I have worked as a Discount Agent, a Full Service Agent, with Expired listings, FSBO listings, met clients Door to Door, met them telemarketing, and of course worked with Family [...]

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Well besides the author, you might.  How do you choose who to work with when you decide to buy or sell your next home?  If you already have a relationship with a great real estate agent, stick with ‘em, if not then you are shopping. 

The best advice that was ever given to me about choosing [...]

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With this blog still in it’s early development, I have many resolutions to take it to the next level:

4 Posts a week
Increase RSS subscribers from 18 to 50
Post monthly Market Statistics for Seattle’s main neighborhoods
Hold one first-time buying seminar each month starting in February
Grow my network of co-operating authors and find at least one guest [...]

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So how many blogs do you read?  I currently read about 25+ regularly.  Most are real estate oriented others are Seattle specific and a few just for fun.  But using the Internet Explorer RSS reader was driving me crazy.  It just took too long to go through all of the posts and decide which conversations [...]

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  Last night I attended a small presentation by Paul Brainerd at the University of Washington, Bothell Campus.  I was very impressed.  Paul talked about his foundation, The Brainerd Foundation, and most importantly how they go about allocating the 2-3 million in grants they give out each year.  The Brainerd Foundation specializes in place based [...]

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