ARDELL's Seattle Area Real Estate Blog
Seattle Real Estate including The Eastside cities of Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond and The Seattle Neighborhoods of Green Lake, and most points on the north side of Lake Washington.
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There's a first time for everything, as they say, and this was my first ever experience with a 100 year old client. Even back in my Trust and Estate days when many of my clients were deceased, and the living ones were pretty old, I never had a 100 year old client before now. The house was also s...
02/04/2007
Has Lender Fraud become the standard? Very sad, but very true story. I received an email from a Rain City Guide reader yesterday. The reader happens to be a local agent who was fired, because of her efforts to both accommodate her Buyer Client, without committing Lender Fraud. The buyer fired he...
02/04/2007
DIS-IN-TER-ME-DI-ATE: "TO ATTEMPT TO DO AWAY WITH INTERMEDIARY ENTITITES BETWEEN TWO PRIMARY MARKET FORCES; TO ELIMINATE THE "MIDDLEMAN". "IF" ALL THAT YOU ARE IS "AN INTERMEDIARY ENTITY" - THEN GET OUT OF THE BUSINESS! "IF" ALL THAT YOU ARE IS "A MIDDLEMAN" - THEN GET OUT OF THE BUSINESS! "IF" ...
02/03/2007
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I have only one criteria when choosing a client. That criteria is very difficult to describe, because the best term to describe my favorite clients, I only know in the Greek language. I dated a Greek guy for six years, from the time I was 16 until I was 22. Whenever he introduced me to his Greek...
02/03/2007
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BLEEPIN WRONG ANSWERS I HEAR EVERY DAY IN THIS BUSINESS. 1) BUYER'S AGENT ASKS: "Is there a pump system attached to the drain at the bottom of that steep driveway pointed down at the house?" Seller's Agent Responds: "You have to watch for leaves getting caught in the drain." BLEEP!! WRONG A...
02/03/2007
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RIDDLE ME THIS, BATMAN! IF AN AGENT CAN WAKE UP IN THE MORNING, AND GET THE MLS ON HIS HOME COMPUTER... WHY DOES AN AGENT NEED A DESK AT THE OFFICE? IF AN AGENT CAN BE AVAILABLE ALL THE TIME WITH A LAPTOP AND A CELL PHONE: WHY DOES HE NEED A PHONE AT THE OFFICE? IF WE CAN REDUCE THE OVERHEA...
02/03/2007
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